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- State of siege
- It’s not hyperbole to say this year’s legislative session will be unlike any other in the state’s ... read article
- Cheap (and free) tricks
- A bunch of fun stuff to do and acquire for the right price—little to nothing read article
- What’s that in your genes?
- Beauty and deception: Looking at hot women through the lens of evolutionary psychology read article
The Intersection
- The museum we can’t use
- At the north end of the Springs Preserve, construction crews are wrapping up work on the large new Nevada State Museum—the state’s most ambitious museum. more
- Mini rant: R-J Editor Tom Mitchell, Bullshit!
- Last week’s anti-budget-cuts rally at UNLV caused the usual irritable-bowel syndrome in R-J Editor Tom Mitchell, who, in his blog, chastised students for demeaning public discourse. more
- Old ladies, please!
- So the movie at a packed Green Valley Ranch theater is about to start when three elderly ladies come in, looking for last-minute seats together ... more
- Re-experiencing Fremont Street
- The vibe at The Fremont Street Experience has changed from even a year ago, when panhandlers and bargain-hunters and a terrible odor were the most ... more
- Staying power
- Even sex, at least the not-for-profit kind, is feeling the recession. But, as with other museums, big sponsors help. more
- The Help Desk
- Assessor’s office: 200,000 may pay lower property taxes this year. The remaining 1.8 million don’t have homes anymore. Las Vegas 3-year-old boy survives 325-pound snake ... more
- Si, vamanos
- “You know,” Michael Weaver says to me at the tail end of a lunch appointment that has been filled largely with gloom about the state ... more
- Emissions impossible
- Fixing a Toyota 4Runner at a 2G station after failing the smog check: $1,344.75. Getting around the smog check by spending a minimum amount in ... more
Nightlife
- Tao moves on down the road at Sundance
- For the first year in recent memory (three years, to be exact), Tao Group did not hold its 10-day roster of wild and crazy nights ... more
- Emma Hughes
- As one of her many gigs, this professionally trained dancer/model is one of a handful of Bocce Bellas who in warmer months help folks play ... more
- Cold hands, warm hearth
- Just 10 hours ago I was calf-deep in fresh Utah powder, floating over slopes I couldn’t have climbed back up without an oxygen tank, in ... more
- We’re not gonna take it
- Forget acoustic guitars and hippies singing “Kumbaya.” A Vegas rally needs dance music! more
Arts & Entertainment
- A tale of two Super Bowls
- While the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers churn up the field this Sunday in Tampa Bay, Las Vegas’ Super Bowl XLIII parties will also be ... more
- Strange circle of friends
- “Friends” might not be the best word to describe the uneasy yet undeniably connected gathering of artists grouped at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art’s ... more
- Anthony Crivello as the Phantom in Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular
- Crivello, who won a 1995 Tony Award for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman, has reunited with that production’s director, Hal Prince, in ... more
- Stay the night(8 comments)
- Maybe I’m just cranky, but I feel compelled to tell the artists where I think they’ve taken a wrong turn, as well as where I ... more
- The NFL’s secret lover
- Las Vegas has a long and complicated history with the National Football League. more
- Century markings
- When the city of Las Vegas celebrated its 100th anniversary a few years ago, Mark Hall-Patton, administrator of the Clark County Museum, knew that his ... more
- The Weekly’s Voice
- The results are in for the latest edition of The Village Voice’s prestigious Pazz & Jop critics poll, and the winner is … Las Vegas ... more
- Portal to … nowhere
- Call it another casualty of the crappy economy. Originally expected to launch in late spring, the Metro Arts Council’s web portal, intended to put all ... more
- H.O.T.S. bound for somewhere
- Vegas punk trio Holding on to Sound (aka H.O.T.S.). is set to play for its biggest audience ever, at the Joint at the Hard Rock ... more
- American beauties
- Jay Parini’s latest book, Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America, plots the course of America’s Manifest Literary Destiny. more
Screen
- Stupid yet watchable
- Arriving on U.S. screens nearly a full year after it opened in Europe, Taken, the latest hyperviolent potboiler produced and co-written by slick action ace ... more
- The Unnecessary
- This week sees the opening of horror movie The Uninvited, which wasn’t screened for critics by press time. Just a few weeks ago, the same ... more
- New in Town
- What exactly is wrong with city living? Every time some confident, career-oriented city dweller in a Hollywood movie finds him or herself in a small ... more
Taste
- Unusual name, great food
- Take one highly seasoned food and wine professional. Then add a brilliant young chef and a sleek modern design. The result is Pips at the Aliante Station Casino, so far one of this year’s big surprises.
Horoscopes
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Wednesday
2009-02-04
Nobody leaves without hearin' the blues . . .
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2009-02-04
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2009-02-04
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2009-02-05
Central
“CineVegas From the Vault” screening of 4th and LIife at Clark County Library
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2009-02-05
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Macro Fi's Common Ground First Friday after party at the Bunkhouse
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The Opera Las Vegas presents Gone West! at the Clark County Library Theater
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"Flashback Features" at Aliante Station presents Viva Las Vegas
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Soundcheck
- Almost a dream
- Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Working on a Dream, is most satisfying at its saddest and most disappointing at its most ambitious. It’s also the only Springsteen album in which the ...
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- With his second solo effort, The New Pornographers prolific songwriter and multi-instrumentalist merely demonstrates that in terms of output, less can be more.
Read more... - Steve Martin
- Yes, it’s that Steve Martin, adding musician to a resume that already includes comedian, actor, playwright, novelist and screenwriter. Actually, Martin’s been playing the banjo at least as long as ...
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JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 4
Cocktail of the Week
Jan 29, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Panacea
Before GM Brian Mongeon and manager Eric Smith’s co-creation the Panacea—meaning “The Elixir of Life”—Boa had another Alchemia Ginger cocktail on their list, and “it was good,” says Mongeon, “but ...
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