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OCTOBER 1 - OCTOBER 6
- The gubernatorial scene at a glance
- See who’s announced, who will announce and who should announce. read article
- So you wanna be a public servant?
- Read this first read article
- At the cinematic mercy of others
- What happens when friends, co-workers and complete strangers can inflict movies on a critic read article
The Intersection
- Made for each other: Vegas and a T. rex
- No city needs a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton more than Las Vegas. more
- A pat on our own back: Multiple NPA awards for the Weekly
- In the recent Nevada Press Association contest, the Weekly picked up 12 awards, four of them first-places in key categories. more
- Amen Corner: Some elected officials actually work!
- And you thought your elected officials were all ethically challenged reprobates. Shame on you! Some of them are still working their asses off—or should we ... more
- Downtown vs. the ‘burbs: Murder rates surprisingly similar(1 comment)
- A look at Metro’s year-to-date homicide stats reveals that, when it comes to murder rates, there’s little separating Downtown from Summerlin? more
- One night, two stories: Slices of life from September 23(1 comment)
- An uncomfortable speech at the Fifth Street School Wednesday night or writer Stephen Elliott, barefoot and wearing a gray T-shirt, at a backyard literary event. ... more
- Ask Dead Elvis: Did we screw over Las Vegas, NM?
- Hey Dead Elvis! Is it true that Las Vegas, New Mexico, was a prospering city long before this Las Vegas came to fruition? more
- This Aubrey O’Day character — is she a firecracker, or what?
- The former Danity Kane singer has been on the clock for less than a week in Planet Hollywood’s “Peepshow,” and what a run it’s been already. more
- The Help Desk
- Las Vegas tourism officials reviving “What happens here” slogan. Apparently they’re going after that demographic that hasn’t seen any movies in the last 10 years, ... more
Nightlife
- Stumbling into Dino’s, the ultimate dive
- Where can you meet shitsters (shit + hipsters), sing karaoke and vote for the “drunk of the month?” Only at Dino’s. more
- Playboy TV looks to Las Vegas for a slice of strip-club reality(1 comment)
- Filmed in Vegas at the legendary Palomino Club, King of Clubs follows the Gentile family as they take over the only strip joint with a ... more
- Vegas bartending show served straight up
- If Vegas was last year’s dark horse in the running to win the first season of On the Rocks, then Season 2 is shaping up ... more
- Ultimate sobering
- Coed, fully clothed parking-garage Frisbee, anyone? more
Arts & Entertainment
- The ups and downs of caffeinated booze
- BooYa Tequila, Freaky Ice Vodka, Moonshot Beer, Gravity ShotPak Vodka: It’s perfectly legal to have caffeine in your goofy alcoholic beverage. So, why are state ... more
- The real deal with Wayne Brady
- He’s already an actor-singer-dancer-comedian, and Wayne Brady is determined to add even more hyphens to his description. more
- Peepshow: An erotic novelty(1 comment)
- It’s not all T&A. Peepshow was created with production values and staging in mind, and from the start, compared amazingly well to a traditional Vegas ... more
- Las Vegas Philharmonic Pops Series’ A Night at the Movies
- Film meets Philarmonic at the Pops Series’ A Night at the Movies. more
- Art, by the book
- Inscribed/Messages explores the arts entanglement with language, but it also taps into our earliest experiences with pictures and text to produce a powerful experience. more
- Van Morrison at the Joint: A few dry observations
- Alcohol was not served during Van Morrison’s concert. Really. more
- Save this concert! (redux)
- We still don’t expect to see Leonard Cohen here, but we’re praying! more
- Stats from Orange Sheila’s solo-performance return(1 comment)
- Orange Sheila is drunk and ready to rock solo again. more
- Will cover for food(1 comment)
- Acoustic Soul’s gimmick is simple but impressive: It plays entirely by request, passing out menus featuring hundreds of songs constituting the band’s repertoire. more
- A Kennedy to the end: A memoir by a dynasty’s last lion
- We’ve heard the word “epic” summoned so often to describe Ted Kennedy’s life, it’s no surprise he starts his autobiography with a device out of Homer. more
- Five semi-random excerpts from You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Kills You: A Rat Pack Mystery
- 4. “‘Sleep in my bed, Eddie!’ God, a week ago, if someone had told me I’d hear those words from Marilyn Monroe …” more
- Refresh, Refresh
- In 2006, Refresh, Refresh was a short prose story by Benjamin Percy, later published as the title piece in a collection of his work. It’s ... more
Screen
- Strong men also cry
- Find out what makes Weekly editor Ken Miller cry. more
- Zombieland
- Zombieland takes everything Shaun did cleverly—the meta-movie references, the love amidst the apocalypse, the forging of a makeshift family to combat unspeakable horrors—and amps it ... more
- Love, Michael Moore-style
- If there are two people I never want to see in a motion picture again, they are Michael Moore and some poor, low-paid security guard ... more
- Farewell, CineVegas
- Even with CineVegas in limbo, its legacy will remain. more
- Bright Star
- Here’s the deal: Either you’re the kind of person who’s going to get excited by a movie about the chaste romance between 19th-century poet John ... more
- Whip It
- Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut Whip It plays like one pictures a sleepover at Barrymore’s house might unfold. more
- The Invention of Lying
- In The Invention of Lying the universe is skewed; it’s an alternate reality in which lies were never invented. Everyone speaks the truth all the ... more
Taste
- Food Fight! The Matzo Ball
- Matzo-ball soup is the original cure for whatever ails you, but only the real delis make it just like Bubbie’s. Here, two Valley eateries go soup vs. soup. How do you say en garde in Hebrew?
- A hearty discount at Origin India ... but at what price?
- One writer’s ethical dilemma over Yelping in exchange for discounted chicken tandoori.
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- Scars resembles a jumbled hip-hop album—more specifically, the type that relies on cameos to hide a lack of innovation.
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- Miranda Lambert is still exploring all the facets of her craft, and she’s got plenty of ground left to cover.
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Oct 1, 2009
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Karma Tequila co-founders Devin Semler and Gary Eisenberger were on hand this past Saturday to personally provide celebs including Macy Gray, Chris Daughtry and Rita Rudner with a taste of ...
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