Best in Print
- Short-short-SHORT Stories
- We gave writers a little space and no money; they gave us tiny bits of literature read article
- Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America
- by Brain Francis Slattery. Tor, $16.95 read article
- Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
- by Steven Watts. Wiley, $29.95 read article
The Intersection
- Sarah smiles in Henderson—in a sea of American absurdism
- If you don’t think about it at all, it makes perfect sense. One minute you’re eating Kettle Korn outside the Henderson Pavilion, waiting for Sarah ... more
- Mooselini look-alike contest proves to be a bipartisan affair
- The Sarah Palins were getting tipsy. There were 13 Palins, in bikinis and other outfits that you would freeze in if you wore them in Alaska. more
- No-brainer(1 comment)
- Let’s begin with what Barack Obama is not. He is not what they say he is, of course: a socialist, a friend of terrorists, a ... more
- More cops in ’09
- Metro may be seeking as many as 400 officers a year over the next nine years. The question is not only whether we need all ... more
- A dwarf and the seven Snow Whites
- I’ve always dreamed of going to the ball dressed as a Disney princess. However, my childhood fantasies of happy endings never included latex. more
- No ado about something
- As momentous occasions go, this one should have been a big deal. And yet, until a friend who works there mentioned it last week, I ... more
- The Final Pieces
- Adventurer Steve Fossett’s downed plane was found October 1, 2008, in the mountains west of Mammoth Lakes, California. more
Nightlife
- What this town needs is more tiki
- “The place is going to be very authentic but with a hint of Vegas kitch,” says Double Down Saloon owner P Moss. A menu of ... more
- The secret life of… …liquor locker VIPs
- Membership has its privileges. Hordes of ’em! more
- Sunrise or bust
- “It’s 8 a.m. Do you know where your soul is?” I scan that final text and switch my phone off. I reek of smoke, booze ... more
- Don’t say this. Ever: “Google me.”
- But if you absolutely must, then at least Google yourself first and make sure that the first 10 items are porn-free. more
Arts & Entertainment
- Interior designs
- Judging by these small studies of interiors, it seemed that Mary Connelly had never lived in a home she hasn’t wanted to paint. more
- ‘Like a bomb going off’
- “It’s almost like there’s a bomb going off underneath you every time they open the gate. …” To Donaldson, sitting on top of a quivering ... more
- Three reasons to check out Fabulous
- A rave in the Orleans Arena. Sounds … interesting. Strange as the setting might seem, however, the lineup for the Fabulous festival ought to excite ... more
- Political cartoons
- Americans are more fired up about this presidential race than most, and that excitement has apparently carried over into mainstream comics. more
- Anamorphosis
- Wanna totally freak out your neighborhood? Blare this out into the street while kids are trick-or-treating. more
- Jimi worship
- Covering a Jimi Hendrix song is quite the risky venture; after all, a lot of folks consider him rock’s all-time greatest guitarist, and his voice ... more
- Ginsberg, Germans and solid gold
- “We’re gonna see if we can pull off the full version here,” Mikey cautions as 22 revelers go impressively batshit for apocalyptic closer “Future Thinkers.” more
- Trying their (lady) luck(1 comment)
- Chemical Ex plans to make Vegas’ arts scene a “big-ass orgy.” From which planet has this group descended? more
- Capital ideas
- Artforum writer and California College of the Arts instructor Glen Helfand recognizes the whiff of desperation and the spit-shine of nostalgia in our declining empire. more
- Please kill me (in a ridiculously convoluted fashion)
- A Saw marathon culminating in Saw V sounds like a good idea, right? Wrong. more
- The new West’s outlaws
- The era of bootlegging ended long ago, but true cocktail aficionados will tell you if you want something done right, sometimes you gotta do it yourself. more
- Sign of the times
- Vegas is all about signage, but something about the splashy new sign that went up on top of the Vdara condo tower at CityCenter doesn’t click. more
- A brief, opinionated guide to Las Vegas’ used-book stores
- Dead Poet Books is friendly and cool, with enough books to browse for hours. more
- Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark
- Darkness is so many things: It’s where the imagination is free, it’s where mysteries hide, where dreams rule, it’s what allows us to see the stars. more
- Life, letters and Las Vegas
- If you want to have a conversation about writing and Las Vegas, it would be hard to find a better-matched pair than Douglas Unger and ... more
Screen
- High-toned trash
- For all its highbrow trappings, Changeling is in fact the most compulsively watchable piece of trash Eastwood has ever made. Much of its breathless allure ... more
- A “Porno” with heart
- With Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Smith has fully appropriated both the Apatow aesthetic and one of Apatow’s top collaborators, actor Seth Rogen, while ... more
- I.O.U.S.A.
- If I.O.U.S.A., a documentary about the national debt, doesn’t sound particularly sexy, well, maybe that shouldn’t matter, given the current financial mess. more
- RocknRolla
- It’s easy to accuse Guy Ritchie of making the same movie over and over again, but in the case of his latest, RocknRolla, that may ... more
Taste
- Getting your goat
- This comely little place does breakfast, Mexican specialties and American-style sandwiches, so the kitchen is quite ambitious. And to quote Marc Antony, when he eulogized Julius Caesar, ambition can be (in this case only sometimes) a grievous fault.
Horoscopes
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Wednesday
2008-11-05
Henderson
Wine bottle signing with Tool's Maynard James Keenan at Henderson Whole Foods
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Wednesday
2008-11-05
Theater
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Wednesday
2008-11-05
UNLV
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Thursday
2008-11-06
UNLV
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Thursday
2008-11-06
Central
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Thursday
2008-11-06
Theater
The Beckett Festival presents Escurial by Michel De Ghelderode
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Friday
2008-11-07
Xania's Hot Spots
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Friday
2008-11-07
Xania's Hot Spots
Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson at Pure for 6126 Holiday Collection fashion showcase
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Friday
2008-11-07
A night of laughs with two of TV's funniest leading men
Comedy
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Saturday
2008-11-08
East
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Saturday
2008-11-08
Downtown
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Saturday
2008-11-08
North Las Vegas
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Monday
2008-11-10
Joe Satriani and Mountain perform live
The Strip
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Monday
2008-11-10
The Strip
Living Room Lounge at Prive presents Dirty Vinyl House Sessions
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Monday
2008-11-10
DJ Chris Adams spins commercial dance, house and hip-hop
Top 40
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Tuesday
2008-11-11
Central
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Tuesday
2008-11-11
Xania's Hot Spots
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Tuesday
2008-11-11
Downtown
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Soundcheck
- Dead Confederate
- The Georgia sons’ MySpace page lists three primary influences: On the Beach (a Neil Young album), Meddle (Pink Floyd) and Bleach (Nirvana).
Read more... - Snow Patrol
- For an album with such a high-wattage title, the follow-up to the multiplatinum-selling Eyes Open comes off a little dim.
Read more... - Secret Machines
- Even with the departure of powered-by-plutonium guitarist Ben Curtis, Secret Machines’ new album is full of nervous energy.
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OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 5
Cocktail of the Week
Oct 30, 2008
by
Xania Woodman
Twix
"Please take one" signs never work with trick or treaters, nor do they work with Twix. Too-too scrumptious, with layers of chocolate, caramel and crispy graham cracker cookie, Twix bars ...
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