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Relive Newport’s Sin City Days With the Behringer-Crawford Museum Wednesday

You may know Las Vegas as “Sin City,” but before that desert town took up the moniker, Newport, Kentucky, was the Sin City. Nicknamed “Hollywood East,” Newport hosted celebrities like Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe and a young Frank Sinatra. Slot machines, brothels, live entertainment and restaurants lit up the streets and made the city a […]

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