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DVDs: The Cooler Cast a Natural
Classic horror flicks, Hugh Grant and Bellini
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How to Speak Vegas: A New Glossary
Keeping the language fresh, one newly minted usage at a time
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SCREEN
RED TROUSERS: THE LIFE OF THE HONG KONG STUNTMEN
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SOUNDCHECK: Long Live Prince
Jack White brings back Loretta Lynn in triumph
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MOVIE BOX
What you can watch
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LETTERS
Use New Quik-Sealing Glad Wrap!
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Sexy Ads, 0. The Wind, 1. Clear Channel, Wins.
The Palms replaces neathage with not-so-neathage
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TASTE: A Jammin' Breakfast Place
Jamms blends originality, common sense for solid eats
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SCREEN
MEAN GIRLS
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GRAY MATTERS
You Were Asking Why Downtown Lags Behind the Strip?
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STOP MAKING SENSE: Sidewalk Stories
Why can't we resolve this free-speech issue for good?
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WINK: When Good Batteries Die
And other challenges involved in getting to know oneself
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: Venetian Blues
A schizophrenic showroom may find its identity
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FEATURE: Rorschach Town
In their new books about Vegas, Marc Cooper and Jack Sheehan find the city they set out to find
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SORE THUMBS: Raccoon City Goes Online
Chasing Benjamins in NBA Ballers; dishing out pain in Suffering
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DIGITAL TONY: Loose Lips
OBA too good to stay a secret
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CALENDAR FEATURE: Best Local Villain?
There's nothing evil about the Amazing Johnathan.
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FEATURE: Scenes from a Boulevard
From wealth to welfare, artists to allergists, Asians to Caucasians and Sunrise Mountain to Red Rock Canyon, Charleston Boulevard cuts a colorful swath through the ...
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SCREEN
GODSEND
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HOROSCOPE
Astromat for April 29 - May 6
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THEATER: American Pizza Pie
Revenge, hilarity, male-rape fantasies and female empowerment are a lot to demand of a Pizza Man
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NOISE: Gravitational Pull
Phantom Planet happy to attract O.C. fans and draw them in
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'This Is Not Your Everyday School. This is Something Exceptional.'
Parents, administrators at war over soul of esteemed charter school
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SCREEN
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
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NOISE: The Time Is Ripe
With Bush in power, who ya gonna call? GWAR!
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MYSTIC MONA: Her Sisters' Kids' Keeper
Woman needs to end role as everybody's baby sitter
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A&E: Re-Signing Sin City
Ideas for welcome sign come from around the world
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America the Pitiful
Dogville takes a harsh look at the Americanand humanspirit
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TV: Comfort Food for the Self-Conscious
Why work on your life when new breasts will solve your problems?
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FINE ART: Watered Down
Two watercolor shows prove that few manage the medium, and even fewer are masters
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Tools of the Trade
Kate Silver on a murder and its aftermath
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NOISE: Rebel With A Lot of Causes
There's always room for spoken-word artist and activist Jello Biafra
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SORE THUMBS: Et Tu, Pikachu?
Harvest Moon lets you buy the farm; Metal Gear, FF hit the Cube
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DIGITAL TONY: Hey, Mr. DJ
DJ AM rocks; Ice Cream is hot
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SCREEN
13 Going On 30
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Picking Up Slack
New Public Defender gets defensive
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SCREEN
Man on Fire
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10 Great Places to Eat Downtown
That headline says it all!
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DVDS: $47 Million and Counting
You haven't bought Kill Bill, Vol. 1 yet? What's wrong with you?
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NOISE: It Must Be Jam
Cause Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes don't shake like that
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HOROSCOPES
Astromat for April 22 - April 28
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A & E
Minutes of the National Commision on Pop Diva Attacks on the United States
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MYSTIC MONA: Louse of a Spouse
Cheating hubby stresses out desperate wife
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CULTURE CLUB: Images in the Overhead TV
We're still too busy learning about an awful day to make art from it
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STAGE: Panicking the House
Saloon vaudeville show hopes to inspire some hand-to-hand music with old-time approach
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Risky Business
Condom use 'destroys the fantasy' in the porn industry
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Call Me Dickensheets
A hunt for the great white catfish winds up at Reid's Fish
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SCREEN
The Best Two Years
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A Kinder, Trickier Government
Secretary Ridge visits and shares a caring message
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Toward a Genteel (Uptight?) Vegas
Priggish? Prudish? Revolutionary? Rising Efforts to Keep Sin City's Hedonism at Bay
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SCREEN
Clifford's Really Big Movie
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SOUNDCHECK: A Little Less Country
Allison Moorer stronger; Lanterna Evocative
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Next Stop: Drag Show
Gay-owned club finally finds venue in old Trolley Stop Casino
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LETTERS
Death Do Us Part
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GRAY MATTERS
A gathering of news observations, stray thoughts and medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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SCREEN
Tequila Express
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Prozac Notions
Downbeat but upstanding, Leland asks vital questions
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MICROSCOPE: No Slowing Down
There’s more to comic Steven Wright than his deadpan delivery
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WINK: No Coffee, No Commitment
Listen Chuck, there’s isn’t enough love in this relationship
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LOST
How does a person with family, friends a history end up among the unidentified dead on the coroner's website?
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STAGE: Weenie Todd
Bloodless production of Sweeney lacks a grisly meanie
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The Music Issue
Great Moments in Rock; The Word on the Chapter; Filling the Vegas iPod; Classical Counterculture
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STOP MAKING SENSE: Fellowship: Church Meets State
Sen. John Ensign's affiliation with secretive religious group
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HOROSCOPE
Astromat for April 15 - April 21
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NOISE: Spring Forward
Veteran punks the Offspring make changes while honoring their roots
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GRAY MATTERS
Plus, State of the City
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Death Wishes
Kill Bill Vol. 2 and The Punisher serve revenge both hot and cold
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WINK: On Love, Meat and Cookies
She reconsiders the old flame
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Snapshots from the County Fair
Meat, euphemism and cheap butt massages at the fairgrounds
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SCREEN
THE SAME RIVER TWICE
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WORD!
The Chapter, by the book
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SCREEN
CONNIE AND CARLA
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THEATER: Having a Blasphemy!
The Shande of Rabbi Schlemazel is calculated to outrage
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TASTE: Fair Fare
Deep-fried delights make the merry go round
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Our Newest Scenic Byway
If the Feds are handing out money, our municipal hand's extended
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NOISE: Punk Rock Poet
Henry Rollins isn't just beating around Bush with spoken-word performance
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NOISE: Yes, We Have Steve Howe
The Energizer Bunny of arena-rock bands keeps going and going and going
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Killing Time
The Las Vegas Weekly's Jeffrey M. Anderson talks with Kung Fu's David Carradine about Kill Bill's Quentin Tarantino
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DIGITAL TONY: Warning: Rant Ahead
Digital Tony has a head of steam
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Five Years Later
The Columbine massacrefive years ago this weekmay have happened in Colorado, but its effects are felt here
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: I'm Voting for Howard!
The politics of free speech in an election year
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SOUNDCHECK: Adding It Up
Dozens of Depeche Mode; Tyler sings the blues
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A&E: She's Got a Good Attitude
Patti LaBelle reigns supreme over Divas concert
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MYSTIC MONA: Here Comes Paula Cottontail ...
... Should she hop on down the Playboy trail?
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Classic Rebellion
The Philharmonic is Vegas' Counterculture
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LETTERS
Those Who Can Teach, Write
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Song City
Fill your iPod with songs of your native land
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FINE ART: A Painter, A Poet, A Pawn and King
Frank Sinatra was no Frank Stella, but he had a sense of rhythm
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SCREEN
THE WHOLE TEN YARDS
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DIGITAL TONY: Holy Retro, Batman!
It's the '80s all over again with DMC and Boy George
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Outta My Face, Space Racist!
In which we enter a weird coffee-shop conversation in mid-stream
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SCREEN
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
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Remember the Alamo
As long as you forget the details
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WINK: Love Me Flatulent
Sometimes, honesty is attractive
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CALENDAR FEATURE: Pornucopia
The director of Girl Next Door talks about being a geek, the mainstreaming of porn and faking Vegas.
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STAGE: Straight Scrutiny for the Queer Trilogy
It humanized perceptions of gays at the dawn of the AIDS era, but how illuminating is Torch Song Trilogy today? Very
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NOISE: Calling All Cats and Dolls
Get hep, Daddy-o, to the seventh annual Viva Las Vegas
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FEATURE: You're 15th Minute Never Ends at the Swap Meet Hall of Fame
On the memorabilia circuit, has-beens can remain still-ares: observations on the commerce of nostalgia
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GRAY MATTERS
Plus, State of the City
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SCREEN
JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION
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SCREEN
ELLA ENCHANTED
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TASTE: Breakfast At Bouchon
Genius behind Napa's famed bakery introduces morning fare
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She's Come Undone
The unraveling of Janet Moncrief begins slowly, but speeds up toward the end
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DVDs: Police Academy Collection Arrives
Steve Guttenberg appears, and the world was never the same again
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A Huge Amount of Work Still Needs to Be Done
It may be too early to begin second-guessing the county's growth task force. But that doesn't stop us!
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LETTERS
Damned Good Advice
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SOUNDCHECK: The Ferry Man
Solid efforts from both Corsten, David Byrne
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DOWN THE HATCH: Coming Full Circle
Sometimes, the only thing that makes good-byes easy is another round
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MYSTIC MONA: Lei One on Me
Is Hawaii-Vegas romance headed for aloha?
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CULTURE CLUB: Taken for Granted
The NEA has taken a safe path in the Culture Wars, but it's the only route back to usefulness.
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5 Demons of the Classroom
Teachers speak up on five problems that hamper classroom performance.
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SCREEN
THE RECKONING
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A&E: He Can Do Magic
David Copperfield can have anything that he desires
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HOROSCOPE
Astromat for April 8 - April 14
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NOISE: Pure Motivation
No Motiv just wants to rock, even if it takes manual labor
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SCREEN
GOOD BYE, LENIN!
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SCREEN
WALKING TALL
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SCREEN
INTERMISSION
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TASTE: Sushi+Sake is on a Roll
Japanese restaurant also offers tempura, great desserts
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'I Was Scared to Die for Something I Didn't Do.'
At a forum for death-penalty opponents
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SOUNDCHECK: The Mac Is Back
Ben Kweller knows karate; Gary Jules is lusterless
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A&E: The Mile-High Club
Jet's Nic Cester weathers the turbulence that is touring America
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MYSTIC MONA: Psychic to Psychic
An exercise in peer counseling
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SCREEN
THE PRINCE & ME
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HOROSCOPE
Astromat for April 1 - April 7
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CALENDAR FEATURE: Laureate of Liquids
South American import Christian Delpech is the hottest thing behind the bar
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DIGITAL TONY: Come Back, Pleasuredome
If you don't got it, don't flaunt it
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FEATURE: Save Me A Star On The Walk Of Fame
In which David Renzi leaves a dead-end job in Vegas for the glittering promise of Hollywood. Oh, good move, Dave!
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NOISE: Rethinking Their Hypotheses
The Juliana Theory takes a raw approach to its new release
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Wedding Chapel Wars, PartOh, Who's Counting
Bomb threats, fugitives and a chapel without a license
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LETTERS
Our Favorite Letter This WeekAw, Heck, Maybe Our Favorite Letter of All Time
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Poolside Drama
Tagging along as TV's The O.C. comes to Las Vegas
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DVDs: Mr. Ripley's Talents
Exiled directors, sewer rats and punkers, oh my!
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FINE ART: Handy and Dandy
Shows make the most of bodies and their parts
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Six Hours in Carson City
Countdown to the execution of Lawrence Colwell Jr.
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SCREEN
HOME ON THE RANGE
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TV: Spring Fever
Mid-season turns thoughts to love of television
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GRAY MATTERS
A gathering of news, observations, stray thoughts and medically supervised brain drainings about our city.
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Welcome to the Jungle, Mr. Rheault
State's new superintendent lays out his plan for education salvation
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WINK: Tiptoeing Toward Temptation
To indulge or not to indulge? She lets her feet do the talking
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To Sir, With Love
In which our intrepid rock journalist finds himself alone with Elton John.
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Go To Hellboy
Just don't expect action-movie heaven