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JUNE 25 - JULY 1
Desert flow- As the hip-hop scene continues to expand in Las Vegas, more budding rap artists are cutting their ... read article
Travel Issue: Tijuana charming- Going to see La Mona in the city beyond the clichés. read article
The Travel Issue: It is this much space that gets us into trouble- Contemplating the big empty in Lathrop Wells with the mysterious Jimmy K read article
The Intersection
The view from Ensign’s hair- Whereas the senator is deceitful, the Hair is steadfast. Whereas the man commits hypocrisy—in public, family-values warrior; in private, doing a married employee—the Hair remains ... more
This week’s damn fine idea: Annex Neonopolis- Given Mayor Goodman’s announcement it’ll be impossible to build a new city hall, a recent visit to the mostly empty Neonopolis has put the obvious ... more
- Suggestion box: Advice for the Las Vegas Review Journal
- It is with the greatest interest that we’ve followed the saga of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s handling of a federal subpoena seeking to identify people ... more
Ask Dead Elvis: What’s the deal with Mayor Goodman’s showgirls?- Who are the lovely ladies who appear with Mayor Goodman at so many ribbon-cutting ceremonies and other promotional functions? more
Red-carpet blues(1 comment)- To many in the press, what started as the media using the Vegas clubs for celebrity material quickly twisted into the clubs using the media ... more
A tragic statistic- Crimes against children are on the rise, but let’s not be so quick to blame the recession. more
- What’s up with What’s On?(2 comments)
- Usually when newspapers or magazines are struggling financially, they look to cut back on costs. They may curtail their freelance budgets. Local entertainment magazine What’s ... more
LuPone’s showstopper(2 comments)- When the Broadway diva chastised a texter, it highlighted problems with Vegas audiences. more
Random photo of the week- Blackjack never looked so good… er… cheap. more
- The Help Desk
- John Ensign admits to nine-month-long affair with campaign aide. However, he still hasn’t admitted to his nine-year-long screwing of the Nevada education system. Husband of ... more
Nightlife
The youthful rush of hookah- Now I’m grown up, and I’d long forgotten the feeling of being a princess inside a cloth palace … until I went to the Hookah ... more
Roots rock- Mega-producer Jermaine Dupri returns to his DJ beginnings and talks about spinning at Privé, his new Ocean’s 7 project, why he loves Vegas and how ... more
Culling the herd- If a drink is poured in a speakeasy, and there’s no one around to drink it, does the bar make any money? more
T&T—tacos and tatts- Somewhere around our third trip through the Mischieve photo booth it occurred to me that the members of Team Hangover were doing exactly what T&T ... more
Arts & Entertainment
Celebrating Roth- Thirty years after Kelly Roth & Dancers’ New York debut, the company will present a retrospective of dances and multimedia projects created by its choreographer ... more
- What off-season?
- Now in its third season, this breezy spy drama has developed a level of character complexity slowly over time, nicely complementing its standalone stories of ... more
Smithsonian of smut - The Erotic Heritage Museum—a vast emporium of objects, movie posters, paintings and videos—is a sort of Smithsonian of smut. It disappoints in some ways, but ... more
Not just dickin’ around - In HBO’s Hung, Ray (played by Thomas Jane) is a divorced high school teacher who is inspired by a self-help seminar that encourages participants to ... more
Chatting with Artie Lange- “I had a bad cocaine problem in the ’90s. The last five years have been heroin. Opiates and booze. I think I’ve gotten to the ... more
Books I couldn’t finish: Andre the Giant: A Legendary Life- In our new segment, “Books I Couldn’t Finish,” we’re going to tell you how many pages we got through and why we couldn’t get through ... more
Big, bad ping-pong bats?!- The world of table tennis is where the real action is. Think I’m kidding? Tagged as the “biggest, baddest throwdown,” the Las Vegas HardBat Classic, ... more
Scenes from Jesse Nabers’ The Exciting Sounds of Al Martino photo exhibit opening-night reception- “I like the one where I’m giving the double salute. That’s my essay to the world. I think it says it all …” more
60-second video critic- Move over Toni Basil and Ryan Pardey’s murderous Santa Claus; there’s a new contender for Vegas’ best-ever music video. more
Preparing for takeoff- For Las Vegas-based rock band Theory of Flight, playing music isn’t about success or accolades. “It’s about creating something you’re super proud of,” says lead ... more
HighDro by the numbers (June 17 at the Bunkhouse) - “I grew up in hard times. I got into reading, I got into reggae, and it completely changed what I felt. People always said, ‘Oh, ... more
A few words about our new TV show, 702.tv- The charge is simple but not necessarily easy: Capture the news and energy of Las Vegas and convey that information in a way that is ... more
Learning From Las Vegas, 2.0- The authors of the famous architectural book revisit Sin City. more
Screen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen delivers the “more”- You can say this for Michael Bay: He delivers what he promises. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is everything the original was and more. “More,” ... more
My Sister’s Keeper - My Sister’s Keeper is a perfect example of a disease-of-the-week movie done wrong. more
A breezy trip- Faced with an uncertain future both terrifying and exciting, happy couple Burt and Verona set off on a trip to find a new place in ... more
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Taste
- Making sense of Mezzo
It’s the chalkboard. Posted high on the wall next to the kitchen in a quaint and comfortable dining room, all Tuscan’d out with wooden chairs, smooth brown tones and a long wine bar, is the specials board, and everything on it is pretty damn good.
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Wednesday
2009-07-01
Yellow Brick Road performs at Ovation at Green Valley Ranch
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2009-07-01
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2009-07-01
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2009-07-06
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2009-07-07
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2009-07-07
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Box Elders
- Mother’s Little Helpers would have been a more fitting band name, as this 14-track/30-minute fuzzy-pop barrage worships at the feet of the early Stones and Kinks.
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Moby
- In Moby’s own words, his ninth studio album, Wait for Me, is “more mournful” than many of his previous efforts.
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Killswitch Engage
- On KSE’s self-titled fifth album, vocalist Howard Jones sounds like he’s gone through a seriously rough patch, but wearing his bloody heart on his sleeve is exactly what he does ...
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Cocktail of the Week
Jun 25, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Honey Old Fashioned
It’s a drink so classic, so good that the glass had to take its name! First’s take on the Honey Old Fashioned ($7) lightens things up with sweet American Honey ...
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