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Lead Photo R.I.P. TRL

Josh Bell | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

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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Lead Photo More helpings of “Soup”

Josh Bell | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Snarking on pop culture has become a national pastime, and its TV standard-bearer is The Soup (E!, Fridays, 10 p.m.), hosted by comedian Joel McHale.

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Lead Photo The future is now

Josh Bell | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

By the time we get to 2017, we may indeed be forcing convicted criminals to outrun sadistic gladiators with souped-up chain saws on national TV.

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Lead Photo Sex, lies and cardboard acting

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

To those of us in Las Vegas, the scandal surrounding the death of casino mogul Ted Binion is a historical event. But to the rest of the country, it’s just another salacious sex-drugs-and-violence story.

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Lead Photo Look away

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 16, 2008 (midnight)

Successful TV shows based on movies tend to forge their own identities to such a degree that people forget the movies even existed; recent examples include Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Friday Night Lights. Starz's new series based on the movie Crash, however, lives up to its name a little too closely.

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Lead Photo “Woke me the F up”

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 16, 2008 (midnight)

For a long time Las Vegas filmmaker Zak Bagans thought ghosts were "bullshit." But after a paranormal wake up call he is now chasing ghosts for a living, and not just the friendly ones that go "boo."

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Lead Photo Dead can dance

Greg Beato | Thu, Oct 16, 2008 (midnight)

Halloween used to be the busy season for ghosts, but that was before reality TV. Now, every day of the year—or at least those days when cable shows like Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International and Most Haunted are airing—is go time for our supernatural kin.

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Lead Photo Lost in translation

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 9, 2008 (midnight)

The show is an awkward mix of police procedural and sci-fi mystery, with plenty of winking jokes about things that didn’t exist yet in 1973 (“Diet Coke? Wouldn’t that be something”).

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Lead Photo A clone of a clone

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 2, 2008 (midnight)

The Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated movie that came out this summer was meant to stoke anticipation for the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series (Cartoon Network, Fridays, 9 p.m.), which premieres this week. But the movie was derided by critics and even by many hardcore Star Wars fans, and made little money at the box office. So the show arrives with diminished expectations and probably even a bit of resentment on the part of Star Wars completists.

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Lead Photo Judging the judges

Josh Bell | Thu, Sep 25, 2008 (midnight)

There are three new judge shows premiering in syndication this season, all of them hosted by no-nonsense women, all of them following the well-worn format with little deviation.

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Lead Photo Why I can’t stand Judge Judy

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Sep 25, 2008 (midnight)

When she gets home early enough, my wife watches Judge Judy, and it always drives me from the room.

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Here come de judge

Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Sep 25, 2008 (midnight)

David Mamet’s great courtroom drama [The Verdict (1982)] has one of cinema’s most corrupt magistrates [Judge Milo O’Shea], who, in the middle of a high-stakes medical malpractice suit, begins questioning a witness, in effect helping to scupper Paul Newman’s case. You don’t mess with Butch Cassidy, man.

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Lead Photo “Fringe” benefits

Josh Bell | Thu, Sep 4, 2008 (12:19 a.m.)

Anointed this year’s Heroes or Lost before even premiering, thanks to online buzz, a screening at Comic-Con over the summer and the presence of co-creator J.J. Abrams of Lost and Alias fame, Fringe (Fox, Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; premieres September 9 at 8 p.m.) arrives with a daunting amount of hype to overcome, and its solid action/sci-fi execution isn’t quite as revolutionary as some may have hoped.

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Lead Photo Anarchy on TV

Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 28, 2008 (midnight)

In the new FX drama Sons of Anarchy, a group of tough, macho guys work and hang out together, doing their intense, sometimes violent jobs while dressed in similar outfits declaring their affiliations. The women mostly watch from the sidelines.

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Lead Photo Sweet hypocrisy

Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 21, 2008 (midnight)

An important part of watching MTV’s reality sensation My Super Sweet 16 is wishing horrible, unpleasant things on the bratty, pampered teenagers who whine and throw fits about petty, insignificant things and demand royal treatment from their family members and anyone around them.

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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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