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Vegas Stripped: A former tunnel dweller — VIDEO
 

Ricky Lee Cole has lived off and on in the flood tunnels beneath Las Vegas for 20 years. He recently was placed in an apartment through HELP of Southern Nevada, but still has great difficulty finding a job.

 
Deals to consider before buying your ‘Star Wars’ tickets

In case you’ve spent the past 24 hours holed up inside a Tauntaun, you’re well aware that tickets for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” go on sale tonight after the trailer debuts during halftime of “Monday Night Football.”

 
Hanks supplies folksy charm in comfortable ‘Bridge of Spies’

Children tearfully watch filmstrips about how their best chance to survive a nuclear attack is to “duck and cover.” James Donovan (Tom Hanks) looks on in horror as Berliners are gunned down trying to clamber over the newly constructed wall. At one point, shots are fired into his New York home.

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Benicio Del Toro tremendous in war-on-drugs drama ‘Sicario’

You wanna win the war on drugs? Find a way to get each cartel boss alone in a room, then have Benicio Del Toro glare at him. It won’t be long before the world’s supply of illicit substances dwindles to whatever weed Seth Rogen happens to be holding.

 
Vegas Stripped: Bone-breaking improv — VIDEO

The group BARS, or “Brothers Are Radically Superb,” combine turfing, bone breaking, popping, and anything that inspires them to put on a improv-based theatrical show of raw self-expression.