Entertainment in Newport
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Cardines Field
Likely the third-oldest-standing baseball field in the US (after Wrigley Field in Chicago and Fenway Park in Boston), this relic, home to the Newport Gulls, allows you to see some surprisingly skilled ball for cheap. Because of the seating’s close proximity to the field and because the games are sparsely attended, you can easily hear the players trash-talk each other. According to local legend, Babe Ruth once played a game here.
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West Deck
With lots of open-air seating at the end of a wharf, the West Deck attracts big crowds ordering bottles of beer from two separate bars. Most evenings you can find Rhode Island’s preferred form of entertainment – lame cover acts playing the tunes of stereotypical bands from the last half of the 1980s. The crowd ranges from young guns to dudes with overdeveloped retirement plans.
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Newport International Polo
Tranquilly set amid the stone barns and walls of the 100-acre Glen Farm (established in the 1600s), bring a picnic basket for a fieldside tailgate and watch the US team take on Egypt, Jamaica and other Olympic-caliber squads. Crowds aren’t large and you’ll be close enough to hear snorting horses and walloping mallets. The season runs from May to September.
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Jane Pickens Theater
This nicely restored one-screen art house used to be an Episcopalian church, built around 1834. Simple, pretty and old, the theater contains an organ and balcony. They screen both popular and art films, such as Evening, filmed in Newport and Tiverton.
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Mudville’s Pub
With a back porch sitting about 10ft from the foul line of Cardines Field’s outfield, this bar fills many local sports fans with pub food and beer. It even sponsors a team (the Mudville Nine) that plays in a local league.
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Newport Blues Café
Intimate atmosphere and one of the best blues and R&B scenes this side of New York City.
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O'brien's Pub
The frat-house crowd comes here for live bands like Dogie & the Cowpie Poachers.
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One Pelham East
This romping bar has rock and indie bands several nights a week.
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