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AUGUST 13- AUGUST 19
- Call it ‘American art’
- Even as the black arts community in Las Vegas struggles to establish itself, many artists bristle at ... read article
- Master (pint-sized) builder
- The artist Frank James is precise. Very precise. Set your watch by him precise. In his living ... read article
- Home in Vegas
- CONSIDERED: bathrooms, community, America, your attitude, the eight ball, mother, hardship, responsibility, bugs, war, comfort, cops, neighbors, ... read article
The Intersection
- A museum for every crime
- Why stop at a mob museum? If the Mayor is right, if we can launder the city’s grubby soul into squeaky-clean tourist coin, why not ... more
- Teachable moment
- Yeah, the poll was commissioned by Republicans, and there are plenty of reasons why things can and will change by Election Day. But this week’s ... more
- Suggestion Box: Shut the hell up!
- As the health-care debate tenderly makes its way to Nevada and Las Vegas, please, please, please heed these carefully chosen words: Shut the hell up! more
- The Help Desk
- Michael Jackson’s Neverland may be dismantled and moved to Las Vegas as a tourist attraction. Yeah, this is a ridiculous idea, but be honest—you’re really ... more
- This’ll wrinkle some brows!
- Welcome to the debate about the Botax, an issue custom-fitted for bad jokes and tabloid headlines. more
- Whole lotto love
- Easy-money fever at the state line, with stubbly Howard and the Lexus kids. more
- Cash for dealers?
- The federal program to jump-start the auto industry still carries many question marks. more
- Beer Summit West(1 comment)
- It’s been a couple of weeks now, but I still can’t get that White House beer-summit image out of my mind. Which brought me back ... more
- Random photo of the week
- Uh, what kind if services are considered expressly “Latino”? more
- Ask Dead Elvis: What are the oldest bars in town?
- So you want to get a touch of old Vegas the liquid way? We applaud this, and yes, we have some suggestions. After all, there ... more
Nightlife
- The other Prives
- I gave the Bellagio valet my name and inquired, “How do I get to Club Privé?” His pleasant face contorted into a grimace. But I’m ... more
- On & on … & on?
- House-music pioneer Jesse Saunders is said to have written, produced, performed and released the world’s first documented house-music recording, titled On & On, in 1984. ... more
- Wardrobe malfunction(s) Or: Why Deanna can’t own nice things
- Someone call What Not to Wear. Stacy, Clinton: A Team Hangover member is in need of a serious wardrobe overhaul. Especially since she ruined three ... more
- A benefiting tribute
- In the wake of a tragedy, the nightlife community came together on August 11 to rally around one of its own. more
Arts & Entertainment
- Mad about this show
- TV critics everywhere are salivating in anticipation of Mad Men‘s return on August 16. Here are the four reasons we’re all a-flutter… more
- An addition to the Dollhouse
- Produced without Fox’s involvement and never aired on TV, the 13th episode of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse is now available exclusively on the DVD set of ... more
- Exiting The Stript for Saint Rose
- Sometimes, you find that you’ve squeezed all the juice from your orange, and it’s time to move on to something new. Sometimes that means it’s ... more
- Hot and Sweaty
- In the opening lines of its self-penned bio, local pop-punk band Air Raid Anthem compares its sound to “the feeling of eating Pop Rocks while ... more
- Our own private (Under)World
- In case we needed confirmation, we got it last Thursday: Las Vegans are officially lame. So Underworld crossed the Atlantic to open its first U.S. ... more
- Orderly Progression! At the Disco
- On Friday night, Panic 2.0 was just another skinny-tie-and-dark-vest-clad emo-pop foursome. The exclamation point may be back, but the enthusiasm behind it has yet to return. more
- Giraffe at a bus stop
- This moment is brought to you by Clark County Parks and Recreation, Friends of Winchester Park Public Art Committee and the Regional Transportation Commission… more
- Drawn in?
- Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz. With so many consonants and so little time, the name says it all. That beautiful collection of letters is redolent of the ... more
- A Fuller life
- A few weeks ago, Dolores Fuller, the so-called “Queen of the B Movies,” suffered a stroke, and she’s been in pain ever since. But last ... more
- Books I Couldn’t Finish(3 comments)
- Glenn Beck is great on TV; he shouts, he scoffs, and he cries. But when he writes, when his words are stripped clean of the ... more
Screen
- Blunt but effective allegory, with aliens
- Structured as a fake documentary, a city-sized spacecraft mysteriously stalled 20 years ago Its starving, frightened occupants, who resemble huge bipedal prawns, were evacuated by ... more
- Ponyo
- In a story loosely inspired by The Little Mermaid, five-year-old Sosuke (voiced in the English-language release by Frankie Jonas) finds a very odd fish, with ... more
- The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.
- When you can’t get will Ferrell, you get … Jeremy Piven? That’s apparently what the makers of the awkwardly titled The Goods: Live Hard. Sell ... more
- Nights and Weekends
- With an almost uncomfortable level of intimacy, Swanberg and Gerwig chronicle the fumbling sex, circular arguments and vague, uncertain plans for the future that define ... more
Taste
- Make room for Anthony’s
- Coal-oven pizza is something of a religion in New York’s SoHo; the coal oven creates a blackened crust, chewy, bubbly and yielding. It’s really all about the crust.
- Colicchio 101
- Before you tune in to Top Chef: Las Vegas, there are some things you need to know about the man behind it: Tom Colicchio.
- Chef’s choice
- Top Chef’s Las Vegas-set sixth season premieres August 19 on Bravo, and judge Gail Simmons promises that there will be plenty of on-and-off-Strip Vegas on the table.
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- George Strait
- George Strait has had approximately 97,569,708 top-10 country hits, and releases an album roughly every 10 minutes. No one gets to that place without being incredibly consistent.
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- More than anything, Post-Nothing makes one yearn to witness Japandroids’ electricity live, preferably in a small, dark space with stuff falling off the walls.
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- At times, the mythology surrounding YACHT—which stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology—threatens to overwhelm its music.
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Cocktail of the Week
Aug 13, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Sapphire Flyer
What began as a delicate, feminine sister cocktail to the cigar-lover’s Aviation in the July/August issue of Vegas Magazine has since won the 2009 Bombay Sapphire/GQ Most Inspired Bartender regional ...
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