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- Make room for the BADASS music issue!
- Featuring hardcore legends, guitar heroes, scene-builders, wild jazzmen, useful info, one intimidating dude and a ukelele read article
- Buttons vs. strings
- An exploration of the new interaction between music and rhythm video games read article
- ‘The hardest-working kid in our business, period’
- From his band to his booking, Pulsar is Vegas music’s rock read article
The Intersection
- Sin City Shares
- As the economy gets suckier and suckier, more communities across the country are discovering the trend of printing their own money. We couldn’t help but ... more
- Funny while it lasted
- There was never any remote possibility that Nevada was going to impose a tax on sex acts at legal brothels. But it still gave attendees ... more
- Off-shore accounts (in the desert)
- There was more than an air of cry-baby defensiveness a few weeks ago at the G20 Summit in London, when Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister ... more
- The Help Desk
- Las Vegas Monopoly champion says game is “half skill, half luck.” Well, having no life whatsoever helps, too. Prostitution tax dies in Nevada Legislature. Yes, ... more
- Suggestion Box: R&R Partners, toughen up
- When R&R slams the recent demand for more accountability regarding the money they are receiving from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, as taxpayers ... more
- Behind the scenes at Peepshow
- It isn’t just about being in the spotlight—sometimes you need to make sure your glistening high heels don’t literally reflect too much as you bask ... more
Nightlife
- Viva las bailout
- The economy may be contracting, but interest in all things rockabilly is somehow inexplicably expanding. Funny thing is, it costs a fortune to be retro! more
- Don’t accept Luke-a-likes
- Who can mix 40 tracks in an hour, play multiple parties a night, and still find time to create killer dirty beats? Sounds like Dutch ... more
- Putting out the Fuego
- The first upscale Latin nightclub in Vegas surgically removes the Fuego from The Club. more
- The roof is on fire(1 comment)
- Some yahoo at the Rio pulls the fire alarm, but the crowd is determined to keep dancing at VooDoo Lounge. more
- Breakfast at the bar
- The nice thing about a crowded bar is that even if you came alone, you’re surrounded by friends. In this case, my new “friends” were ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Not a promising development
- Sit Down, Shut Up (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m.) is a clumsy, rudimentary animated show that looks like the kind of thing Comedy Central would slap ... more
- Drink up! (It’s for the kids)
- Don’t even think about showing up to UNLVino on an empty stomach. more
- Save the last dance
- Mayor Goodman, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini and other local celebs attempt their own version of Dancing with the Stars in what could be one of ... more
- You say ocean, I Saosin
- Extreme sports and music come together this weekend in the parking lot at the Galleria Mall. Yes, the mall. more
- Through the looking glass
- We don’t think much about architecture in the Valley, because, frankly, outside of the Strip, there’s not much to talk about. The latest master-planned community, ... more
- Celebrating Perry
- Perry Farrell’s 50th-birthday party at the Mirage pool turned into a celebration of generations’ worth of alternative, punk and even commercial music. In many ways, ... more
- Not a promising development
- Sit Down, Shut Up (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m.) is a clumsy, rudimentary animated show that looks like the kind of thing Comedy Central would slap ... more
- Zany paranoia and bitter social commentary
- Knipfel has led an extraordinary life, and looks back on it with an astonishing mix of dark humor, unflinching observation and utter lack of self-pity. ... more
- A literary mash-up
- In Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk Books, $13), humor writer Seth Grahame-Smith took Austen’s original masterpiece and added the undead. more
- The Weekly List: The classics reloaded
- To Kill a Mockingbird With a Robot Atticus Finch, Boo Radley—and Autobots and Decepticons: Now that’s how you tell a searing tale of injustice in ... more
- Vegas was built for this
- It has always surprised me that there isn’t more performance and video art being made in the Valley—it seems such a perfect fit. more
- Buggin’ out
- . From the noted Czech author Karel Capek, who also wrote Rossum’s Universal Robots, the play that coined the term “robot,” Insurgo brings us The ... more
Screen
- 17 Again
- 17 Again plays much like Big in reverse, with a touch of It’s a Wonderful Life plus a wish-granting old janitor thrown in for good measure. more
- Gomorrah
- From goofy teenage Tony Montana wannabes firing automatic weapons in their underwear, to the murderous muscle necessary to fashion a red carpet gown, nothing is ... more
- Tied up in knots
- Old-fashioned investigative journalism, printed on newsprint, is the only institution capable of bringing down ridiculously convoluted movie conspiracies. more
Taste
- Well done
- Beef is still, apparently, what most people want for dinner. One busy Thursday evening, thanks to a porthole in the wall above my table, I could hear noisy conversation in the bar area, the restaurant was rocking, and juicy, nicely charred steaks appeared to be starring on every table.
Horoscopes
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Wednesday
2009-04-22
Godskitchen Wednesdays at Body English
The Strip
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Wednesday
2009-04-22
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Wednesday
2009-04-22
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Thursday
2009-04-23
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Las Vegas Weekly presents Party on the Patio at VooDoo Lounge
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Thursday
2009-04-23
Keep the party going Thursday nights
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Thursday
2009-04-23
The Strip
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Friday
2009-04-24
Henderson
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Friday
2009-04-24
Southwest
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Friday
2009-04-24
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Saturday
2009-04-25
Dance Saturday nights at Penthouse until AFTER the sun comes up
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Saturday
2009-04-25
a benefit for New Vista Ranch
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Saturday
2009-04-25
The Strip
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Sunday
2009-04-26
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Sunday
2009-04-26
East
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Sunday
2009-04-26
Henderson
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Monday
2009-04-27
Downtown
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Monday
2009-04-27
Every Monday in the Rock Room
Southwest
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Monday
2009-04-27
The Strip
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Tuesday
2009-04-28
Keep the party going with Local Lust Tuesdays
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Tuesday
2009-04-28
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Flair Vegas flair bartending competition at the Red Room Saloon
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Tuesday
2009-04-28
Downtown
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Soundcheck
- Sara Watkins
- Former Nickel Creek member Sara Watkins makes her solo debut with a quiet, subdued album that encompasses folk, country and the progressive bluegrass for which her old trio was known.
Read more... - Bat for Lashes
- Fierce tribal rhythms drive “Two Planets,” while “Daniel” is a spooky gothic gem shrouded in misty synth-pop.
Read more... - Prince
- Prince’s latest work isn’t particularly memorable, though there are inspired moments on his new three-CD album.
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Cocktail of the Week
Apr 16, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Fairy Grandmother
Simply put, this is the best thing I drank all week. Dainty and petal pink, this high-end shot (though I sipped it like a cocktail) went down all-too-easily at the ...
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