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MAY 29 - JUNE 4
- Small Wonder
- The overseas adventures of the undersized Tanyalee Davis read article
- Death becomes her
- Or not. Not yet. read article
- The Police with Elvis Costello
- May 23, MGM Grand Arena read article
The Intersection
- The truth…is in Rachel?
- Over a beer at the Little A’Le’Inn bar in tiny Rachel, Nevada, Frank Karl, a retiree from upstate New York, tells me he’s an open-minded ... more
- What’s in a slogan?
- The image of Sin City as an adults-only playground where anything is possible is reflected in the catchy slogans and commercial spots that have been ... more
- Throw the Black Book at ‘em
- The names are Scorsese flick-worthy: Francis “Lefty” Rosenthal; Dominic Anthony Spinale; Joseph Vincent Cusumano. Their crimes, the stuff of wise-guy legend: Louis Tom Dragna led ... more
- Perez is Burning
- In my line of work, I meet and interview a lot of famous people. Because of the wide scope of my interests, they have included ... more
- Of maggots and men
- This is an excerpt from the radio show Our Metropolis, a half-hour issues and affairs program that airs Tuesdays at 6 p.m. on KUNV 91.5-FM ... more
- Show them the money
- There’s always the Duke with his sing-song voice, the miles of attitude that stretched from mesa to mesa and that athletic swagger. Surrounded by marauding ... more
- The Help Desk
- McCarran Airport ranks No. 2 in customer satisfaction for 2007. We would have been No. 1, but not everyone loves being frisked by Wayne Newton. ... more
Nightlife
- Fall of the Empire … Ballroom
- “Everything happens for a reason.” Empire Ballroom exec Gino LoPinto is handling the news relatively well—Empire closed just hours before DJ duo Scooter & Lavelle ... more
- From the Gulch to Ghostbar
- Jeff MacKay isn’t shy in admitting that he lied through his teeth to get his first bartending gig back in 1996 at the Glitter Gulch. ... more
- 300 Dresses
- The dreaded velvet ropes and stanchions line up inside like soldiers, with none of the club’s darkened stillness hinting at the crazy scene soon to ... more
- Red Bull Cola $5-7
- Packing a strong herbal energy punch, this cola goes where others dare not: into the realms of flora and spice like licorice, cinnamon, lemon, ginger, ... more
- Here’s the beef! Dixie’s herds ‘em in for the grand opening weekend
- You know you’ve had enough to drink when you find yourself on a rock in the middle of the desert early in the morning, staring ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Too plain, too simple
- Just when you thought that every conceivable branch of law enforcement already had its own TV drama, along comes In Plain Sight (USA, Sundays, 10 ... more
- In Search of Harry
- History will likely remember Harry Reid only as the Senate Majority Leader who took it upon himself to announce “the war is lost,” a statement ... more
- Cyndi Lauper
- In a recording career that’s spanned nearly three decades, Cyndi Lauper has never been afraid of collaboration, nor of pushing her creative limits. This fearlessness ... more
- Spiritualized
- The A&E in the title of Spiritualized’s latest album has nothing to do with the Arts and Entertainment referenced on the cover of this magazine. more
- In the public eye
- Given that Las Vegas Collects Contemporary is a display of works on loan from more than 30 Southern Nevada collectors, you expect diversity, but even ... more
Screen
- A fashionable finale
- The summer’s latest tent-pole event movie doesn’t have digital spaceship battles or whip-cracking adventurers or superheroes soaring between skyscrapers. But it does have not one, ... more
- The Fall
- It’s been eight years since single-monikered director Tarsem’s first film, The Cell, and opinions on the filmmaker and his work remain deeply divided. It’s unlikely ... more
- The Strangers
- At a time when horror movies from around the world desperately strive to say something Relevant about rapacious capitalism or banlieue violence or Abu Ghraib ... more
Taste
- Bella Bistro
- Opening a restaurant is a lifelong dream for many new Americans; usually places that represent the cooking of their native lands. Gina Linzi, who came here eight years ago to work as a bus girl at New York-New York’s Il Fornaio, has realized that dream. After a climb to that …
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Soundcheck
- Earlimart
- Is there a more underrated Los Angeles band than Earlimart? While fellow Silverlake darlings Sea Wolf and Silversun Pickups dominate the spotlight, Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray have spent the ...
Read more... - Sigur Rós
- Something’s rotten in Hopeland. Or, at the very least, something’s different, judging from the final track on Sigur Rós’ fifth album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust.
Read more... - The Watson Twins
- If your knowledge of the duo formerly known as Black Swan begins and ends with Rabbit Fur Coat—Chandra and Leigh Watson’s alt-country effort with Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis—you’d be forgiven ...
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MAY 29 - JUNE 4
Cocktail of the Week
Jul 3, 2008
by
Xania Woodman
Dirty Blonde Cocktails
“Sweet” doesn’t even begin to describe the full impact of a Dirty Blonde Cocktail, Sunday night, where five ladies and one somewhat bewildered guy sampled the DBC variety pack. The ...
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