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Somewhere, there are Budweiser Clydesdales hobbling around without feet.

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Shortly after this picture was taken, she chased a toddler through some tomato vines and collapsed of a heart attack.

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Sure, Natalie’s friends thought this would be a funny picture to take — until an ill-timed belly-flop from a guy who wasn’t paying attention led to the birth of Natalie’s son nine months later.

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Messrs. Pinstripe Suit.

Attention hepcats, frails, skirts, zoot suiters and broads: Tonight’s your night. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy swings on the Friday Night Live stage at the Hard Rock Hotel pool, bringing a brass section and a love of Cab Calloway to the open-air arena. Yes, they’re the band that Jon Favreau danced to in Swingers before he became a bigshot Iron Man director. The show will be preceded by the SpyOnVegas.com Open Bar from 6 to 9 p.m. for all your free-booze related needs. Click for more words and pictures »

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Carey Hart was joined by ex-wife Pink and a small group of close friends Friday night to remember his younger brother Anthony who died last week in a motorcycle accident. Pink took the stage at Hard Rock Hotel’s Wasted Space to sing a version of “What’s Up” by 4 Non-Blondes, dedicating the song to Anthony’s memory. She also invited musician/producer Butch Walker to play guitar as she sang “Me and Bobby McGee.”

Tony Hart, 21, died Aug. 9 when he suffered injuries in a crash during practice at Stafford Motor Speedway in Connecticut.

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The one on the left has leg warmers, the one on the right has a fanny pack and headband. There was a Hall & Oates concert this weekend at The Joint.

All this ’80s nostalgia needs to stop before Emmanuel Lewis starts hanging around. Once he shows up, you’ll never be able to get rid of him, either.

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Speak No Evil and Hear No Evil got here just fine, but who the hell invited Douche No Evil?

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This photo could keep stoners busy for hours. (Via myspace.com/djchristopherlawrence)

It’s a double dip of DJs tonight at Body English inside the Hard Rock Hotel for Godskitchen as L.A. mixmaster Christopher Lawrence headlines the show while local jock Jordan Stevens has opening duties. As always, we were rejected from the bill when we volunteered — free of charge, no less — to play our famed “All ‘Humpty Dance’” 290-minute mega-set. Ingrates. Click for more words and pictures »

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“Yellow Trans Am” didn’t have quite the same ring. (Via myspace.com/blackcamaro)

Black is the new, er, black? Tonight at Wasted Space inside Hard Rock Hotel, The Black Crayons will be joined by Black Camaro and Black for, apparently, noir night. We can only hope they’ll be covering Metallica’s “Blackened,” Type O Negative’s “Black No. 1,” The White Stripes’ “Black Math” and — oh, nevermind. We could do this all day. We’d just like to know why no one invited Frank Black to come play “Men in Black.” What? It’s more appropriate than “Whatever Happened to Pong?” Paddle to paddle and side to side! Click for more words and pictures »

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To think, a naive nation once bough breakdancing instructions from this man. (Photo by Erik Kabik | Retna)

In celebration of 10 years of Gumball Rally 3000 — not to be confused with Death Race 2000; and oh dear GOD please don’t go see the hacky remake that has no David Carradine or brilliant, career-making turn by Sly Stallone — rally reviver Maximillion Cooper handed out Nixon watches to participating racers which included Alfonso Ribeiro, Tyson Beckford and Orlando Jones at Wasted Space inside Hard Rock Hotel last night. The Cuban Brothers spun their brand of dance/music/comedy followed by performances from The Alkaholiks and MSTRKRFT.

Gumball Rally 3000 is a ’round-the-world Sunday drive from San Francisco to Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas then a flight to Nanjing with drivers stopping over in Pyongyang, Shanghai and wrapping up in Beijing. The race isn’t won by being the fastest to complete the cruise, but by who the most positive driver is. In a just world, Dean Martin would win the Spirit of the Gumball trophy every year for his continuing contribution to long-distance rally culture through countless Cannonball Run reruns.

UPDATE: Trevor Traina and Adam Jackson are documenting their participation in the rally here, although they don’t include any horror stories about being chased around Pyongyang by a drunken Kim Jong Il in a beat-up Kia. Sadly.

By Jason Scavone