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DECEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 24
- Ten years that shook the world!*
- *Well, our world, anyway. So permit us a few minutes of celebration. Hey, it tastes better than ... read article
- 24 hours in Las Vegas
- We picked a random day—December 4. From midnight to midnight, we sent someone somewhere every hour, just ... read article
- My letters editor, my friend
- Chuck Nowlen’s favorite memory of his time holding the reins at Weekly? Letters Editor Buck Buffalo, the ... read article
The Intersection
- The beat goes on
- Music torture, one of the War on Terror’s most enduring hits, made headlines again last week. Apparently there is no Army-wide playlist or programming strategy ... more
Nightlife
- Getting Misty-eyed
- Celebrating its five-year staff reunion juuuust in time before turning six, the itty-bitty 1,500-square-foot Mist Lounge is bustling as usual, with drinks being briskly served, ... more
- Velvet Lion arrives with a roar
- In this business of skin, the past few years have seen more changes than a dancer can shake her silicone at. more
- Have a (matzo) ball!
- Anyone with even a quarter Jewish heritage or with any environmentally-absorbed Jewish culture in them knows the true meaning of Christmas Eve for the Jewish ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Drawn to the human form
- It’s just like riding a bike,” the art instructor tells me when I voice my apprehension. I can hear loud pants and moans coming from ... more
- Playlist: A jazzy Xmas
- This Christmas, play more jazz. more
- Hallmark cards
- The 10 of spades sports a tribal mask. The king of clubs reveals not twins but enemies, a Native American warrior folding into an army ... more
- A Restless farewell
- The Restless dance party has been put to bed. A staple at the Beauty Bar every second Friday of the month, Restless took its final ... more
- Christoper Kenney as Edie in Zumanity
- Who would have guessed—Kenney rarely gets recognized on the street. more
- Next-wave comparison
- Tonight’s Beauty Bar show has been marketed as a kind of Thursday-night new-wave twin bill. On one hand, the audience can hear Close to Modern, ... more
- Now we’re talkin’!
- As if on cue for the holiday season, the Valley just got the best present ever: the Las Vegas Art Museum’s LA Now. more
- Flexible methodology
- David Pagel’s December 11 lecture, timed in conjunction with the opening of LA Now—his newly minted curatorial effort at the Las Vegas Art Museum—was everything ... more
- Classic Nutcracker—with a difference
- The Nutcracker is much like It’s a Wonderful Life. You watch it every year, and every year it’s the same, but just a bit different. more
- Desert sanctuary
- It can be easy to let the Goldwell Open Air Museum slip out of mind, seeing as how it’s near Rhyolite, which is near Beatty, ... more
Screen
- It’s not you, it’s us
- Slumdog Millionaire arrives in local theaters riding a veritable tsunami of audience goodwill, to say nothing of its status as the current frontrunner for Best ... more
- Seven Pounds(4 comments)
- Relentlessly tugging on your heartstrings like a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Seven Pounds is manipulative treacle of the worst kind. more
- Yes Man
- Yes Man is far from a great movie, but it represents the first time that Jim Carrey has been likeable onscreen in years, following his ... more
- The Tale of Despereaux
- Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Dor, soup attracted tourists from all over, and friendly rats scampered about the streets. more
Taste
- The raw truth
- It seems nearly impossible to imagine a Las Vegas without sushi restaurants. They barely existed here in the city’s formative years, but they’re now so prevalent that the biggest challenge isn’t where to find one, but which one to choose.
- Who’s washing dishes now?
- After putting together a Las Vegan-free fourth season, Bravo’s casting team came to its senses, choosing local boy Gene Villiatora for reality cooking competition Top Chef.
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Soundcheck
- Fall Out Boy
- Fall Out Boy is still a scrappy live rock band, but its studio confections are now pure pop ear candy. That was evident on 2007’s glossy Infinity on High, and ...
Read more... - Desertscraped: New Noise From the Neon Wilderness
- A noble attempt to document Las Vegas’ generally ignored experimental scene, this 13-track compilation succumbs more to logistics than to its oddball sound array. Curated by local writer Jarret Keene, ...
Read more... - Common
- Rare is the album so wretched it makes me consider another line of work, but Common’s Universal Mind Control comes close.
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Dec 18, 2008
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Xania Woodman
Snow Day
Everything tastes better when it's homemade, especially around the holidays. Last week, mixologist Niles Peacock showed the Weekly how he makes his famous Madagascar Vanilla Bean Cello (like Limoncello only ...
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