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JUNE 12 - JUNE 18
- In the beginning, there was CineVegas
- Reflections on the festival’s first year from organizers, participants and attendees read article
- On the go go
- Abel Ferrara discusses a pair of new works playing at CineVegas read article
- Taking a stand
- Legendary Las Vegan Hank Greenspun gets his due in a new documentary read article
The Intersection
- The heavenly hitter
- Lerner’s in the makeup chair, readying for his next commercial, whose campy script calls for Lerner to narrowly escape an oncoming car. Lerner is the ... more
- Oil’s not well
- Sales are down. Tips are off. Work is disappearing. The national unemployment rate climbed to 5.5 percent from 5 percent in May, the largest jump ... more
- Battle of the Titans
- With the recent death of a sixth construction worker at the CityCenter construction site, the comparisons between the enormous project and its spiritual brother, the ... more
- Nevada’s gay duh(4 comments)
- Next week, when Californians start allowing same-sex couples to legally marry as a result of a recent state Supreme Court ruling, the Golden State will ... more
- So what’s the good news?
- Floods in the Midwest? Rotten tomatoes? Gas price record du jour? Enough already! We’ve reached our saturation point. We gathered the Weekly staff together for ... more
- An Oscar-worthy state
- Oscar Goodman is, as everyone knows by now, the Happiest Mayor in the World. And why shouldn’t he be? He’s in charge of one of ... more
- The Help Desk
- City to turn up thermostats one or two degrees to save $6,000 a month. Also, city employees now allowed to wear G-strings and tear-away pants ... more
Nightlife
- Empire update: a “Weekly” exclusive(1 comment)
- A new 3 a.m. afterhours event at Tabu every Friday and Saturday, beginning July 4 with DJ Times’ America’s Best DJ party featuring Prada Haus, ... more
- The great DJ debate(1 comment)
- Turntables? CDJs? Laptops? Ask any DJ his or her opinion on technology within the industry and be prepared for responses almost as heated and passionate ... more
- We don’t need no education
- I leave Bob for Aaron. Then to Daniel and Ron… I feel rather like a swing slut. Along the way we learn some tricks, or ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Sound and vision
- As doo-wop plays over the KUNV 91.5-FM airwaves on Saturday night, Chad Martinez gets ready to switch things up a bit. more
- Just ducky
- John Duck was 10 years old when he first heard Duane Eddy’s 1958 hit “Rebel Rouser.” more
- They are the champions, my friend
- Dennis Mitchell is the Beatles fan who will not let it be. Dan “Big Daddy” Lea is the Harley guy who, upon laying the bike ... more
- Beauty marks on the “Beast”
- “Bat Days” is a yearly weekend when hundreds of goths dressed in their best black finery descend en masse on Disneyland. That these misfits, depressives ... more
- Amplifying the Senses
- Installation art can be defined as the use of various media to modify a particular space in order to create a visceral and/or conceptual experience. ... more
- How the West was won
- Cowboys are, of course, a mainstay of American culture. So it’s curious that more attention isn’t paid to the animals that kept them off their ... more
- Interstate…hate?
- Will STP break down before they reach Las Vegas? more
- Sex Pistols
- “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Johnny Rotten’s final words could scarcely have been more irritating as his Sex Pistols exited the Joint at ... more
- Ladytron
- French electroclash artists may be a dime a dozen, but who else save the deceptively innovative four-piece responsible for 2005’s seductive Witching Hour would deliver ... more
- Guitar Hero
- Mere Mortals bass-guitar bombshell Mimi Star knows a thing or two about good ol’ U.S. rock ’n’ roll. more
- The Orb
- It’s easy to forget that Orb songs such as “Blue Room” and “Little Fluffy Clouds” were revolutionary back in the early ’90s, especially because band ... more
Screen
- Planet B-Boy
- It’s got to be hard being a breakdancer, or b-boy, as illustrated in Lee’s compelling documentary Planet B-Boy. Most make almost no money, and very ... more
- Hulk resmash!
- Five years ago, audiences worldwide were less than bowled over by Ang Lee’s self-consciously arty take on Marvel’s most wantonly destructive superhero, which often felt ... more
- Not quite happening
- At this point, M. Night Shyamalan’s press coverage has so overshadowed his filmmaking that to many, a review of his new film The Happening is ... more
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Morris returns with this gripping, grueling documentary on the Abu Ghraib controversy, but thankfully, it’s less a typical angry, unpleasant affair than a movie sprinkled ... more
- The Return of “Them!”
- My love of movies began with the monster genre, specifically those shown during the “Creature Features” on Saturday afternoons in the 1970s. Dracula, Frankenstein and ... more
- Chelsea on the Rocks
- Maverick director Ferrara may not seem like a documentary kind of guy—doing research, interviewing people, following up on leads, etc. Yet Ferrara found a way ... more
- Before the Rains
- It’s 1937 in Kerala, India. English spicemonger Henry Moores (Roache) is building a new road to a treasure trove of spice. Local villagers T.K. (Bose) ... more
- Four questions with “Visioneers” star Zach Galifianakis
- Visioneers star Zach Galifianakis talks about comedy, peeing in close quarters and relying on eye movement for his latest film which will screen as part ... more
Taste
- Martini mania
- Most of us in my field like to think of ourselves as knowledgeable in terms of predicting trends, as well as the potential success or failure of a concept when we are faced with it. But nothing can explain the frenzied response that has characterized Blue Martini, a new restaurant …
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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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JUNE 12 - JUNE 18
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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