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Mash-Up
Girls, Guys Go Wild
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Artistic Differences
The debate over whether First Friday should be a highbrow art affair or anything-goes festival mirrors a struggle over the future of the Arts District
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IN PRINT: Unreal
Theft, Peter Carey's new novel, works the line between authentic and fake
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ON THE SCENE: A Night at Pogo's
My cure for the common cold
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Boyz Will Be Boyz?
Is the latest violent spree by a pack of young men indicative of a larger problem, or a consistent condition?
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SCREEN
WATER
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The Devil Made Them Do It
Notes to filmmakers: So don't listen to the devil. You'll end up making crap like The Omen
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THE CONSUMER: Gem of a Show
Get a bead on jewelry know-how at Intergem
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TV: Spontaneous Combustion
Semi-improvised comedies go down in flames
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COMICS: Ho, Ho, Ho! Eat Lead, Mutants!
A postapocalyptic Santa empties his bag of zombie ass-kick!
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SCREEN
DISTRICT B13
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Two Tales of Our City
Last Will and Testament of Miss Lala Bigg
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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A+E
All the ARTS+ ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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ON THE SCENE Putting the Tip in Tipple
Drinking chic to chic at a tasteful reception
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Cannes Do
Notes from the big film festival
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Xania's Hot Spots
June 17
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STAGE: Misery Loves Lunacy
Terrorized author doesn't love the company of loony fan in stage adaptation of film fav
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SOUNDCHECK
The Wreckers; Mobb Deep; Mission of Burma
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Beyond the Rope
Sean Charsley
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Graffiti Is Not Vandalism!
Instead, some say the word has been stolen from legitimate artists and encoded as a crime
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Whatever They're Hiding, I'd Like to Know What It Is
Memorial Day at Area 51
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CULTURE CLUB: The Happy Life of the Middle Class
Democrats are missing the masses
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NOISE
THREE QUESTIONS WITH THE DISPLACED'S SIMON MANDEL
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SCREEN
THE BREAK-UP
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TV: Love Gone Wrong
Critic: HBO's polygamy series ducks the hard truths
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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Two Tales of Our City
The Watchers
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: Cherry Revisited
Once, twice, three times a party
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POP CULTURE: Madonna's Unstable Behavior
Remember when implied sex with a horse was out there?
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TASTE: Peak Eats
At Himalayan Cuisine, Nepali food reaches for the summit
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FEEDBACK
Ice Cube with tha dogg pound (3 stars)—May 27, House of Blues
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SORE THUMBS: Take 'Em Out
Latest Hitman still has a sure hand but shoots a little wide of the target
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FEEDBACK
Madonna (3.5 stars)—May 27, MGM Grand Garden Arena
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DREAM ZONE
What secrets do your dreams hold?
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Jobbed or Robbed?
Controversial website claims plant nursery abuses illegal immigrants
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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Feeling Game
At the big annual video-game convention, Matthew Scott Hunter assesses the future
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GRAY MATTERS
News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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FEEDBACK
THE NEW CARS (1.5 stars), BLONDIE (3 stars)—May 19, Aladdin Theatre
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SORE THUMBS: Settle for the Movie
Video games have spawned many bad films; now films return the favor
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TASTE: Gracias, Amigo's
The Fiesta's new Mexican cantina makes for a bueno evening
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Lt. Ron Williams Just Can't Hush
So we let the candidate for Sheriff talk about stuff
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IN PRINT: Truth and Fact
Sebastian Junger's A Death in Belmont raises the question, How do we know what we know?
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NOISE
LOUD!
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COMICS: What Rhymes with 'Kapow'?
The poetry of Poe and Longfellow inspires gory horror comics
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Xania's Hot Spots
Memorial Day Weekend, May 25 31
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Beyond the Rope
Brian Klimaski
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A+E
All the ARTS+ ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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Chronicle of a Verdict Foretold
An argument against the coroner's inquest
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TV: The Hills Are Contrived
Laguna Beach spin-off drifts even further away from reality
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POP CULTURE: They Do It All!
Notes on celebrity productivity
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The Marathon Man
DJ Boris gives Vegas a reason to Believe this Memorial Day
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Mutant Mediocrity
Brett Ratner's superpower is watering down the X-Men
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'Hey! Over There! I'm Watching!'
A commentary on culture and crime
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FINE ART: Hefty Metal
Bradley Corman's grooved aluminum sculptures aren't as simple as they look
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: Piranha Mama
A grand tour at a grand opening
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THE CONSUMER: The Sexy Secrets of Victoria
Fashion-forward eroticism slinks into Caesars Forum Shops
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NOISE
Madonna vs. Prince
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SOUNDCHECK
Dixie Chicks; The Stills; The Walkmen; Kaskade
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TASTE: Here's Your 'Cue
At Bird N Bones, they cook with a slow hand—the way barbecue should be
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: The Pride of Sin City
Getting wild on Girlbar and Krave during Pride week
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Mash-Up
Et Tu, Caesars?
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SCREEN
OVER THE HEDGE
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SORE THUMBS: New Mario Is Truly Super
It reminds you of why you play video games
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SCREEN
THE DA VINCI CODE
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A+E
All the ARTS+ ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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CULTURE CLUB: United 93: Do You Feel It?
Maybe the film comes not too soon, but too late
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A Free Storefront of Their Own
Artists take over Henderson space—is it the start of something bigger?
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SCREEN
ONE PERFECT DAY
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IN PRINT: The Exile
Wole Soyinka on art and politics, life and death
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COMICS: The Lonely Vampire
Surprisingly, being undead doesn't improve your love life
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Xania's Hot Spots
May 18-24
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Good Counsel?
The Council for a Better Nevada wants—what else—a better Nevada. Starting with its stand on decentralizing education, the council is ruffling quite a few feathers.
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NOISE: How I Got Uncool
It's Rob Halford's fault. And Freddie Mercury's. In honor of VH1 Rock Honors, a rock 'n' roll self-portrait
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SOUNDCHECK
Gnarls Barkley; RHCP; The Raconteurs
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Why My Allergies Feel Criminal
The government shouldn't monitor my Sudafed use
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NOISE: Howl
On the scene when Aussie phenom Wolfmother plays Vegas
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NOISE
Three Questions with Jamie Cullum
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GRAY MATTERS
News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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TV: Falling Down on the Job
After 16 years, America's Funniest Home Videos retains its primal appeal
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HOT
Three simple letters, so many meanings. In honor of the arrival of triple digits, the Weekly offers four scorching pages of heat treatment.
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THE CONSUMER: Fetish Fun
The Basement will outfit you for the edge, and beyond
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Rainbow Coalition
Not quite. But MGM Mirage is blazing trails in diversity.
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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POP CULTURE: Idol Democracy
Finally, a race where your vote actually matters
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Hard-Boiled High
Brick recasts high school as noir thriller
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IN PRINT: All Gifts Are Tainted
Damaged people and their dubious grace notes populate D'Ambrosio's stories
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Xania's Hot Spots
May 1117
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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TV: Overstaying Their Welcome
How can we miss shows that won't go away?
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TASTE: The Little Dumpling Gang
Chinese and Peruvian cooking team up for tastiness
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DANCE: Cunning Concubine
Nevada Ballet takes on bewitching Scheherazade
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IN PRINT: Fall Down Boy
A memoir of a brother's death redeems a Freyed genre
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IN PRINT: The Book of Life
Handy volume tells you all you'll ever need to know!
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SCREEN
GOAL! THE DREAM BEGINS
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LOUD!: House of the Rising Sun
Rocking the living room, and other high and low notes from the local scene. Welcome to our new music column.
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Staying Off the Streets
Krystal Campagna, once homeless, keeps working to help others
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The Most Beautiful People in Las Vegas
Our highly subjective, possibly incomplete but utterly undebatable selection
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SOUNDCHECK
Rebel Meet Rebel; Secret Machines; Ivano Bellini
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STAGE: Oy, Gay
Jest a Second turns sexual identity into Jewish schtick
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Cars and (Some) Stars
I went to Gumball 3000 at the Hard Rock Hotel and all I got were two sore feet
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FINE ART: The Adams Gallery
Photographer extraordinaire celebrated at Bellagio
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Mash-Up
Thar's a New Club in Town (Again)
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: How Sweet It Is
An industry night under the stars at Cherry
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Homing in on the Problem
The latest tweak on addressing homelessness involves you. Yes, you!
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NOISE
Three Questions with Aaron Lewis of Staind
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COMICS: Hero vs. Hero
In Civil War, it's good guy vs. good guy as caped crusaders take political sides
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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FEEDBACK
Tool (4 stars)—May 5, The Joint in the Hard Rock
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GRAY MATTERS
News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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Anything Goes!
Appreciating the potential of 63 open acres on the Strip
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Beyond the Rope
Larry Edwards
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SCREEN
ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
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THE CONSUMER: Hair We Go
Coiffure issues? Skaught ought to be your man
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SORE THUMBS: Need a Tomb Raided?
Lara Croft is back and looking good
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A+E
All the ARTS+ ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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Glub, Glub
Josh Lucas doesn't drown, and other reasons not to board Poseidon. Nice set design, though.
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Invisible Effort?
Locals participate in a global push to help Ugandan child soldiers, where a murderous regime has made change anything but certain
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COMICS: The Price is Right
A shopping guide for Free Comic Book Day
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LINE PASS: Scratch the CDs and Play Something Live
Supergroup DJs Are Alive wants to bring excitement back to clubs
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THE CONSUMER: Fashion Comes to Fruition
Reconstructing the past for a fashion-forward present
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TV: The Future of TV is Online
But will it be worth watching?
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Steve Bridges and the (Latex) Face of (Impersonated) Power
Or, Pretending to be the President for Fun and Profit
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SCREEN
HOOT
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Disconnecting
The consequences of turning on and tuning out in the Internet age
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STAGE: Fright Night Lite
NCT's overdone Wait Until Dark reduces a classic thriller to substandard filler
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STAGE
Closer Than Ever
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Xania's Hot Spots
May 410
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SORE THUMBS: No Waa!
Dear Nintendo: What were you thinking?
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CULTURE CLUB: Things Can Get Worse
And other apocalyptic feelings about urban planning
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Mash-Up
Oh My God, Becky!
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NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: Lounging Around with GQ
Surviving a party marathon at the Palms ain't easy ... but it sure is fun
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GRAY MATTERS
News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city
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NOISE: You Shoulda Been There
Sore feet, aching ears and a great time; a dispatch from the Coachella festival
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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NOISE
THREE QUESTIONS WITH CHARLIE HUNTER
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SOUNDCHECK
The Boss is back, growling and hollering through traditional pastures
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Tom Green Was a Visionary, and Other Things We Didn't Used to Believe
Artists and entertainments we've changed our minds about
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Mission: Passable
M:I III has great action, boring relationships
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About a Boy
L'Enfant (The Child) is thrilling to watch, in a European art-film kind of way
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TASTE: Good Greek
This small restaurant helps elevate the city's Grecian food scene
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Impressions of Vegas
One weekend in our city
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Going Face-to-Face With My Fears
Four days in the house of 'Yes!' with Anthony Robbins
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SCREEN
KINKY BOOTS
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BOOKS: Death Becomes Him
Talking to Philip Roth about death, life and writing
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A+E
All the ARTS+ ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat