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
- Free groceries, empty stores, waiting in line(1 comment)
- It’s a rice-and-beans season—or, as The Colbert Report summarizes it, there’s a “clusterfuck at the poor house.” more
- Don’t “Believe” the hate
- The week before Mystère opened at Treasure Island, an enraged Steve Wynn tore into the creator, Franco Dragone. “This is shit,” a red-faced Wynn shouted. ... more
- Strip silence
- Looking ahead, my calendar suddenly has a lot of empty squares … Entire days are passing where nothing is opening, being transformed, revamped, feted or ... more
- Dan Goulet
- Dan Goulet on the late Robert Goulet: “Actually, I’m a second cousin. I get asked about it everywhere I go; whenever I valet park, I’m ... more
- The Help Desk
- O.J. Simpson faces life in prison after being found guilty on charges of armed robbery and kidnapping. What a coincidence—he’d been dropping hints that he’d ... more
- Air support
- Flo Rogers is only the second leader in the station’s [KNPR 88.9-FM] history and the first to face trying to fund public radio in the ... more
- Tiny Little Rant: Stop calling, Obama
- Sorry, Obama phone-bank volunteers, but we’ve got a beef. Seriously, what’s with all the phone calls? more
Nightlife
- Where in the world is Greg Neely?!(1 comment)
- As it turns out, sometimes, you do need a Plan C. Plan B (no longer called Plan B and no, not being called Plan C) ... more
- Yee-haw!
- When there’s a bra dangling from steer horns over the entrance, you know you’re in the right place. more
- Second chances
- We give bad milk a second chance. Though our eyes might be swimming in our heads, we go back in for a second whiff, just ... more
- Bachelorette Party-palooza
- I absolutely refused to make the bride-to-be, Jenn, wear anything purchased at the Adult Superstore. But inevitably, Jenn acquired a raunchy balloon hat, and the ... more
- Blueberry Crush
- None of a blueberry’s natural antioxidants actually make it through the re-distillation process into this blueberry-flavored vodka. But throw in a handful of fresh blueberries, ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- The Ting Tings
- Overhyped? Hell yeah. Overrated? You bet. But what British newcomer with halfway decent hooks isn’t these days? more
- Heather Carrasco as a Mermaid in “The Mermaids”
- The toughest part of being a mermaid? “The fish like to try to eat our hair, yet we cannot break character …” more
- Yo, Johnny! See you in the next life!(2 comments)
- For the truly ignorant, the plot of Point Break goes like this: FBI agent goes undercover as a surfer dude to bust extreme athletes who ... more
- In vacuum
- Catherine Borg’s new exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Collective is scary. It’s called Untitled, the perfect name for an exhibition that relentlessly tackles the immense ... more
- Mosaic paints a winning picture
- When is winning a reality TV game show—and the $100,000 check that comes with the title—a bit of a letdown? When the show is MTV’s ... more
- Confessions of an Airbagger
- I’m a junkie. Every morning, before I take my shower or munch down on some oat-laden cereal, I need my fix. I can’t even think ... more
- The play’s the thing
- Cult gems like Point Break and Road House shouldn’t be the only movies that get a new lease on life by being brought to the ... more
- Lost in translation
- The show is an awkward mix of police procedural and sci-fi mystery, with plenty of winking jokes about things that didn’t exist yet in 1973 ... more
- If the clothes fit
- On the far end of designer Lana Fuchs’ Vegas workshop, a model is pacing back and forth in an extravagant black gown that glides on ... more
- Impressionist concrete
- “How do you bring the desert into the casino?” asks architect Drew Gregory, of the firm assemblageSTUDIO, led by Eric Strain. The answer? One thin ... more
- Culture clash
- Imagine the Las Vegas Valley’s cultural entities all under one web-based roof. That’s the goal of the nonprofit Metro Arts Council, which unveiled the prototype ... more
Screen
- Spy goop
- Body of Lies frequently plays like a geopolitical Sleepless in Seattle, with its two stars repeatedly jawing on the phone across thousands of miles but ... more
- The Duchess
- Eager to participate in the political sphere despite not having the right to vote, Georgiana (Keira Knightley) campaigns for the Whig politicians her husband finances ... more
- City of Ember
- The City of Ember is located well under the surface of the Earth, built there by forward-thinking scientists on the brink of some kind of ... more
- The Express
- When we initially meet Ernie Davis, who eventually becomes the first African-American to win the Heisman trophy, he’s running like the wind to escape a ... more
- A Man Named Pearl
- Pearl Fryar is an unassuming African-American guy in his 60s living in a small South Carolina town, who spent decades working in a factory and ... more
Taste
- Eat like a rock star
- When I was in high school, I’d travel to California to visit a friend, and we’d spend hours late at night loitering in and just outside the local Denny’s, rarely eating anything more substantial than a side order of french fries or a short stack of pancakes.
Horoscopes
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Wednesday
2008-10-15
The Strip
Barrett-Jackson Auction Company car show at Mandalay Bay Events Center
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Wednesday
2008-10-15
Downtown
The UNLV School of Architecture Klai Juba Lecture Series welcomes Kennedy Lawson
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Wednesday
2008-10-15
Central
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Thursday
2008-10-16
UNLV
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Thursday
2008-10-16
Central
Journalist George Knapp tells paranormal stories at the Clark County Library’s main theater
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Thursday
2008-10-16
East
Cine en el Centro Film Series features Espaldas Mojadas at East Las Vegas Community Center
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Friday
2008-10-17
The Strip
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Friday
2008-10-17
The Strip
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Friday
2008-10-17
Dance performance
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Saturday
2008-10-18
Southwest
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Saturday
2008-10-18
Lake Las Vegas
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Saturday
2008-10-18
Xania's Hot Spots
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Monday
2008-10-20
Downtown
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Monday
2008-10-20
The Strip
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Monday
2008-10-20
Xania's Hot Spots
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Tuesday
2008-10-21
Xania's Hot Spots
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Tuesday
2008-10-21
Downtown
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Tuesday
2008-10-21
Southwest
Celebrity Chef Lou Petrozza at Cheeburger Cheeburger Las Vegas
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Soundcheck
- Nikka Costa
- Nikka Costa’s third album delves even deeper into the hardcore R&B, soul and funk influences she’s been indebted to for her entire career, and in the process sacrifices some of ...
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- Former Something Corporate frontman Andrew McMahon may have survived leukemia, but don’t expect him to get all sentimental about it
Read more... - Talkdemonic
- Of all the weird, mashed-up musical subgenres in the world today, the wackiest pseudo-mainstream concept of all might just be folktronica. After all, its primary elements—acoustic folk and downtempo electronics—are ...
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OCTOBER 9 - OCTOBER 15
Cocktail of the Week
Oct 9, 2008
by
Xania Woodman
Blueberry Crush
None of a blueberry's natural antioxidants actually make it through the re-distillation process into this blueberry-flavored vodka. But throw in a handful of fresh blueberries (out of season after this ...
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