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OCTOBER 22 - OCTOBER 29
- Pizza marathon: a diary
- A Weekly writer undertakes the ultimate challenge: Eating nothing but pizza for an entire week read article
- A pizza primer
- Our food expert breaks down the perfect pie read article
- Revolution soundtrack: Z-Trip helps change Vegas club music
- When it comes to Vegas nightclubs, remixed Top 40 is the norm—and tourists love it. Lately, boundaries ... read article
The Intersection
- Who’s behind the “God” billboard along I-15?(3 comments)
- In Sin City, it is no surprise to see billboards with scantily clad women that read “Totally Nude” or “Topless Club.” But not even a ... more
- Random photo of the week
- It’s all about the accessories. more
- Fresh, yes; easy, we’ll see(1 comment)
- Notes on Alice Waters, local growing and the slow-food movement. more
- RT This! #bombscare
- Journalist Ky Plaskon live-tweets a bomb scare. more
- Back to basics—and Garth(1 comment)
- Garth Brooks will sell out every seat of every show for however long he appears at the Wynn Las Vegas. Period. But there’s more to ... more
- Other suggested wordings: How should UNLV relabel its fake Stella painting?
- “If the school doesn’t destroy the painting or take it out, [Stella’s attorney, Neale] Albert suggests a placard to hang next to the work: ‘This ... more
- The airport connector ain’t the tunnel of love
- Look, it didn’t take a nickel’s worth of foresight to see that the tunnel would be this heavily used. Because it’s not a shortcut, with ... more
- Suggestion Box: Represent the voters, Reid
- The fate of health-care reform may rest soundly within the hands of Harry Reid, who as we speak is being pressured by progressives to include ... more
- The Help Desk
- Unemployment in Las Vegas climbs to 13.9 percent. We’re not saying it’s bad, but we just saw a guy in a suit offering to squeegee ... more
Nightlife
- Bottle-flippers saving our economy? Crazier things have happened
- I’m quite over flair. And yet, like a tide or a boomerang, it keeps coming back. So perhaps it is I who should be sitting ... more
- A Saturday night with Satan(1 comment)
- Your first costumed stop for Halloweek should be Devil’s Night XII, the underground dance party so sinful it’s practically satanic. more
- Confessions of a mid-gamer: The social cost of drinking for free(5 comments)
- While out for a night of clubbing, Rick Lax tries unsuccessfully to woo a lady… one penny at a time. more
- Moquin it work: The girls of summer—the migration continues
- After three years at Bare Pool Lounge, marketing director Kalika Moquin is hanging up her bikini and heading for dry land to become The Bank ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Lab Partners: Modern Science prepares for CMJ fest(1 comment)
- Kane Churko admits that an offer for his Vegas band to play the CMJ Music Marathon felt a little like a scam. more
- Imagine Dragons(10 comments)
- At present, fast-rising quintet Imagine Dragons appears the most logical contender for next corporate music phenomenon. more
- Steel Panther
- Steel Panther’s Feel The Steel is so bad it isn’t even funny. more
- The Originators
- The Originators appear to have settled into the role of surf-beaten bar band coaxing the final foamy spurts from the ska keggerator. more
- Taking Dawn takes Vegas
- Taking Dawn’s throwback hard-rock act is clearly going places. more
- Count on Dusty to reel ’em in
- Less than a week after the first Las Vegas Rumble barely drew 30 bodies to the Aruba Showroom, a crowd of some 120 has flocked ... more
- The Flaming Lips
- Embryonic feels willfully obscure, an album full of cluttered noise and sounds thrown together with little regard for, well, anything. more
- Built to Spill
- Doug Martsch sounds tired. more
- Lyle Lovett
- Lyle Lovett is holding back. more
- Flavor of Chinatown
- American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods chronicles Chinese communities in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu and … Las Vegas? more
- James Ellroy, thinking machine
- “I see myself as emblematic of extreme drive and ambition and focus.” more
- Seeing more of Marge
- Two thoughts on the occasion of Marge Simpson flashing some nip in Playboy. more
- Spookiest Halloween costume?
- Puscifer. Slipknot. Rob Zombie. Mitch Albom. Which of these acts—all in town this week—would help you scare up the most candy? more
- Handel lends a hand
- George Frideric Handel can help you. Here’s how. more
- Landscape exhibit pairs perfectly with Springs Preserve
- Everything about Robert Beckmann: Elemental Landscape dovetails beautifully: luminous landscape paintings, the Big Springs gallery at the Springs Preserve, a breezy October morning. more
Screen
- “A Serious Man” proves to be seriously impressive
- The Coen brothers are in top form with newest flick, A Serious Man. more
- The Cove
- If you’re looking to be entertained, forget The Cove. more
- Amelia
- Amelia Earhart was a woman in a male-dominated field, and Amelia beats that fact into the ground until it coughs up blood. more
Taste
- A pizza primer
- Thick or thin, soft or crispy, sharp or mild, pizza is something we all love.
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Cocktail of the Week
Oct 22, 2009
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Fever Stimulation Beverage
With just 130 calories per serving, Fever Stimulation Beverage is said to be “making healthy sexy.” And despite its containing 34 milligrams of caffeine, Fever prefers not to be lumped in with energy ...
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