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Prevailing in Pink
When a junior staffer at Mattel receives word from the FBI that Barbie and Ken have been spotted rollerblading in Santa Monica, he runs to the elevator…
Aug 31, 2023
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July 2023
Diagram
A young Nick Shay is called into the office of Father Paulus at a remedial Catholic school in northern Minnesota. Inside, the priest asks the…
Jul 12, 2023
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May 2023
Coming Attractions
Hello esteemed KPaoletter readers! The KPaoletta you’re accustomed to hearing from is currently holed up inside Rachel Monroe’s writing shed in Marfa…
May 26, 2023
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April 2023
Raza Sí, Guerra No
Los Artes Guadalupanos de Aztlán formed in the fall of 1971, when Samuel, Albert, and Carlos Leyba painted a mural of safari animals in the yard of a…
Apr 11, 2023
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February 2023
The Real Deal
“Over the years, television and movie audiences have been flooded with imitations of James Bond.” It was June of 1975, and Geraldo Rivera was…
Feb 28, 2023
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January 2023
Big Spender
It’s a curious fact of life in Las Vegas that each of the succession of impresarios who created the Strip arrived in Nevada from elsewhere. Meyer Lansky…
Jan 31, 2023
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December 2022
Big Iron On His Hip
As a ten-year-old, Marty Robbins would work all day in the cotton fields of Glendale, Arizona, to earn the change he needed for the movie house in…
Dec 9, 2022
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October 2022
Making Due
It’s the 21st Century — B.C. The Epic of Gilgamesh is being formalized into written Akkadian during the Third Dynasty of Ur. Yu the Great spends…
Oct 26, 2022
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July 2022
Loading the Boat
It was in the summer of 1976 that Lee and Jimmy Chagra became Las Vegas legends. Lee had already established something of a reputation in town, both for…
Jul 27, 2022
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June 2022
From On High
When I arrived at the base of Mount Cristo Rey earlier this month, the morning sun had already forced the thermometer on my rental car up into the low…
Jun 30, 2022
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May 2022
Luddites On a Mission
The last time I visited Lake Powell was in February 2020, three weeks before the world stopped. I was in Page, Arizona, on a reporting trip, and had…
May 26, 2022
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April 2022
I'm Writing a Book!
So delighted to share the news that I’m writing a book! The Publishers Marketplace announcement covers most of the highlights, but to expand on that…
Apr 2, 2022
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