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NOVEMBER 5 - NOVEMBER 11
- Vegas Valley Book Festival at a glance
- Everything you need to know… and then some. read article
- In praise of Poe
- Hitchcock? Stephen King? CSI? Hard to imagine any of them not owing a huge debt to the ... read article
- Rolling Stone? Please!
- Ramparts magazine did it better, and influenced an entire generation of subversive journalists read article
The Intersection
- Trucks don’t need no stinkin’ badges!(1 comment)
- Why does the Highway Patrol’s “badge on board” program—in which troopers ride shotgun in selected 18-wheelers and cite drivers who stay in blind spots, don’t ... more
- There’s a battle over the hump in Pahrump(4 comments)
- Pahrump—a town known for legal brothels and guns—is battling over the city’s image. more
- Suggestion Box: Hey RJ, tell us something we don’t know
- An R-J writer proclaimed that spiraling room rates are drawing a “trashier” clientele, one that—gasp!—brings coolers into rooms and apparently causes—double gasp!—room damage. more
- Las Vegas appears to only be growing in intolerance(1 comment)
- Hello, rising wave of intolerance, I haven’t seen you in a while. I was tempted to believe that momentarily we had dispatched with the villainization ... more
- “Deep Throat” merchandise (use your imagination)
- Las Vegas-based Arrow Productions, the porn house that brought you the most celebrated skin flick in the adult industry has rolled out a long line ... more
- Good ol’ Boyd
- Since retiring as CEO of his corporation nearly two years ago, William S. Boyd has decided to “get back to what we did when we ... more
- Random photo of the week
- “I can ride a bike with my old lady on the handlebars, on the handlebars…” more
- The Help Desk(1 comment)
- Steve Wynn says in conference call with investors, “The landscape in Vegas is troubling.” He then further shocked the group by revealing that water is ... more
Nightlife
- I Vant to Suck Your Vace
- How do you make an emo douchebag look sexy? Give ‘em fangs. more
- Cabo Wabo—and Sammy Hagar!—coming to Vegas(1 comment)
- One tequila, two tequila, three tequila—oooh! Sammy Hagar! The Red Rocker is bringing Vegas its own outpost of his famous Cabo Wabo Cantina complete with, ... more
- A nice pair: Beer pairings as a nightclub alternative
- At beer pairing dinners cropping up around town, suds and supper are a great match. more
- Nite Bite: Planet of the Drums
- In your face with some drum n bass! It’s been “ten f—king years” (their words, not ours) since Planet of the Drums formed and now ... more
Arts & Entertainment
- Time to go for Wayne Newton?(1 comment)
- Newton could be a great host of a Vegas variety show. But he prefers to keep his show focused on his singing and not on ... more
- George Wallace
- George Wallace has often been complimented for his marketing savvy, his skill as a promoter and his friends who jump up to guest with him. ... more
- Stealing without tweeting
- The Hollywood Burglar Bunch illuminates celebrity’s diminishing grip on us all. more
- Busy Beekeeper sings … and prepares for zombie apocalypse
- There’s nothing funny about the zombie apocalypse. more
- Destination Vegas: Hardcore band gambles on leaving LA
- One Stoney Anderson hits the stage, he transforms from quiet, unassuming punk into reckless, lewd rock ’n’ roll frontman. more
- Slipknot
- The final performance on Slipknot’s latest tour, Halloween night at the Pearl, was as intense as would be expected. more
- Some super-exciting, utterly random factoids about Kelly Clarkson!
- Our lives would suck without this American Idol winner. more
- Drink in “Drunk” art
- Drunk is the perfect pit-stop for boozy tortured artists. more
- Turning the page
- Altered States takes an age-old object—the book—in bold new directions more
- Roll out the ’bones
- At UNLV, 76 plus four equals 100. more
- Three questions with comedian Lily Tomlin
- Lily Tomlin (and Ernestine) tries not to take herself too seriously, but don’t tell the Academy that. more
Screen
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- The story of an elite unit of soldiers armed with psychic powers was plenty nutty on its own—playing it for broad laughs in “The Men ... more
- The Fourth Kind(1 comment)
- In 2000, Dr. Abigail Tyler uncovered supposed evidence of widespread alien abductions in Nome, Alaska. In 2009, the movie about Tyler is just another lame thriller. more
- A Christmas Carol
- Listen, Robert Zemeckis, I think we need to have a talk. Remember when you used to make those cool popcorn blockbusters full of real actors ... more
- Coco Before Chanel
- As its name suggests, subtitled biopic Coco Before Chanel focuses on the “rags” aspect of Chanel’s rags-to-riches story. more
Taste
- Flashback dining at Summerlin's Carmel
- Swanky, intimate and comfortingly classic, they don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
- The expanding Olive
- More space for Henderson’s hookah and hummus spot is a very good thing.
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- After eight years, nothing has changed.
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- Lineup change have had a negligible effect on Wolfmother’s sound.
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Cocktail of the Week
Nov 5, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Beergarita
It was quite by happenstance that I came upon the beergarita, or perhaps it found me. I was blissfully unaware of the house-party staple’s existence until two glasses literally put ...
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