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LETTERS
Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces
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Where's The Rock when you need him?
Austin's new film stone cold sucks
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I'm not paranoid
Privacy Crisis by Las Vegan
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Neighborly advice
Four lessons Vegoose could learn from Coachella
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The Infamous
Some of Las Vegas best-remembered concerts took less glamorous routes to immortality:
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NOISE
The Decemberists, Power Tools, Love Letter to a Toxic Twin, Coming to Town
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Art rock
Nat Damm on his eye-catching posters for University Theatre
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Near Misses
These shows might have made our Top 25 ... if they'd actually happened:
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City extinguishes pot fest
Can NORML get a permit to party Downtown?
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MySpace playlist
25 local songs worth streaming
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The longest fight
Way after their service, vets still struggle for help
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Summer music calendar
Eleven concerts not to be missed
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SCREEN
Exterminating Angels
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A+E
All the ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat!
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Nights on the Circuit: Raising the Soundbar
The House Society Crew has love for you
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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The Music Issue
Legendary Concerts, MySpace Playlist, Heavy Metal Scene, Poster Artist, Comming Soon, Coachella Roundup, Dirk Vermin
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Vermin!
Checking in with the one guy you gotta know for all your punk-rock, tattoo artist and twisted, renaissance-man needs
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PRINT: Gotta get away
Escaping the city, but not the self, in View From a Burning Bridge
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LINE PASS: Straight Outta Bali
Tao enlightens the day, lights up the night
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COMICS: Damsels in distress
A teenager gets monkey-pawed in Avril-branded manga, and a French mummy gets wrapped up in The Professor's Daughter
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TASTE: Mediterranean
Two more eateries covering the popular region
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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Titillation, obligation: A night at the strip club
Why are half-naked men here?
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POP CULTURE: Doin' the rain dance
Throwing your money around is fine ... until people get hurt
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Mash-Up
State of the Union: Opium Group
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PRINT
Flight
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Handy clip 'n' save Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival schedule
We help you plan your big weekend
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Nader aid
A documentary explains the controversial crusader but leaves you wondering if it tells the whole story
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A+E
All the ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat
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SOUNDCHECK
Nine Inch Nails, Timbaland, Avril Lavigne, Kings of Leon, Bill Callahan
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NOISE
Coachella adventure, Interplanetary Music, Coming to Town
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The Most Beautiful People in Las Vegas
Our entirely non-scientific, completely infallible list
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POP CULTURE: What, us worry?
Hell, it's only a war
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Peachy Fuzz
Shaun follow-up pays tribute to dozens of old cop movies—then surpasses them
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FINE ART: Painting individuality
Casey Weldon asserts the human (and animal) over the man-made
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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World Wide Weird
How Alanis Morissette's Hilarious "My Humps" Parody Clinches Al Yankovic's Takeover of the Internet
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Nights on the Circuit: X Marks the Hot Spot
Lucky Strike encourages friendly, inebriated competition
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Mash-Up
State of the Union: Pure Management Group
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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Did I say that!?
A history of local slurs
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Holy crap
Both literally and figuratively, in the impenetrable Holy Mountain
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Beyond the Rope
Cat Bingue
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Safety in numbers
Or, how stats are used to prove almost anything
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TASTE: Bakeries of the world, unite
Visiting Armenia and the Philippines via pastries
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Words hurt
And five other things I learned at the recent N-word forum
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At the drive-in
No theater beats this one for the twin killing that is Grindhouse
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COMICS: Of superhuman bondage and the vagrant cartoonist's mood
Exploring fetishism and the heart of America
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BAR EXAM: Rack 'em tight, rack 'em right
Beer pong is not just for frat boys anymore
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SCREEN
Fracture
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TV: Save these great shows!
Or don't—they may already be saved
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The Ambassador
Aslam Abdullah carries the baton for local Muslims
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The Black Tiger is free
Weird psychedelic Thai Western finally makes it to America
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Fuzz fellas
Talking with the creators of the cop-movie parody we just gave four stars to
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PRINT
The Mistress's Daughter
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Gateway to the arts
Build something organic, not cheesy, please
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SCREEN
Flannel Pajamas
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POPPED: Welcome to the black parade
Stilted politicos, frontal lobotomists, rotting dollies and freezing cold primates
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Hummers be damned
How can this gas-sucking behemoth be so popular?
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TASTE: Sugar and spice
Lay off the former but embrace the latter at Archi's
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NOISE
Vinnie Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks, Fast Food Tunes, Coming to Town
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Sam Kinison's Wild Ride
In Part 2 of her massive oral history of the larger-than-life comedian, Julie Seabaugh chronicles the highs and lows of his popular years, his attempts ...
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SCREEN
Disturbia
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LINE PASS: Rapid transit
Crawling home after Nite Tours
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This is no Grand Prix
Our beaters are breaking the bank
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John Wayne has left the horse
El Topo is really not your typical Western
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TV: Start your engines
Get revved up for Fox's Drive
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FICTION: Barry Manilow, Welterweight
Barry Manilow, Welterweight
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SCREEN
Nomad
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Overheard at First Friday
April 6, 7:30 p.m., in front of the Funk House antiques store.
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POP CULTURE: Mom, apple pie and fetish modeling
The all-American appeal of Bettie Page
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Inscrutable!
But in a funny way—for fans only
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FINE ART: Drawing attention
Tom Holder's work ought to get his name in lights
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The state of poetry today
Poetry by committee with Marvin Scott Marvin and the Radical Thinkers Artistic Coven
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HOROSCOPE
Peggy Plots Your Planets
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SOUNDCHECK
Bright Eyes, Shadows Fall, Blonde Redhead, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Redman
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SCREEN
Perfect Stranger
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Nights on the Circuit: A growing sphere of influence
The party's that bringing the vibe back to Studio 54
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PRINT
Dog Years
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A+E
All the ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat!
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Mash-Up
Let it burn
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EDITOR'S NOTE
Bettie and Greg, Barry and Tom
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Leash that kid!
For years, people have treated their dogs as children; now it's the other way around. Notes on the New Doggishness.
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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Night of the dancing tranny
Honestly, stuff like this just keeps happening to me
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NIGHTLIFE
The honest DJ Superstar DJ Keoki tells it like it is
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PRINT: Word shark!
Raw Shark Texts may be the best amnesia-themed, textually playful novel of this year
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The honest DJ
Superstar DJ Keoki tells it like it is
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COMICS: Alien lesbians and Hispanic androids
Joss Whedon takes over the superpowers
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LOUD
Getting to know Lydia
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LOUD
Charles Henry
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COMICS: Fewer words, more pictures
Novelists take on Wonder Woman and Aquaman comics
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STAGE: Come for the show, stay for the gift shop
Spamalot's not bad, but check out those shirts!
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SCREEN
The Hoax
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NOISE
Chris Dreja of The Yardbirds, Talib Kweli, Traveler's Log, Coming to Town
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Disappearing business
After assigning her possessions for auction, Olga Pinkoson learns a lesson in loss
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Chronicle of (a party for) a death foretold
Forcefully reminded of his mortality, Dr. Lonnie Hammargren— legendary brain doc, politician and eccentric—threw himself an early wake
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SCREEN
In the Pit
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Gimme some dirt
A night with a nice house band
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BAR EXAM: A flair for the dramatic
The Red Room Saloon encourages defiance (of gravity)
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SCREEN
The Reaping
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This house is rockin'
Grindhouse is better than the genre it exploits
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Nights on the Circuit: Where the girls are
Orchid blooms Wednesday nights at Piranha
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HOROSCOPE
PEggy Plots Your Planets
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A+E
All the ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat!
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SCREEN
Are We Done Yet?
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Get out of jail cheap
What makes a criminal so prime to let go?
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Xania's Hot Spots
This Week's Special Events
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Beyond the Rope
Mike Foland
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LOUD
Electronic convergence Local scene bouncing back after nadir a decade ago
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POP CULTURE: The gods thirst for blood!
Or, why Britney Spears would be dead if her name included a J
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Mash-Up
Dot clubs
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SOUNDCHECK
Fountains of Wayne, Hilary Duff, Jarvis Cocker, Ozomatli, Andrew Bird
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AAAHHH! AAAHHH!
That manic scream drove Sam Kinison into the comedy stratosphere. On the 15th anniversay of his death near Las Vegas, Julie Seabaugh compiles a two-part ...