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FEBRUARY 12 - FEBRUARY 18
- Boomer bust
- The demise of The Great Indoors reminds us of how the Dr. Spock Generation blew it read article
- A party bestiary
- The Weekly goes medieval on your clubbing agenda read article
The Intersection
- Let’s make a deal!
- Real people who have bills and not enough money might put their useless stuff up for sale on eBay, the contemporary take on a garage ... more
- Learning with less
- Through it all, there is math. He’s good at math. Five is the number of months since his dad lost his job as a warehouse ... more
- How Danny got his groove back
- Something very odd happened at Wynn. Danny Gans, the brunt of my jokes and my ire for several years now, made me laugh. A lot. more
- Shutting the doors
- Nevada State Prison in Carson City, which dates back to the 19th century, is the oldest prison in the state, and one of the oldest ... more
- The Help Desk
- Las Vegas’s traffic-ticket amnesty program extended after collecting at least $4 million in unpaid tickets. So when do we start the amnesty program for CEOs ... more
- Suggestion Box: Oscar, stop cutting off your nose
- We’re as fascinated by our mayor as the rest of the free world, but we really feel the need to call him on his latest ... more
- No crapping birds, please
- Tiny Bubbles isn’t your average 450-pound Cher impersonator; he’s also a magician, a comedian and most of all, a mentor. more
Nightlife
- Utopia at 13: Remembered and celebrated
- Utopia is long gone, but the party lives on. While most of Team Hangover is too young to have experienced partying (legally) at the legendary ... more
- We’re telling
- When New York’s famed piano bar Don’t Tell Mama (DTM) opens up a Vegas outpost on Fremont East in the next week, it will bring ... more
- ‘Dominic sent me’
- Though the details of the era when speakeasies ruled have faded into history,l the more romantic notions of illicit tipples, flappers and bathtub gin continue ... more
- Hey, DJ: (Don’t) play that song!(5 comments)
- 1. Robin S., “Show Me Love,” (Show Me Love, 1993) No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play list … over 15 years ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- But what are you guys gonna do, Maynard?
- Sometime Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has been cagey regarding three upcoming Vegas shows by his latest project, Puscifer—the band’s first-ever stage appearances. more
- Hothouse romance
- What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a couple of plays about the claustrophobic effects of relationships? more
- A shaky foundation
- In a surprising move, fans of TV writer-producer Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly) have already mounted a campaign to ... more
- No crapping birds, please
- Tiny Bubbles isn’t your average 450-pound Cher impersonator; he’s also a magician, a comedian and most of all, a mentor. more
- Mad man
- If you’ve listened to the audio clip of Christian Bale’s eruption on the set of Terminator: Salvation, then you know that Bale understands that a ... more
- Unplanned reunion
- It was supposed to be a one-off thing: guitarists Mike Johns and Richard Burnett and drummer Brian Smith—one-time members of Vegas metal band-made-good Hemlock —joining ... more
- Successful signs
- Experimental folksters Akron/Family, indie popsters Say Hi and SoCal rockers The Shys will anchor the out-of-town lineup for next month’s Neon Reverb festival, co-organizer James ... more
- Anarchy on the AM(1 comment)
- Steve Fodor and Zak Farrell look about like anyone else does on a Friday night at the dingy punk haven that is the Double Down ... more
- Canoodling with Tchaikovsky
- From its passionate opening symphony to its romantic finish, the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s All-Tchaikovsky Program is the perfect choice for a Valentine’s Day date. more
- Four’s company
- Group invitationals typically don’t imply a shared theme or artistic concern, but the Clark County Rotunda’s current exhibit is so coherent, you’d swear the four ... more
Screen
- Confessions of a Shopaholic
- Hollywood’s legion of flighty, pseudo-independent urban “career” women gets another shameful addition in Rebecca Bloomwood, heroine of the deeply conflicted romantic comedy/cautionary tale Confessions of ... more
- Friday the 13th
- The original 1980 Friday the 13th achieved massive success by ripping off elements from Halloween, Psycho and Carrie. The new Friday the 13th seems content ... more
- Don’t bank on it
- Action thrillers are inherently preposterous, of course, but there’s a limit to what we’ll swallow. more
- Top 10 reasons a “Friday the 13th” remake is necessary
- As far as we’re concerned, asking why the producers of Friday the 13th keep remaking their movie is like asking why McDonald’s keeps remaking Big ... more
Taste
- Bun and games
- Perhaps you just have to be French, like star chef Laurent Tourondel, to get this wacky with burgers.
- 60-second grocery shopper
- One of the most popular protein sources in the American diet, not all tuna is created equal.
- Farewell to a friend
- Like a lighthouse in a storm, it beckoned weary travelers off the interstate en route from Las Vegas to Phoenix and vice versa.
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FEBRUARY 12 - FEBRUARY 18
Cocktail of the Week
Feb 12, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Chocolate-covered cherry
There’s a holiday coming up?! Time to visit Noir Bar’s Ken Hall, the holiday-cocktail go-to-guy who created this drinkable dessert. The Chocolate-Covered Cherry is as delectable as it sounds. The trick: ...
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