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August 4-August 10
- Unica Home: High design’s Vegas haven offers a sense of place
- A background of the local design mecca and a few favorite items from the showroom floor. read article
- Three great design ideas for your home
- From a tiki makeover to monochromatic bookshelves, you’ll be dying to try these local looks. read article
- Vintage Vegas: At home with Courtney Mooney and Josh Rogers
- The local couple lives in historic digs with decor to match read article
The Intersection
- Why is Nevada putting murderers in cells with nonviolent offenders?
- Should Satan-possessed murderers be rooming with inmates with much less severe convictions? more
- The Flying Saucer invades Boulder City
- Find all things alien at the Boulder City business. more
- Five trucks we’d like to see
- With food and fashion on the road now, we offer up our suggestions of businesses that should consider going curbside. more
- Conversation starters: From strip clubs to breast-feeding baby
- Also, violent cops and a bankrupt housewife more
- The Cosmopolitan goes mobile with a big, purple truck
- Find it in a neighborhood near you for Cosmo giveaways and deals. more
- Football is back! Study up fast, fantasy players
- Condensed time frame has owners scrambling. more
- Black and white and sleek all over
- Striking accents for your home, minus the color more
- Zombiefy your face, pimp your screen or get squirrelly with the latest Apps
- Rick Lax reviews some great ways to waste time for 99 cents or less. more
- Betting: NFL wagering ‘way ahead’ of last year’s pace
- Point spreads move as teams’ lineups change. more
- Weight Watchers magazine gets its first male cover model—and he’s from Las Vegas
- The actual news in there is that Weight Watchers is finally highlighting the importance of weight loss for men. more
- Fashion on four wheels: Haute Chix takes its show on the road
- First there were sliders. Then there was BBQ. And now…clothes! more
- Random photo of the week
- Submitted by Lorene Duffy more
- The burning demand for Burning Man
- Sorry folks, desert’s full. more
- Four homicides. Two weeks. Should we be concerned?
- In nearly any neighborhood in America, this would be cause for serious alarm. more
Nightlife
- Hot Spots: Dev at Ditch, a beer tweet up at Ri Ra and more
- Also, Asher Roth takes the stage at Studio 54. more
- Is that a beer in your cocktail?
- Beer? In a cocktail? Believe it. more
- Yappy Hour: Happy hour isn’t just for humans anymore
- GTL: gym, tanning, leash? more
- Nightlife news & notes: A scotch tasting at Artisan and more
- Also, a wine walk that benefits Opportunity Village. more
Arts & Entertainment
- Adam Carolla on podcasting, Bryan Cranston and “tampering” with smoke detectors
- Adam Carolla has a show at House of Blues this week, but first he has a little ranting to do more
- What to read, what art to see and what concerts to go to this week
- On tap this week: Weezer in concert, the lastest ‘Game of Thrones’ book and circus art more
- ‘In and Out of Whack’ wonderfully twists grand and restrained art styles at CAC
- In literal terms, Hennessy works on a grand scale versus Karpman’s more discreet efforts. What’s more interesting is the shared inscrutability of both artists’ exhaustive ... more
- Spring Mountain’s Super Summer Theatre is a great way to get away
- The seasonal series still has two productions to go before closing until next summer. more
- Local artist breaks 10-year hiatus with ‘Barfing Rainbows’
- No, this exhibit isn’t as messy as it sounds. more
- Moments in time are captured in Marcos Rivera’s new exhibit
- What would a photo of this exact moment of your life look like? That’s the question Marcos Rivera seeks to answer in his new exhibit ... more
- ‘Tommy’ for the Green Day generation
- Ragtag Entertainment presents Tommy “for the Green Day generation” this month at Ovation inside the Green Valley Ranch. more
Screen
- Two horror flick events cater to a small but dedicated audience
- A film fest and a singular film screening add up to a weekend chock-full of horror. more
- Film review: ‘Project Nim’
- Documentary ‘Project Nim’ misses a golden opportunity to teach us about language more
- Film review: ‘The Change-Up’
- The latest body-swap comedy is neither novel nor funny enough to work more
- ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’: Not enough apes or rising
- Josh Bell thinks the newest ‘Planet of the Apes’ movie ends just when when it starts getting good more
- A few ideas to spice up local reality TV
- ‘Real Housewives of Downtown Las Vegas,’ anyone? more
Taste
- New York restaurant P.J. Clarke's is right at home on the Strip
- Lobster BLTs, Parmesan tater tots and steak frites. Hungry yet?
- Jet Tila takes on Iron Chef Morimoto
- ‘I wanted to kill a giant or be killed by one.’
- Chef Aaron Sanchez puts his stamp on House of Blues
- The New York chef’s menu facelift means bold new flavors.
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Soundcheck
- Ronnie Radke's latest album is impressively poppy and surprisingly diverse
- “I’m baaack!” Ronnie Radke cackles at the start of “Tragic Magic,” Track 2 on The Drug in Me Is You. It’s an apt summary of the album, the ex-Escape the ...
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- Yeah, one guy has released five albums this year. What have you accomplished?
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- Music writer Annie Zaleski reviews Incubus' latest CD
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Cocktail of the Week
Aug 2, 2011
by
Erin Ryan
Is that a beer in your cocktail?
Drinkers often draw a line between beer and booze, but they’re seriously missing out. Case in point: Bellagio’s Summer Shandy, a beer-based cocktail by award-winning mixologist Matthew Myers. After years ...
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