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Lead Photo Exploring David Sedaris’ ‘Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls’

Rick Lax | Wed, Jun 12, 2013 (3:40 p.m.)

Sedaris is one storyteller who’s meant to be heard.

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Lead Photo Summer reading: A list to conquer by the pool or at home in bed

Rick Lax | Wed, May 29, 2013 (6:11 p.m.)

Picks by David Sedaris, Stephen King and more.

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Lead Photo Back up to ‘Code’: Dan Brown’s latest will help you forget his ‘Da Vinci’ best-seller

Rick Lax | Wed, May 29, 2013 (6:05 p.m.)

Symbology professor Robert Langdon is back in Inferno.

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Lead Photo Excerpting Oscar: Passages from the former Vegas mayor’s new memoir

Goodman on Tony Spilotro, government crooks and more.

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Lead Photo Profs and politics: A sociologist researches the left and right along the academic aisle

Chuck Twardy | Wed, May 1, 2013 (5:35 p.m.)

Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? is on shelves now.

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Lead Photo Book review: ‘Happy’

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Wed, Apr 17, 2013 (4 p.m.)

How to put this—this graphic novel is just too cartoonish

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Lead Photo Book review: Jonah Berger’s ‘Contagious: Why Things Catch On’

Rick Lax | Wed, Apr 17, 2013 (3:54 p.m.)

One thing's for sure: This book won't catch on

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Lead Photo An unpublished play by Vladimir Nabokov finally sees the light of day

Chuck Twardy | Wed, Mar 13, 2013 (4:19 p.m.)

It's practically Shakespearean in its poetry, too

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Lead Photo Book review: Christopher Hitchens’ ‘Mortality’ and Eben Alexander’s ‘Proof of Heaven’

Rick Lax | Wed, Mar 13, 2013 (4:12 p.m.)

Two books with greatly contrasting viewpoints. Which one is the better read?

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Lead Photo Book review: ‘Susceptible’

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Wed, Feb 27, 2013 (4:21 p.m.)

A beautiful book about an ugly experience

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Lead Photo Faith meets friendship in Carlene Bauer’s debut novel

Chuck Twardy | Wed, Feb 20, 2013 (3:22 p.m.)

Frances and Bernard's protagonists write while exploring faith and romance.

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Lead Photo ‘Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow’ is raw and affecting

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Wed, Jan 23, 2013 (5:59 p.m.)

The book is really about a journey that doesn't go as planned.

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Lead Photo Tell-all tale ‘Heads in Beds’ doesn’t tell enough

Rick Lax | Wed, Jan 23, 2013 (5:47 p.m.)

Hospitality vet? Check. Juicy stories? Not so much.

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Lead Photo When a good writer goes bad: A look at Mark Helprin’s latest

Chuck Twardy | Wed, Jan 23, 2013 (5:40 p.m.)

Who talks like this?

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Lead Photo Craig Yoe uses comics to looks into cartoonists

J. Calob Mozzocco | Wed, Jan 16, 2013 (5:16 p.m.)

It’s not that comics creators are vain so much as they suffer from their field’s own insidious form of writer’s block.

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Singer discovered by Celine Dion finds her voice in others
Until now, Veronic DeCaire’s name has been relatively unknown in the U.S. — but the 50-plus voices that come from her repertoire are all instantly recognizable: Shania, Cher, Dolly, Madonna, Adele, Christine and Tina plus the incomparable Celine Dion, who is a first-time producer of Veronic’s debut show opening at …
Strip Scribbles: Mandalay TV commercial shoot and two more major restaurant changes
Two of the supermodels vying for the $100,000 ‘Face of Mandalay Bay’ yearlong contract have now been booted from VH1’s Model Employee reality show. Tonight, another model — or maybe two in a surprise twist — get the pink slip and we will be left with just four or five …
EDMbiz: More than shop talk, the coolest panels and why you should …
EDMbiz is back! The second annual electronic dance music conference is returning to the Cosmopolitan June 18-20, part of Insomniac’s EDC Week series of events leading up to Electric Daisy Carnival this weekend at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

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Cocktail of the Week Jun 19, 2013
by Ken Miller

Postrio’s nod to Don Quixote makes for a perfect summertime drink

When you think of summer, odds are thoughts of legendary literary character Don Quixote don’t spring to mind. But after trying a Distorted Chivalry at the Venetian’s Postrio, that might ...
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