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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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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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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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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“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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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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‘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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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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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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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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Xania's Hot Spots - This Week's Special Events
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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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