That's entertainment: Twenty years ago

By Don Fowler
Posted 2/22/17

By DON FOWLER Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys and Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas played at the 5th Annual Mardi Gras Ball at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet. That means it's the 25th anniversary of the popular event this year. Speaking of Rhodes, the Shriners

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That's entertainment: Twenty years ago

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Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys and Nathan and the Zydeco Cha Chas played at the 5th Annual Mardi Gras Ball at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet. That means it’s the 25th anniversary of the popular event this year.

Speaking of Rhodes, the Shriners Club at One Rhodes Place served “The Best Breakfast Buffet on the East Coast” every Sunday for only $5.95 for adults and $1.99 for kids.

Stuffies at 355 Atwood Ave. in Cranston served fabulous stuffies, calamari, barbequed ribs and stuffed mushrooms. The building, around the corner from Mike’s Kitchen, has changed hands many times and is currently empty.

The Meadowbrook Cinema in Warwick showed second-run movies for $2 and every Saturday at midnight put on a show with “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” for $5.

Remember the Brew City Grill on Post Road near the airport? Monday’s meatloaf dinner and Thursday’s Yankee pot roast were big hits for $6.95.

Festival Ballet presented “The Sleeping Beauty” at PPAC, while Sesame Street was at the Providence Civic Center.

“The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition,” second in the Star Wars trilogy, was the big hit of the winter.

The CCRI Players presented “Once Upon a Mattress” at the Knight Campus in Warwick, starring Heidi M. Allen of Cranston and Lynn Davis, Kristeen D. Kates and Chris Torbik of Warwick.

Joe Glynn and Irish Mist were playing at the Harp and Shamrock Lounge in Warwick.

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