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New in paperback: Stephanie McAfee’s ‘Diary of a Mad Fat Girl’
Stephanie McAfee’s Diary of a Mad Fat Girl (NAL, $15) offers a fascinating tale, but not between its covers. The girl-buddy cape, starring a sassy, overweight Mississippi teacher, brims with local color but is burdened by too much plot and too little nuance. With an endearingly flawed narrator in a conflicted relationship, this is chick-lit territory that many talented writers — Jennifer Weiner ...
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The gym will totally still be there after you finish that creme brulee.
Japanese BENIHANA VILLAGE Las Vegas Hilton, 3000 Paradise Road, 732-5821. Japanese tabletop cooking at its finest. The chefs deliver great steaming-hot food, as well as an entertaining show.
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Holiday shopping is a funny thing
A guide to last-minute holiday shopping...sort of.
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No matter where her art takes her, Emmylou Harris' music always in style
No matter where her music might take her — and the journey has been long and varied — the singer takes her fans along and collects new ones along the way
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Thole: With 35 games on the slate, it's time to go bowling
With 70 colleges slated to play in 35 NCAA FBS Bowl games - including 13 teams with 6-6 records (14 if you count UCLA at 6-7 scheduled for the Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco) - I will make my scientific predictions.
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Essay: Steven Soderbergh's 'Haywire' thinks as it fights
Former Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman sees something real in the director's action thriller starring Gina 'Crush' Carano. No one watches a movie in a vacuum. You don't check your real-world baggage at the door — something for which any good critic must account.
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Like the Oscars, only sluttier: the Guardian reports from the AVN Awards red carpet
“We gotta get 500 girls through here in two hours.” Pre porn star-strutting, the faces on the red carpet before the AVN Awards 2012 were grim.
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Roy Oswalt is not happy with the Cardinals’ offer
We’ve known that the Cardinals and Roy Oswalt have been pussy-footing around one another. But now we know that Roy Oswalt does not like the Cardianls’ pussy-footing: Ken Rosenthal reports that the Cardinals have not made Roy Oswalt an offer “that the pitcher deems anywhere close to sufficient.” As Rosenthal notes, Oswalt is much to blame…
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Video: Yipit | Secrets of Successful Startups
Yipit.com sifts through daily deal sites like Groupon and sends consumers offers that may interest them. Co-founder Jim Moran tells Laurel Touby and Jennifer Hill how the company came about, and why it has become so successful.
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AWARD: Grammy Nominees 2012
54th Annual GRAMMY Awards 1. Record Of The Year Rolling In The Deep Adele Paul Epworth, producer; Tom Elmhirst and Mark Rankin, engineers/mixers Track from: 21 [XL Recordings/Columbia Records]. Holocene Bon Iver Justin Vernon, producer; Brian Joseph and Justin Vernon, engineers/mixers Track from: Bon Iver [Jagjaguwar...
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