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Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Review

I moved to the Bay Area in 1992 for grad school with the idea of becoming a professor, but instead I wandered down the wrong path with the criminal element on campus – petty thieves, small-time hustlers, gangbangers, and drug fiends – always on the verge of dropping out, on the same turf where Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters first dropped acid with the Grateful Dead.

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Bring Me the Head of Antonio Banderas

The Marketing of Zorro Masks History
By Benjamin Ortiz
With the North American Free Trade Agreement in high gear, the most recent Zorro adaptation seems oddly relevant. Not that the filmmakers wanted audiences to draw comparisons between an imaginary 19th century crusader and a band of contemporary masked guerrillas in Mexico (Los Zapatistas) who share the same initial.

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