Best in Print
- Mad in America
- You wouldn’t like us when we’re angry read article
- It starts with taking little things
- Stories of casino thievery read article
The Intersection
- Republican cookies
- Want to guess on which channel the McCain-Palin supporters watched last week’s debate when they gathered at Brendan’s Irish Pub at the Orleans? You are correct. more
- ‘The human condition may end in discord’
- Having tried the Bush Administration, credit-card kiting, Wall Street, war, vitriolic campaigning, God, art, aliens, naked pool parties, construction projects, bankruptcy, lap dances, alcohol, prescription ... more
- The out there is in here
- Her sign reads, “LV UFO—8:30 p.m. Meet here.” “I’m looking for work,” jokes the sign’s holder, J.R. Scully, aka Jacqueline Nelson, the media representative for ... more
- Socialism for the rich
- With Palin in Nevada using the S word, socialism, in an attack on Obama’s plan to “redistribute wealth,” we can’t help thinking about the mounds ... more
- Still the defiant one
- You know the formula: A star hits it big, looms large in our collective consciousness, struggles with his fill-in-the-blank inner demons, hits rock bottom, comes ... more
- The Help Desk
- Truck driver shaken after dummy bomb falls from the sky and hits his truck in Las Vegas city limits. Sorry, guy. Actually, it was the ... more
- Getting smart
- “I’m going to fit in that?” I was there to test drive the Smart Car, the latest import from Mercedes, but it had been a ... more
Nightlife
- All Hallow’s … week?
- Not even Hanukkah gets nine full nights of naughty-costumed, face-painted, what-the-hell-are-you-supposed-to-be bliss. more
- Happy Birthday, Blush!
- Unfortunately, my presence wasn’t present enough for Blush’s first birthday, because I got stuck on the wrong side of the ropes more
- Dollars and sense
- Halloween is to Vegas what Mardi Gras is to New Orleans. Sin City parties for at least a week surrounding All Hallow’s Eve—just like an ... more
- They doth protest
- Poetry is doing brisk business with a queue snaking around its stanchions. Owner Mike Goodwin shakes hands with customers loyal since the hip-hop club’s 2003 ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Three questions with STS9 bassist David Murphy
- Vegoose or no Vegoose, Santa Cruz, Cali-based jam band STS9 is heading back to Vegas this weekend to get some feet tapping. Bassist David Murphy ... more
- Sex, lies and cardboard acting
- To those of us in Las Vegas, the scandal surrounding the death of casino mogul Ted Binion is a historical event. But to the rest ... more
- Back to Basics
- “It feels like it’s kinda time.” Not much of an epitaph, perhaps, but that’s what Mark T. Zeilman offers in the way of final words ... more
- Five strange observations from last Saturday’s Jimmy Buffett street party
- A man with six tequila-filled shot glasses and six limed Coronas on his belt. A half-Elvis, half-Parrothead costume, complete with sideburns, golden glasses and a ... more
- Awash in history
- The Las Vegas Valley is a broad bowl that slopes gently to the east and south, and every molecule of water in the valley, if ... more
- The waiting is over
- Test Market theater company is once again beating back the bourgeois and complacent with its sixth annual Beckett Festival. more
- Divine intervention (and nuts!)
- “Don’t you want someone smarter than me to be president?” the Divine Miss M asked a crowd at Krave Monday evening. more
- Rough reception
- Ten local metal bands performed at Shredfest 2008, touted as “the most brutal event of the year.” But maybe fans didn’t feel like being brutalized. more
- Apples and oranges
- Margarita by the yard, meet iPhone. MacBook, may we present football filled with beer. more
- More to love
- The crowd had thinned considerably after 12 hours of music, but Sneak Attack Media showcase headliners More Amor nevertheless remained in high spirits throughout the ... more
- The Killers
- An encore performance of “Home Means Nevada” earned The Killers ingenuity points Monday night, but their ungainly flub, and subsequent restart, of the state’s official ... more
Screen
- Flow: For Love of Water
- Like a lot of advocacy documentaries, Flow takes on an important issue in the broadest manner possible, making sweeping, scary statements about dangers facing the ... more
- Police story
- Constructed almost entirely out of cop-drama clichés, Pride and Glory is a meat-and-potatoes thriller with very little meat (it does at one point feature a ... more
Taste
- A worthy indulgence
- Let’s call the menu eclectic; the chef, a passionate young Hawaiian, Don Espaniola, literally does foods from all over the planet. And he’s quick to tell you he makes virtually everything from scratch.
Horoscopes
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Wednesday
2008-10-29
The Strip
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Wednesday
2008-10-29
The Strip
Daisy de la Hoya casting for her new show Daisy of Love at Rok Vegas
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Wednesday
2008-10-29
Theater
The Beckett Festival presents Escurial by Michel De Ghelderode
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Thursday
2008-10-30
Downtown
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Thursday
2008-10-30
The Strip
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Thursday
2008-10-30
Xania's Hot Spots
Win a "Boooooob Job' at Hawaiian Tropic Zone’s Trick or Treats Halloween Celebration
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Friday
2008-10-31
Xania's Hot Spots
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Friday
2008-10-31
Central
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Friday
2008-10-31
Xania's Hot Spots
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Saturday
2008-11-01
Downtown
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Saturday
2008-11-01
Xania's Hot Spots
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Saturday
2008-11-01
Downtown
Soul'd Out an Erudite at Caynon Club for a Halloween weekend concert
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Sunday
2008-11-02
Magic
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Sunday
2008-11-02
Theater
The Beckett Festival presents The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
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Sunday
2008-11-02
Xania's Hot Spots
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Monday
2008-11-03
Open Mic
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Monday
2008-11-03
Xania's Hot Spots
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Monday
2008-11-03
The Strip
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Tuesday
2008-11-04
Central
The Blackest of the Black Tour at The Joint with Danzig and Dimmu Borgir
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Tuesday
2008-11-04
Xania's Hot Spots
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Tuesday
2008-11-04
Xania's Hot Spots
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Soundcheck
- AC/DC
- It’s a little absurd to think that it took eight years for AC/DC to crank out Black Ice, since it sounds like it was created by a particularly adept AC/DC-simulating ...
Read more... - Bloc Party
- Bloc Party very quietly released its third studio album digitally in August, a full two months before physical copies arrived in stores.
Read more... - Escape the Fate
- To recap: Escape the Fate has weathered significant drama in the past few years including the departure of guitarist Omar Espinosa and dismissal of singer Ronnie Radke. Now the foursome ...
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OCTOBER 23 - OCTOBER 29
Cocktail of the Week
Oct 23, 2008
by
Xania Woodman
Grilled & Chilled Tequila
Made tableside only, and with quite a few steps of preparation, it's advisable to leave it to the Tequila Temptresses of T&T to do the work for you. They'll caramelize ...
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