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- You have to keep making things happen
- From gallery owners to administrators to artists, strong women are keeping the arts scene vital read article
- Touring the educational corridor
- Charter schools and alternative approaches attempt to redefine education in West Las Vegas read article
The Intersection
- Electile dysfunction
- Florida in 2000 gave us hanging chads and butterfly ballots. Ohio in 2004 set precedents for voter intimidation and massive disenfranchisement (350,000 missing or purged names). more
- The fine art of political ads
- Congressman Jon Porter’s ad on his energy policies starts off with the bespectacled candidate for re-election standing in front of long rows of solar panels ... more
- Bringing back poetry
- When poet Rosa Mendoza took the mic, the place went wild. It was time to build bridges, connect the community, express feelings. The kind of ... more
- Tiny little rant: Ben Stein on banking oversight
- Recently, on CBS’ Sunday Morning, Ben Stein called for greater oversight of the banking business. When a conservative like Stein demands more government regulation, the ... more
- He Dunne it
- As recently as 10 days ago, I was just like most of you out there. I had absolutely, positively, 100 percent no interest in whatever ... more
- America’s got … Paris?
- This is, after all, the reality TV era. If, like Brooke Hogan, you’re the daughter of a famous person, you get your own TV show. ... more
- No flip-flops
- Sunday morning and the sun is on low boil. An inordinate number of flies annoyingly hover near the entrance of the Sunrise Library. Outside, a ... more
Nightlife
- Un-poetic justice
- It’s not often that the nightclub-going public receives an invitation from a nightclub’s owner to contact the NAACP, ACORN (a community organization addressing the needs ... more
- Nightlife industry, we be illin’
- Your mother was right. You look tired, and you need to eat something. It’s about time the nightlife industry started taking better care itself—LVW’s Team ... more
- Lady love-in(1 comment)
- Maybe it was stolen, like Deanna’s purse at Seamless afterhours. Or maybe I “gave it up” like one does one’s virginity … and forgot about ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Worldwide local tour(5 comments)
- Juiced by receptive crowds at First Friday performances in February, the West Las Vegas rapper set his sights on large bars and casino showrooms. Most ... more
- Riding the wave (again)
- Kevin and Scott Leonard seem like pretty normal guys on the surface—family men, brothers, bandmates for most of their lives. But as they sit inside ... more
- Judging the judges
- There are three new judge shows premiering in syndication this season, all of them hosted by no-nonsense women, all of them following the well-worn format ... more
- Here come de judge
- David Mamet’s great courtroom drama [The Verdict (1982)] has one of cinema’s most corrupt magistrates [Judge Milo O’Shea], who, in the middle of a high-stakes ... more
- Why I can’t stand Judge Judy(1 comment)
- When she gets home early enough, my wife watches Judge Judy, and it always drives me from the room. more
- Swap a lot
- On a sunny afternoon, stroll down the dusty aisles filled with puppies and parrots and boots and bikes and soccer balls and strawberries, feel the ... more
- Atmospheric
- “Have you ever chewed on a rubber band?” Sean Daley asks me over the phone. I realize, to my own surprise, that I actually have ... more
- Duel citizens(2 comments)
- It’s 5 p.m. inside the Water Street Gallery on a Third Thursday in August, and Henderson artist Chris Waters is making final preparations on one ... more
Screen
- Towelhead
- Pretty young Jasira Maroun (Bishil) attracts attention wherever she goes. And when her mother’s boyfriend starts paying the 13-year-old inappropriate attention, jealous mother Gail (Maria ... more
- Three questions with “Choke” director Clark Gregg
- I started out by kind of trying to just do the world’s most faithful adaptation of a book I already loved, despite the fact that ... more
- An uphill battle in “Miracle at St. Anna”
- Entering a theater showing a Spike Lee Joint demands a certain amount of faith and stubborn optimism, in that you never know which Spike showed ... more
- Eagle Eye(1 comment)
- Apparently in just four short months we’ll have a government surveillance system so extensive that it is linked up to literally every electronic device in ... more
- “Choke” mixes sleaze and sweetness
- Fans of kinky sex, weird urban legends and mild blasphemy will get their fill, but underneath all that seediness is a story that turns out ... more
- Tell No One
- On the eighth anniversary of his wife’s murder near a secluded lake, pediatrician Alex Beck (Cluzet) receives an anonymous e-mail with a seemingly present-day video ... more
- Nights in Rodanthe
- Unfaithfulco-stars Gere and Lane re-team for this adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about two troubled souls who spend a weekend alone in a North ... more
- The Lucky Ones
- Just what is it about the current war, you have to wonder, that inspires such painfully mediocre movies? more
Taste
- Small wonder
- My first reaction to Raku, a Japanese pub restaurant on the western edge of Spring Mountain’s Chinatown, may have been undeservedly restrained.
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Wednesday
2008-10-01
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2008-10-01
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2008-10-01
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Friday
2008-10-03
It's acronym central as MSI headlines at the HOB
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2008-10-03
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2008-10-03
Theater
Conor McPherson's Shining City at the Judy Bayley Theater at UNLV
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Saturday
2008-10-04
Head to the Scion Stage to hear these great bands plus Pepper and Leaving Springfield
Downtown
X Fest presents The Vandals, Kottonmouth Kings and Reverend Horton Heat
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2008-10-04
Carlos Santana performs live at the MGM Grand Garden Arena
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2008-10-04
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2008-10-05
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Daylife Sundays closing party with Benny Benassi at Wet Republic
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2008-10-05
A night of laughs with two of TV's funniest leading men
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2008-10-05
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2008-10-06
The Bargain DJ Collective rocks the Double Down, plus Szandora shows off her hula hoop skills
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2008-10-06
Come party at The Beatles Revolution Lounge with the cast memebers of Cirque du Soleil shows
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2008-10-07
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2008-10-07
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2008-10-07
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Soundcheck
- Plain White T's
- Seems like a lifetime’s passed since the Jason Schwartzman-bolstered Phantom Planet struck gold with starry-eyed O.C. theme song “California.”
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- Fans of the four Followills—brothers Caleb, Jared and Nathan and cousin Matthew—who constitute Kings of Leon should welcome with open arms the band’s fourth album, Only by the Night, a ...
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- Before he broke out as an R&B crooner, a dandified celebrity in his own right, Las Vegas product Ne-Yo wrote hits for the Beyoncés and Whitneys and Célines of the ...
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SEPTEMBER 25 - OCTOBER 1
Cocktail of the Week
Sep 25, 2008
by
Xania Woodman
Hart Attack
Almost as frightening as the idea of motocross legend Carey Hart’s first aerial backflip attempt is the Wasted Space owner’s favorite drink. Named after that now-famous and now-standard motocross move, ...
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