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LOUD: Already platinum
Local studio offers haven for hip-hop, R&B talent
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The dirty South
Black Snake Moan is nasty, weird and heartwarming
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LOUD: Paradise found?
Rocker gets dose of reality on way to record deal
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Berkley abuzz
Empowered by the Democratic majority, the always quick-with-a-quip congresswoman has even more to say
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LOUD: Doubling up
How different is Double Down East from its LV progenitor?
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TV: Take us down
On Paradise City, life in Vegas seems almost real
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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POP CULTURE: Fox News is for the kids
Two new shows find the conservative network straining for hipness
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Magnificent obsession
Zodiac finds glory in investigative details
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SCREEN
Iraq in Fragments
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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Mash-Up
It's show time!
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America's got talent
Shaking groove thangs at the West Las Vegas talent show
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Nights on the Circuit: A Night Called 'Sloth'
The trouble with rum is ...
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SCREEN
The Secret Life of Words
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TASTE: Hold the sugar
Pin Kaow's Thai food is terrific—if they make it Thai-style
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Watching the watchmen
Spying is an intimate act in The Lives of Others
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Teachers flee!
Loads of cash would bring them back!
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Unleashed
Thoughts on the beauty and terror of atomic images
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NOISE
Three questions with Bob Schneider, The Weekly Playlist, Best Quote Ever, Coming to Town
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STAGE: Brain Tumor: The Musical
Getting sick is a kick in A New Brain
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The Higher Take Manhattan
The Weekly is there as another loca lband tries to make it big
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COMICS: A little boy who takes on the world, and a droopy-faced bear
Half adventure, half humor in these comics
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Beyond the Rope
Jessica Blair
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Picks
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BAR EXAM: The Griffin flies high
Another top mark for the Downtown scene
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PRINT: Poverty blues
In Poor People, William T. Vollmann ventures among the wretched refuse of many teeming shores
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Essential confidential
The haves and not-haves of clubbing
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CHAOS
Liz Armstrong digs for what lurks beneath the underground
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SCREEN
Wild Hogs
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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SOUNDCHECK
The Higher, Air, !!!, Southern Culture on the Skids
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Vegas' corrupt reputation
Let's make earnest efforts to maintain it!
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The best of the best
Classic junk is here to stay
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FEEDBACK
Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley and others
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SCREEN
Seraphim Falls
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All and then some
My search for the ideal all-you-can-eat sushi experience
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COMICS: A must-read Ivory Coast comic
And a return of the reptilian hominids
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SCREEN
Gray Matters
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A few days in the Valley
With the NBA, plenty of celebs and no shortage of events, it was a chaotic weekend in Vegas. A few frontline dispatches.
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Population control
Is it possible to be humane to animals?
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TASTE: Tasty memories
Vegas Diner brings back thoughts of the food of youth
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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Mash-Up
Slam dunk or air ball?
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Nights on the Circuit: V is for V Bar
Oh yeah, and Valentines Day, too, I spose
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SCREEN
The Astronaut Farmer
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Obamarama!
Barack tries to get the party started
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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Peace in the streets at last?
Time to rely less on cops and more on families
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Killing time
Twenty-three things to look for while watching The Number 23
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Sixteen
Tackling the long tasting menu at Joel Robuchon
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Oscar wasn't watching
We suggest a few alternatives to some of this year's Academy-approved performances
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SCREEN
Amazing Grace
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Picks
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NOISE
The Weekly Playlist, Courtney Trouble, declline of the supergroup, coming to town
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SOUNDCHECK
Jordan Pruitt, Ashley Tisdale, Dean & Britta, Explosions in the Sky, The Frames, Trans Am
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FINE ART: The context of art
Race and politics considered at Left of Center Gallery
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Let's Eat!
Food shouldn't just be something you put in your mouth. Four writers get personal with their grub
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SCREEN
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
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TV: MediocreFellas
The crime epic heads to TV with The Black Donnellys
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LINE PASS: Back to the Future
Polly Esther's offers a hysterical retrospective on nightlife
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DJ Dan
A few minutes with the international man of music
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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Careful food
When circumstances dictate that eating is dangerous; cookbooks become porn
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FEEDBACK
Of Montreal
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FINE ART: Showing the love
An exhibit of Henderson artists who dig what they do
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Nights on the Circuit
Whoa-ee Bowie
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Mash-Up
Get Slammed
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LOUD: Broken hearted
Ellis' exit has Valentine down in the dumps
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Looks like he made it...
Onto the side of the Hilton, that is.
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Left behind
Behind the drug fiend was an angry man who couldn't write fast enough to keep up
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SCREEN
Breaking and Entering
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Spy games
Breach drains the color from its espionage tale
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SCREEN
The Bridge
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Sucking pennies in the seventies
Notes on the good old daze and what Hunter Thompson got wrong
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STAGE: Strip time for Hitler
Pocket-size Producers unlikely to cause der furor in Vegas
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Nude girls in the sky?
That's the fear of residents opposing a giant strip club billboard. But isn't this Vegas?
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plot sYour Planets
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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NOISE
Soundtrack of their success, Jamie Foxx, Coming to Town
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SCREEN
Factory Girl
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SOUNDCHECK
Lucinda Williams, The Apples in Stereo, Various artists, Patty Griffin, Sondre Lerche
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The Thompson Papers
For good or ill, Hunter S. Thompson wrote the book on Vegas.
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Rebel's return
With NBA-All Star Weekend in town, Shawn Marion comes back to his old dunking grounds
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BAR EXAM: Night of the Bloodbath
Which just means it's a typical night at Moon Doggies
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Ron Jeremy tweaked my nipple!
Maybe that's not a good thing
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TV: You are now leaving Orange County
A heartfelt farewell to the snarky O.C.
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TASTE: Eat at Rachel's
Simple food at a simple place
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Smiling through the apocalypse
How Hunter Thompson came to Rolling Stone
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Angry for all the right reasons
A conversation with John Lombardi, the friend and editor who brought Hunter Thompson to Rolling Stone
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SCREEN
Music and Lyrics
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LOUD: Big daze ahead
Veteran reggae outfit gaining major momentum
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PRINT: God, the devil and Norman
Quality time with Mr. Mailer, whose latest novel tries to explain Hitler
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God in every Jujube?
Now playing: church in a movie theater
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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COMEDY: Laugh tracks
Reviews of the latest comedy discs
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POP CULTURE: Citizen relationship journalists
Navigating the latest frontier of online dating
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LINE PASS: Don't Spare Me
An early look at Lucky Strike Lanes—a fusion of nightlife and bowling that makes the sport cooler than ever
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COMICS: Midnight son
Marvel treats the mega—popular Dark Tower novelist like a king
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SCREEN
Climates
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Red Carpet Blues
The slow times, inane questions and reflected glory of the Celebrity Reporter: One woman's tale
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CHAOS
Liz Armstrong digs for what lurks beneath the underground
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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POP CULTURE: Lynching as performance art
Saddam Hussein stars in Bush's blockbuster
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We'll be frank
Norbit doesn't suck, but we're only leading with it because we couldn't screen Hannibal Rising
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FINE ART: Big questions, other realms
Husband and wife artists explore complementary universes
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Bad Dogs
In which the writer compares vicious dogs to automatic weapons—and proposes rules for possessing both
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THE INTERSECTION: The Dewey Dating System
Looking for love at the library
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THE INTERSECTION: She's not there
Lauryn Hill leaves fans heartsick by living up to her reputation
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Nights on the Circuit: Notes on a Sandal
The World Shoe Association brings parties to heel your sole
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THE INTERSECTION: Red and black
Or, more precisely, red vs. black
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TV: The real Vegas TV
True local flavor is on the air, if you know where to look
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SCREEN
The Last Sin Eater
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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POPPED: They've got a fuzzbox and they're going to use it
Indie gurlz from England with MySpace profiles and screechy guitars make extremely catchy post—punk noises
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DVDs
Idiocracy, Cocaine Cowboys
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Mash—Up
A Very Vegas Valentine's
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The Ganja Solution
Saving the world with marijuana, courtesy of rapper Ponyboy
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SOUNDCHECK
Fall Out Boy, Bloc Party, Katharine McPhee, Belinda Carlisle
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NOISE
Anatomy of a tour flier, Sweet Talk, "White" vs. "Hot" Longevity?
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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TASTE: Dining on the lake
Marssa is worth the trek to Lake Las Vegas
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Line Pass
Playing games with Dolls The Pussycat Dolls Casino brings sexy back to gambling
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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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IDEA: Helen and George
In movies and politics, silence speaks volumes
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Bringin' Tha Noise
Criticized by the sheriff, stung by violence and shut out by casinos, Vegas hip-hop was on the ropes. No longer. Damon Hodge explores the reasonsand ...
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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Mash-Up
Stupendous Sunday
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TRUST US
Our Picks of the Week
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Old love
In Venus, Peter O'Toole romances a girl, but he's really putting the moves on Oscar
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LOUD: Vision quest
Venezuelan singer chases her dream to Vegas
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This Is No Longer Las Vegas Art
Notes toward a new way of thinking about art and Sin City
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NOISE
Sonic Transportation, Coming to Town, Keith Morris of Circle Jerks, Eye on Coachella
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SCREEN
The Good German
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POP CULTURE: Off-key barbarians at the gates
Not everyone deserves to be a star
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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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Nights on the Circuit: Body of Artwork
Tuaca's annual Body Art Ball aligns form, function and funny
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THE INTERSECTION: Really good 'guitar'
Yeah, dude's playing a video game. So?
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Beyond the Rope
Jada Fire
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TASTE: North, South, East and West
Sai India Curry offers a variety of food from all around the subcontinent
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New life playlist
We cherish the groups they left behind, but we also flipped for what came next:
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Hustle and pour
Kirk Spahn needs buzz for his new Vegas liqueur, Ty Ku. How to get it? Guerrilla marketing at Sundance, of course.
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Review of the Rhymes
New York we ain't. But Vegas is quickly amassing a large discography and filmography. Here, we review some of the most recent releases.
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SCREEN
Old Joy
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THE INTERSECTION: Jumping to conclusions
Are waitresses really starving as a result of the smoking ban?
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SCREEN
Because I Said So
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Vegas in Rhyme
We may not have a rapper on the top of the charts but the city has played a role in songs from hip-hops finest.
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THE INTERSECTION: What comes next
Tommy Rocker ponders the eternal question: To strip or not to strip
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WEB EXTRA: So not the drama
On the scene at the Miss America pageant
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TV: Silverman's show
Comedy Central looks for its next star in Sarah Silverman