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FEBRUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 25
- Making designs on Vegas
- Four of Sin City’s leading architects and urbanists join the Weekly for a spirited discussion about building ... read article
- A completely biased account of a fake sporting event
- Can the Washington Generals finally beat the Globetrotters, with a little pep talk from our own reporter? read article
- The impossible dream
- One man’s unlikely quest to transform the Strip read article
The Intersection
- Affordable trees, cared-for children and drive-up pawn shops
- So here we are at the Henderson Parks and Recreation Center conference room, where, during the monstrous downfall of civilization, seven people have gathered to ... more
- Suggestion box: No more fodder for GOP
- We have to hand it to Harry Reid. At a time when the country can ill-afford pet projects, Reid, with a straight face no less, ... more
- Is it Oscar vs. Obama or Oscar vs. Oscar
- There is an axiom I’m sure you’re all very familiar with that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. It is, it often seems, a ... more
- Sorry, Sammy
- It seems almost like a fairy tale in which a lone black woman—before the civil rights movement, before the integrated Rat Pack appeared on the ... more
- The Help Desk
- Forbes calls Las Vegas America’s “emptiest” city. We’re so desperate, we’ll even let Chris Brown stay here. Oscar Goodman demands Barack Obama apologize for Las ... more
Nightlife
- Merry in the face of Fear
- When I first read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I felt the smug satisfaction of “getting it.” I went so far as to assume ... more
- On Fuego
- Club Rio, which opened in 1995 and closed in 2006, has been something of an eyesore the past few years. I can say this because ... more
- The Ultimate Caipirinha
- Hard to pronounce but easy to enjoy, cachaça (ka-SHAH-sah) is Brazilian rum distilled from freshly pressed sugarcane. more
- V Bar gets some love, turns 9
- A ninth anniversary is a rare milestone for a Vegas nightclub/lounge/place you go to get tipsy. Having done just that, V Bar is celebrating with ... more
- Things that make us go ‘eww’
- Through our frequent nightclub excursions, we’re struck by reoccurrences of the things that make us recoil in horror. If you’re looking to avoid scrutiny from ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- “Monkey” in the middle
- Whatever happened to good old-fashioned nature shows? You know, National Geographic specials with dry British narration and lots of scenes of lions chasing gazelles? more
- Must-scream TV
- Less a look at how the law works than an unfiltered examination of the human condition, the Vegas-set documentary series Sin City Law returns with ... more
- Noara Mello as a zebra in “O”
- Mello, who describes herself as “spontaneous and playful,” jumped at the chance to double as a back-up zebra. more
- Brainerd
- Noteworthy aspect: Intermittently, a singer rasps it up like a Captain Beefheart/lost-at-sea-pirate hybrid. more
- Puscifer(2 comments)
- It’s probably Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s own fault that the debut (and so far only scheduled) performances from his side project Puscifer were unable ... more
- Boot and rally
- Ink Fridays briefly relaunched inside Sinister Rock Bar on Friday the 13th (eek!) with veteran Vegas metal band Hemlock bringing the fans out in droves—including ... more
- Sound and furry
- Traditionally nerdiness hasn’t been known to score points in abrasive subcultures, and the guys in Vegas outfit Mons Wolff know it. more
- Shooting stars?
- They showed up to watch, just two of 13,529 spectators on hand for tonight’s Runnin’ Rebels game against Colorado State at the Thomas & Mack ... more
- Perfecting practice
- Top sociologist Malcolm Gladwell knows the recipe for success: 10,000 hours of practice. more
- Bust out, Mr. Berry
- Using the detective story to make a philosophical or cultural inquiry and get weird at the same time is a venerable tradition, handed down from ... more
- A higher class of doodle
- New from McSweeney’s: Be a Nose, a $29 bundle of sketchbooks from Maus creator—and Pulitzer-winner—Art Spiegelman. more
- The Weekly brainteaser
- 1. Jean is shorter than Brutus, but taller than Imhotep. more
- Locals disappoint at Dam Short Film Festival
- At Boulder City’s Dam Short Film Festival , Amber Beard’s sweet coming-of-age story Growing Up Vegas (also shown at CineVegas in 2008) took the top ... more
- Production predictions
- Shutter one Strip production, nobody raises an eyelash. But even by our standards, this is getting ridiculous. more
Screen
- Fired Up
- Loud, aggressive, desperately ribald and pathetically unfunny, Fired Up lives down to every expectation you might have for a film produced under the aegis of ... more
- Some real Oscar surprises
- The producers of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony (airing February 22 at 5:30 p.m. on ABC) have promised a show full of surprises, even if ... more
Taste
- Breakfast, Chinese-style
- One of the weekend’s essential components has to be the big-breakfast meet-up with friends. But really—pancakes and eggs, again? Time to branch out.
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- Brainerd
- Noteworthy aspect: Intermittently, a singer rasps it up like a Captain Beefheart/lost-at-sea-pirate hybrid.
Read more... - Solarcade
- Solarcade is the musical brainchild of Las Vegan Paul Van and Los Angeleno Tony Pomilla, who strive to be a kind of Coldplay for the high-minded crowd.
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- Two decades ago, Minnesotans Mark Olson and Gary Louris helped launch the alt-country movement with their band The Jayhawks.
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FEBRUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 25
Cocktail of the Week
Feb 19, 2009
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Xania Woodman
The Ultimate Caipirinha
Hard to pronounce but easy to enjoy, cachaça (ka-SHAH-sah) is Brazilian rum distilled from freshly pressed sugarcane. Cabana Cachaça’s master distiller visited Summerlin’s Via Brasil earlier this week to meet ...
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