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JUNE 25 - JULY 1
- Desert flow
- As the hip-hop scene continues to expand in Las Vegas, more budding rap artists are cutting their ... read article
- Travel Issue: Tijuana charming
- Going to see La Mona in the city beyond the clichés. read article
- The Travel Issue: It is this much space that gets us into trouble
- Contemplating the big empty in Lathrop Wells with the mysterious Jimmy K read article
The Intersection
- The view from Ensign’s hair
- Whereas the senator is deceitful, the Hair is steadfast. Whereas the man commits hypocrisy—in public, family-values warrior; in private, doing a married employee—the Hair remains ... more
- This week’s damn fine idea: Annex Neonopolis
- Given Mayor Goodman’s announcement it’ll be impossible to build a new city hall, a recent visit to the mostly empty Neonopolis has put the obvious ... more
- Suggestion box: Advice for the Las Vegas Review Journal
- It is with the greatest interest that we’ve followed the saga of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s handling of a federal subpoena seeking to identify people ... more
- Ask Dead Elvis: What’s the deal with Mayor Goodman’s showgirls?
- Who are the lovely ladies who appear with Mayor Goodman at so many ribbon-cutting ceremonies and other promotional functions? more
- Red-carpet blues(1 comment)
- To many in the press, what started as the media using the Vegas clubs for celebrity material quickly twisted into the clubs using the media ... more
- A tragic statistic
- Crimes against children are on the rise, but let’s not be so quick to blame the recession. more
- What’s up with What’s On?(2 comments)
- Usually when newspapers or magazines are struggling financially, they look to cut back on costs. They may curtail their freelance budgets. Local entertainment magazine What’s ... more
- LuPone’s showstopper(2 comments)
- When the Broadway diva chastised a texter, it highlighted problems with Vegas audiences. more
- Random photo of the week
- Blackjack never looked so good… er… cheap. more
- The Help Desk
- John Ensign admits to nine-month-long affair with campaign aide. However, he still hasn’t admitted to his nine-year-long screwing of the Nevada education system. Husband of ... more
Nightlife
- The youthful rush of hookah
- Now I’m grown up, and I’d long forgotten the feeling of being a princess inside a cloth palace … until I went to the Hookah ... more
- Roots rock
- Mega-producer Jermaine Dupri returns to his DJ beginnings and talks about spinning at Privé, his new Ocean’s 7 project, why he loves Vegas and how ... more
- Culling the herd
- If a drink is poured in a speakeasy, and there’s no one around to drink it, does the bar make any money? more
- T&T—tacos and tatts
- Somewhere around our third trip through the Mischieve photo booth it occurred to me that the members of Team Hangover were doing exactly what T&T ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Celebrating Roth
- Thirty years after Kelly Roth & Dancers’ New York debut, the company will present a retrospective of dances and multimedia projects created by its choreographer ... more
- What off-season?
- Now in its third season, this breezy spy drama has developed a level of character complexity slowly over time, nicely complementing its standalone stories of ... more
- Smithsonian of smut
- The Erotic Heritage Museum—a vast emporium of objects, movie posters, paintings and videos—is a sort of Smithsonian of smut. It disappoints in some ways, but ... more
- Not just dickin’ around
- In HBO’s Hung, Ray (played by Thomas Jane) is a divorced high school teacher who is inspired by a self-help seminar that encourages participants to ... more
- Chatting with Artie Lange
- “I had a bad cocaine problem in the ’90s. The last five years have been heroin. Opiates and booze. I think I’ve gotten to the ... more
- Books I couldn’t finish: Andre the Giant: A Legendary Life
- In our new segment, “Books I Couldn’t Finish,” we’re going to tell you how many pages we got through and why we couldn’t get through ... more
- Big, bad ping-pong bats?!
- The world of table tennis is where the real action is. Think I’m kidding? Tagged as the “biggest, baddest throwdown,” the Las Vegas HardBat Classic, ... more
- Scenes from Jesse Nabers’ The Exciting Sounds of Al Martino photo exhibit opening-night reception
- “I like the one where I’m giving the double salute. That’s my essay to the world. I think it says it all …” more
- 60-second video critic
- Move over Toni Basil and Ryan Pardey’s murderous Santa Claus; there’s a new contender for Vegas’ best-ever music video. more
- Preparing for takeoff
- For Las Vegas-based rock band Theory of Flight, playing music isn’t about success or accolades. “It’s about creating something you’re super proud of,” says lead ... more
- HighDro by the numbers (June 17 at the Bunkhouse)
- “I grew up in hard times. I got into reading, I got into reggae, and it completely changed what I felt. People always said, ‘Oh, ... more
- A few words about our new TV show, 702.tv
- The charge is simple but not necessarily easy: Capture the news and energy of Las Vegas and convey that information in a way that is ... more
- Learning From Las Vegas, 2.0
- The authors of the famous architectural book revisit Sin City. more
Screen
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen delivers the “more”
- You can say this for Michael Bay: He delivers what he promises. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is everything the original was and more. “More,” ... more
- My Sister’s Keeper
- My Sister’s Keeper is a perfect example of a disease-of-the-week movie done wrong. more
- A breezy trip
- Faced with an uncertain future both terrifying and exciting, happy couple Burt and Verona set off on a trip to find a new place in ... more
Taste
- Making sense of Mezzo
- It’s the chalkboard. Posted high on the wall next to the kitchen in a quaint and comfortable dining room, all Tuscan’d out with wooden chairs, smooth brown tones and a long wine bar, is the specials board, and everything on it is pretty damn good.
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2009-07-01
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Soundcheck
- Box Elders
- Mother’s Little Helpers would have been a more fitting band name, as this 14-track/30-minute fuzzy-pop barrage worships at the feet of the early Stones and Kinks.
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- In Moby’s own words, his ninth studio album, Wait for Me, is “more mournful” than many of his previous efforts.
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- On KSE’s self-titled fifth album, vocalist Howard Jones sounds like he’s gone through a seriously rough patch, but wearing his bloody heart on his sleeve is exactly what he does ...
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JUNE 25 - JULY 1
Cocktail of the Week
Jun 25, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Honey Old Fashioned
It’s a drink so classic, so good that the glass had to take its name! First’s take on the Honey Old Fashioned ($7) lightens things up with sweet American Honey ...
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