
It seems fitting that a book was the inspiration for Riffraff Bookstore + Bar’s name. Tom Roberge, co-owner of the Providence business, credited the name to the 2014 French political piece, “To Our Friends,” which details the history of failed capitalist democracies, including the Greek government debt crisis of 2005. Those protesting the fiscal austerity
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