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AUGUST 27- SEPTEMBER 2
- Getting (and sometimes making) her props
- Emily Jillette doesn’t need the money—note the famous last name—but she’s still working her ass off on ... read article
- The story so far
- Updates on a few big Las Vegas stories you might’ve lost track of read article
- Gone and back again
- Claire Vaye Watkins grew up in Southern Nevada, then left. A recent return gave her a new, ... read article
The Intersection
- Same/difference(2 comments)
- Sen. John Ensign insists he’s different from Bill Clinton. Let’s examine that more closely. more
- Random photo of the week
- How big are they? more
- It’s only money
- For his recent Las Vegas cover story in Time, writer Joel Stein scored a rare sit-down with Sheldon Adelson. Stein describes the interview as one ... more
- Cash for other clunkers
- The auto program is over. But there are still plenty of things that don’t work around here. more
- Suggestion Box: A thought for the new school year
- Teachers, administrators and, hell, even federal education bureaucrats—you take the achievement tests used to judge schools. more
- Where’s the passion?
- A health-care forum yields little drama, while a workshop on the domestic partnership law proves—too pragmatic. more
- Minor in a major key
- This weekend’s minor-league game proves one thing: If you throw a football, they will come. more
- New Pecking order
- After 13 years of hell-raising as executive director of the Las Vegas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Gary Peck is finally calling it ... more
- A not-quite-so-transformative experience
- Why the Monte Carlos’s stab at the top end with Hotel 32 comes off more as one giant copycat. more
- Ask Dead Elvis: How long does Las Vegas Boulevard extend?
- Las Vegas Boulevard was originally the old Los Angeles Highway, or Highway 91, and it’s a pretty long stretch of road. more
Nightlife
- Splash/ Sunkissed meltdown
- Vegas, not big enough for two gay pool parties? Vegas?! more
- The 45 turns 60
- Remember records? Even stranger, remember those smaller records with the big ol’ holes in the middle? Red Bull, is celebrating the really old-school records with ... more
- Tracy Mahoney—You go-go, girl!
- In 2003 Tracy started Flaunt Entertainment, a go-go, model and special-act booking agency, and in 2005 created the Flaunt Foxxes, a collaboration of 20 of ... more
- Most likely to win free money!(1 comment)
- While the categories wouldn’t exactly be flattering to most—even by Vegas standards—contestants threw pride to the wind and spent the week campaigning for the third ... more
- Man, I love these BluBlockers(3 comments)
- Yep, these sunglasses are really, really keen. So much so, the company is throwing an all-out block party in Vegas for the opening of a ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Creating his own structure(1 comment)
- Classical mixed with hip-hop? Well, that’s something you don’t hear about every day, and that’s exactly the appeal for young Las Vegas violinist Anthony Williams, ... more
- Kings of Leon
- Alternating between somewhat gritty Southern garage-rock and more M.O.R. arena cuts, Kings of Leon did nothing to embarrass (unless you count those distracting and unnecessary ... more
- Depeche Mode
- Depeche Mode ended up opening for itself, playing three songs off their flat new disc before unleashing a string of grade-A catalog cuts that showed ... more
- Green Day
- It’s nice that the members of Green Day connect so well with their audience, but the band’s concert this past Friday at the Mandalay Bay ... more
- Review of a preview
- Despite showings of the special 16-minute preview of James Cameron’s Avatar allegedly being sold out across the country, the 6 p.m. screening at the Regal ... more
- Slapstick noir
- In Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, a dope-buzzed PI watches the ’70s California dream unravel. more
- Mama said there’d be nights like this(3 comments)
- Soaking in the scene at Downtown’s favorite piano bar. more
- Back to Berlin
- The crowd at White Square Gallery’s final reception was as diverse as the work on the walls. Present: the dreadlocked hippie, the fedora-wearing hipster and ... more
- An honorable tribute
- This is one way pitiless Sin City shows its heart: throwing an A-team of Strip performers at a good cause. In this case, to remember ... more
- Three questions with Sleepy Sun
- Guitarist Matt Holliman chats about how moving from Santa Cruz to San Francisco, psychedelic rock, and the interesting roster of acts on the ATP record label. more
- Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives
- A lovely diagram review of the book edited by Peter Terzian. more
Screen
- Ang Lee’s lamest movie ever
- It was inevitable, I suppose, that Ang Lee would eventually get around to the historical docudrama—or, as I’ve recently dubbed that generally useless collection of ... more
- Adam
- Somewhere between Oscar fodder and unpredictability, Adam, about a man with Asperger’s syndrome, is one of those rare gems that manages to meet at the crossroads. more
- Horror Showdown: Halloween II vs. The Final Destination
- Horror sequels Halloween II and The Final Destination both open this week, but neither was screened in time for review. We pit them against each ... more
- Goodbye Solo
- The immigrant community depicted here is Africans in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, represented by Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), a cheery Senegalese cab driver who sees life ... more
- Soul Power
- Power’s colorful footage follows James Brown, B.B. King, The Spinners and others on their journey from an airport Holiday Inn through a mid-flight jam to ... more
- Killer Biker Chicks
- Killer Biker Chicks provides plenty in the gratuitous-nudity department, but it fails pretty miserably on most other fronts. more
Taste
- Italian shake-up
- So few Italian places bring anything new to the table, not so at Caffe Dolce.
- Eating for the hungry
- Fighting hunger has never been so delicious. From August 31 through September 6, more than 80 of the Valley’s best restaurants will serve prix fixe menus for Las Vegas Restaurant Week.
- So long, Whole Foods
- A Weekly staffer trades in Whole Foods’ endless olive selection and fields of salad toppings for eateries that don’t tell him how to feel about Obama’s health-care plan.
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Soundcheck
- Hack the Mack
- Hack the Mack starts strong, but as the CD proceeds, there’s less spitfire, and Hack’s retreat to tired and ultimately unadventurous topics (guns, girls and ganja) seems to sap his ...
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- Daydream-inspiring, but in a generally good way, Success Stories is unlike anything you’ve ever heard from Vegas hip-hop. For starters, the 20-song CD is overwhelmingly positive.
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- Cut from the North Las Vegas thug-hustle cloth, Rideout is, perhaps, one of Northtown’s more able lyricists.
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AUGUST 27- SEPTEMBER 2
Cocktail of the Week
Aug 27, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Kiwi Watermelon Lemonade
Next week’s looming Labor Day holiday signifies the unofficial end to summer. Though it will remain summery here for some time, we want to bid adieu to that season with ...
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