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PVD Winter Lights And Tree Lighting

(12.2) Head downtown this weekend for the PVD Winter Lights Market and Tree Lighting featuring food, public arts installations, entertainment, and two tree lighting ceremonies. This year we will also offer the Winter Lights Market, an artisan market which will be housed in a heated tent between the City Center skating rink and Burnside Park. …

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Yee Haw — ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ At Cable Car

(12.24) Ever seen this one in a real movie theater? Here’s your chance. Starting this Friday and running through Christmas eve, the Cable Car Cinema will be screening the 1946 Frank Capra classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” New York Times reviewer Bosley “Bah Humbug” Crowther found it a little on the sentimental side. Thomas Mitchell, …

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How Do You Say ‘Christmas Tree’ In Aramaic?

So we are back to the tree-lighting discussion (ProJo 11.28.12). Governor Chafee had hoped to avoid the whole mishegas by not having an official lighting ceremony, but nooooo, out came the usual suspects. For one, we have roused that cynical demagogue and “Devout Catholic” Bill O’Reilly, who once again aims to inspire the low-information Christians …

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“A John Waters Christmas” At Lupo’s

(11.30) Tickets still available for the John Waters Christmas Show this Friday. John Waters is to perform a night of holiday mischief with his critically acclaimed one-man show, A John Waters Christmas. Waters pokes fun at the holiday season with adult-appropriate humor, effectively “putting the X in Xmas,” developing a show for the open minded …

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One Week from Tomorrow – Urban Vintage Bazaar Comes to Providence

Saturday, November 5th 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm East Side, Providence Intersection of Brown & Waterman Streets at the Stephen Robert ’62 Student Center One large room at the heart of Brown University with twelve merchants selling nothing but vintage clothing, accessories, jewelry, books, art, lighting, linens, vinyl records, industrial, mid-century, antique and everything before …

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Special Happy — Hilarious Holiday Show

(Note by PDD management.  We’ve seen this play, and it’s way more fun than the headline and synopsis make it sound.  Go.) (P.S. Wilbury Group, please keep posting stuff, but make it a little less Wilbury-y.) Play Synopsis — Special Happy, a new performance piece created by Providence-based theater artist Rebecca Noon with collaborators Jed …

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Providence Artist Offers “Special Happy” — Affordable Alternative For The Holiday

This December The Wilbury Group is proud to present Providence-based theatre artist Rebecca Noon’s Special Happy in a new performance space at Conley’s Wharf. It’s a birthday! It’s Christmas! It’s a party complete with all the trimmings! This holiday season, forgo the expensive “traditional” holiday plays and bring your friends and family to see the …

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Metalocalypse Dethmas Special

Who would have thought that Dethklok would be the first out of the gate this season with a Christmas special? They will apparently be picking ‘Secret Santas’ and arguing about the Christmas tree. And it would appear that Toki’s mother is visiting from Norway, so his Christmas is totally ruined. Poor Toki. Metalocalypse, Cartoon Network, …

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Lite 105 Is (Already) Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime

[youtube]lV5E9F3tJuw[/youtube] With just thirty-nine shopping days left, Lite Rock 105 has switched to its perennially grating all-Christmas format.  It’s thorn in the side of office workers and non-Christians everywhere, not to mention people that have ears and don’t like hearing sixty-eight different versions of Silent Night each and every day. Cleverly, though, the station’s streaming …

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