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  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009

    For the Cadillac of margs, Isla’s Tequila Goddess (long may she reign) selected the Cadillac of tequilas to delight tequila connoisseurs with an affordable indulgence.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009

    According to the IRS, the presenters at the 81st annual Academy Awards last Sunday, though donating their time and image, and despite being handed their clothes by designers and bedecked with enough loaner diamonds to bail out a flagging automotive industry, were indeed—strangled gasp!—“working.”

  • Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009

    Behold, Xania’s Hot Spots, the Guerilla Promoter Edition, from the fliers stacked on my windshield to your computer screen:

  • Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009

    If you've ever wondered what a bar would look like if it were modeled after a mojito, hold on to your barstools, Vegas—you're about to find out.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009

    Hard to pronounce but easy to enjoy, cachaça (ka-SHAH-sah) is Brazilian rum distilled from freshly pressed sugarcane.

  • Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009

    Cocktailians of the world, unite! Las Vegas' first ever dedicated weekly mixology party is coming—Social Mixology, Tuesday nights at the Artisan Bar.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

    There’s a holiday coming up?! Time to visit Noir Bar’s Ken Hall, the holiday-cocktail go-to-guy who created this drinkable dessert.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

    Though the details of the era when speakeasies ruled have faded into history,l the more romantic notions of illicit tipples, flappers and bathtub gin continue to ignite the fires of our imaginations.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009

    Lying on my back, drunk as the mint in a Julep, I’m still picking pink bachelorette boa fuzz off the black, felt-covered mechanical bull above me.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009

    Seeing the need for a "superior cider," Original Sin founder Gidon Coll spent his days in upstate New York tasting and his nights in Manhattan, testing out his new creation, a crisp, sophisticated cider with 6% alcohol and an enviable mixability (try it with lager or stout!)

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009

    Team Hangover had better things to do than attend last week's "Blondetourage" party at Tao. Here's what:

  • Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

    How’s that resume looking? And your intro letter? What about your abs? Because that’s really what it’s gonna take to get hired at some of Vegas’ hottest pools, most of which will be opening in mid-March.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

    Medieval alchemists searched their whole lives for an elixir of life … Turns out adding the St-Germain made all the difference!

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009

    For the first year in recent memory (three years, to be exact), Tao Group did not hold its 10-day roster of wild and crazy nights at Park City’s Harry-O’s nightclub during the Sundance Film Festival.

  • Monday, Jan. 26, 2009

    Latin Salsa sensations Gilberto Santa Rosa and Victor Manuelle will perform an exclusive engagement at the soft opening of ND's Fuego (formerly Club Rio) as part of their current tour "Gilberto Santa Rosa & Victor Manuelle Show, La Historia Continua".

  • Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009

    It doth! Club Rio will reopen as ND's Fuego from soon-to-be nightclub magnate Nicole Durr.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009

    Las Vegans are used to getting it any time, any place (every place!), in any combination, at every volume and at any hour: booze.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009

    When the Pear Bureau of the Northwest put out a call for pear recipes and cocktails,  decorated Vegas flair bartender and molecular mixologist Steve Dorsey (2008 FBA Blue Blazer mixology champion) answered that call with his submission, The Lucky Pear

  • Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009

    Everyone's favorite little snow bunny, Paris Hilton, is in rare form this year, parading around in pink, bunny-inspired cold-weather gear (think floppy ears).

  • Nightlife

    Friday, Jan. 16, 2009

    To the Urban Dictionary: Collectively describing women who professionally use their bodies for monetary gain, also known as hookers.

  • Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009

    Attention hipsters, scenesters, electro junkies, ravers, music snobs, sneaker heads, indie-ites, and you, the kid who can’t be left out. It’s now safe to venture south of Downtown.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009

    From 51 stories above the gritty city, the Voodoo Lounge is getting an upgrade, a unique twist on bottle service that starts you off with your choice of liquors, such as top-shelf vodka, gin or tequila.

  • Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008

    A head-spinning, calendar-filling, dizzying line-up of New Year's parties to satisfy every taste and party style.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008

    A verrry distant cousin of the Mojito, the Caipirinha and the Batida is the Bearded Clam, created by Frankie's Tiki Room by bartender Alice Hartling. This one gets two skulls on Frankie's five-skull potency rating.

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008

    On a prominent VIP table, a massive menorah blazes, a first in VIP-table history, I’d imagine.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008

    Noir mixologist Andrew Pollard was given carte blanche by the Weekly to come up with the dreamiest cocktail possible for your big holiday soiree.

  • New Years

    Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008

    A head-spinning, calendar-filling, dizzying line-up of New Year's parties to satisfy every taste and party style.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008

    Wondering what to do with those leftover cans of pumpkin puree in the pantry, the bowl of decorative mini-pumpkins and all those seasonal spices? Then let your belt out another notch and try this sweet little number on for size.

  • Nights on the Circuit

    Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008

    5. Don't whip it out too early. (Of course, I’m referring to your business card…)

  • Nightlife

    Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008

    “Yes, we can!” We can drink Scotch with Thanksgiving dinner.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008

    Domaine de Canton incorporates the world's first super-premium ginger liqueur and is currently tearing up the autumn cocktail charts.

  • Friday, Nov. 7, 2008

    The news reached Team Hangover Thursday evening and was confirmed by a source within Light Group that the blockbuster nightlife group famous for its fertile quadrangle at Bellagio is now adding The Beatles Revolution Lounge to its portfolio.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008

    Essentially, The Obamarama is just a blueberry lemonade and The Maverick is just a raspberry white tea…but when, in the history of politics, has anything ever been plainly stated?!

  • Dining

    Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

    The era of bootlegging ended long ago, but true cocktail aficionados will tell you if you want something done right, sometimes you gotta do it yourself.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

    Noir Bar mixologist/bartender Ken Hall—maker of all things dessert into drinkable delectables—once again hits a homer with his Twix, just one in a series of candy bar-inspired cocktails available this Halloweekend.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

    The Tequila Temptresses will caramelize fresh fruit with sugar and the Grand Marnier, effectively "grilling" it with a hand-torch.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

    Say "cocktail" and I'm on my way. Say "cookie" and I'm running! Dessert cocktails are hot!

  • Nights on the Circuit

    Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

    Hot girls holding hands is a good sign. So I follow them to CatHouse, where Vegas is experiencing its first-ever gay-centric weekly party.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008

    None of a blueberry’s natural antioxidants actually make it through the re-distillation process into this blueberry-flavored vodka. But throw in a handful of fresh blueberries, and you’ve got yet another reason to toast your good health!

  • Nights on the Circuit

    Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008

    We give bad milk a second chance. Though our eyes might be swimming in our heads, we go back in for a second whiff, just to be sure.

  • Nights on the Circuit

    Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

    There are two sides to every prom: There’s the dreamy, romantic image of what the night will bring, coupled with anticipatory outings to check things off a fantasy shopping list. And then there’s what really happens.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

    Trick or treat! Okay, just practicing. October gets me in the mood for fall, fall gets me in the mood for Halloween, and Halloween gets me in the mood for inappropriately orange drinks and shots called Boo-Berry and such.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

    Almost as frightening as the idea of motocross legend Carey Hart’s first aerial backflip attempt is the Wasted Space owner’s favorite drink.

  • Nights on the Circuit

    Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

    Maybe it was stolen, like Deanna’s purse at Seamless afterhours. Or maybe I “gave it up” like one does one’s virginity … and forgot about it. Or maybe I’ve just misplaced it over time, over too many meandering relationships.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

    When Lavo’s imminent arrival was in doubt—thanks to construction delays caused by lawsuits and their ensuing appeals—I wondered if all was lost. It was probably the closest this little Jewish girl ever came to despairing that Christmas might never come.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

    Why wait till October? Oktoberfest—only one of the biggest parties on the planet (German-speaking and otherwise)—kicked off on Saturday, September 13 with a little help from our friends Siegfried and Roy.

  • Nights on the Circuit

    Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008

    We’re not in Vegas anymore, Toto. Hell, we’re not even on this planet. Rain nightclub slipped the surly bonds of Earth around 11:30 p.m.—aided in part by a sexy onscreen flight attendant—to touch the face of a god of progressive trance music, Paul Oakenfold.

  • Cocktail of the Week

    Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008

    Having found a cocktail that simply must be experienced, I also found that I could share it with friends by way of Sushisamba’s too-cute Cocktail Tree. Twelve branches offer up as many respectable servings of up to three different cocktails.

  • Nightlife

    Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaack! OhsweetJesusohmyGod. Ugh.” I honestly haven’t thrown up from anything that wasn’t germ-related in a long, long time. But it’s Saturday morning and I’m mid-Labor. (No, not like that.) Mid-Labor Day weekend.

  • Nights on the Circuit

    Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

    Why no one else has tried to set a record for the most simultaneous lap dances is beyond me. It’s beyond Scores Las Vegas as well, which is why tonight Scores has set the stage to videotape a Guinness World Records attempt to do just that.