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- God’s showman
- Facing lung cancer, street preacher and gadfly John 3:16 can still tell a story. Or two. read article
- The Weekly’s recession-busting guide
- The dollar not quite worth what it was yesterday? We’ve come up with a few ways to ... read article
- 10 ways to make a quick buck in Vegas
- Just in case it comes to that… read article
The Intersection
- Was Gov. Gibbons aboard the Titanic?
- Eerie similarities between the sunken ship and the sinking city. Will there be enough lifeboats? more
- The Help Desk
- Lindsay Lohan allegedly considering joining Peepshow topless revue in Las Vegas. We don’t really like it either, guys, but it’s either this or she keeps ... more
- Liar, liar, car’s on fire!
- As the recession burns, more Las Vegans are taking a match to their own rides. more
- If you build it, will they record?
- When you enter the studio, everything is new and shiny except for the collection of vintage amplifiers from manufacturers like Marshall, which date back to ... more
- How the mighty have … vanished (1 comment)
- A once-booming hodgepodge of great food and distractions, the intersection of Decatur and Sahara is now a road map of scuffed stucco, outlines of former ... more
- Rhinestones, pianos and Bicentennial short shorts
- Long before Criss Angel called flying on a Vegas stage a magic trick, Liberace did it as showmanship. more
- A rock and a Chinese place
- Sometime back in the 1990s, an eccentric fellow wanted to eat at a restaurant. He sent his advance team to scope out the place and ... 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
- Q & A with DJ/producer Chris Cox
- Pure’s new resident chats about skeletons in the career closet, keeping tired tracks interesting and DJing during a live sex show… wait, what? more
Arts & Entertainment
- Postcards from the edge
- When you think of Oregon, what comes to mind? No doubt lots of trees and lots of rain. more
- Art for awareness
- Henderson gets an injection of culture when the first College Art Scene Festival hits the College of Southern Nevada’s Henderson Campus on April 24. more
- Joint opening
- The Hard Rock’s new concert venue debuts strongly, except for a broken nose and one woman’s dashed hopes of marrying McCartney. more
- Mr. Sunday night
- The measure of John Madden is simple: He helped make Sunday the new Monday. more
- She-sweets
- Fling’s fingers are imbued with a faint metallic pink shimmer that straddles the line between “amusingly chic” and “scrumptiously contaminated.” If you haven’t guessed yet, ... more
- Rock by committee
- Jill Sobule’s last two record labels have gone bankrupt. So she made a direct appeal in an e-mail to her fans: Would they finance the record? more
- Gone but not forgotten
- Thanks to DirecTV, unjustly canceled shows get a second chance. more
- Plugged in at Coachella
- There are concerts, there are music festivals, and then there’s Coachella. more
- Dispatches from the Polo Field
- Since Vegas doesn’t have a pro sports team, local musicians have filled that community vacancy. So, in order to obtain my official Las Vegas local ... more
- Uncovering Cheever
- It is somehow continually surprising to discover how many of America’s essential writers were eccentrics, outsiders: in exile, even at home. more
- Optical fiber
- It’s been almost 40 years since artists swapped their paintbrushes for needles and thread, and a century since they traded wood, stone and clay for ... more
- A century of Hawkins
- Erick Hawkins (1909–1994) is considered by many to be one of the most influential classic modern dance choreographers of the 20th century. more
Screen
- Duller than fiction
- Movies based on true stories generally like to trumpet their real-world bona fides right at the outset, so that we’ll be properly amazed as the ... more
- Earth
- A sweeping, generic wildlife film, Earth features a few passing mentions of global warming but otherwise focuses on the same things as every other nature ... more
- The Informers
- Los Angeles. Early ’80s. Vacuous, rich and pretty blond boys and girls get drunk, get high and get laid; a few come to a vague ... more
- Fighting
- Maybe it’s a bad idea to expect much from a movie with a title as generic as Fighting . more
- Sin Nombre
- Sayra (Gaitan) follows her uncle and estranged father from Honduras, heading to New Jersey to live with a family of half-siblings she’s never met. Mexican ... more
- 12
- The magnificence of Sidney Lumet’s irreproachable 12 Angry Men was the simplicity—and brevity—with which a legal injustice was brought to light by methodically revealing the ... more
Taste
- An epic experience
- All the dishes I tried at Thai Pepper were interesting, and some were downright terrific. I started with a beef soup that I’ve never seen on a Thai menu in this country called kao-low - funky in the extreme and definitely not for the faint of heart.
- When classics collide on a bitsy bun
- The newest slider variation is upon us, and it’s better than it sounds.
- The wrong choice
- At Timbers Bar and Grill on Sunday morning, in full view of my wife, friends and the overly caffeinated waitress, I commit the biggest mistake I’ll make all week: I don’t order the Sierra Madre Omelet.
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- Depeche Mode vs. Pet Shop Boys
- In the 1980s, Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys helped synth-pop break into the mainstream. Now, both have released new records.
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- The world needs more bands like the Silversun Pickups.
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- At first glance, the lineup of supergroup Tinted Windows seems pretty incongruous: singer Taylor Hanson (Hanson), bassist Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), guitarist James Iha (ex-Smashing Pumpkins) and drummer Bun ...
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Filthy Dirty Vodka Martini
Filthy Dirty Vodka Martini Hachi, Red Rock Casino. $11 ($7 during Hachi Hour, Mon.-Fri., 5-7 p.m.) Let’s talk for a moment about the martini. Like a king dethroned, the martini ...
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