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Living Las Vegas

Las Vegas only makes an impression if you don’t look past the illusion. Peek beyond the veil that the corporations have cast and its nothing more than a series of asphalt lanes and bus routes. For a tourist it bears the promise of endless pleasure, salivating strippers, heaving hedonism. For a resident, on the other hand, [...]
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The Beauty Monster

The cult of personal appearance – like a creature from a horror movie – is eating away at our brains and hearts.
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Notes from the Exurbs

Life inside Boston’s easternmost ring road, west of its massive suburban mosaic, is more than the meets the eye of Google earth. Tin Cup psp The Replacements full movie This outer ring of habitation, tucked inside the burly bark of the interstate, is the next woody circle out from suburbia – exurbia – an as-yet unsung [...]
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A Southern Autumn

I’ve lived in Georgia and Alabama since 1974. I was nine when we moved here during Christmas break. I want to describe life here, so people who don’t live here won’t think we’re all uneducated hicks…then again maybe you will, but if you do, I can tell you with certainty that we don’t care. Straw Dogs [...]
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The Big Dreary

As Ukraine nears election time, our columnist stalks the streets of the capital, feeling perfectly justified in her foul mood.
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Jon’s Story – a Brother’s Forgiveness

All Star Comedy Jam movie “Miss, I don’t believe in God, but can I talk with you for a minute?” He held his red bandana in his hand with a sense of awe and reverence not typically observed in our simple, one-room chapel on the first floor of the shelter. Jon was a tall, [...]
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The Sweetest Thing

Batman Returns dvdrip As millions of other people in this sick, sad world of ours, I follow in the footsteps of Winston Churchill. Am I a charismatic leader who overcame the Nazis and a lisp? Am I a defiant showstopper with a knack for draining “native” rebellions of their energy and whiskey bottles of [...]
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Bad Samaritans

A true story
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Three Sprinkles of Spice

In a Middle East region beset by trouble, our Columnist manages to stumble upon a shimmer of light in the surrounding darkness
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The Season

“Omigod, Brianna, my neighbours have an inverted Christmas tree just like this one! Who do they think they are?”"I know. Some people just try to be different for the sake of being different. It’s totally stupid.” Drop Dead Gorgeous dvdrip “Seriously.”
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