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Satin Dollz at Viva Las Vegas 2013 by Frankie Tease Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend is swiftly approaching its 17th year. The world-wide rockabilly festival that has only seen it's equal in the UK comes to the Orleans Hotel again in Las Vegas April 17-20, 2014. So many new and expanding things about this festival kept creeping up, I had to email my home town of Long Beach to reach the legendary organizer of this event directly. Tom answered and gave me some good preparatory information on what's cookin' for 2014, in addition to the return of Audrey Deluxe for all burlesque productions. He also told me the details of a new October weekender he's behind, which are contained in the Q&A below.  FT: How did you choose this year's headliners? TI: It is always tough choosing headliners. The old acts are not getting any younger so gradually there has to be transition to younger headliners instead of the original acts. FT: How has the Burlesque Showca

Love Grub's Infamous 'Sloppy Tots' Photo courtesy of  FoodSpotting.com The Love Grub Truck is one part vegan Hipster, two parts groove, and three parts downtown Vegas.  The truck's  owner  Zach Bartlett , stands in front of the truck and greets patrons on this balmy Las Vegas evening. Zach  restored the classic vintage food truck in March 2011, and after two weeks in front of the thesaurus, Zach's girlfriend came up with the  Love Grub Truck  name because Zach loves to grub. He is a tall drink of water that food doesn't seem to stick to, with a huge smile and style. As you approach the truck which is painted extremely bright construction orange, you may have a flashback to any truck you may have visited across the U.S., because of it's modern yet classic taco truck style. Zach has been working on the concept a lot longer than this year though. He told me that the Vegan Tacos (two for $6) are an item he recalls making at age thirteen, when he w