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Super compressed schedule of Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

More comics than you can stomach!

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Lead Photo In praise of libraries

Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

The best thing about a library is that when the world breaks into pandemonium you can hide in the stacks.

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Lead Photo In praise of Poe

Edward Pettit | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Hitchcock? Stephen King? CSI? Hard to imagine any of them not owing a huge debt to the legendary writer.

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Lead Photo Is poetry making a comeback?

Richard Abowitz | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

The lack of expectations has actually helped a long-ignored art form survive.

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Lead Photo Rolling Stone? Please!

John Lombardi | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Ramparts magazine did it better, and influenced an entire generation of subversive journalists.

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Lead Photo What are local writers working on?

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Gratuitous plugs, new novels and more. Local writers are doing it all.

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Vegas Valley Book Festival at a glance

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Everything you need to know... and then some.

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Death don’t have no mercy for musicians

Spencer Patterson | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

Consider taking out life insurance before listening to these songs recorded just before their creators’ deaths.

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Mayor Goodman’s last day on Earth

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

We asked several notables the same question: What would you do if today was your last day?

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Lead Photo Fun death facts

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

Several interns were killed in the making of this list.

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Lead Photo What’s wrong with a few fake dead children?

Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

One Pahrump couple puts their fascination with death to good use—making custom coffins

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Lead Photo Death’s answer man

Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

The spokesman for the Valley’s largest mortuary talks about cremation, neckties and his first embalming experience.

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Lead Photo Death goes window shopping

Ken Miller | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

Ken Miller hangs out at the Clark County Coroner’s gift shop.

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Three death FAQs

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

Want to know if you can bury grandma in the backyard?

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Movies about the afterlife

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

No, Dead Man Walking is not on this list.

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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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Cocktail of the Week

Cocktail of the Week Nov 5, 2009
by Xania Woodman

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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