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OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 4
- Fun death facts
- Several interns were killed in the making of this list read article
- Death’s answer man
- The spokesman for the Valley’s largest mortuary talks about cremation, neckties and his first embalming experience read article
- Sympathy for the skeezy
- A pickup artists’ “super-conference” reveals that most guys aren’t out to get laid—they’re just trying to fit in read article
The Intersection
- Oscar’s Pole
- This story is about a steel pole. It was supposed to be an inside joke, a dick joke actually, between Mayor Oscar Goodman and Raymond ... more
- The dog days of Dora To
- For animal-rights activists, Dora To’s business was an example of pet-store owners purchasing their puppies from puppy mills—breeders that, although they may operate legally, still ... more
- Amen Corner: Spaying and neutering opposition
- You can’t imagine how relieved we were to hear that the city’s plan to make spaying and neutering mandatory is likely to face widespread opposition. more
- A Wynn lose situation for Garth Brooks tickets
- Wynn is devoted to socialism-lite right here in Vegas in the form of his jihad against would-be scalpers of the tickets for the first 20 ... more
- Is the Vegas dream gone?(1 comment)
- An audit forces a columnist to take a long, hard look back at the dream that was Las Vegas. more
- Lettuce ladies and veggie dogs(1 comment)
- In an afternoon punctuated by false starts, ambulance sirens and skimpy green outfits, PETA, for better or worse, gave away hundreds of veggie dogs to ... more
- Random photo of the week
- A little early, isn’t it? more
- Terror in the produce aisle!
- What would happen if you took Lizardman out of the Fright Dome, out of Circus Circus and off the Strip? What would happen if you ... more
- The Help Desk
- Las Vegas ranks seventh on Forbes list of Best Cities to Retire In. Proving once and for all that Forbes lists are a result of ... more
Nightlife
- Getting it on (the record) with Pete Tong(3 comments)
- You might think a DJ would consider hanging up his headphones as he approaches 50, but Tong shows no signs of stopping. more
- The Closet leads the pack on gay parties
- Celebrating its one-year anniversary, The Closet Sundays caters to the fashionable, attractive, poised and diverse, with every creed, color and sexual orientation represented—seriously, it’s like ... more
- Five questions with DJ Sasha (plus a few random ones)
- Sasha (yeah, the same one who’s name is usually followed by “& Digweed”) is coming to Pure. But don’t expect him to go all nostalgic ... more
- Stop! Before you step out this weekend in your college Halloween costume (let it go already) read this
- Today’s movies, TV, books and the blogosphere have clearly informed the public’s costume choices with all of HalloweenMart’s top five best-selling costumes coming from the ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- What Andre Agassi’s crystal meth use explains
- Suddenly, the tennis superstar’s mid-‘90s warddrobe makes sense. more
- Paying off: Modern Science doesn’t squander pricey trip to CMJ
- Even under a low basement ceiling, Modern Science’s performance soared. more
- U2 showcases classic past, passable present(4 comments)
- Do we really need stadium concerts anymore? Probably not, but if we have to endure them, then U2 is certainly the band for the job. more
- Death don’t have no mercy for musicians
- Consider taking out life insurance before listening to these songs recorded just before their creators’ deaths. more
- ‘Naked’ truth: Why ‘High Fidelity’ fans will hate Hornby’s latest
- Chick lit sucks. Rob would be ashamed. more
- Fashion Rocks: Stylish clothing meets hard rock at Hard Rock
- John Varvatos believed there had to be a way to mix music, fashion and commerce together and keep it interesting. more
- The aliens have landed
- Is V the new Lost? more
Screen
- A makeshift memorial for MJ
- “This Is It” is an inadequate epitaph for the King of Pop. more
- Movies about the afterlife
- No, Dead Man Walking is not on this list. more
- Trick ‘r Treat
- Trick ’r Treat deserves points for avoiding cheap thrills and excessive gore, but its limited old-school charms are not nearly as impressive as its inflated ... more
Taste
- Pie in the sky
- Why Metro Pizza should thank us.
- Choose-your-own burger adventure
- The idea is a fail-safe one: DIY burgers with plenty more to like.
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Soundcheck
- Lyle Lovett
- Lyle Lovett is holding back.
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- Doug Martsch sounds tired.
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- Embryonic feels willfully obscure, an album full of cluttered noise and sounds thrown together with little regard for, well, anything.
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Cocktail of the Week
Oct 29, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
C’est la Vie
Well hello, gorgeous! But super-premium Oxley small batch dry gin has the chops to back up her bottle’s outer beauty. It took 38 recipes and eight years to develop the ...
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