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SEPTEMBER 11 - SEPTEMBER 17
- Fall A+E Guide: Movies
- Weekly film critic Josh Bell previews this fall’s blockbusters, Oscar hopefuls and guilty pleasures. read article
- Fall A+E Guide: Music
- Clear your calendar and your iPod: This fall brings a variety of concerts and albums you won’t ... read article
- Memory in the City of Desire
- For the anniversary of the tragedy we said we’d never forget, Chuck Twardy tours local memorial parks to examine the state of our public memory read article
The Intersection
- (Not quite so) right(1 comment)
- As the election cycle heats up and money flies in every direction for the political parties and their causes, several members of the media have ... more
- Luck of the drawl
- A familiar Nevada voice reaches out from a TV ad and grabs you by the throat: “People ask me why, after 30 years in Las ... more
- Botox Blues
- So many things could come to mind when someone is about to stick a needle into your face to purposefully partially paralyze you. Among them, ... more
- Lights, Camera … Inaction
- Film companies, when they decide to shoot on location, used to be guided by the quality of location. This has always been, it would seem, ... more
- The Help Desk
- Michael Phelps parties with strippers at the Palms. His behavior was so scandalous, he’s already considered the front-runner for governor in 2010. Judge Elizabeth Halverson ... more
- Risky business
- In both his private practice and as general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, attorney Allen Lichtenstein has been fighting for the ... more
- Rose-colored glasses
- n Minneapolis last week, as Sarah Palin introduced herself to the world, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska talked about her small-town values, and her life ... more
- The Juice is … been there, done that
- What is now going on at the Regional Justice Center is really just an echo from the trial of the century. The police and the ... more
- Playing nice
- It was billed as a roast of Oscar Goodman—which sounded like it would involve a parade of foul-mouthed comedians taking the podium and really cutting ... more
- Monk business
- Dressed in monks’ robes, with appropriately shaved heads, the half-dozen men acted more like tourists than religious figures about to perform a sacred ceremony. Or, ... more
Nightlife
- Eyes on the prize: AMG’s manifest destiny
- Angel Music Group is no more—at least in the U.S. The group that administers the Godskitchen brand Wednesdays at Body English and lends its creative ... more
- Twentieth time’s a charm
- Plan B—it’s what you do when Plan A fails. No, we’re not referring to the morning-after pill, but the relatively new afterhours at Scores Las ... more
- On Planet Perfecto
- We’re not in Vegas anymore, Toto. Hell, we’re not even on this planet. Rain nightclub slipped the surly bonds of Earth around 11:30 p.m.—aided in ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Taking a step up
- To say that the architecture of the UNLV campus is frequently ugly… betrays the lack of care that appears to have gone into making a ... more
- Street gospel
- The Biscuit Street Preacher, aka Robby Martin, had to start his young life over many times, so reinvention comes easily, hence the pseudonym. more
- Flights of fancy
- Maybe there’s something unseemly about admiring, first and foremost, the colorful prose in a book whose subject matter is 9/11. more
- “We have some planes …”
- United 93 (2006): Paul Greengrass’ excruciatingly realistic re-creation of the events on the titular flight, which crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11, is very ... more
Screen
- Feel the “Burn”
- In the twisted but strangely sensible logic of brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, the perfect way to follow up an intense, brutal, Oscar-winning psychological thriller ... more
- Frozen River
- There are few films quite as oppressively bleak as Frozen River. We follow a single mother, Ray (Leo), whose husband has just robbed her blind ... more
- Modern “Women”
- George Cukor’s 1939 film version of Clare Boothe Luce’s play The Women is a magnificent piece of cinema, but it’s a movie very much of ... more
Taste
- Steele yourself
- Seafood paella Velazquez is surprisingly good, even if it does take a full 20 minutes to arrive. The rice is moist and chock-full of shellfish and chorizo. Cuban bites are like sliders in the form of three pint-sized Cuban sandwiches.
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2008-09-18
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2008-09-18
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2008-09-18
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2008-09-19
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2008-09-19
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2008-09-19
The legendary R&B group visits Vegas
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2008-09-20
The Devil Without A Cause hits the Pearl
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2008-09-20
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2008-09-20
The five-piece metal outfit hailing from Helsinki, Finland will take the stage at the HOB
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2008-09-22
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2008-09-22
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2008-09-22
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2008-09-23
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Soundcheck
- The Sound of Animals Fighting
- Shed of numerous auxiliary members yet still shrouded within their Kiss-like alter-egos (the Nightingale, the Walrus, the Lynx and the Skunk), the side project of one former and two current ...
Read more... - Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
- After drifting away from her roots on 2006’s Carnival, Australian alt-country singer Kasey Chambers returns to basics on Rattlin’ Bones, a collaboration with her husband, singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson.
Read more... - Okkervil River
- Okkervil River has become a supremely self-assured live act, in no small part because frontman Will Sheff has shed his tentative vocal delivery—a trait which often made the Austin band’s ...
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SEPTEMBER 11 - SEPTEMBER 17
Cocktail of the Week
Sep 4, 2008
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Xania Woodman
Cocktail Tree
“Share and share alike”; “Do unto others…” (yeah, those old chestnuts). But when sublime cocktails are at hand (or in hand), a little goodwill can go a long way. While ...
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