Best in Print
OCTOBER 8 - OCTOBER 14
- The new Vegas identity: Unemployed
- One laid-off reporter’s struggle to survive in one of the hardest-hit states in the country read article
- Talking art, commitment and legal niceties at the Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth
- Rick Lax traveled to the Biggest Tattoo Show on Earth and felt naked… very, very naked. read article
The Intersection
- Sin City brain wreck!
- How do you improve a city? Make writer Chuck Twardy move away. It worked for Vegas. more
- Hendertucky Tough
- Downtown residents are upset by the lack of respect their neighborhood gets. Try living in Hooterville, NV. more
- Economy be damned! Downtown gets a new gallery
- Place Gallery opened last week and the new space suggests that the local arts scene here is starting to turn around. more
- A week of woe thanks to Ensign, Sanford and the Las Vegas entrepreneur
- We swear we’re not superstitious, but we can’t help but wonder why when bad things happen, it’s usually involving a number associated with musketeers, blind ... more
- Stupak’s true legacy
- The Stratosphere helped create, and continues to complement, Naked City. more
- Ask Dead Elvis: Old Vegas films(1 comment)
- I saw a film a few months ago, Moon Over Las Vegas. It wasn’t very good, but it was interesting to see the look of ... more
- Frittering Top Chef?
- This is Las Vegas, the world capital of self-promotion and hype. How is it possible that this city could be, seven episodes into the season, ... more
Nightlife
- Revolutionary party: The Z-Trip interview(3 comments)
- Z-Trip. Fridays. Rain Nightclub. The DJ born Zach Sciacca talks about how he hopes to push the boundaries of Vegas club music, artwork by Shepard ... more
- It doesn’t suck: Lollypop’s Adult Nightlife (1 comment)
- Third time hopes to be a charm at another Vegas titty bar with not a trace of Eau de Victoria’s Secret and which bills itself ... more
- Heidi Haldeman—On the dress-up lowdown
- “Cosplay is the act of dressing up as your favorite anime character,” says Haldeman, who bartends in the Dragon Noodle Co.’s recently renovated Cosplay Lounge ... more
- After careful consideration
- Pure Management Group’s new marketing campaign positions the company as “The Nightlife Pacesetter.” Team Hangover would like to respectfully take a guess at what may ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- After and Before: Thom Sesma as Scar inThe Lion King
- Sesma dons 50 pounds of leather for every performance, and that’s not even the difficult part. more
- Halloween 2: Xania’s return
- Xania Woodman faces two of Fright Dome’s scariest haunted houses… and cries. more
- Camp Rodriguez Dead or Alive: sci-fi, elephant tusks and … John McCain?!
- Ominously lit and oddly campy, Dead or Alive, You’re Coming With Me has a darkness that gives way to a playful sense of humor, sharp ... more
- The end is near, and ugly, in the intense fiction of Scorch Atlas
- Scorch Atlas is less post-apocalyptic than it is contemporary, less aftermath and more in the heat and squelch of a horrid, horrifying end. more
- Introduction to obsession
- If you don’t know anything about the poetry world, The Anthologist remains a fascinating if lightly plotted study in obsession, creative ambition and the quirks ... more
- Tapes and Tapes: Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton?
- Can you tell which of these quotes come from The Michael Jackson Tapes and which from The Clinton Tapes? more
- After 23-year career, singer/dancer says farewell to the Strip
- Stephanie Dianna Sanchez has no hard feelings about leaving Fantasy. She understands: That’s show business. more
- ESPN’s 30 for 30 brings depth to unsung sports stories
- 30 for 30 proves that TV about sports can be artistic, thoughtful and moving. more
- Melancholics and the infinite rock band
- Aging wannabe rock stars, Shrek and a brief encounter with Barenaked Ladies. more
- Kylie Minogue’s pop spectacle worth the (22-year) wait(1 comment)
- “Does anyone know roughly off the top of their head how long it’s taken me to get here?” Kylie Minogue asked the packed house at ... more
- Rumble, young bands, rumble!(1 comment)
- A self-described “mobile, monthly party” traveling from Seattle and Portland down through San Francisco to Los Angeles and San Diego, the Rumble makes its first ... more
- Vegas’ own Willy Wonka
- Growing up in France, Lionel Clement created elaborate desserts with his mother, and dreamt of doing so on a larger stage. This weekend, the Wynn ... more
- Green Valley High’s “Laramie” raises eyebrows
- An epilogue to The Laramie Project will have its world premiere on October 12—the 11th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death. The only place to see ... more
Screen
- Vince Vaughn: Pound-for-pound box office champion
- In Hollywood, there are career penalties to pay for getting fat. Unless you’re Vince Vaughn. more
- Couples Retreat
- Couples Retreat has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. more
- Paranormal Activity(1 comment)
- Paranormal Activity is at heart another haunted-house movie, albeit one that takes the time to think about the true nature of haunting. more
- The Burning Plain
- The Burning Plain is a dour, heavy-handed drama. more
Taste
- All Thai’d up at Sakun
- At this tiny Thai storefront, a bilingual menu reveals wonders like beef salad Lao-style, glass noodles with crab claw and Thai pork stew. Let’s put it this way, Max Jacobson is a regular.
- New deli alert!
- Treating everybody like a regular is the kind of service we want in our neighborhood deli, and now we’ve got it. Plus meatballs.
- Vegas' own Willy Wonka
- Growing up in France, Lionel Clement created elaborate desserts with his mother, and dreamt of doing so on a larger stage. This weekend, the Wynn Hotel’s chief chocolatier will do just that at the prestigious World Chocolate Masters competition.
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2009-10-14
Xania's Hot Spots
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2009-10-14
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Wednesday
2009-10-14
New York New York
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Thursday
2009-10-15
The Strip
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2009-10-15
The Strip
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2009-10-15
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Friday
2009-10-16
Town Square
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2009-10-16
Comedy
Matt Donnelly's Celebrity Tarot Lounge at The Stage Door Theater
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2009-10-16
The Strip
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Saturday
2009-10-17
Southwest
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2009-10-17
a benefit for New Vista Ranch
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2009-10-17
Venetian
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2009-10-18
Open Mic
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2009-10-18
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2009-10-18
Dance performance
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Tuesday
2009-10-20
Lake Las Vegas
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2009-10-20
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2009-10-20
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Soundcheck
- Onara
- Not only does the band leap from metal to psychedelia to ska across the entire disc, but it also does it within individual songs, creating the rock equivalent of a ...
Read more... - The Lazystars
- The Lazystars must get laid a lot. Now, they have new bait that will likely net them female and male fans.
Read more... - Theory of Flight
- Filled with pop hooks and yearning melodies engineered by The Killers’ fader-tweaker Mark Needham, Within Reach is as radio-ready a disc as any independent band could hope.
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OCTOBER 8 - OCTOBER 14
Cocktail of the Week
Oct 8, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Strip House Napa Valley Reserve 2007
This custom cabernet sauvignon blend, created by food and wine aficionados “III Somms” (sommeliers from three of the country’s best restaurants: Jean-Georges, Daniel, and Ciao Vito) and winemaker Sashi Moorman, ...
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