Best in Print
AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 12
- Trial by fire
- A Henderson firefighter is helping win hearts and minds in Iraq through a successful training program read article
- What Now?
- What Vegas’ nightlife community can look forward to under the bright light of post-Privé scandal scrutiny read article
- What they’re saying about the Prive scandal
- The local nightlife community weighs-in on the Privé scandal. read article
The Intersection
- New additions to the Vegas lexicon
- As is often the case in heady times, recent events have forced an expansion of our vocabulary. New phrases have been thrust into use; old ... more
- Money for Nothing
- The riches-to-rags stats just keep pouring in. This time, it’s the sad decline in the number of Las Vegas millionaires, coupled with a boom in ... more
- Tiny Little Rant: Homeowners without balls
- When homeowners who can actually afford their mortgages decide to either buy a cheaper house and then walk away from their present one or—gasp!—just walk ... more
- The Help Desk
- Some Las Vegas ATMs allegedly debiting people’s accounts but not handing out cash. Residents were slow to report the problem because they’re used to putting ... more
- Minimum overdrive
- Yes, some are making a little more money, but why does it feel so … pointless? more
- Who’s that girl?
- Meeting the mystery woman behind the sexy courtesan blog. more
- Random photo of the week
- Heavy Metal!!!!! more
- As Dead Elvis: Vegas’ unsolved mysteries
- “What mystery from this city’s past would make a good episode of one of those cold-case shows?” more
- A riddle wrapped in … Harrah’s?
- There may be great stories about the Stage Door, but good luck finding them. more
Nightlife
- Wandering the drink desert
- Rhumbar’s shadows contained people I wanted to meet. People who inhabited that sweet spot between hip and conservative, ironic and genuine, artistic and well-groomed. more
- Birthday wishes, from Woodman to Goodman
- Xania breaks a sweat (and her back) to honor his honor with the Official Martini of Las Vegas. more
- Games pink elephants play
- So I’m at Cathouse. The drinks are flowing, and so is the conversation. But then I look down and notice I’m wearing only my pajamas! ... more
- Seek (fun) and ye shall find! Plus, the Hard Rock renovations affect Body English
- It’s all about the treasure hunts and popularity contests. Plus, with all the renovations at the Hard Rock, what’s going to happen to Body English? more
Arts & Entertainment
- (More than) three questions with comedian Bryan Bruner
- Bryan Bruner, former host at the LA Comedy Club at Trader Vic’s, left Las Vegas for the bright lights and bigger options of New York ... more
- Not sissy books
- I absolutely am not one of the tortured writers. I’m having a good time, and if I wasn’t I’d do something else. I don’t like ... more
- Two-act disco
- Already locked into one-upmanship coming off their July split, the current Panic! At the Disco and ex-Panic members— founders of new band The Young Veins—both ... more
- The future of local dance
- If you are neither friend nor relative of a student dancer, why should you spend the money on a ticket to see them? Here’s why… more
- Girdles … for men
- They eliminate inches in seconds. They’re surprisingly comfortable. They’re flying off the shelves at trend-setting retailers: They are Mirdles - girdles for guys. more
- And who said you could nick our name?
- If Glasvegas expects to be taken the least bit seriously, the band needs to recruit a real drummer. Or, perhaps, encourage current drummer Caroline McKay ... more
- House of the holy
- I feel uneasy. I’m not the biggest fan of churches, but new all-ages music venue Anthem - housed in a church - works, if you ... more
- Girls gone … not so wild
- When I heard the title It’s a Girl Thing, I fantasized the Guerrilla Girls, those gorilla-masked anarchic gadflies of the art world, would put in ... more
- Serra’s weighty drawings
- So what do you make of these prints by New York sculptor Richard Serra? Start with the obvious: They’re big and uncomplex and heavy. Not ... more
- Tall tale
- McCann explores the lives of characters through his Twin Towers account. more
- Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations
- Sometimes the single panel of a political cartoon just isn’t a big enough space for a cartoonist to work with, especially if said cartoonist is ... more
- Overheard at San Diego Comic Con
- Illustrator Jerry Miller takes a trip to Cali for Comic Con and reveals his findings through a comic, of course. more
Screen
- Julie & Julia
- Very little other than lots of cooking happens in Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, a Frankenstein’s monster-like adaptation of two separate memoirs, but when it ... more
- (500) Days of Summer
- Although it puts on a front of being the antidote to quirky indie romantic comedies, the deceptively conventional (500) Days of Summer is actually just ... more
- Intimate yet grandiose(1 comment)
- Francis Ford Coppola capitalizes on his freedom to indulge himself with Tetro more
- A Perfect Getaway
- Twohy’s first film since Riddick, A Perfect Getaway, smartly scales back the ambition, and although it’s a mediocre thriller at best, it has a certain ... more
- DVD Spotlight: Repulsion
- Few films have depicted the descent into madness with as much sheer nightmarish brio as Roman Polanski’s 1965 Repulsion. more
Taste
- Not quite first
- Shared plates, fun food and simple favorites are the strength of the cuisine here - like Crazy Little Tacos that come in five flavors, from catfish to lamb gyro.
- Scrumptious Frog ale
- Freakin’ Frog owner Adam Carmer has gotten his hands on two kegs of Rogue Charlie, an imperial India pale ale that puts all others to absolute shame.
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2009-08-12
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2009-08-12
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2009-08-12
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2009-08-14
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2009-08-15
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Stand up comedy at Harrah's Improv
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2009-08-16
Sahara
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Dance performance
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2009-08-17
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2009-08-17
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2009-08-17
Taste the best Italy has to offer
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2009-08-18
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2009-08-18
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2009-08-18
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Seamless Afterhours presents the Late Night Syndicate featuring DJ Hollywood
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Soundcheck
- Gloriana
- Pop-country quartet Gloriana is about as far as you can get from genuine country music and still manage airplay on country radio.
Read more... - Patrick Wolf
- Fourteen tracks filter legend, history, sci-fi and modern personal introspection, yet all the pick-and-choosing establishes a sweepingly timeless mood.
Read more... - Set Your Goals
- Enter Set Your Goals, a Bay Area sextet poised to break out with This Will Be the Death of Us, which takes its cues from Blink and Sum 41’s penchant ...
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AUGUST 6 - AUGUST 12
Cocktail of the Week
Aug 6, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Ruby Rose
For July’s Mixology Monday with guest-tender Trevor Thorpe of Noir Bar, George incorporated Trevor’s own line of homemade bitters (peach and eucalyptus) into the night’s menu. Though Trevor is departing ...
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