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Stealing without tweeting

Greg Beato | Wed, Nov 4, 2009 (4:52 p.m.)

The Hollywood Burglar Bunch illuminates celebrity’s diminishing grip on us all.

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Lead Photo E-cigs: politically correct political incorrectness?

Greg Beato | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 (5:07 p.m.)

Leo DiCaprio, Tom Petty and everyone’s favorite style icon, Kevin Federline, have all been photographed “vaping” in public. E-cigs are the new Obey T-shirts.

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Lead Photo The ups and downs of caffeinated booze

Greg Beato | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 (3 p.m.)

BooYa Tequila, Freaky Ice Vodka, Moonshot Beer, Gravity ShotPak Vodka: It’s perfectly legal to have caffeine in your goofy alcoholic beverage. So, why are state attorneys general trying to ban the stuff?

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Hummers for your feet!

Greg Beato | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 (midnight)

If it seems a little ironic that slender urban saplings are dressing like Paul Bunyan and the Marlboro Man, well, so what?

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Lead Photo Diamonds are a ghoul’s best friend

Greg Beato | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 (midnight)

Being turned into kitty litter and dumped in a glorified spittoon doesn’t sound all that glamorous. But that’s old cremation technology. Today, even the frumpiest corpse is a literal diamond in the rough.

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Lead Photo Peace, love … and texting

Greg Beato | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)

Looking back through the glass at TRL’s pop-culture revolution

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Lead Photo Girdles … for men

Greg Beato | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)

They eliminate inches in seconds. They’re surprisingly comfortable. They’re flying off the shelves at trend-setting retailers: They are Mirdles - girdles for guys.

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Baking up … cars?

Greg Beato | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 (midnight)

How bad can things be, really, when we have not one, not two, but three cable TV series about bakers who make extremely complicated and expensive cakes?

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Lead Photo A comeback America actually needs

Greg Beato | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 (midnight)

Which is more inspiring? Overcoming cancer to win the Tour de France, or overcoming prolonged exposure to Matthew McConaughey to accomplish the same feat?

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Lead Photo Porn’s highs and lows

Greg Beato | Thu, Jun 18, 2009 (midnight)

Scan the newspaper headlines, and you might think these are boom times for porn stars. Alas, it’s not all hip Hollywood premieres and political temperature-taking for the nation’s carnal professionals.

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Lead Photo Big bucks for famous bricks

Greg Beato | Thu, Jun 4, 2009 (midnight)

Elvis left the building long ago, but his nasal douche remains and is being offered to the highest bidder. So are 30 pairs of Ann Miller’s false eyelashes and two bricks from Marilyn Monroe’s patio.

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Lead Photo Go ahead, rough the passer. Please!

Greg Beato | Thu, May 21, 2009 (midnight)

Hot women, clad in little more than panties, knee pads and a hard protective shell of spray-on tan. What’s not to like?

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Lead Photo Vanilla Mike?

John Lombardi | Thu, May 14, 2009 (midnight)

Tyson brings the audience closer to the former “baddest man on the planet” than most are comfortable being. Will Rebranding Tyson for the age of Obama actually work?

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Lead Photo Charging for bread

Greg Beato | Thu, May 7, 2009 (midnight)

It was bad enough when pizza places started charging for delivery. Now, all across the land, restaurants have begun making their patrons pay for the bread they once enjoyed for free.

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Lead Photo She-sweets

Greg Beato | Thu, Apr 23, 2009 (midnight)

Fling’s fingers are imbued with a faint metallic pink shimmer that straddles the line between “amusingly chic” and “scrumptiously contaminated.” If you haven’t guessed yet, Fling is aimed at women.

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A&E

Cirque reveals City Center show will be named “Viva ELVIS”
Today Cirque du Soleil revealed that the new show opening in December at Aria Resort & Casino at City Center will be titled Viva ELVIS.
Time to go for Wayne Newton?
Newton could be a great host of a Vegas variety show. But he prefers to keep his show focused on his singing and not on his legacy. The result is sad.
A Perfecto Halloween makeover
What’s blue and purple, nearly naked and doesn’t move for five hours? Weekly writer Deanna Rilling undergoing an otherworldly transformation.

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Beergarita

It was quite by happenstance that I came upon the beergarita, or perhaps it found me. I was blissfully unaware of the house-party staple’s existence until two glasses literally put ...
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