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Lead Photo A man, a ball, a hoop, a bench (and an alleged thread)… TELLER!

Richard Abowitz | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

It is impossible that this story be about anything other than a 3 ½-minute trick in the Penn & Teller show. It is a very beautiful trick that can’t be fully conveyed with words because it looks so simple: Teller makes a ball come to life.

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Lead Photo Laughs, yes. Big deals, no.

Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

Talent-wise, the stars are as big as ever at the annual Comedy Festival - Jerry Seinfeld, Dane Cook, Andrew Dice Clay and dozens more. But after four years, is the thrill gone?

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Lead Photo List. Bond list.

T.R. Witcher | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

In honor of this week's new Bond flick Quantum of Solace, T.R. Witcher takes a frighteningly detailed look at the legendary successes and massive failures of the Bond franchise - 22 movies deep, and counting.

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Lead Photo The Bond Awards

T.R. Witcher | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Gleaned from 22 movies of guns, girls and "Bond, James Bond," T.R. Witcher gives awards to the best of the best and a few of the worst.

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Lead Photo Is our economy at the point where it’s worth considering the UNCONSIDERABLE?

Ken Miller | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Is there a threshold of economic turmoil at which Las Vegans will consider legalizing prostitution? Accepting Yucca Mountain?

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Lead Photo 24 things we won’t have to think about again

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Kucinich: too small to be president. Edwards: too smarmy to be president. Romney: too Mormon to be president.

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Things we learned from the campaign

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Early voting rocks—a “palooza” without the live music and mind-altering drugs, if you will.

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Ex-Dubya

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

On January 21, George W. Bush starts his new career as an ex-president. How will President Bush spend his time?

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Lead Photo Palin vs. Jolie 2012

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

It's time to start thinking about the next presidential battle and the only viable countermove to the imminent Palin candidacy: Angelina Jolie.

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Things we learned from the campaign

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Holding signs at your opponent’s rallies really sucks. Let’s forget about the interminable wait and aching feet because the candidate you want to protest is hours late. Let’s forget about the critics who think your sign is completely unoriginal or pretentious.

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Lead Photo Cocktails we can believe in

We asked mixologist George Austin Sproule of the Downtown Cocktail Room to stir up the appropriate libation for Election Day’s winners and losers.

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They said WHAT?

Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

If Dina Titus and Jon Porter never run against each other again it will be a pleasant hereafter.

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Lead Photo Okay, so now what?

T.R. Witcher | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

If 2000 felt vaguely hopeful—pre-9/11, budget surplus—and 2004 at least had the housing boom to take our minds off the unsettling feeling that Iraq might not go as easily as we’d hoped, the aftermath of 2008 is just chockablock with trouble.

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Lead Photo Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream

C. Moon Reed | Fri, Oct 31, 2008 (midnight)

The cover photo of a dashing, young Hef—intent gaze, sly smile and pipe-smoke halo—hooks the viewer with the promise of a ticket to the Playboy Mansion.

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Lead Photo Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

John Freeman | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

The pillars of his life, as Charles Bukowski saw it, were elemental: “Poetry, paint, sand, whores,” he writes in the title polemic of this new volume of uncollected writings.

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A&E

‘A living gallery’
Co-directors Richard Havey and Gail Gilbert have created the Nevada Dance Project—a dance umbrella that offers the opportunity for contemporary choreographers and dancers to show their best work, new or preexisting, but always original.
Dray, his art head for Atlanta
For those who keep an eye on the arts district, Dray’s departure—for Atlanta—changes the metabolism of the scene a little.
R.I.P. TRL
MTV managed to pack Times Square one more time this past Sunday for the last episode of TRL, dubbed Total Finale Live, although nostalgia was pretty much the only reason for anyone to show up.

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Cocktail of the Week

Cocktail of the Week Nov 20, 2008
by Xania Woodman

The Capital Grille $1,000 Luxury Martini

What could be better than a martini and caviar? Nothing! Especially when the caviar in question is a limited-edition White Topaz and Diamond Caviar rope bracelet, served up with a ...
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