Best in Print
JANUARY 8 - JANUARY 14
- A slider primer
- That’s right—we ate our way through most of the valley’s offerings. Sometimes this job is so brutal. read article
- Down and out at Trop and Boulder
- Scenes from my long week at an unusual motel read article
The Intersection
- The house loses
- There is construction at Inspirada, the massive master-planned community in the southern reaches of Henderson, tucked behind the Henderson Airport, but most of the land ... more
- One hot “Mamma!”
- There is a nasty rumor going around that as the last numbers began to swell through the Mandalay Bay Theater on Sunday at the final ... more
- Tiny Little Rant: Knievel’s jump sucked(1 comment)
- So the Strip’s New Year’s Eve fireworks show sucked. Know what else sucked? Robbie Knievel’s jump “over” the revamped Mirage volcano. more
- Renewable Nevada
- Can we fail at being sustainable and yet lead an economic recovery by developing a renewable-resource industry? It’s a question that Vegas and, more broadly, ... more
- Where’s the outrage? Online.(1 comment)
- An online Nevada blacklist containing the names of people and companies who gave money to support Proposition 8 in California recalls the notorious—and effective—blacklist of ... more
- The Help Desk
- CityCenter announces 12,000 job openings. Harry Reid denies any involvement whatsoever. Las Vegas remains the No. 1 travel destination in the United States. The No. ... more
Nightlife
- XS and ohhs
- A throng queues up willingly and early in XS’ general-admission lane, winding down the hallway from the gilded entrance back to Wynn. Not since the ... more
- Jaimie Johnson—Stepping it up
- After stints on cruise ships, in the Rio’s Show in the Sky, in the Tropicana’s Folies Bergere and at Hawaiian Tropic Zone (pictured, in uniform), ... more
- The Ice House meltdown(2 comments)
- Drink till it’s all gone … then move on. On January 2 at the Ice House it was all-you-can-drink for $20 (including top shelf!) Then ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- “Pleasures” in paint
- Jeff Britton’s collection of paintings at Trifecta Gallery, Guilty Pleasures, is funny, saucy, irreverent and pop-y—sort of. more
- Surviving Sudan
- Somewhere in San Diego, there is an African woman with one kidney, a family of five and an astonishing story tucked behind her eyes. more
- Real country radio
- These days, the term “country radio” might as well be changed to “pop-country radio,” since stations dedicated to the genre generally just repeat the same ... more
- Home movies
- It’s 42 degrees out, and Derek Stonebarger is trying to get people to party. “Dance, so you get warm,” urges Stonebarger, the co-writer and director ... more
- What “The Future” brought(1 comment)
- On the evening of April 29, 1992—shortly after the Rodney King riots began—Leonard Cohen huddled up in his two-story Los Angeles home. He lay down ... more
- Cards and beers
- Crappy economic times call for an underdog success story to lift our spirits. Conveniently, our neighbors to the south have one brewing: The Arizona Cardinals ... more
- Jorg Lemke as the counselor in KA
- Lemke needs two hours a night to get into his costume and makeup, but it took far longer to develop the necessary psyche to play ... more
- Beatles fans: Cue “The Q”
- Dennis Mitchell announced last week that his long-running syndicated show Breakfast With the Beatles has a new home on KMZQ 670-AM, “The Q.” But AM? more
- R.I.P. Water Street Gallery
- A not-so-gentle reminder to support your local arts institutions: Adding to the recent list of shifting tides in the Valley’s art community is the closure ... more
- Uncommon occurrences
- A painter mixes colors as electronic beats vibrate the palette cradled in his arm. Emcees spit rapid-fire rhymes in the direction of his canvas, on ... more
- A host of expectations
- His is an uneven comedy equation, yet the net sum is that Jimmy Fallon has scored himself the infinitely plum gig as Conan O’Brien’s replacement ... more
Screen
- Clint’s Good, bad(ass) & ugly
- Clint Eastwood has said that Gran Torino may signal an end to his acting career. We’ve marked the occasion with a look at some of ... more
- “Wars” is hell
- In Bride Wars, best friends Emma (Hathaway) and Liv (Kate Hudson) have been dreaming of their nuptials since they were little girls, and they both ... more
- Veering off-course
- Early in Gran Torino, playing what he’s said may well be his final role, Clint Eastwood growls. I mean that quite literally. more
Taste
- Who needs dinner?
- I hate brunch, but the way I feel right now, I wouldn’t mind eating one at Simon Restaurant & Lounge every week for the next 10 years.
- Green Valley gets cracking
- Fans of hearty sit-down breakfasts, take heart. The popular Cracked Egg has opened in the mall housing Smith’s, on Green Valley Parkway adjacent to the 215.
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Wednesday
2009-01-14
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Wednesday
2009-01-14
Downtown
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2009-01-14
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Friday
2009-01-16
Summerlin
Wes Winters, star of "A Musical Tribute to Liberace" at the Suncoast Showroom
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2009-01-16
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2009-01-16
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2009-01-17
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2009-01-17
We’re not in Vegas anymore, Toto. Hell, we’re not even on this planet.
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Monday
2009-01-19
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2009-01-19
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Living Room Lounge at Prive presents Dirty Vinyl House Sessions
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2009-01-19
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Tuesday
2009-01-20
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"Flashback Features" at Aliante Station presents Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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2009-01-20
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Soundcheck
- Under the radar albums
- The end of 2008 is the perfect excuse to clue you in on a few albums that have been appreciated, but previously un-reviewed, by the Weekly.
Read more... - 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, ...
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JANUARY 8 - JANUARY 14
Cocktail of the Week
Jan 8, 2009
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Xania Woodman
Spellmaker Bottle Service
From 51 stories above the gritty city, the Voodoo Lounge is getting an upgrade, a unique twist on bottle service that starts you off with your choice of liquors, such ...
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