• The Gatekeepers : Meet the Community Development Recommending Board, unpaid guardians of the public kitty

• Quietly Protesting : Isn't a small opposition better than none at all? Three days of rebellion

• Tower of Babble : Installing a high-def, big-screen TV? Simple as 1-2-3-4-5-6 visits

• GRAY MATTERS : News, observations, stray thoughts + medically supervised brain drainings about our city

• CULTURE CLUB: Guns Don't Kill People; Music Does : The rap-violence controversy makes no sense

• LETTERS : Mash Notes, Hate Mail, Urgent Communiqués, Secret Messages, Thesis Pieces

• HOROSCOPE : Peggy Plots Your Planets

• CLASSIFIED ADS: View Ads and Place Ads

• PERSONAL ADS: View Ads & Place Ads

• LINE PASS: Comings and Goings : Pure gets Ra, Plush gets gone, Polly Esther's coming

• Mash-Up : Congrats, Best Wishes and All That Other Good Stuff

• Xania's Hot Spots : March 23–29

• NIGHTS ON THE CIRCUIT: Good Juice : The midnight bacchanal secretly lives on in Sin City

• STRIP CLUBS: A guide to the erotic side of Las Vegas

• NIGHTCLUBS: Preview Vegas' afterhours spots, dance clubs and nightclubs

• BAR SCENE: Discover Vegas' cocktail nation

• VEGAS SCENE: The Weekly Scene

• Genre Buster: Spike Lee's Inside Man dodges caper-film clichés

• SCREEN: UNKNOWN WHITE MALE

• SCREEN: STAY ALIVE

• A+E : All the ARTS+ ENTERTAINMENT You Can Eat

• POP CULTURE: Bleeps of Duplicity : Free your mouth; your mind will follow

• BOOKS: Read the reviews, read the books -- either way, you win!

• BOOKS: Seeing What Happens : Don DeLillo on life, death, theater, movies and, of course, televised sports

• ON THE SCENE: Live Poets at Dead Poets : Refreshing my intellect at a poetry reading

• SORE THUMBS: Out from Jak's Shadow : Daxter bugs out for a solo adventure

• TV: The Real Steal : Rich characters and Andre Braugher elevate Thief

• COMICS: Mr. Lizard: Godzilla stomps through his own comic book

• ART EVENTS: This week's art events from the calendar

• NOISE : Four Questions with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie

• NOISE: Rock of the Aged: Morrison, Gilmour, Davies, Fagen: Can the old-timers still bring it?

• SOUNDCHECK: Liars; Mudhoney; DJ Boris

• EVENTS CALENDAR: Your guide to concerts and entertainment

• TASTE: Persis-tently Good : Restaurant lends Persian vibe to Vegas

• DINING GUIDE: Your guide to Vegas restaurants