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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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Lead Photo Generation patient

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

Today’s tweens and teens are totally fine with deferred gratification. Maybe it's all that Ritalin.

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Lead Photo What’s up, Doc?

Greg Beato | Thu, Mar 26, 2009 (midnight)

Dr. Drew needs an intervention, and he needs one now. Everywhere he looks, he sees screwed-up celebrities. Or MySpace wannabe superstars who model their behavior on screwed-up celebrities. I

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Lead Photo Over the top

Greg Beato | Thu, Mar 12, 2009 (midnight)

If you spend a lot of time in coffee shops and a lot of time in strip clubs, the idea of combining the two might seem appealing.

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Lead Photo Curses! (every last one in The Sopranos)

Greg Beato | Thu, Feb 26, 2009 (midnight)

Want to see 86 episodes of The Sopranos meticulously mined and compiled into a montage of nearly 5,000 curse words screamed, spat and muttered on the show? Or course!

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Lead Photo Mad man

Greg Beato | Thu, Feb 12, 2009 (midnight)

If you’ve listened to the audio clip of Christian Bale's eruption on the set of Terminator: Salvation, then you know that Bale understands that a movie star’s job isn’t just about acting, but also about living the life to which everyone else aspires.

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Lead Photo Gimme even more

Greg Beato | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)

"I think I’m ready for my close-up,” Britney Spears intones on her latest album, joylessly, mechanically, as if being the center of attention is now about as appealing to her as spending 72 hours locked inside an oil drum with Dr. Phil.

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Lead Photo The Nice Age

Greg Beato | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)

After the last inaugural balloon disappears into the heavens like a January 2008 campaign promise and the “Yes, we can!” era officially begins, what’s going to happen to public discourse?

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Lead Photo Marking time

Greg Beato | Wed, Dec 31, 2008 (midnight)

What if eight-track tapes were a billion-dollar business today, more popular than iPods and Zunes? Would that be any stranger than the fact that U.S. consumers have purchased millions and millions of calendars in the last few weeks?

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Lead Photo The beat goes on

Greg Beato | Thu, Dec 18, 2008 (midnight)

Music torture, one of the War on Terror’s most enduring hits, made headlines again last week. Apparently there is no Army-wide playlist or programming strategy that determines what songs get utilized. Soldiers are simply encouraged to make selections from their own private collections.

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Star search

Greg Beato | Thu, Dec 4, 2008 (midnight)

Why are so many major movie stars fleeing the screen? Apparently it’s less fun than generally imagined to spend a couple of months in an exotic locale once or twice a year, eating catered food in luxurious trailers and having your hair styled for hours on end.

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Lead Photo Glampire weekend

Greg Beato | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

Robert Pattinson, the young English star of the new movie Twilight, plays Edward Cullen, an ageless blood-sucking hottie with the creamy pallor of a slightly consumptive Abercrombie & Fitch model and stylishly haunted hair.

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AC/DC, we salute you

Greg Beato | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Are you tired of change? Are you fed up with extreme makeovers, disruptive innovation, the constant pressure to extend your product line? You may feel alone, out of step, defective in a world that prizes self-improvement above all else. But at least you still have AC/DC, the patron saints of high-voltage complacency, to believe in.

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Lead Photo Broken record

Greg Beato | Thu, Oct 9, 2008 (midnight)

At first glance, you might mistake Guinness World Records 2009 for a book-sized can of some energy drink.

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Lead Photo America’s got … Paris?

Greg Beato | Thu, Sep 25, 2008 (midnight)

This is, after all, the reality TV era. If, like Brooke Hogan, you’re the daughter of a famous person, you get your own TV show. If, like Dina Lohan, you’re the mother of a famous person, you get your own TV show. If, like Kim Kardashian, you live in a city where a lot of famous people live and you have a giant ass, you get your own TV show.

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Cocktail of the Week

Cocktail of the Week Nov 19, 2009
by Xania Woodman

The Jaded Kiss

The bar is open! Or rather, back open. Adjacent to Dos Caminos at Palazzo, itty bitty Fusion Mixology Bar has gotten itself some fresh new beats and mixology talent as ...
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