Best in Print
- Women of Nightlife: The Pink Pages
- These ladies do it all, from booking the DJs to running the show to owning the joint ... read article
- Nightlife Glossary: An Addendum
- We figure if the Associated Press can issue a yearly Stylebook, so can the Weekly. Behold, your ... read article
- Nightclub obituaries
- We would now like to take a moment to honor the memory of some of our dearly ... read article
The Intersection
- A debate to remember (and forget)
- n hit the jackpot. Minutes into Friday evening’s presidential debate-viewing party at Sierra Gold at Jones and the I-215, someone won $20. Two center-bar televisions ... more
- Felix Rappaport
- Felix Rappaport on the casino business: “The casino business is relatively simple. You want to be a net importer of people…” more
- Muslims speak out
- For nearly 20 months, U.S. Muslims have watched Barack Obama fumble as he tries to debunk rumors that he’s a closet Muslim. more
- Oil and (holy) water
- Mark your calendars. In February of 2009, religious people who dare explore the (missing) link between science and God will participate in a worldwide event: ... more
- Flower Tower(1 comment)
- Andrew Fonfa doesn’t want me to write this. He knows I have to, he knows I want to, but he also wants us to know ... more
- Hey, everyone, important community issues being discussed here!
- School over, dozens of students filed past the solitary sign-holder pointing visitors to the Greenspun Junior High auditorium for the first of several community forums ... more
- Colors that run early
- For those of you who have only a vague idea what UNR is about, note one thing—it hates UNLV. more
- The Help Desk
- Lance Armstrong loses to Oregon cyclist in second annual Cross Vegas. Testing afterward showed evidence of several Strip buffets. FBI raids nine sites around the ... more
Nightlife
- Nightclub obituaries
- We would now like to take a moment to honor the memory of some of our dearly departed nightclub venues for providing us over the ... more
- Back and gone again(1 comment)
- The X-rays of grotesque human mishaps are gone. So is the cigarette-burned carpet. But at the former Emergency Room Lounge last Saturday night, local music ... more
- Senior Citizens
- There are two sides to every prom: There’s the dreamy, romantic image of what the night will bring, coupled with anticipatory outings to check things ... more
- Team Hangover Report: UTIOG! UTIOG!
- The last time I saw Under the Influence of Giants in the flesh, they were wearing matching ’70s-style velour jogging suits and being entertained by ... more
- It’s Fabulous
- It’s “f—king Fabulous!” tout festival reps. Fabulous Las Vegas aims to be an alternative to the rigid policies of some of the megaclubs in town. more
Arts & Entertainment
- Back and gone again(1 comment)
- The X-rays of grotesque human mishaps are gone. So is the cigarette-burned carpet. But at the former Emergency Room Lounge last Saturday night, local music ... more
- A few words with local filmmaker Malcolm Brooks
- Local filmmaker Malcolm Brooks is showing his new movie Heroes at the Galaxy Neonopolis this week. Josh Bell stole a few minutes of his time ... more
- High and dry
- As if the high price of oil weren’t enough, next week PBS is airing a documentary on that other critical natural resource, water, and it ... more
- A clone of a clone
- The Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated movie that came out this summer was meant to stoke anticipation for the new Star Wars: The Clone ... more
- Who are We Are Wolves?(2 comments)
- A trio of Montreal-based sonic stewards, We Are Wolves, with their hyper electro-rock, aren’t just your typical indie electro-trash. more
- Craig Berman as Her Majesty in “LOVE”
- Jack of all trades and master of most, Craig Berman is a renowned rock climber and has a doctorate in physical therapy from Columbia. more
- Up, up and away
- It’s 5:05 p.m., and Seth Trotter just woke up. The vocalist for local R&B-tinged pop-punks The Higher can’t be faulted, however, as his band returned ... more
- Who said being good was easy?
- Please note: “This show intended for mature audiences only,” but don’t get too excited. Curators Wendy Kveck and Danielle Kelly were determined to stimulate your ... more
- Up to the job
- The ravings of a right-wing senator’s office staff become ever more harried as they examine seven unnatural, disgusting, yet utterly hot photographs that have been ... more
- Foo Fighters
- About a week prior to his band’s show this past Friday at the Joint, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl announced that the group would be ... more
Screen
- Appaloosa
- Virgil Cole (Harris) and Everett Hitch (Mortensen) are freelance lawmen, plying their trade—what they call “gun work”—to towns with no laws. more
- Not seeing is not believing
- Arguably the work that landed him the Nobel Prize for Literature, José Saramago’s dystopian novel Blindness, published in 1995, was long considered to be “unfilmable.” more
- Religulous
- You’d be hard-pressed to find a film critic more potentially sympathetic to Religulous, the new documentary in which Bill Maher roams the globe poking nonstop ... more
- Heroes
- It’s never pleasant to sit through a local feature film and realize that it’s failing on almost every conceivable level. more
- Flash of Genius
- The college engineering professor invented the intermittent windshield-wiper system in his basement, pitched it to Ford and was then ripped off by the monolithic automaker, ... more
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
- When a movie like How to Lose Friends & Alienate People—about an entertainment journalist who must decide between truth and hype—comes along, it veers dangerously ... more
- Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
- Look out, Cameron Crowe: While you’ve been busy with arty remakes of Spanish horror flicks and self-indulgent trips through your CD collection, someone’s come along ... more
Taste
- Second time's a charm
- One rule I abide by as a diner is to always give a restaurant a second chance. Every business has an off day, and snap judgments based on one fair-to-middling experience can sometimes rob you of a genuinely great haunt.
Horoscopes
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Wednesday
2008-10-08
The Swedish rockers bring their metal stateside
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Wednesday
2008-10-08
The Strip
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Wednesday
2008-10-08
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Thursday
2008-10-09
Central
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Thursday
2008-10-09
The former Black Flag frontman takes the stage at the HOB
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Thursday
2008-10-09
The Strip
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Friday
2008-10-10
Central
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Friday
2008-10-10
Theater
The Distance From Here at Las Vegas Little Theater's Fischer Black Box Theater
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Friday
2008-10-10
The Strip
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Sunday
2008-10-12
A packed ticket of all your pop punk favorites
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Sunday
2008-10-12
Central
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Sunday
2008-10-12
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Monday
2008-10-13
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Monday
2008-10-13
The Bargain DJ Collective rocks the Double Down, plus Szandora shows off her hula hoop skills
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Monday
2008-10-13
Theater
The Distance From Here at Las Vegas Little Theater's Fischer Black Box Theater
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Soundcheck
- Cold War Kids
- The 1990s were a halcyon time for mainstream alt-rock, an era that had no problem embracing jazzbos such as Soul Coughing and Morphine and other genre-defying acts. A nod to ...
Read more... - Jennifer Hudson
- Jennifer Hudson’s self-titled debut album opens with a song perfectly pitched to her unique sensibilities and strengths: “Spotlight” is a slinky, old-fashioned torch song, marrying Hudson’s traditional vocal talents to ...
Read more... - Jenny Lewis
- Having ditched her Rilo Kiley bandmates (albeit temporarily) and the Watson Twins—her collaborators on 2006’s otherwise-solo effort Rabbit Fur Coat—malleable indie songstress and onetime Las Vegas resident Jenny Lewis has ...
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OCTOBER 2 - OCTOBER 8
Cocktail of the Week
Oct 2, 2008
by
Xania Woodman
Perla’s Pumpkin Pie
Trick or treat! Okay, just practicing. October gets me in the mood for fall, fall gets me in the mood for Halloween, and Halloween gets me in the mood for ...
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