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  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

    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 a casting call for Rent.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009

    With just 130 calories per serving, Fever Stimulation Beverage is said to be “making healthy sexy.”

  • Dining

    Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009

    Vegas happens to be home to some very creative individuals behind its bars, so for the pizza issue, we quickly assembled a crack team of mixologists to tackle the novelty notion of a pizza cocktail.

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

    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 up and taking notice? All right, flair, I’m listening.

  • television

    Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009

    Shooting for the second season of bartender battle "On The Rocks" commenced on Monday, October 19 in Las Vegas. This year representing Las Vegas is Wynn bartender/mixologist Darby Kelly.

  • Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009

    Just make sure you're properly groomed, OK?

  • Nightlife

    Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009

    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 nightclub’s marketing director.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009

    “Muddling is a bartending nightmare,” says Purista creator Michael Hensel. “It’s fine if the place is empty, but when your bar is eight customers deep, you can’t make sophisticated cocktails perfectly balanced without putting the customer on hold.”

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009

    It's just your typical Wednesday night at Body English, really... Until Xania whips out a vibrator.

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009

    It was a long night last Wednesday, and the end to an even longer grassroots election campaign for the Las Vegas Prom’s 2009 prom-court nominees. Wet Republic’s pool deck was decked out with balloons, a photo backdrop and a sky full of stars for prom-goers to party under.

  • Nightlife

    Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009

    The Hard Rock's new 15,000-square-foot nightclub, Vanity, is slated to open New Year's Eve and likely to make sinning all the more stylish.

  • Monday, Oct. 12, 2009

    If you’re going to come to Vegas to blow a million, why not do it on someone else’s dime?!

  • Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009

    When the party pools close for the season where do their tanned and toned staffers go? Utah, apparently.

  • Nightlife

    Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009

    Mojitos and Caipirinhas and Pisco Sours, oh my! Margaritas in every flavor and fashion (though we pray not by the yard)!

  • Nightlife

    Friday, Oct. 9, 2009

    Wondering why your bartender is sporting an especially close shave this evening? Listen up, ye other liquor companies: This is how you treat your ‘tenders!

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009

    This custom cabernet sauvignon blend, created by food and wine aficionados is full of ripe fruit, lush tannins and good intensity.

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009

    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 as "home of the free lapdance."

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009

    “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 as a cosplay schoolgirl.

  • Entertainment

    Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

    Xania Woodman faces two of Fright Dome's scariest haunted houses... and cries.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009

    The super-smooth double- and triple-distilled tequila performed well in the fruity Karma Sutra cocktail served up in the Karma lounge, as well as in the lively Karma and Tonic.

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

    If Vegas was last year’s dark horse in the running to win the first season of On the Rocks, then Season 2 is shaping up to be Vegas’ time to shine as a gracious two-time host city.

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

    This Friday, eight of Las Vegas' best dark/alternative DJs throw down in four epic battles.

  • Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009

    What was hot in this year’s Andre Agassi Grand Slam goodie bag? Xania Woodman dives in.

  • Nightlife

    Monday, Sept. 28, 2009

    What is a VIP host if not your best friend when you have a client in town? When there is Patron to kill? When there’s a bachelorette party en route? The winners of the first annual VIP Host Awards are...

  • Monday, Sept. 28, 2009

    Lifehouse loves Las Vegas! And other things learned at the band's concert at Mandalay Bay Beach on Saturday night.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009

    Pooches, blow up dolls and scuba gear: The Grotto's Hot Tub Challenge saw it all. See the winners here.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009

    This is it! This is the town. Contrary to what Galileo preached, for these Las Vegans, Sin City is the center of the universe—everything else simply revolves around it in jealous awe.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009

    The nightlife scene has had to let a number of Las Vegans spread their wings and fly (or drive or run) away over the last few years. Since then, they’ve traveled far and wide to discover their paths. Recently, we asked them to send back word of their journeys.

  • Features

    Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009

    In the 2006 nightlife issue, the Weekly interviewed four sets of brothers (one of them twins!) who all worked in the Vegas nightlife industry. Three years later, we check back in.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

    Revelations in celebration of Bourbon Heritage Month!

  • Nightlife

    Monday, Sept. 21, 2009

    The "traveling speakeasy" is heading back to Vegas to celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month with fresh cocktails and twisted classics. And only the Weekly is spilling the where and when.

  • Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

    In Las Vegas, Halloween is a week-long affair, and it's never too early to start planning your costume-clad party schedule.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009

    Darren West’s Run for the Roses is the ideal expression of Bellagio’s very good taste in bourbon.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009

    The role of Tao Beach’s water boy is to entertain, to get the party started and to dole out a refreshing mist to the pool’s roasting hens.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009

    We the People, in order to form a perfect bar, seek to establish Cachaça as “Cachaça, Brazil’s Noble Spirit.”

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

    Three bartending contests will serve up over $30,000 in prizes over the coming months for those who can mix, shake and pour.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009

    Suicide or accidental overdose, DJ AM robbed himself of a future and us of the chance to see just how bright his star could someday shine. It’s the very definition of a tragedy.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009

    Bourbon Heritage Month continues with the Silverton’s take on the classic Old Fashioned, traditionally made with an orange slice, lemon twist and maraschino cherries.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009

    It’s not “labor” if you’re in a cabana, right?

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009

    Las Vegas is positively heartbroken over the loss of DJ AM, for though he was world-renowned, Adam Goldstein had very quickly became a Las Vegan through his years of residencies at Pure and Rain.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009

    It’s not so much that GQ magazine snubbed Sin City in this month’s list of "The 10 Best Drinking Cities in America." It’s that ... okay, yes, it’s that they snubbed us.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009

    September being National Bourbon Month, it's time to pick up a proper glass to toast America's native spirit. First stop: Adam Carmer’s Whisky Attic.

  • Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009

    The County Commission today approved a short extension to Prive's 30-day temporary liquor license.

  • Nightlife

    Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009

    Local beverage industry insiders will be weighing in on the second annual Ultimate Cocktail for the Cure mixology competition.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

    Though it will remain summery here for some time, we want to bid adieu to that season with a classic porch-sipper, an ode to those icons of summer picnics and barbecues, lemonade and watermelon.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

    In 2003 Tracy started Flaunt Entertainment, a go-go, model and special-act booking agency, and in 2005 created the Flaunt Foxxes, a collaboration of 20 of her top go-gos, the “A Team.”

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

    Vegas, not big enough for two gay pool parties? Vegas?!

  • Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009

    We, the drinkers of Las Vegas, wanted to pass on to you our sincere condolences. Only a serious tragedy could have caused the lapse in judgment that led you to leave Las Vegas out of your story, The 10 Best Drinking Cities in America.

  • Planet Hollywood

    Monday, Aug. 24, 2009

    An unauthorized elevator is to blame for Privé's latest citation. Could the bottom be falling out for the embattled nightclub?

  • Friday, Aug. 21, 2009

    Privé nightclub is cleared to re-enter the Vegas nightlife scene - for 30 days anyway.