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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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Lead Photo Why you’re fat

Scott Dickensheets | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 (4:54 p.m.)

Scott Dickensheets and turducken have a little in common.

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Lead Photo A chat with the man who knows your secrets

Deanna Rilling | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 (5:21 p.m.)

Frank Warren, also know as the “most trusted stranger in America” and creator of PostSecret, sat down with with Weekly during his stop in Vegas to share anonymous confessions—and many of them are in a new book that hit shelves last Tuesday.

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Tapes and Tapes: Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton?

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 (3:18 p.m.)

Can you tell which of these quotes come from The Michael Jackson Tapes and which from The Clinton Tapes?

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Lead Photo The end is near, and ugly, in the intense fiction of Scorch Atlas

Nina MacLaughlin | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 (3:07 p.m.)

Scorch Atlas is less post-apocalyptic than it is contemporary, less aftermath and more in the heat and squelch of a horrid, horrifying end.

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Lead Photo Introduction to obsession

Richard Abowitz | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 (2:58 p.m.)

If you don’t know anything about the poetry world, The Anthologist remains a fascinating if lightly plotted study in obsession, creative ambition and the quirks of the human mind.

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Lead Photo Refresh, Refresh

J. Caleb Mozzocco | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 (4:55 p.m.)

In 2006, Refresh, Refresh was a short prose story by Benjamin Percy, later published as the title piece in a collection of his work. It’s now a graphic novel by Danica Novgorodoff, and, somewhere in between, it was a screenplay for a movie.

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Lead Photo Five semi-random excerpts from You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Kills You: A Rat Pack Mystery

4. “‘Sleep in my bed, Eddie!’ God, a week ago, if someone had told me I’d hear those words from Marilyn Monroe ...”

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Lead Photo A Kennedy to the end: A memoir by a dynasty’s last lion

Chuck Twardy | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 (4:20 p.m.)

We’ve heard the word “epic” summoned so often to describe Ted Kennedy’s life, it’s no surprise he starts his autobiography with a device out of Homer.

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Lead Photo Spitting sisters

Scott Dickensheets | Tue, Sep 29, 2009 (5:32 p.m.)

One Downtownie insists his neighborhood "is as close as we are going to get to San Fran." Proof: Sister Spit.

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Lead Photo Lost along the way

Rick Lax | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 (2:38 p.m.)

Unlike The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol won’t ruffle feathers, let alone cause a “delicious scandal.”

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Cocktail of the Week Nov 19, 2009
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The Jaded Kiss

The bar is open! Or rather, back open. Adjacent to Dos Caminos at Palazzo, itty bitty Fusion Mixology Bar has gotten itself some fresh new beats and mixology talent as ...
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