Jennifer Grafiada

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Desert flow
As the hip-hop scene continues to expand in Las Vegas, more budding rap artists are cutting their teeth in battle contests
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Inside a circle of onlookers, two men face each other. Sometimes they get up in each other’s faces, and it looks like one of them is about to pull a gun, as they often threaten to do.

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Chelsea Handler mouths off
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Chelsea chats about her least-favorite celebs, lovin' bad boys, and growing up with a Mormon mama.

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Ky-Mani Marley brings rain and reggae to the desert
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Ky-mani Marley will bring more than passionate music and a heartfelt message to the Reggae in the Desert festival this weekend. "I love the desert, and I shall bring the rain with me."

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Rock, with benefits
Penthouse’s music venue puts a brand new spin on “dancing”
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Filthy is already here, in the form of a stripper wearing nothing but strips of black lace. She’s chatting with rock fans she’ll soon invite to the VIP room next door.

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Drawn to the human form
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008
It’s just like riding a bike,” the art instructor tells me when I voice my apprehension. I can hear loud pants and moans coming from somewhere behind me, where there is a BDSM video exhibit, and it’s making it hard to concentrate.

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They’ve got killer hooks
Lips Like Morphine looks to take local success to the next level
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Charles Earland jumps up and down on the checkerboard floor, sips his beer and makes love to the microphone.

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Swap a lot
North Las Vegas hosts a flavorful flea market
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008
On a sunny afternoon, stroll down the dusty aisles filled with puppies and parrots and boots and bikes and soccer balls and strawberries, feel the reggaeton music pounding out of huge speakers and, when the sun gets strong, buy a freshly cut coconut.

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Heavenly bodies
Las Vegas' newest salsa night heats up the South Point
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008
Baby-faced Michito Sanchez gives it to them good and long, just how they like it. The Cuban bandleader of the 11-piece salsa orchestra has a way with the Thursday-night crowds at the South Point, especially the women.

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Custard's last stand
Settling the frozen-custard argument once and for all: Luv-It or Sheridan's?
Thursday, June 5, 2008
This is my first visit to Luv-It Frozen Custard, a bastion of Las Vegas decadence, and I have a blast treating myself to a tasty slice of the Vegas demographic. It’s been in the same spot and run by the same family since 1973. It’s a tiny shack adjacent to a Mighty Mart and Olympic Garden Strip Club on Oakey off of Las Vegas Boulevard, and many of its customers have been coming for decades.

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Strip it good
The sexy path to empowerment
Thursday, June 5, 2008
In an estrogen-rich room, I am full of testosterone. I want to ace this course. I want to prove my sexual prowess, assert my feminine power. However, I soon learn that lap dancing and pole dancing are more about mastering technique than shedding inhibitions.

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Drugs, brawls and rock 'n' roll: A chat with Unwritten Law
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Unwritten Law vocalist Scott Russo reminisces about touring with Blink-182, backstage drama and the time he lost a tooth onstage.

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Kicking the ass of the toughest footrace on the planet
Thursday, July 23, 2009
You run continuously for 135 miles. You climb three summits, gaining 17,000 feet in elevation. You do it in 125 degree weather, and you do it in under 60 hours.

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Plush Nightclub: for Big Beautiful Women and the men who love them
Thursday, July 23, 2009
You’ve seen the alarmist headlines about the “obesity epidemic” taking over the nation. Maybe it’s time we change our attitude, and just go clubbing.

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Songs of love and Las Vegas with Brother Luke
Saturday, July 18, 2009
“I’ve gone through a lot of cycles where I was popular, then I wasn’t,” says singer/songwriter Brother Luke, whose real name is Shaun DeGraff. “But I just kept on playing.”

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Secrets of a Las Vegas bartender
Friday, July 17, 2009
The Vegas bartender: an alluring, mysterious, opinionated breed. We asked and they spilled - best and worst pick up lines, what not to order and where to find the hottest folks in town.

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CSI: The Experience brings crime solving to the Las Vegas Strip
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
A young waitress has been found dead in an alley behind a gritty Las Vegas motel, sprawled out beneath an overflowing dumpster. And it's up to you to figure out whodunit.

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Snoop still street after all these years
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Accompanied by a slew of cops, Snoop and his Blazed and Confused tour mates lit up Primm Friday night.

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Lift your spirits by sipping sake at sunset
Thursday, July 9, 2009
If your idea of a sexy night on the town involves sophisticated drinks, an atmospheric street and endless high-quality people watching, plan to attend the next “Lift your Spirits."

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The art of attraction
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
That local artist Santodonato's mixed media works are currently on display at the Erotic Heritage Museum should come as no surprise. His photoshoots are known to get steamy, and the images reflect Santodonato's open attraction to his subjects.

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Monthly Happy Hour "gets more Jewish people doing Jewish"
Monday, June 29, 2009
Nicole Gabrielle Bruno, who comes from a non-practicing Christian family, decided to convert to Judaism after having dreams for years about becoming Jewish.

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