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VICE Guide to Las Vegas

Hotels
Las Vegas isn’t cool. The last time it approached anything near cool was at the end of the 50s when folks like Elvis and the Rat Packers started joining in the hotel construction boom and Howard Hughes was running around like a bearded madman trying to...
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VICE Guide to Las Vegas

Gambling
The most important rule of gambling in Vegas is: Stay the hell away from the Strip and go to the downtown casinos.
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How to Eat in Chicago
Ever notice how huge The typical Chicago middle-aged human is? It’s because there are about 8 million restaurants per square inch.
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VICE Guide to Chicago

Random Stuff
Are you finding yourself crunched for time on your Chicago visit? Does your shopping list include a concrete gargoyle, Gene Simmons boots, getting your lip pierced, a stuffed alien, and a vibrating cockring?
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VICE Guide to Chicago

Music in Chicago
Ruining music is cool if you’re the first one to ruin it. Slint, you’re in the clear. Everyone else after Slint? You’re fired. Somehow most of these offenders came from or moved to the city of Chicago. If it weren’t for labels like Drag City or Cadet...
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VICE Guide to Chicago

Map of Chicago
VICE's map of Chicago.
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VICE Guide to Chicago

Neighborhoods
Most of the shit mentioned in this guide is sadly located in or around The Crotch (Hate the game, not the players). No one in Chicago owns a car, so traveling to exotic lands beyond The Crotch is gonna take some serious forward-thinking and at least...
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VICE Guide to Chicago

Get Acculturated
Out-of-towners don’t realize that Chicago has a scenic lakefront. There are several nice beaches with real sand and everything along the lakeshore, but Hyde Park’s Promontory Point is among the most beautiful and is the best spot to go swimming.
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VICE Guide to Chicago

Gay Stuff
Chicago is a totally depressing town to live in, yet it seems to house some of the world’s happiest homosexual chaps. We just called one and asked him what gay shit rules around here.
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VICE Guide to Chicago

Chicago Eats
Ever notice how huge The typical Chicago middle-aged human is? It’s because there are about 8 million restaurants per square inch.
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VICE Guide to Chicago

Drugless in Chicago
Chicago is an alcohol town. I rolled in here from the West Coast with a bona fide coke problem. Relocating to drugless Chicago proved far cheaper than rehab.
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VICE Guide to Chicago

DOs and DON'Ts
This guy just looks like a good jam. I don’t know what he’s playing, if it’s a Kurtis Mantronik remix of EPMD or something, but when you look at him you can almost hear the best song you’ve ever heard in your life.
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