Squid’s Ink: Top 10 Whines and Breaking News…
Before we get to our Top 10 Whines, this just in… Our hackers uncovered three subversive plots! One comes from a cowardly corporation, and another by what we call the […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Phillipe & Jorge’s Cool Cool World: The Ads & The Influence
Under the Influence The legendary writer and public provocateur H.L. Mencken once wrote that a serious journalist had to do two things: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. That […]
August Holidays, Ranked: Our hottest month lacks hot holidays
Folks, it is HOT. I’m writing this in the middle of a stinkin’ heat wave. There are times I wish my apartment wasn’t built before the Great Depression, and this […]
Beardly Fashion: Urban Fellow’s Seth Davis shows how beards make the man
They say that confessing guilt is good for the soul. With that in mind, I shall make this startling confession: I am a man with a beard, and I have […]
RKOcon 2022: National Convention Timewarps to PVD
RKOcon 2022 in Providence, held Wed – Sun, Aug 3 – 7, is a worldwide convention for “shadowcasting” theater troupes, hosted by the RI-based RKO Army, one of the largest […]
Rhythm & Roots Goes On: A brief history in Tradition
It’s 1978 and Chuck Wentworth is lugging vinyl records to WRIU to host his Monday night radio show Traditions. For the next 37 years, as the host of Traditions and […]
Pawtuxet Village is Doomed!: Doomed Records opens in Cranston
Eric Browning is a hardcore/metal fan who has dabbled in selling music online for the past two decades. He spent the past eight years developing this hobby, with vinyl becoming […]
I’m Literally Screaming: The scoop on great Rhody ice creams
Summer is officially here, and that means it’s time to venture out after dinner and grab a scoop of ice cream! Oh, what? You don’t do after-dinner ice cream? You’re […]
The Cultural Flavors of RI: Motif’s mini-guide to summer BIPOC festivals and events
Looking to expand your cultural horizons this summer? Little Rhody has got you covered, with a wide variety of upcoming cultural festivals that will get you to eat, dance and […]
Breaking Into the Woods: Trails for summer exploration
For Motif’s new environmental podcast, Earth, Wind and Water: We Will Be Ancestors, Sam Zimmer sat down with Mel Thibeault, founder of RI Queer Hikes to talk about hiking around […]