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TheatreInsurgo fills new space with unusual 'Othello'
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010 Insurgo Theater Movement gives the tragedy a twist, an inversion of color-blind casting.
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CityCenterI have seen the future of Vegas ... and it smells good
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009 The CityCenter Sales Pavilion is Disneyland for the competitively acquisitive. The Cirque du Soleil of open houses. "Architects Gone Wild."
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EntertainmentCome lounge with Jerry
Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009 If every entertainer Jerry Fink has ever written about showed up at a party in his honor, it would have to be held at the Silver Bowl.
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GamingGay gaming: Slots and the City
Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009 I make a point of playing the gayest slot machines whenever I spot them. So when I saw the towering new Sex and the City slots, I ran across the casino floor.
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DanceNew 'Nutcracker,' same issues
Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009 You can’t judge a ballet company by its "Nutcracker." Which is fortunate for NBT.
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ScreenJersey Boys 2.0
Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 The guidos are coming, and they’re prepared to battle it out on the dance floor for club dominance on the Strip.
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MusicLast call for Manilow ... for now
Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 Barry Manilow is moving to Paris in the springtime. Paris Las Vegas, that is.
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MusicGarth, a guitar ... any questions?
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 The arrival of Garth Brooks may be the first glimpse of the next Vegas and a new showbiz paradigm: the anti-spectacle.
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celebsGoogling Gaga
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 More compelling than whether Lady Gaga tucks or had her Adam’s apple shaved is how this pop chimera managed to achieve top-of-mind status in such a compressed time frame.
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As We See ItAn Osmond encounter
Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 Joe Brown was blessed with a vision at City Center.
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EntertainmentVegas lowers its 'Freaks' flag to half-mast
Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 Fondly remembering the show that "could make you throw up in your mouth a little."
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EntertainmentThoughts on Garth Brooks, man-crushes and a new showbiz paradigm
Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009 Garth Brooks is the anti-spectacle — unplugged, unpretentious, just a singer and his songs.
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CulturePutting the “movement” in Insurgo Theater Movement
Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 Insurgo’s new next-door neighbors include a tranny bar, a hair salon, a Chinese tailor and a wig shop.
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No-sweat Schwinn makes for easy riding
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 What could be less high-tech than the humble bicycle? Plenty, if said two-wheeler is Schwinn's Tailwind, an electric pedal assist bike.
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The loneliest booth at CES
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 You probably wouldn't know after doing a double-take at the unfamiliar sight of polished wood (and bookcases?) in these aisles, but the shelves and chests of drawers conceal electronic lifts that, James Bond-style, reveal hidden flat screen TVs at the touch of a button.
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Girls gone slightly wild at CES
Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 Spotted at the CES Expo on Friday: The daytime shades-sportin' cameramen from "Girls Gone Wild" was marching a little squadron of girls-on-the-verge-of-wildness through the hallways of the Sands Convention and Expo Center.
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The robot with the mostess
Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 Why would grown men crowd around the PARO booth, jostling to get their time with a plushy baby seal toy? Because it's a robot, of course.
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I hate CES. Sorry.
Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 I just got back from spending 3 hours walking the expo floor, and -- although I'm as much of a gadget-hound as anyone, maybe more so -- I kinda hated it.
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A&ERehab's spring break-like party calls it quits for season
Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 We saw you -- and we saw almost all of you -- sunning, strutting and shaking it every Sunday at Las Vegas' biggest, barest pool party, the afternoon fleshfest known as Rehab.
