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JANUARY 15 - JANUARY 21
- No bailout necessary
- Nine businesses that are thriving despite the recession read article
The Intersection
- The headliner that got away
- I am one of just 70 people packed into an air-conditioning-less basement at an “experimental” theater in SoHo watching a gargantuan, nearly naked gender-bender stomping ... more
- The recession will be televised
- The question on everyone’s mind was how CES would do in a down economy, and whether people still needed all the gizmos and devices the ... more
- Art movement
- The art life’s a bitch. Just ask Andreana Donahue, owner/director/curator of Main Gallery, who celebrated the new year by perusing the classifieds. more
- Suggestion box: Revive late night weddings
- Las Vegas has to step up its game in the bride wars. How should we fight back? more
- The Help Desk
- Las Vegas sees dip in robberies. Well, unless you count the banks robbing people of their homes, their hopes and their dreams. Mayor Oscar Goodman ... more
- Local scientist tries to revive conversation on nukes
- About a thousand feet below the desert at the Nevada Test site are some two kilometers of tunnels, labs, plutonium and scientists. more
Nightlife
- When in Rome …(2 comments)
- Swingers, Lifestyle, like-minded individuals … Whatever the nomenclature, the community of adults in committed relationships desirous to involve others sexually is massive. more
- That’s “Ray J’s Poetry,” thank you
- This Saturday, January 17, recording artist Ray J will celebrate his 28th birthday at Poetry Nightclub. Think of Ray J’s appearance as a house party. more
- Even more revealing
- Playboy TV’s newest show premiered on January 10, and you may recognize some of the unsuspecting customers who walk into the VIP room of the ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Feel lucky, punk? Go bowling
- Now that the porn stars have left town, it’s time for the punks to take over. Expect some awesome hair and sweet tattoos. more
- “Lost” confounds, again(1 comment)
- A handful of important characters—Claire, Jin, Michael, Faraday and Locke—ended last season with their fates in question. Who is really dead? more
- A growing festival
- Now in its eighth year, the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival continues to expand and build on its success, this year branching out to encompass ... more
- MMJ: Live in Vegas, after all
- So apparently, My Morning Jacket was too busy to play an actual show in Las Vegas in 2008, but found time to sneak into town ... more
- MBV 3D
- No movie caught my attention more than My Bloody Valentine, a 1981 Canadian horror film that originally featured, among other atrocities, an eyeball popping from ... more
- “United” it falls
- In Diablo Cody’s United States of Tara, there’s the sarcastic, worldly teen girl; her gay, classic Hollywood-loving brother; some clueless but well-meaning parents; and plenty ... more
- Where the heart is
- The American dream of owning one’s own home has turned into a nightmare. The good news is that nightmares can inspire artists. more
- Flower power
- Having wine with The Petals is probably akin to having beer with a female Flight of the Conchords, or perhaps warm tea with Ana Gasteyer ... more
- Sleek, red and sexy
- The Red Convertible is Louise Erdrich’s collection of fabulously sexy new and selected tales. more
- Up from the streets
- It’s safe to say there’s not a lot of street art on the streets of Henderson. But in John Martone’s online gallery, vegasstreetart.com, which he ... more
- Reading Room: Not dead yet!
- It’s still there, the Reading Room. You may have assumed that the plucky and wonderful independent bookstore occupying a broom closet in Mandalay Place had ... more
- Epic compatriots
- I’m not expecting to depart clutching a cassette tape when I enter the Freakin’ Frog Saturday night. more
Screen
- Last Chance Harvey
- The standard line on Last Chance Harvey is that it’s refreshing to see a romantic vehicle for older actors, but the truth is that just ... more
- Defiance
- Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Liev Schreiber) and Asael (Jamie Bell) are three brothers of Russian-Jewish heritage. When World War II and Nazi threats loom, they ... more
- Not exactly “Revolutionary”
- Revolutionary Road opens with two scenes so beautifully judged—so perfect a précis of a marriage in crisis—that they just about render the rest of the ... more
- Wrestling with greatness
- Listening to the buzz about The Wrestler, you might guess that it’s a movie about the resurrection of Mickey Rourke’s career. more
- Notorious
- Woolard plays Biggie Smalls as if he were born to the part; he so fully occupies this character that you might believe you’re watching the ... more
Taste
- Spicing up the suburbs
- Where does one go for a decent goat curry? I hear you cry. Taza, Henderson’s first Indian restaurant, has one every day on its bountiful lunch buffet.
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- Matt & Kim
- Brooklyn couple Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino didn’t know how to play their instruments—keys and drums, respectively—when they first teamed up in 2004.
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- Will the first disc I review in 2009 be the best I hear all year? Quite possibly.
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- A clever name is about the only novel thing about Glasvegas, the latest U.K. band to earn rapturous praise from fans and press alike.
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JANUARY 15 - JANUARY 21
Cocktail of the Week
Jan 15, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Murai Family Sugidama (Cedar Ball) Junmai Ginjo Sake
On the auspicious occasion of the inauguration of America’s 44th president, I personally will be toasting the exeunt of the 43rd president and his cohorts with sake, a tribute to ...
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