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AS220
A longstanding outlet for all forms of Rhode Island art, AS220 (say 'A-S-two-twenty') books experimental bands (Lightning Bolt, tuba and banjo duos), hosts readings and provides gallery space for a very active community. If you need a cup of coffee, vegan cookie or spinach pie, it also operates a café and bar.
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Avon Cinema
On College Hill, Avon's single screen features foreign films, cult classics and experimental movies in an old single-screen movie house from 1938.
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Cable Car Cinema
This theater screens offbeat and foreign films. Inside, patrons sit on couches and sometimes listen to a lovable weirdo sing 'Teddy Bears Picnic' before the show. The attached sidewalk café brews excellent coffee, and serves sandwiches and baked goods. It's a good place to hang out, even if you aren't catching a flick.
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Coffee Exchange
Drink very strong coffee at one of many small tables covering a scratched wooden floor. Nearby, thick layers of flyers are tacked onto boards and a large roaster lurks behind cases displaying the 40 kinds of beans available. In warm weather, take your brew on an open-air deck.
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Dark Lady
If Mirabar isn't your scene, there are half a dozen other queer joints on or near Richmond St, such as Dark Lady, for dancing, drag and karaoke.
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Dunkin' Donuts Center
This arena is the place to see sporting events such as the Providence College Friars (a basketball squad) and Providence Bruins, occasional big-name music groups, and boat shows.
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Gamm Theatre
Several smaller theater companies stage contemporary and avant-garde productions, in particular this intimate space, whose often intelligent and exquisitely acted experimental and mainstream plays make the drive to Pawtucket worthwhile.
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Lili Marlene's
If you dribbled on your pants in the bathroom, fear not - this bar is so dark that no one will notice the humiliating mark. Here, Atwells Ave looses the Italian feel and becomes either a Victorian parlor or a bordello with imitation tiffany lamps casting a faint glow on red walls set above rich wainscoting. Sit at the bar or in leather booths.
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Living Room
You'll want to be careful - some nights amazing indie acts make tracking down this hard-to-find joint worth the effort. But on others you might be exposed to some local high-school punks trying to piece together their first set.
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Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
Providence's legendary music venue, Lupo's occupies digs in a converted theater, whose age adds historic charm. It hosts national acts (Bloc Party, Tiger Army, Blonde Redheads) in a relatively small space.
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Mirabar
This venerable bar for gay fellows attracts devoted regulars, many on a first-name basis with the bartenders. It's got two floors - the second, a sort of promenade, overlooks the action of the main level's dance floor.
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Perishable Theater
This small theater programs experimental plays as well as improv comedy groups. It conducts an annual Women's Playwriting Festival and the Fledgling Festival, where you can see up-and-coming artists involved in burlesque puppetry and oddities of the stage.
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Providence Performing Arts Center
This popular venue for touring Broadway musicals is in a former Loew's Theater dating from 1928. It has a lavish art-deco interior. See Spelling Bee , Disney's High School Musical or the East Village Opera Company.
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Red Fez
Packed full of Hasbro copywriters who work on the packaging for Transformers action figures, this dark, spooky bar makes stiff drinks and fantastic grilled cheese sandwiches. What little light exists is red, by which short RISD girls with interesting hair draw crap on napkins. Upstairs is cooler than downstairs.
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Roxy
In the same building as Lupo's, stop by this popular meat market for the usual hits on a loud sound system. Expect liberal use of laser lighting and, depending on the night, paid dancers wearing tiny, uncomfortable outfits. Ironically, there is a dress code for guests (no sneaks, baggy clothes, etc).
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Trinity Brewhouse
This brewhouse serves only its own hop-heavy Irish/British-style beer. There's entertainment most nights, and the kitchen, serving sandwiches (some vegetarian), burgers, shepherd's pie and grilled sausages closes at midnight.
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Trinity Repertory Company
Trinity performs classic and contemporary plays ( Some Things are Private , A Christmas Carol ) in the stunning and historic Lederer Theater downtown. It's a favorite try-out space for Broadway productions, and it's not unusual for well-known stars to turn up in a performance. Student discounts available.
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Wild Colonial
Come inside the basement level of a 19th-century warehouse to find a spacious tavern with a pool table and two dart boards. A patchwork of walls appears to use every masonry device available, from giant rocks to cobblestones to crumbing brick - so crumbing that you can look through a gaping hole behind the bar to see an office beyond.
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