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Reality bites
Several Downtowners celebrated the first Gatsby Day in Las Vegas at Huntridge Circle Park last weekend. The event, themed after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, featured croquet, a picnic, vintage bathing suits and flappers. They didn’t really need to re-create the economic hardship later in that decade, complete with the Great Depression and record unemployment—that was already happening all around them.
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The truth is ... ?
A video currently making the rounds on YouTube and Facebook shows a light display seen above the Las Vegas Strip recently. The seven-minute video appears to be a UFO sighting, with the lights gradually increasing in number and eventually rotating around. There’s been no official word yet on what exactly was filmed—and we don’t expect there ever will be. Admit it—you want this to be aliens, don’t you?
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Drawing power
A British businessman has purchased the earliest-known Andy Warhol drawing—for $5 at a Las Vegas garage sale. The 1930s signed sketch of singer and actor Rudy Vallee is believed to be worth $2 million, drawn when Warhol was 10 or 11. Some have estimated it to be worth 10 times that much. Seriously, people—if this story doesn’t get you motivated to begin rummaging through other people’s stuff, we’re not sure what will.
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@HappyTummy_702 Instagrammer Suzy Hendrix explains how her home cooking took off
“I want to reiterate, I had zero cooking skills. My mom would try to teach me, and I had absolutely no interest. You’re not going ...
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Zoë Ligon—aka @Thongria—preaches body-safe sex products and indie retailers
The sex educator and owner of Detroit's Spectrum boutique brings her humor and expertise to AVN.
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Literary tour guide: Vegas-based writer Noah Cicero takes his fans on a journey
“Compared to my Ohio life, people are more positive here, more responsive to literary things.”
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