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Maybe Graffiti Speaks of Urban Vibrance
Or just gives government officials a reason to be on MySpace!
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The Five People You Meet In Nightclubs
Gross generalizations from beyond the pearly gates of Clubland
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Mash-Up
Pure heads south
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BAR EXAM: A Christmas Story
Drinking and gambling to celebrate the birth of the Lord
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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TV: Not Digging It
FX's Dirt is a big mess
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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COMEDY: Talking with Joe Rogan
The comedian on fighting, life after Fear Factor and the big ol' universe
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DJ Homicide
Roll out the welcome mat for Vegas' newest resident
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I AM MASTER SHAKE!
Las Vegan Dana Snyder earns unexpected street cred as the voice of TV's most famous milkshake
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Take a Load Off
Free Seats: Not A Nightclub Myth!
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ON THE SCENE: Rock On, Inner Caveman, Rock On
A night of primitive music that even a feminist could love
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NOISE
Five Questions with the Dan Band's Dan Finnerty
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Beyond the Rope
John "Ducky" Slaughter, Matthew P. Wurm
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COMICS: From Children To Slackers
Comics that operate on dream logic and arcade logic
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TASTE: Relief for a Fast Food Nation
At Evos, burgers and fries can be health food
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PRINT: 21st Century Man
The protagonist of Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land is trying to find his place in the new American century
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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LINE PASS: The 12 Bars of Christmas
My true love gave to me one wicked hangover
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POP CULTURE: Beauty Queens Gone Wild!
What happens when wholesome girls are kept on tight leashes
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In Pole Position
If you love your body, set it free
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Nights on the Circuit: Come On Down!
Your friendly neighborhood DJs are throwing you a house party
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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Get on the Tables or Shut the Hell Up!
Why Kid Rock is risking being called a 'celebrity DJ' this New Year's Eve
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Mash-Up
Christmas' Dirty Dozen
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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Free Your Ass
Dance wiggles its way back
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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FEEDBACK
Rock the Bells Tour
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2006 DECONSTRUCTED
The Year in Minutiae, Tidbits and Decontextualized Fact-like Thingies
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Nights on the Circuit: No Silent Nigts at Dorm Days
Changing the face of after-hours, overnight
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POP CULTURE: This Time Princess Di Stays Down!
Our annual end-of-the-year zombie and Nazi superweapon book roundup
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Listening Back
These CDs got by us when they first came out; not this time
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An Immodest—But Brilliant! — Proposal
Teachers need big guns
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NIGHTLIFE
Make Your New Year's Eve Party Plans Now
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COMICS: A Big, Fat Collection of Comics
In a medium that keeps on growing
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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TOP TENS OF 2006: Movies
The Year in A&E
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Eyeing Cops
Has Metro's police oversight board lived up to its billing?
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2006
Another Year Shot In The Ass
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DANCE
The Nutcracker
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SCREEN
Rocky Balboa
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TASTE: 10 Best Things I Ate This Year
Looking back in fullness
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A Good Night To Brawl
Karaoke turns into a peaceful, easy fistfight
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SCREEN
We Are Marshall
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LOUD
Tower Records, The Pearl, Freakin' Frog
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A Dream Come True
The movie musical makes a triumphant return with Dreamgirls
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Must-Geek TV
From Heroes to The Colbert Report, the geeks are taking over. What's it to you, two-eyes?
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LINE PASS: Video Killed the MP3 Star
PXL8 visualizes the future of the DJ
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The Hands of History
The History Boys has a quaint view of homosexuality
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TOP TENS OF 2006: Music
The Year in A&E
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Spy Hard
The Good Shepherd's CIA saga is a tough slog
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MY 2006
We asked three writers to sum up what the year meant to them
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SCREEN
The Pursuit of Happyness
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Moss, Local Man of Mystery
Getting to know the elusive master of the Double Down is no easy feat
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TASTE: It's What's For Dinner
And lunch, too: Steak offers more choices than its name implies
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Rap Gap
Awards show highlights "positive" contributions of rappers whose lyrics aren't so positive. But will it have a Vegas venue?
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The Art of Drafting Roomy Laws In Which To Wiggle
City ordinances tell the story of legal storytelling
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Lord of the Wings
This shabby Rings ripoff has a generic story, wooden dialogue and none of that Jackson action
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ON THE SCENE: The Captain of Chaos
A DIY legend oversees an evening of ramshackle sing-alongs
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POP CULTURE: Grey Areas
How music from a show I never watch has infiltrated my life
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TV: Swimming in Circles
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim has become a derivative parody of itself
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A Little Complaint About the Arts District
Iceberg Slick picks a fight—a First Friday fight!
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PRINT: Woman with the Long Pen
Chatting with Margaret Atwood
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Mash-Up
Ultimate Cocktails for the New Year
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ON THE SCENE: Let's Drink to Remembering!
Not every alcohol/memory seminar is what it seems
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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Not Holly. Not Jolly.
Holidays got you down? These gifts will help you spread your lack of cheer.
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DANCE: Save the Nutcracker from Sex
How the swans became bats-a brief history of lust en pointe
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BAR EXAM: The Circle of Booze
MGM's Centrifuge is a microcosm of human life
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PRINT: Out There
Doug Stanhope's Fun with Pedophiles isn't for the weak
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XANIA'S HOT SPOTS
This Week's Special Events
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NIGHTS ON THE: I Gotta Get Back to the Get Back
Or: Why I can never be a Hipster
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COMICS: At Home with a Dyke to Watch Out For
And makeovers to fight about
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PRINT: Less Filling
This tale of Hannibal Lecter's childhood doesn't go deep enough
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Drinking and Striving
Networking with the Feminist Drinking Club, the Valley's tippling source for activism
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Beyond the Rope
Adam S. Gould
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SOUNDCHECK
Gwen Stefani, Clipse, Ciara, Pavement, Plague Songs, Brats on the Beat
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NOISE
Three Questions with Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie
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FEEDBACK
Panic! At the Disco
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NOISE
Chatting with Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco
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Conspiracy Theory at Church
Vegas pastor claims forces bent on destroying black boys
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SCREEN
Unaccompanied Minors
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Waters' World
f beauty pageants, childbirthing, gender-bending and trash talk
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Mash-Up
Rockhouse Beachless, Vivid visible
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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SOUNDCHECK: Not the Usual Carols
To keep your nights from being too silent, here's a roundup of holiday CDs
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XANIA'S HOT SPOTS
This Week's Special Events
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LINE PASS: Silicone Valley
Vegas embraces its identity: Welcome to fabulous Boob Town, USA!
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Who Has A Voice on Campus?
UNLV's student government funding of events raises questions about which groups can have a forum for their ideas
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POP CULTURE: National Insecurity
Weakened by the fall of rap rock, are we vulnerable to foreign thrill-killers?
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TV: A Wave of Mediocrity
HBO's tsunami miniseries is your standard TV disaster reenactment
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SCREEN
Cocaine Cowboys
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TV: I, Gaius
He thinks with his penis, is obsessed with a memory (or brain implant) and almost destroyed humanity. What's not to love?
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See This Movie Now
An urgent message film that works, Blood Diamond deserves a vast audience
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Curse You, Californians!
Question 5 is just the latest excuse for many Las Vegans to indulge their loathing of our neighbors to the west
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PRINT: Peace in His Time
Jimmy Carter on his continuing efforts in the Middle East
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BEYOND THE ROPE
Chance McDaniel
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STAGE: Bard Labor
Despite exertions of Shakespearean proportions, NCT's Twelfth Night remains in the dark
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SCREEN
The Holiday
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[Toward The] Finish Line
The New Las Vegas Marathon races into the future
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HOROSCOPE
Pegggy Plots Your Planets
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Ancient Action
Apocalypto brings Hollywood-style violence and storytelling to bear on Mayan history
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LOUD
Special First Friday Live Edition!
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TASTE: A Warming Trend
Swish offers hot Japanese dishes for cold winters
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COMICS: Back in the Spirit
The Spirit and Batman have a past, and a future
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRUIT: Noche con las Diosas
Thank goodness for the Tequila Goddess and Tom Jones
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PRINT: Silly Bible Story
David Maine's Book of Samson makes for light reading. Too light.
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Where to run in Vegas
[From Timoty Kelly, President of the Las Vegas Track Club]