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Now That's Fast. But Is It Likely?
A magnetic levitation train would make the trip from Southern California to Las Vegas pass by in mere minutes
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The Indispensable Las Vegas Weekly Memorial Weekend Nightclub Guide
We're cooking with gas, now!
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PSYCHIC VIEW: Click Your Heels Three Times and Say ...
There's no place like home for homesick family
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Wynn Faces Off With Architects
Is there a greater need for subtlety in Las Vegas' building boom?
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Fear Factor: Is Your Uzi Just Plain Fun?
A question of incredibly deep psychology arises from bulk mail. Where else?
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Choosing the Easy Punt
Remake of Longest Yard avoids tough plays for easy laughs
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Not So Loud! And Shut Those Blinds!
A few suggestions for handling the next-day hangover
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SCREEN
MADAGASCAR
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WINK: The Trip to The Truth
A fun getaway winds up at a surprising emotional destination
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THE CONSUMER: Sexy Clothes For a Sexy City
Victoria's Secret, Chantal Thomass join forces
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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Gay Goulet?
Only on stage, as Robert Goulet sashays onto Broadway in La Cage aux Folles
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THE INFORMATION: City Journal
Recent Developments of Note
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: The Body Beautiful
Cell phone-free heaven in Vegas' poshest basement
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A + E: All the Arts + Entertainment You Can Eat
What's Next at Wynn?
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SORE THUMBS: ET, Get Your Ass Outta Here
Famed FSP Area 51 not as successful on console
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It's Curtain Time
A secret hotel room at the MGM Grand is the scene of stunnng transformation
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GRAY MATTERS
News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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HOROSCOPE
Heavens Above
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Above the Belt & Behind the Wheel
Traveling artist brings trucker buckles and stories to Vegas art gallery
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SOUNDCHECK
Nikka Costa scores; Gorillaz hits and misses
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TASTE: Cross-Cultural Cuisine
Have you heard the one about the Korean who opened a Japanese restaurant?
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Have At Thee
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo joust for dominance at E3
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Pride and Perseverance
As gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Las Vegans enjoy Pride 2005, we take a look at what is—and is not—working in the local community.
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PSYCHIC VIEW: No-Nook of the North
This couple isn't makin' Canadian bacon
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Vegas: Land of Second Chances?
EVOLVE provides opportunities for ex-felons
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SOUNDCHECK
Weezer's latest; Motown gets remixed
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SCREEN
NINA'S TRAGEDIES
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TASTE: Pink's Pales to LA
Dogs are great but hot-dog stand atmosphere is missing
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Who's Got the Biggest?
Reputation, that is. A look at the battle between UNLV and Cornell to be the world's best hotel administration program
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ART: Watch the Skies
Local group hopes to start a Vegas Burning Man-type festival
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NOISE: Having a Relapse
Classic Anthrax lineup reunite to spread the metal
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CULTURE CLUB: Architects' Olympics
Does the convention signal Vegas is at a crossroads?
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SORE THUMBS
Psychonauts astounds
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HOROSCOPE
Heavens Above
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A + E
All the Arts + Entertainment You Can Eat
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THE INFORMATION: City Journal
Recent Developments of Note
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"There's something about a whole bunch of people in uniform that looks threatening ... intimidating ... Awe-inspiring"
Return of the Neon City Garrison
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TV: NewlyFeds
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline take reality TV to a new low
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SCREEN
FEAR AND TREMBLING
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THEATER: What They Did For Love
Cast has heart but can't lend soul to off-key Chorus Line
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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THE CONSUMER: Next-Gen Capitalists
American Apparel spins an enviable yarn
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WINK: Head-Shrinking the Heartache
Looking for answers to tough questions on love—and one's own nature
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Garcia Denies Biases Point by Point
Lambasted by black activists, the exiting school superintendent fires a few parting shots of his own
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SCREEN
IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG
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Why We Keep Going Easy on Steve Wynn
Is he an artist? A civic giant? Or merely a businessman?
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: Lure Doesn't Get Bites
Wynn's ultralounge is nice but where's the love?
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GRAY MATTERS
News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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Star Bores
George Lucas' prequel trilogy limps to its conclusion
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A Generation Shaped By Lucas
Our longterm relationship with Star Wars
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NOISE: Draggin' Around
Lenny Kravitz hits 40 but keeps rocking
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BAR EXAM: Good Will Huntridge
Frozen in time, the Huntridge Tavern offers respite
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FINE ART: More Masters
Bellagio ready to welcome more Boston infusion
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The What We Need 100
Serious needs, small enrichments, urban daydreams and pure impudence from the Weekly staff and our special guest commentators
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Would Humans Fall Off of a Flat Earth?
Visiting author Thomas Friedman is a perfect example of a man on a round planet
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Sports
Does a big-time city need a big league team?
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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THE STRIP: Imperfect Dreams
Le Rêve needs work
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The Economy
Living sort-of happily ever after with the monster we've made
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New Century, New Tradition?
On the cusp of the Centennial, Las Vegas makes history: It preserves an old building!
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Public Transit
And now a word from our much-maligned monorail
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IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL
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Present at the Creation
You think these 100 years were eventful? Just wait for the next 10.
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A City for Everyone—Where Everyone's Got a City
Without thriving ethnic neighborhoods, can Las Vegas truly be world-class?
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NOISE: The U.S. Invasion
American DJ is making it big against Europeans
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Cultural Chameleon
From Bach to Paul Simon, Texas to Vegas, Willie Nelson's reach is still profound
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SOUNDCHECK
Mike Jones; Bruce Springsteen
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SCREEN
KICKING & SCREAMING
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PSYCHIC VIEW: Lesson for the Teacher
A forecast and advice for a returning reader
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COMEDY: Premature Parting Shots
Substance abuse is no joke in the world of comedy
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The University
In addition to better academics, there has to be a university culture
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SCREEN
MINDHUNTERS
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SCREEN
MONSTER-IN-LAW
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TV: Signing Off
Everybody Loves Raymond, Star Trek: Enterprise leave the airwaves
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THE CONSUMER: A Good Sign
Welcome to Vegas sign reflects the city
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WINK: Jay-Walking Through Love
Renewed romance triggers heartbreak and soul-searching
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TASTE: A Top Thai Restaurant
Reborn Ocha serves up fabulous cuisine By Max Jacobson
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The Next 100
In a mere century, we built the weirdest city in the world. Where on Earth do we go from here?
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SORE THUMBS: May the Force Be with You
Well, not quite but close enough in Jade Empire
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A+E: All the Arts + Entertainment You Can Eat
Why Didn't Howard Stern Think of This First?
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HOROSCOPE
Heavens Above
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The Arts
We keep telling ourselves we need a Downtown arts center. Are we telling ourselves the truth?
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GRAY MATTERS
News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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NOISE: Downtown Gets Hip
Beauty Bar promises to make it cool to go to Fremont
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Tesh Me
What happens when a cynical writer looks to the wholesome John Tesh for advice?
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Chemistry 101
Why do today's young male actors fail to generate steam with their female counterparts?
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: Aye, Aye, Capt. Maloof
N9NE Group gives tourists three ways to party
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THE INFORMATION: City Journal
Recent Developments of Note
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FEEDBACK
Nine Inch Nails (3.5 stars) — April 30, The Joint, Hard Rock
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GRAY MATTERS
News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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Quotes From the Underground
Pavel Brun was a cultural dissident in Brezhnev's Russia. Then, for a wondrous decade, he helped Cirque du Soleil and Franco Dragone revolutionize the Vegas ...
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SORE THUMBS: Kri Sequel Gets Middling Marks
Kasai is beautiful to look at, not so much fun to play
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CULTURE CLUB: Is the Medium Still the Message?
Clueing back into Marshall McLuhan
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What We Really Want From Another Megaresort
Central Park: What Wynn should have done
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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What We Really Want From Another Megaresort
Restorative powers? That's a claim worth investigating
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PALINDROMES
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SCREEN
The 83rd Annual Las Vegas Weekly Summer Movie Preview
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TASTE: Diffusion Fusion
Chinois' new chef might reverse restaurant's course to traditional Asian fare
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SCREEN
HOUSE OF WAX
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PSYCHIC VIEW: Precious Freedom
And the prisons we create
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THE CONSUMER: Centennial Draw
Downtown shops await visitors
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BAR EXAM: You Can Bet on It
Mix your liquor with some odds and you might come out ahead
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OVER IT! 48 Trends, Phrases, News Items, Bad Habits & Brilliant Ideas That Are Over
Plus! Our highly enlightened suggestions for what is, or in some cases should be, fashionable instead.
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SCREEN
LOOK AT ME
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SCREEN: Crash Testing
Paul Haggis hopes his racially charged new movie will get people talking
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WINK: Let My Ego Do the Talking
Ah-oh, here I go again
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SCREEN: Hell On Earth
Scott strips the religion out of the Crusades in Kingdom of Heaven
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HOROSCOPE
Astromat for May 5 - 11
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: The Eight Days of Xanikah
Highlights from the birthday postmortem and hangover report
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SCREEN
CRASH
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Zia Moves Into Vegas
Music store wars are heating up with the addition of an Arizona-based chain
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NOISE: Teenage Wasteland
Teens love the Used, but don't call them a boy band
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THE INFORMATION: City Journal
Recent Developments of Note
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A+E
All the Arts + Entertainment You Can Eat