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MAY 21 - MAY 27
- Vegas’ Best 2009
- The Weekly’s annual list of what’s really important— with a bunch of your own choices thrown in read article
The Intersection
- Time is (not much) money(1 comment)
- The good news: Las Vegans are stepping forward and offering to volunteer for the various charities around town. The bad news: Those same Las Vegans ... more
- Ten shows that you absolutely have to see (or send your visitors to see)
- One show that everyone should see? I get this question a lot. I get it from Facebook friends when they’re about to visit and you ... more
- Broken pencils
- Architects across the state are trying to stay afloat. No one’s building - not offices, not hotels, not condos. more
- Is a promise a contract?
- Developer Jim Rhodes and his wife, Glynda, probably count the past couple of months as one of the worst periods in their lives. more
- The Help Desk
- Holly Madison joins cast of Peepshow. Or as Hugh Hefner and Criss Angel will now call it, Old Home Week. Las Vegas hosts world’s largest ... more
- Amen Corner: “What happens here stays here” slogan is back!
- “What happens here stays here” is being removed from the mothballs to further cement Vegas’ reputation as the Dirty Little Secret of America. more
Nightlife
- AM’s reign, A.M. at Rain
- Oh, DJ Adam Goldstein, I’ve come to Rain nightclub to pray at the foot of your booth, to rock out and lip-sync along with whatever ... more
- Dude City
- It’s always nice when artists try new things. In the case of Jack E. Johnson and Grant Turner’s Dude City, however, experimentation sometimes leads them astray. more
- Cheese-free music, now with less la-la?
- Memorial Day weekend. Las Vegas. Famed German producer/DJ Paul van Dyk. ’Nuff said. more
Arts & Entertainment
- A chat with Tiesto
- “The Vegas crowd is always a very beautiful crowd. There’s lots of hot girls everywhere, and guys are all pimps with lots of money …” more
- Sink your teeth into some movies
- The Sci Fi Center in downtown’s Commercial Center has been running its cult-movie nights for a while now, and this week comes up with a ... more
- This class is a joke
- Bonkerz offers budding stand-ups a place to get started via a six-week workshop, where aspiring comics learn to write, develop and hone a five-minute routine. more
- Make time for the King
- The artistic power of Disney meets the notoriously short attention spans of Vegas audiences: two acts and an intermission, clocking in at two and a ... more
- Go ahead, rough the passer. Please!
- Hot women, clad in little more than panties, knee pads and a hard protective shell of spray-on tan. What’s not to like? more
- Diary of a mad Greek woman
- At the risk of spoilers on a 2,500-year-old play, a recap: lovesick, psychotic sorceress Medea does horrible things to help Jason capture the Golden Fleece. more
- No more doubts about No Doubt
- At the kickoff of its first tour since 2004, pop-rock band No Doubt was in perfect form, showing no signs of atrophy from a five-year break. more
- Searching for Little Green Men
- According to the Roper Center, most Americans believe extraterrestrials have visited our planet in UFOs and that the U.S. government is covering it up. more
- The Mapes
- This is easily the dumbest disc I’ve ever heard … which the members of The Mapes will no doubt be ecstatic to read. more
- Gimme shelters
- Many cities have commissioned artists to enhance bus shelters; now, it’s Las Vegas’ turn. more
- The Day After
- Stalwart local band The Day After returns from a dalliance with indie label Gotham Records to self-release its latest album, Black Heart Symphony, the first ... more
Screen
- Just terminate it already
- James Cameron has long since departed this lumbering sci-fi franchise, and the vision clearly went with him. What we end up with instead is two ... more
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- The sequel to the midly amusing 2006 family film suffers from a common follow-up ailment, so focused on upping the stakes that it loses most ... more
Taste
- Brewing up terrific flavors at BJ's
- Seeing two police cars parked in front of BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse somehow gave me a real sense of comfort. After all, if cops are dining here, the food must be pretty good.
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Wednesday
2009-05-27
The Strip
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Wednesday
2009-05-27
Xania's Hot Spots
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2009-05-27
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Thursday
2009-05-28
Dusty Rhodes brings some rock to downton's Beauty Bar
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2009-05-28
Comedy
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2009-05-28
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Friday
2009-05-29
The Strip
The Jagermeister Music Tour Featuring Pennywise at the House of Blues
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2009-05-29
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2009-05-29
Central
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2009-05-30
Neighborhood-Town Square
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2009-05-30
Palms
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2009-05-30
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Sunday
2009-05-31
The Strip
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2009-05-31
Hosted by Playmate Allison Waite
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2009-05-31
Henderson
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Monday
2009-06-01
Taste the best Italy has to offer
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2009-06-01
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2009-06-01
Downtown
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Tuesday
2009-06-02
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2009-06-02
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2009-06-02
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Soundcheck
- Jarvis Cocker
- After spending two-plus decades fronting reigning Brit-poppers Pulp, debonair beanpole Jarvis Cocker emerged as a solo artist in 2006.
Read more... - Eminem
- Using a variety of half-crazed-sounding vocal styles and accents, Em describes drug overdoses, revenge plots, celebrity crushes and twisted sexual fantasies.
Read more... - Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
- On his 2008 self-titled “solo” album, Bright Eyes mastermind Conor Oberst (and a ragtag band of wandering indie-folk minstrels) sought out south-of-the-border trails less traveled.
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MAY 21 - MAY 27
Cocktail of the Week
May 21, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Reggae Sunsplash
I used to cringe when my Nana would add ice cubes to her wine, but in this heat, I can’t imaging anything more refreshing. Saturday night I caught up with ...
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