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Rhode Island in popular culture

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The state of Rhode Island is often depicted in popular culture, partly due to its natives the Farrelly brothers and former residence of the creator of the television show Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane. The following is a list of popular culture in Rhode Island.

Television[edit]

Film[edit]

Many films by the Farrelly brothers are filmed and/or set in Rhode Island.

Literature[edit]

Games[edit]

  • The massively multiplayer online game City of Heroes is set in the fictional city of Paragon City, Rhode Island, on the state's coast overlooking the Atlantic.[4] An expansion to the game also features another fictional Rhode Island town, Salamanca.
  • The popular videogame Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is focused around the happenings in a mansion in Rhode Island.

Music[edit]

  • Guitar virtuoso Guthrie Govan has a song on his solo album named "Rhode Island Shred"
  • The Eagles' song "The Last Resort", from their album Hotel California, opens with the line "She came from Providence, the one in Rhode Island."
  • The Front Bottoms song Rhode Island appears on their self titled album
  • Taylor Swift's song "The last great American dynasty", from her album "Folklore", is about Rebekah Harkness who was the owner of Rhode Island beach house once. It has the line "Rebekah gave up on the Rhode Island set forever".

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. Arditi, Lynn (2009-05-24). "Film Chronicles RI's Asian Brothels". Providence Journal. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  2. ""Moonrise Kingdom" release is set". The Newport Daily News. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  3. Jennifer Nicole Sullivan (June 6, 2012). "Enchanted "Kingdom"". NewportRI.com. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  4. "The Paragon Times: Capes Return to Paragon City!". 2004-07-19. Archived from the original on 2007-01-08. Retrieved 2007-01-25. An in-game newspaper article, that mentions Paragon City, Rhode Island.


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