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| | Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Heaven or Las Vegas |
 | | Next month, the club's lease is up, and the BRC wants to raise the rent to something more appropriate for a district in the pink of regeneration - a sum rumoured to be double the current amount, and certainly enough to make Kristal splutter. |
 | | So, now that all the Save CBGB's campaigns have been waged and the club's threats to up sticks to Las Vegas shrugged off, it looks as though CBGB's role in the New York live scene is finally over. |
 | | Some claim the end of CBGB's is overdue, and that its continued existence has been symptomatic of a current flabbiness in punk rock; that punk, once the great exhorter of annihilation, of ripping up and starting again, has reached an age where it can grow attached to its family heirlooms. |
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