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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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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 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 “Drunk” review

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Thu, Nov 5, 2009 (midnight)

Drinking may not help you write or draw better, but going to bars and getting blasted can certainly give you something to write and draw about.

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Lead Photo All Cross, no stitch: A funny comedian’s unfunny book

Rick Lax | Wed, Nov 4, 2009 (1:14 p.m.)

Reading through David Cross’ I Drink for a Reason was kind of like watching a Bob Odenkirk movie: I spent the whole time thinking, Come on, man, you can do better than this.

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Works you may not read before you die, and what you’ll miss

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (midnight)

You'll never guess who dies in Death of a Salesman!

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Lead Photo ‘Naked’ truth: Why ‘High Fidelity’ fans will hate Hornby’s latest

Smith Galtney | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (3:51 p.m.)

Chick lit sucks. Rob would be ashamed.

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Lead Photo Poetic license… and velociraptors?

Scott Dickensheets | Tue, Oct 27, 2009 (4:23 p.m.)

Poetry an acquired language.

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Lead Photo James Ellroy, thinking machine

Scott Dickensheets | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 (5:32 p.m.)

"I see myself as emblematic of extreme drive and ambition and focus."

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Lead Photo Flavor of Chinatown

T.R. Witcher | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 (5:18 p.m.)

American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods chronicles Chinese communities in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu and … Las Vegas?

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Lead Photo A comic’s guide to parenting through guilt and manipulation

Julie Seabaugh | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 (3:25 p.m.)

"I get nostalgic for the autumns of my youth, growing up in New York City. Riding my bike past the brownstones on the way to school. And then I remember that I grew up in Las Vegas. The only things falling onto the sidewalk are exhausted hookers. And they’re a lot harder to ride your bike over.”

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Spookiest Halloween costume?

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Tue, Oct 20, 2009 (3:27 p.m.)

Puscifer. Slipknot. Rob Zombie. Mitch Albom. Which of these acts—all in town this week—would help you scare up the most candy?

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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 Nov 5, 2009
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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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