Best in Print
- 50 things you’d better be grateful for
- Just like the pilgrims, we’re grateful that, in troubled times, we have great sushi, hybrid cars, Steve ... read article
- Sex*, gin, Sin City
- A tale of two cocktails (*The mention of sex is gratuitous. This is really just a story ... read article
The Intersection
- Gambling on gambling
- Las Vegas, like Detroit, is a one-industry town. And, like Detroit’s, our industry is in deep trouble. more
- The wages of Sin (City)
- A few weeks ago, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons—who heretofore has opposed even a whiff of a tax increase, even when facing a tsunami of financial ... more
- Leaping into the abyss
- ’Tis the season to cringe at our collective budgets. But who knows how it will all break down? more
- Suggestion box: Make conservation sacred. Or sacrilegous.
- A tiny town in Spain successfully managed to place solar panels on the only land available—atop mausoleums in the town’s cemetery. That’s how much conservation ... more
- 18 is enough(1 comment)
- Oh God, will this laptop keyboard spontaneously combust if I even type such shameful, forbidden words?—lower the legal age for casino play to 18. more
Nightlife
- Dress for sex
- Observing the partygoers like a bird, I note the high level of networking aggression and laser-focused ambition in the room, in stark contrast to the ... more
- Mustafa “Moose Diesel” Abdi
- The reigning heavyweight champion of the Strip, Moose-o-Libre is Diablo’s mascot and “mood director,” who—along with his band of merry go-go shot girls—keeps the party ... more
- Praise for gay Paris!
- This week, Team Hangover salutes the Paris, which boast a “gay-friendly staff,” for creating the “What You Krave” package for same-sex couples staying at their hotel. more
Arts & Entertainment
- All too human
- By no means is Brandon Flowers the first misunderstood poet in rock: Multitudinous are the fans who think Jimi Hendrix was singing “’Scuse me while ... more
- Beane leaves Onyx
- Citing a need to keep building momentum with his Insurgo Theater Movement company, Insurgo Artistic Director John Beane has resigned as manager of the Onyx Theatre. more
- Taking a chill swill
- I was about to attend a birthday party with 15 preschoolers dancing to hula music; and my hapless Broncos were losing to the even more ... more
- Phantom: surviving and thriving on the Strip
- Panic was in the air when Phantom—The Las Vegas Spectacular first raised its curtain at the Venetian in June 2006. Producers were understandably nervous about ... more
- To a T
- The key has something to do with obscurity—flaunting your command of segments of popular culture that only the hyper-clued-in know about or remember. But it’s ... more
- Art abbey
- Hold on to your paper party hats, because when the new year arrives, the moribund Neonopolis promises to spring to life with the addition of ... more
Screen
- A continent-sized failure
- Luhrmann has apparently concluded that nothing short of an entire continent can contain his go-large extravagance at this point. Thus, Australia, a three-hour epic that ... more
- Let the Right One In
- Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In arrives on a tide of positive film-festival buzz as the movie that unites horror fans and high-minded cinephiles. more
- Four Christmases
- If not for the first-class cast, Four Christmases would be the equivalent of getting socks for Christmas. more
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Six years before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon introduced wuxia (the Chinese chivalry/swordplay genre) to a large American audience, Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai set out ... more
- The Dukes
- Veteran character actor Robert Davi co-writes, produces, directs and stars in this meager, low-key dramedy about a pair of washed-up doo-wop singers (Davi, Palminteri) who ... more
- Trumbo
- Dalton Trumbo had everything: a family, a successful career and money. All it took was the question, “Are you now, or have you ever been, ... more
- Transporter 3
- If you’re looking for effective over-the-top fight scenes, Transporter 3 won’t disappoint. Jason Statham is arguably the most charismatic current Hollywood action hero. more
- Cutting to the chase
- The opening of Transporter 3 has us thinking about great chase scenes. After a rigorous screening process, the staff of Las Vegas Weekly (and one ... more
Taste
- Cauldron creations
- It’s been long reported, and oft lamented, that the state of authentic Mexican cuisine isn’t sufficiently robust in our town. Last year, I toured northeast Las Vegas in search of one great Mexican dinner, and failed in my quest.
Horoscopes
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Wednesday
2008-12-03
Central
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Wednesday
2008-12-03
Downtown
22nd Annual Downtown Hoedown at the Fremont Street Experience
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Wednesday
2008-12-03
Xania's Hot Spots
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Thursday
2008-12-04
The Strip
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Thursday
2008-12-04
Xania's Hot Spots
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Thursday
2008-12-04
Henderson
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Friday
2008-12-05
Theater
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Friday
2008-12-05
Tater Salad makes his first appearance at the Mirage
Comedy
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Friday
2008-12-05
Central
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Saturday
2008-12-06
Sports-Fighting
Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao at MGM Grand Garden Arena
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Saturday
2008-12-06
Theater
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2008-12-06
Central
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Sunday
2008-12-07
Central
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Sunday
2008-12-07
Downtown
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Sunday
2008-12-07
Break out your best plaid mini skirt. It's time to go back to school!
Dance
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Monday
2008-12-08
Theater
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Monday
2008-12-08
The Strip
Living Room Lounge at Prive presents Dirty Vinyl House Sessions
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2008-12-08
Open Mic
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Tuesday
2008-12-09
The Strip
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2008-12-09
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2008-12-09
Downtown
Underground-A-Go-Go at Beauty Bar with Jason Void and DJ Ska Steady B
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Soundcheck
- Kanye West
- “I’m the only thing I’m afraid of,” Kanye West sings on the Young Jeezy-assisted track “Amazing,” off of his new album 808s & Heartbreak.
Read more... - Mother McKenzie
- The latest self-recorded effort from Vegas wunderkind Wyatt McKenzie again demonstrates his impossibly advanced musical abilities: storytelling, composition, instrumental dexterity.
Read more... - All too human
- By no means is Brandon Flowers the first misunderstood poet in rock: Multitudinous are the fans who think Jimi Hendrix was singing “’Scuse me while I kiss this guy” in ...
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NOVEMBER 27 - DECEMBER 3
Cocktail of the Week
Nov 26, 2008
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Xania Woodman
Cragganmore 12 & Macallan Fine Oak 21
“Yes, we can!” We can drink Scotch with Thanksgiving dinner. Jono Moratis, vice president and beverage director for the Glazier Group, which owns and operates Strip House, weighed in on ...
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