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Bright nights in Providence

Bustling with the latest in music, theater, art, poetry, and restaurants, Rhode Island’s free-thinking capital casts a spell after dark

By Paul E. Kandarian

 |  Globe correspondnet  

  January 01, 2012

Providence by night is a city for the senses, alive with places to learn, taste, see, and hear, an urban center with a fiercely independent spirit leftover from free-thinking founder Roger Williams. Brian Hodge of the Providence Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau says Providence “is not a city of big-box places, There’s no carbon-copy menus, just rehab stories in the architecture, custom-design buildings, personalized service in restaurants, amazing music and theater. Providence’s night vibe is memorable.’’

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