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Lead Photo ‘A living gallery’

Geri Jeter | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

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.

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Lead Photo Dray, his art head for Atlanta

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

For those who keep an eye on the arts district, Dray’s departure—for Atlanta—changes the metabolism of the scene a little.

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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 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 Stargazing

Spencer Patterson | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Judging from the throng queuing up for autographs and handshakes outside Zia Record Exchange, it’s a safe guess a well-known visiting headliner has just stepped offstage. Not bad for a local band playing its first-ever show.

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Lead Photo Homie don’t play that anymore

Spencer Patterson | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

“For the last 12 years, I’ve been this guy, ‘Homie’ … and then you wake up one morning, and that whole part of your life is not there anymore.”

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Lead Photo The cat’s pajamas, Primm edition

Allison Duck | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Mistress Lily leads the six beautiful Kitties in a lively song-and-dance routine so tasteful you almost forget about the topless aspect … until a bra lands on your table.

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Lead Photo Poker with “priceless” stakes

Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

The winner of the World Series of Poker's Main Event finals table gets to take home a duffel bags of cash and commemorative bling. It's value? Priceless. The cash in those bags? $9,119,517.

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Lead Photo Utopian and despairing

Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Rachel Getting Married, an emotionally wrenching family melodrama with a uniquely paradoxical tone, at once utopian and despairing, easily ranks among the year’s best films.

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Lead Photo Pyramid scheme

Richard Abowitz | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

In July 2007, Luxor announced a $300 million renovation to undertake the seemingly perverse task of taking the Egyptian theme out of the pyramid-shaped resort.

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Lead Photo Trying their (lady) luck

Jeremy Adams | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Chemical Ex plans to make Vegas’ arts scene a “big-ass orgy." From which planet has this group descended?

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Lead Photo A “Porno” with heart

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

With Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Smith has fully appropriated both the Apatow aesthetic and one of Apatow’s top collaborators, actor Seth Rogen, while maintaining a hold on what made his own movies distinctive in the first place.

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Lead Photo Sign of the times

T.R. Witcher | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Vegas is all about signage, but something about the splashy new sign that went up on top of the Vdara condo tower at CityCenter doesn’t click.

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Lead Photo Three reasons to check out Fabulous

Spencer Patterson | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

A rave in the Orleans Arena. Sounds … interesting. Strange as the setting might seem, however, the lineup for the Fabulous festival ought to excite any serious fan of electronic dance music.

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Lead Photo Five strange observations from last Saturday’s Jimmy Buffett street party

Allison Duck | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

A man with six tequila-filled shot glasses and six limed Coronas on his belt. A half-Elvis, half-Parrothead costume, complete with sideburns, golden glasses and a giant bird head.

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‘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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