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JUNE 19 - JUNE 25
- Crusading for your community
- Whether they’re helping kids, refugees or read article
- The man behind Mouse
- Don Cheadle’s brilliant career read article
- I, Caan
- Vegas icon winner James Caan looks back on a long and varied career read article
The Intersection
- The Jacko Pack-O?
- The King of Pop playing the Strip? It’s been a rumor longer than most of us here at Weekly can remember, but there’s been more ... more
- Cirque has class
- Back when I first arrived in this city in 1996 to cover public education for the Review-Journal, the very notion of schools and Vegas elicited ... more
- Pep talk
- If you think life was tough in the old days, when housewives prepared dinner using manual can openers instead of microwave ovens, when teens rode ... more
- Of masks and Packers
- 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
- Pool Position
- Of all Vegas’ pool parties—Wet Republic at MGM Grand (billed as Vegas’ first ultra pool), the Palms’ Ditch Fridays, Tao Beach’s Sunset Sundays, Venus at ... more
- Waste Not, Want Not
- Sunrise Landfill has officially become a thorn in the side of Republic Services, which was ordered by the EPA last week to “permanently” seal up ... more
- The Help Desk
- Nevada among top five states in the nation for Internet speed. Our new motto: Faster poker and porn. Gov. Jim Gibbons uses government cell phone ... more
Nightlife
- The Real World
- It’s about time someone tells it like is. Ironic, though, that that someone should be a prominent Las Vegas nightlife company. Whatever the reason for ... more
- Above & Beyond
- Sad songs, they say so much… Above & Beyond will be bringing their award-winning music, along with a few of their critically acclaimed remixes to ... more
- Art and Symbolism
- In the temporary home of the Symbolic Gallery on Dean Martin Drive, I and my plastic cup of chardonnay rest on a glass case wherein ... more
- Sex in the City Flight
- It’s official. The Sex and the City movie has cleared $119 million in just three heart-fluttering, shoe-dropping, dressed-to-kill weeks. If ever there was cause for ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Country callback
- James “Little Tony” Kouns was deciding what to eat for dinner when he received the biggest phone call of his life. Or rather, the fourth ... more
- EPs, tacos and “First Blood”
- Caravels hasn’t left town, and its summer tour has already run afoul of the law. “We got pulled over on the way here for not ... more
- Panic at the Disco
- It only took one number for a fan to throw a black top hat onstage, where it landed at the feet of Brendon Urie. more
- Erykah Badu
- “I appreciate you letting me share my art.” From most any other singer, the comment would have been the height of pretentiousness, but from the ... more
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Stone Temple Pilots arrived at the Pearl last Thursday on a tide of bad buzz about their reunion tour, with rumors circulating about singer Scott ... more
- More than Skin Deep
- In case you haven’t been paying attention, it’s cooking up to be a stellar summer for art in Vegas. The list of solid shows that ... more
- Eight things to know about One Pin Short
- One Pin Short celebrate their CD release party Thursday night plus more fun facts about the band that you should probably memorize. more
- Chatting with Gnarls Barkley
- What most people probably presumed was a one-off collaboration has produced a second album and appears to be going strong. more
- Who are broken spindles?
- Actually, a more accurate question would be, “Who is Broken Spindles?,” since the band comprises exactly one person: Joel Petersen, better known as the bassist ... more
- Angrier, inchier than ever
- Leave it to a Wicked Little Town like ours to relaunch a production of the John Cameron Mitchell stage show turned 2001 film turned reinvigorated ... more
Screen
- Get Smart
- The 1960s spy-parody TV show Get Smart was, contrary to its title, often very silly, and certainly not the most sophisticated bit of satire ever ... more
- The Love Guru
- Mike Myers’ The Love Guru has everything a big summer comedy is expected to have, including star cameos, sex jokes, gay jokes, penis jokes, testicle ... more
- The Promotion
- America’s self-image as the land of opportunity has such a stranglehold on the national psyche that our movies—even the ones made independently and on the ... more
Taste
- Ay caramba!
- The free-standing structure that houses Caminos de Morelia, one of our newer Mexican restaurants, is simmering with history. For years, it belonged to Lou and Angie Ruvo, a couple who operated a seminal Vegas Italian restaurant called The Venetian, the only place in town I knew of to eat pork …
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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 19 - JUNE 25
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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