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Home brewer Eric Villareal is an engineer by day—and a confessed beer geek by night

This home brewer puts out an amazing product with only about $100 worth of equipment. more

Nine of our favorite local brews

Support your local economy by drinking these locally made brews. more

A look at upcoming beer-related events in Southern Nevada

Tastings, fundraisers and more! more

Bypassing reality (and the Hoover Dam)

The Mike O’Callahan-Pat Tillman Bridge may mean traffic headaches for Boulder City, but no one we talked to gives a crap more

Fresh & Easy is closing stores; why can’t it be the payday lenders?

Here are some other overexposed phenomena that should be scaled back. more

Walleska EcoChicc stresses sustainability in all its products

Walleska Tepping wants to turn your pop tab into a handbag. more

Las Vegas will soon lose one of its true unsung heroes to ALS

Bob Forbuss is known for remaining cool and steady in virtually any situation. more

The Cosmopolitan’s writing on the wall

The new resort’s underground art installation isn’t geared toward mass appeal, and that’s the best part more

Notes from BlogWorld

Rick Lax on tweeters, texters and stereotypes more

Thinking about fro-yo, Hispanics that look more Asian and more!

Also, who benefits from moving the Gift of Lights? (Spoiler: No one.) more

Transforming T-shirts

Wanna get cut? XXXL shirts aren’t just for sleepwear anymore. more

What did you want to be when you grew up?

The Weekly digs deep. more

The ghetto blaster returns in a new guise

Grandma’s luggage has never been so badass. more

Random photo of the week

Submitted by Erik Chudy more

Dream Zone: ‘my mother had a lion’

When the lion started to get up, I started running! more

As We See It

Nightlife

Vive la France! Bob Sinclar played to a keen crowd at Haze

Who the f—k is Bob Sinclar? more

Hot Spots: T-Pain, beer pong, early Halloween parties and continued Jersey-fication

A plethora of parties for all palates this week! more

A frightful libation

What’s more frightening? This cocktail or haunted houses? more

Nightlife news & notes: Deadmau5 recap, new all-ages venue, ‘Fallout’ party

Mau5 in the hou5e, Wayne Newton parties with Vampire Weekend, and DJing goes to the dogs. more

After years away, Genever is back at the bar

Genever is its own category of spirit and it hasn’t hit American soil since Prohibition, before which it had apparently dominated cocktail culture. more

Nightlife

Arts & Entertainment

Chatting with Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler

Interpol’s Daniel Kessler discusses Las Vegas, missing Matador at 21 and the band’s recent album and tour. more

Dammit, Onyx! Why’d you make us wait this long for ‘Rocky Horror’?

it’s still refreshing to watch a performance that honestly aims to entertain its audience. more

Alice in Chains, Deftones and Mastodon span two decades of heavy

Representing three significant movements in hard rock over the last two decades, Alice in Chains, Deftones and Mastodon joined forces for the final night of ... more

Kings of Leon’s fifth LP might be its most radical departure yet

With each new album, Kings of Leon isn’t afraid to nudge its sound into uncharted territory more

Mad about Mid Mod

Thank you, Don and Betty Draper. Seriously. more

My weekend in and among the world of ‘Off the Strip’

Now in its second year, this mini-festival of performance and video work is unpredictable, ambitious and raw, beautifully reflecting in one fell swoop the joy ... more

Kid Meets Cougar, take two

The local electro-dance duo is taking a hiatus. more

What to watch and where to go this week

We’ve got Glee tackling Rocky Horror and Judge Judy being, well, Judge Judy. more

Checklist: Anastasia Synn, needle impaler/light bulb eater/fire breather

What is this performer’s preferred brand of staple? more

A&E

Screen

‘Lost Boy’ Corey Feldman is back!

Corey Feldman hosts the Lost Boys Ball at the House of Blues. more

‘Hereafter’ is the world’s dullest meditation on the afterlife

Hereafter touts its own profundity at every turn, from its muted color palette to its maudlin score to its cheap use of real-life disasters as ... more

‘Stone,’ starring De Niro, Norton and Jovovich, is unusually bracing

Not that there’s some big twist or anything—you just wouldn’t expect this kind of high-concept, star-driven American film to be so relentlessly interior. more

Education doc ‘Waiting for Superman’ fuels outrage

“Superman” successfully jerks your tears and fuels your outrage, but it’s more a recruiting tool than a movie. more

‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’ will delight Woody Allen fans

The movie’s story of romantic frustration among upper-class Londoners is hardly original, but it finds Allen ruminating seriously on aging and regret. more

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