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Looking for the Big Hurt in Las Vegas - 2004-01-17
It didn't have to be this way. The Chicago White Sox could have scheduled a conference call in which Frank Thomas pledged his allegiance to the South Side of Chicago.

As I stay at a blackjack table, I'm struck with a recollection of the Big Hurt. It's late March 1998. The Sox are in Vegas to play two exhibition games before their normal season starts. I'm at a roulette table at Caesars Palace, watching Robin Ventura put chips on 23, his uniform number.
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One part Elvis, one part blackjack, touch of Monet - 2004-01-17
The Elvises aren't really Elvis, and the Venetian is a fake. That's the whole existence of Las Vegas: flashy faux environments for the rattle of roulette wheels and the snap of blackjack cards.

So what's happens when a museum-type show with the red-velvet title "Claude Monet: Masterworks From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" shows up Jan. 30 (through Sept. 13) at the Bellagio Gallery on the Strip? It's the show behind the show that's absolute Vegas.
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