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SEPTEMBER 24 - SEPTEMBER 30
- The ones who got away: They got out while the getting was good!
- The nightlife scene has had to let a number of Las Vegans spread their wings and fly ... read article
- Ladies getting away with murder!
- Team Hangover’s Jack Colton has a bone to pick with you, Vegas … read article
- Club-speak: Nightlife sign language
- Time to take a cue from the nightclubbing Deaf community. Here are a few signs to help ... read article
The Intersection
- Grin and Luv-It(7 comments)
- Does a Las Vegas neighborhood slam by The Office‘s Mindy Kaling really merit all the fuss (you know, the chick with the annoying voice)? Was ... more
- What’s in a green name?
- An environmentally friendly casino has to be a contradiction in terms. Giant buildings that welcome and encourage the extravagant, wasteful behavior of thousands of guests ... more
- Suggestion Box: Hey UNLV…
- Not a bad start, UNLV. We were glad to hear how much water you’ve saved by getting rid of the trays in the cafeteria, but ... more
- Representin’!(2 comments)
- Who are the best ambassadors for Las Vegas right now? more
- Ken Miller is torn
- How should he feel about the guy who punished his bank with fish and urine? more
- Oh, and Jim Gibbons, too!
- Harry Reid calls plans to dump California trash in Winnemucca a “threat to Nevada’s dignity.” Could there be others? more
- Fish Story(5 comments)
- Rick Lax’s dream of making out with dolphins finally comes true for a mere $550. more
- Ask Dead Elvis: When was the first killing in Southern Nevada?
- Elvis likes this question because it reminds people that there was a time when Las Vegas was a Wild West city, before the first Target ... more
- Random photo of the week
- Oh, the irony. more
- Beloved Vegas institutions that second-tier actresses can safely attack*
- In case you were glancing into a different teacup when this tempest flared: On Craig Ferguson’s late-night show, Mindy Kaling, of The Office, unwisely trashed ... more
Nightlife
- Beating bottle service to the punch
- Downtown Cocktail Room’s new menu takes a back-to-basics approach. more
- The Southeast Cocktail
- Revelations in celebration of Bourbon Heritage Month! more
- Starting from scratch
- Have you always wanted to be a DJ? Well, now you can be. more
- Hazy details(2 comments)
- It’s no surprise that Light Group is keeping mum on the goings-on at CityCenter’s Aria Resort. more
Arts & Entertainment
- New time, same old Leno(2 comments)
- Anyone who loved Leno on Tonight will likely continue to love him here, but extending the host’s brand of middle-of-the-road, obvious comedy and fawning celebrity ... more
- Hanging with the phans
- Even in a recession, the first-ever Phantom convention was a moment true fans could not miss. more
- Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular
- The show has survived the collapse of the Broadway West model, a nightclub revolution that pulled people’s money away from showrooms and, now, the recession. more
- Lost along the way (1 comment)
- Unlike The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol won’t ruffle feathers, let alone cause a “delicious scandal.” more
- Beautiful integration
- 12 + 7 doesn’t reveal much—the exhibition plays its cards close to its chest, although we appear to be getting one helluva public art collection. more
- A night with Karen O seven years in the making (1 comment)
- Seven years after an intoxicating first experience with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spencer Patterson finds a band that’s not truly there. more
- Hey, No Age, stop following me around!
- Why is an LA noise-pop duo stalking a Weekly editor? more
- Neon Reverb beefs up the bottom line
- After losing some $5,000 in the spring, Neon Reverb came out almost even this time, in spite of our weak-ass economy. more
- Getting to know bluesman Glenn Patrik
- When Glenn Patrik hits the stage at the Las Vegas Blues Festival on Saturday, he’ll bring with him 40 years of Kansas City, Kansas-bred, road-tested, ... more
- Charles Schulz meets abstract art
- Look at this piece, “EP V,” from the exhibit Ellsworth Peanuts, by local art collective Ripper Jordan. It’s abstract, (just like real art!), but what ... more
- Journey to the center of sci-fi
- Add 50 movie theater seats to a comic book and memorabilia store and you have the city’s unlikeliest movie theater. Who wants to catch a ... more
- Eight things that would’ve been even funnier had I been stoned at Atlas Theatre’s production of “Reefer Madness”
- Adorable, drooling pit bulls are less adorable when they’re not on the leash and we’re not stoned. more
Screen
- Thor at the Bus Stop
- Despite the mystical overtones, Thor isn’t a supernatural movie. more
- Cold Souls
- Cold Souls owes a lot to Charlie Kaufman’s work, particularly Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but director Sophie Barthes’ film ... more
- The September Issue
- Legendary Vouge editor Anna Wintour inspired Meryl Streep’s character in The Devil Wears Prada, but The September Issue shows she isn’t quite as cruel as ... more
- FAMEDORUM!
- This is what happens when you combine sci-fi and dance. more
Taste
- Proper pastrami
- What survive in today’s idiom of Ashkenaz—or Eastern European Jewish—foods are pastrami, corned beef and matzo ball soup, although credible versions are hard to find, even in Vegas. See how Tommy Pastrami matches up.
- Johnny McGuire's: Serving up fatty subs
- At the new Town Square sandwich shop the motto is “Health Food Sucks!” and the subs come big and beefy.
- Checking in on checking out
- Unless the food really sucks, inevitably the worst part of a dining experience is waiting for the bill.
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Soundcheck
- Monsters of Folk
- They call their supergroup Monsters of Folk—“they” being Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, She & Him’s M. Ward and producer Mike Mogis - but they are ...
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- Pearl Jam has nothing left to prove, and that can be liberating. After you’ve sold millions of albums and essentially defined an entire movement, you can afford to do whatever ...
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- The concept—moony singer-songwriter records intimate series of duets with Page 1 starlet.
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SEPTEMBER 24 - SEPTEMBER 30
Cocktail of the Week
Sep 23, 2009
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Xania Woodman
The Southeast Cocktail
Daring, in the final days of Bourbon Heritage Month, to dabble in food and spirits pairing, I trust my lunch to John DuPont, who paired a few of his signature ...
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