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By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | October 23, 2008

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30 THINGS MENTIONED IN THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE NEWPAPER

- The Rutles
- Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
- Emerson Lake & Palmer
- Bell Gallery
- Garden City Cinema
- Warren Zevon
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Gulliver’s
- The Harder They Come
- Pure Prairie League
- Gantry’s
- Bruce Cockburn
- Lester Bangs
- Bruce Springsteen
- Providence Art Club
- Rizzz
- Bunny Harvey
- Aerosmith
- January’s
- Dizzy Gillespie
- The Edge [the club, not the guy in U2]
- Roomful of Blues
- Woods-Gerry Gallery
- Sha Na Na
- The Living Room
- Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra
- Leroy Concert Theater
- John Denver
- Mr. T’s Sidedoor Saloon
- J. Geils Band

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