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JULY 16 - JULY 22
- Man vs. big food
- The verdict’s in: NASCAR Cafe’s Bunyanesque entrees and not-so-subtle roller coaster are more fun with a sexy ... read article
- Off-Strip with Stratta
- Alex’s world-class chef loves to get away from the Strip and sample the Valley’s Mexican food read article
- The economy of dining remains strong
- Because even in a recession, people will always be hungry read article
The Intersection
- Overheard at the Regional Justice Center
- The jury selection process: AKA Shameless excuses by absurd people. more
- Hush, Mr. Hampton
- Oy. It’s a given that John Ensign is unethical and should get gone. Right now, it’s poor, poor pitiful Doug Hampton who’s annoying the hell ... more
- One station to rule them all
- With all the fuss about the proposed $4 billion DesertXpress high-speed train traveling only as far as Victorville, no one has given much attention to ... more
- Capital stooges
- On a breezy day, Gov. Jim Gibbons stood on a grassy lakeside and announced, using sports metaphors and rambling vagaries, his resignation. For the good ... more
- Hot, wired
- At the time, Amaryllis was 17, Matt 28. The two began to post their sex life on a website available to subscribers for $19.95. Matt ... more
- Musseling in
- Native to the Ukraine, quagga mussels turned up in North America in the Great Lakes in 1989, and then eventually hitched a ride by boat ... more
- In the age of miracles
- It seems that trash is calf-high here in the homeless corridor on Main, jammed between tents and makeshift encampments. You find yourself wishing for a ... more
- Ask Dead Elvis: Where are the museums?
- “I just relocated from the Big Apple, and I’m used to museums. What have you got here?” more
- Raise, fold … Or tweet(2 comments)
- Twitter is giving new life to the World Series of Poker. more
- The Help Desk
- John Ensign’s parents paid $96,000 to his mistress and her family. You know, it’s like that old saying: The family that prays together pays together. ... more
Nightlife
- The eyes have it
- Nightlife’s newest secret weapon: Rogaine for eyelashes? more
- Pour soul(2 comments)
- The Bartender’s Breakfast signifies the end of Tales 2009 and the end of a cocktail’s era. more
- The next big sting: Planet Hollywood fined for tenant’s behavior(5 comments)
- Oooooh, Privé, you’re in troooooooouble… $750,000 worth of trouble. more
Arts & Entertainment
- Fast-rising Dragons(1 comment)
- Armed with catchy tunes and industry know-how, these Utah transplants are going places more
- Happy birthday, Kid Meets Cougar
- A chat with the local indie couple/band on the occasion of this week’s debut CD release show. more
- Design at the crossroads
- Despite its reputation, Las Vegas is, visually speaking, a surpassingly orderly place. The Strip anchors the city’s fantasy side, and the low-slung subdivisions and shopping ... more
- A shaky experience
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the first movie to showcase the D-Box Technologies’ Motion Code seats in Vegas, with about 25 minutes of ... more
- Adding significant value?
- What is the value of creativity? Not in some artsy-fartsy, theoretical way, either: What’s it worth in dollars? more
- Nice try, Lindsay
- Breaking news: Lindsay Lohan is acting again. When was the last time that happened? more
- Dribbles and dreams
- Nearly 3,000 have crammed themselves into the Cox Pavilion to watch basketball. At 2 p.m. On a Monday. In July. more
- Digital integration
- Now, with swift manipulation, not only can Sarah Palin’s face be seamlessly Photoshopped onto the body of Ted Nugent, but a photograph can also be ... more
- Vision quest
- Komkrit Thusanapanont’s ethereal, light-infused landscape photography of the American Southwest proves that the most spectacular thing about Las Vegas is not the Strip but the ... more
- Bee keeper
- Joe Hynes and Amanda Kraft, as William Barfée and Olive Ostrovsky, are touching and funny, learning to flirt while showing off their spelling prowess. The ... more
- Scratching the surface
- I spent $25 on Matthew Sweeney’s book The Lottery Wars: Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution, but I wish I’d ... more
- Wednesday Comics No. 1
- Can superheroes save the troubled newspaper industry? No, no, they can’t. But Superman, Batman and their bosses at DC Comics can at least help provide ... more
- A Limp return(2 comments)
- This week marks Limp Bizkit’s first U.S. performance with its original lineup in eight years, a free concert at the Pearl. It should come as ... more
- Food: better with beer
- Walk into nearly any California beer bar worth its hops, and you’ll see a No. 5 beckoning you at the bar. That 5, surrounded by ... more
- Topless, yes; crazy, not so much
- Crazy Horse’s stars are more natural than the silicone- and saline-sacked showgirls elsewhere. Otherwise, though, Crazy Horse Paris has not aged well. more
Screen
- Oddly uncomfortable
- Before the first reel is over, Brüno assaults viewers—and given the country’s collective sensibility, “assault” is really the only possible word—with a Benny Hill-style cavalcade ... more
- Every Little Step
- Every Little Step is a documentary about dancers auditioning for a Broadway show about dancers auditioning for a Broadway show. more
- Blood: The Last Vampire
- You know you’re in trouble when a movie opens with an expository crawl that begins in the 1500s and includes the phrase “centuries passed.” Things ... more
Taste
- Anatomy of a dish: The Fat Elvis
- Food can trigger all sorts of reactions in people—joy, disgust, curiosity, comfort. When RM Seafood Executive Chef Adam Sobel created the bacon, banana, chocolate-filled egg roll called The Fat Elvis he was going for nostalgia.
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Soundcheck
- Stellastarr
- On Civilized, Stellastarr returns to its upbeat refrains, albeit on uneven footing.
Read more... - Son Volt
- Alt-country legends Uncle Tupelo broke up in 1994. That’s an important fact to note, because nearly every review of Son Volt—the band fronted by ex-UT vocalist/guitarist Jay Farrar—still mentions Wilco.
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- Quick survey: who wants to hear Chuck Berry shake maracas? Or Tom Morello blow a trombone? How about Eddie Van Halen at the xylophone? Great guitarists are best left … ...
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Cocktail of the Week
Jul 16, 2009
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Xania Woodman
The Creole Julep
The 2009 Official Cocktail of Tales of the Cocktail was served up amid a gentle, passing Louisiana rainstorm last Wednesday as founder Ann Tuennerman kicked off the event outside New ...
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