10) The Body | Lee and Chip deliver apocalyptic hardcore/doom/noise for post-2012 survivors and zombies. Also on a massive US headlining tour right now | myspace.com/thevisionshallcometopass
1 (AND ONLY) PLACE TO GET YOUR URBAN COWBOY ON
1) Ride the mechanical bull at Rick's Roadhouse, 370 Richmond St, Providence | 401.272.PORK
4 PLACES TO GET YOUR LITERATURE FIX
1) Got Poetry Live! | Tues @ 7:30 pm | Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer St, Providence | 401.383.8393
2) Cousins Reading Series | Once a month on Sun | Abe's Bar, 302 Wickenden St, Providence | readcousins.blogspot.com
3) AS220 | 115 Empire St, Providence | 401.831.9327 | as220.org
4) Brown University's McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St, Providence | brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts
4 PLACES TO GAMBLE
1) Twin River | 1000 Twin River Rd, Lincoln | 877.82.RIVER | twinriver.com
2) Newport Grand | 150 Admiral Kalbfus Rd, Newport | 401.849.5000 | newportgrand.com
3) Providence Place parking garage | 1 Providence Pl, Providence | 401.270.1000
4) Keno | Everywhere
UNDERDOG |
5 MOVIES + TV SHOWS WHICH MAKE YOU EXCLAIM, "HEY, I JUST WENT BY THERE YESTERDAY!"
1) Dan In Real Life
2) Underdog
3) Brotherhood
4) Outside Providence
5) Dumb & Dumber
7 PIONEERING RHODE ISLAND BANDS YOU HAD DAMN WELL KNOW ABOUT BEFORE MAKING SMALL TALK WITH A WEST END BEARDO
1) Six Finger Satellite
2) Amazing Royal Crowns
3) Kilgore Smudge
4) Arab on Radar
5) Thee Hydrogen Terrors
6) Olneyville Sound System
7) Grüvis Malt
SHOPPING
ROCKET TO MARS |
4 VINTAGE CLOTHING GEMS
1) Foreign Affair Warehouse | 219 Thayer St, Providence | 401.274.1484
2) Rocket to Mars | 144 Broadway, Providence | 401.274.0905
3) Closet Revival | 30 Broadway, Newport | 401.845.0592
4) Second Time Around | 294 Thayer St, Providence | 401.455.2050 | secondtimearound.net
3 WAYS TO BUY TICKETS FROM A SCALPER
1) Lowball them first, then work up
2) Don't be intimidated
3) Walk over to the other scalper five feet away
3 PLACES TO SAFELY INDULGE YOUR GEEKHOOD WITHOUT BEING BEATEN UP BY JOCKS
1) The Time Capsule | Vinyl + comics + old-school video games | 537 Pontiac Ave, Cranston | 401.781.5015 + 1732 Fall River Ave, Seekonk, MA | 508.336.4790 | TheTimeCapsule.com
2) Cellar Stories | Vast range of used tomes | 111 Mathewson St, Providence | 401.521.2665 | cellarstories.com
3) Old Fashion Robotic Store | Components, connectors, sensors, actuators . . . | 9 Peck St, Providence | 401.276.4216 | oldfashionroboticstore.com
1 (AND ONLY) PLACE TO FIND THE BEST MOVIES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN
1) Acme Video, 137 Brook St, Providence | 401.453.2263
CITY LIFE
6 MISPRONUNCIATIONS SURE TO REVEAL YOUR NON-RHODY ROOTS
1) PAW-tucket (Puh-TUH-kit)
2) Wampa-NO-ag (WOMP-a-nog)
3) Buck-EYE Brook (Buckeebrook)
4) East GREEN-WHICH (Ees-GREN-itch)
5) CUV-en-tree (CAH-ven-tree)
6) West-MINISTER (Wess-MINSTUH)
3 PEOPLE WE APOLOGIZE FOR IN ADVANCE
1) Pauly D.
2) Richard Hatch
3) Elisabeth Hasselbeck
PROSPECT PARK |
5 PLACES TO TURN OFF YOUR PHONE FORFIVE WHOLE MINUTES AND ABSORB THE SURROUNDINGS