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

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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

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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

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PROSPECT PARK

5 PLACES TO TURN OFF YOUR PHONE FORFIVE WHOLE MINUTES AND ABSORB THE SURROUNDINGS

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