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Lead Photo Road to nowhere

William L. Fox | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

Erin Hogan joined the increasing ranks of cognoscenti making the fashionable driving tour of the greatest hits in the earthworks movement, and produced a slender tale from her undertaking.

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Lead Photo Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

America’s big win on November 4 may turn out to be a loss for comedic vice-presidential historians, an admittedly small subset of the electorate, which includes writer Bill Kelter and artist Wayne Shellabarger, the authors of Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance.

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Lead Photo The book on Obama

John Freeman | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Will the election of Barack Obama, a skilled writer himself, have some impact on American literary culture?

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Lead Photo In the presence of the Author

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Just past a sign that read, “Do Not Enter. Private Party,” there he was, the Mystery-Monster-Miracle Maker himself, Neil Gaiman.

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Lead Photo Literary Las Vegas

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

The Vegas Valley Book Festival, which wrapped up last week, can be understood as the community’s attempt to find a place for itself on the high-culture map.

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Lead Photo Garfield minus Garfield

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Jim Davis’ comic strip cat/licensing cash cow Garfield famously hates Mondays and, less famously, birthdays. So how’s he coping with turning 30 this year? The same way most of us do—coming to grips with an existential crisis.

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Lead Photo Return to Eastwick

John Freeman | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

John Updike conjured a trio of Rhode Island women—Sukie, Lexa and Jane—who become witches after divorcing. Single and suddenly free, they wreaked havoc on a sleepy town.

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Lead Photo LVW to RS: We’re bigger than you!

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Change arrived in the mail: Rolling Stone. Well, it said Rolling Stone on the cover and had the same middle-of-the-road music coverage inside. But it didn’t feel like the old Stone. Because it isn’t: The venerable music mag has ditched its singular oversize format in favor of standard magazine dimensions.

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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 Political cartoons

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Americans are more fired up about this presidential race than most, and that excitement has apparently carried over into mainstream comics.

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Lead Photo Life, letters and Las Vegas

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

If you want to have a conversation about writing and Las Vegas, it would be hard to find a better-matched pair than Douglas Unger and H. Lee Barnes.

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Lead Photo ‘I was surprised by how much good stuff there was’

Richard Abowitz | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Can you name a major American writer from Nevada? I can’t. But undeterred, Cheryll Glotfelty, a professor of English at the University of Nevada-Reno, assembled Literary Nevada.

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Lead Photo The Wordy Shipmates

Whitney Hawke | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

It turns out our “Puritan” nation didn’t have such pure beginnings. And it turns out Native Americans were really into hacking off body parts.

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Lead Photo A brief, opinionated guide to Las Vegas’ used-book stores

Brian Black | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Dead Poet Books is friendly and cool, with enough books to browse for hours.

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Lead Photo Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark

Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Darkness is so many things: It’s where the imagination is free, it’s where mysteries hide, where dreams rule, it’s what allows us to see the stars.

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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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