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BE MOONSTRUCK, POOLSIDE

It’s always a marvelous night for a moondance

Question and answer sessions

CINEVEGAS BLOWOUT!

Twenty-one movie reviews, a talk with director Mike Newell and embedded party coverage.  Everything you need to know about the city's top film festival

Beneath the buga

In his follow-up to
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
looks at the plight of Afghan women

Two virgins

The tragedy of wedding-night sex drives Ian McEwan’s short novel

Young at art

Don’t dismiss senior-citizen
exhibits—there’s more than watercolor going on

Hunan at Last

Great Chinese food, for the daring. Trust us about the steamed fish-head casserole.

The Ka

MASH-UP

a Weekly exclusive

COCKTAIL OF THE WEEK

Cocktail on a Stick
Various Locations, $6

ABSOLUT ENLIGHTENMENT

Leveling out in the coolest suite ever

Dj E Rock

DJ Name: E Rock Real Name: Eric Nagrampa Genre: Hip-hop, Top 40, mash-ups, rock, house. Year: 07 - present;  Club: Light, LV   Year: 07 ...

Xania's Hot Spots

This Week's Special Events

Not the Norm

No pool but plenty of porn -- this isn't your TV Cheers

Fun with politics: In over your head? Flee to Africa

When the going got tough, Dave Chappelle and Lynette Boggs headed to the Mother Land. A quick comparison of their field trips.

Black is the new black

Nothing says “summer reading” like train tragedies, political assassinations and Death in a cowboy hat

Special screenings

Stumbling into song

Once is a musical of the mundane

Nancy Drew

DOA: Dead or Alive

***
Jaime Pressly, Devon Aoki, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Eric Roberts
Directed by Corey Yuen
Rated PG-13
Opens Friday

Steel City

**
Tom Guiry, John Heard, America Ferrera, Clayne Crawford
Directed by Brian Jun
Rated R
Opens Friday

Jindabyne

**
Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Chris Haywood
Directed by Ray Lawrence
Rated R
Opens Friday

Three questions with Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

The Weekly playlist: Policing dark Waters

Dark Side of the Moon, allow us to introduce you to Synchronicity. “Roxanne,” meet “Money.” In a span of 24 hours the MGM Grand Garden ...

What did you Goo last summer?

Coming to town: Horse the Band

Coming to town: Jana Hunter

Coming to town: Kenny Loggins

Alt-Rock: Queens of the Stone Age

Goth: Marilyn Manson

Noise rock: Shellac

Punkish: John Doe

Indiemo: Straylight Run

Dream Zone for week of June 14-20

DVD REVIEW: Primeval

Get on the ball, DVD makers!

A few series we want to see on disc right now

Tony Soprano is the new Barbie

The series finalie left his in the limbo the perky toy doll inhabits

An awfully big career

Talking with Vanguard Award-winning director Mike Newell

It's not just the movies

CineVegas also has a lively party life
By Matthew Scott Hunter and Julie Seabaugh

ALL ENCOMPASSINGLY: VEGAS COMEDY

Meet Your Local Comic, Volume 1: Brandon Muller, Brandt Tobler, John Hilder and Honour Pillow

FABULOUS LAS VEGAS

The KA

The Ka

FABULOUS LAS VEGAS

Two virgins

CineVegas Review: Rocket Science

Connections

Google never forgets

From your search requests to its new Street Views, the Internet giant keeps
the past and present alive

Fun with politics: Political marriage

Sleuthing in the voter database to see my friends’ secrets

Fun with politics: CHOOSING YOUR CANDIDATES BY THEIR DITTIES

A brief history of campaign songs

Mortaiity: Here's where you go when you die

Living on at MyDeathSpace.com

Mortality: Three lessons from a mob guy

On the scene: The $7.3 milion neighborhood

A glimpse into how the other half lives

On the scene: Forecasting the new book from a weatherman-in-waiting

Horoscope: Peggy Plots Your Planets for the Week of June 14 - 20, 2007

Peggy Allison is the author of The Fundamentals of Astrology: A Comprehensive Guide for the Beginner. She is a professional astrologer who lives on St. ...

TRUST US

Week: June 14-20, 2007

Overheard in line...

“The Darfur documentary was interesting because it showed how the climate change is pushing them down from the North…”

Three questions with Debbie Harry...

Catching up with the New Wave icon as she prepares for the Vegas kickoff of the first True Colors Tour, set to raise money for ...

FABULOUS LAS VEGAS

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Music: Rules of the Game #2: Metal Clusters

Squaring up with challenges: The Horror has returned!

CineVegas Review: Tie a Yellow Ribbon

CineVegas Review: Have Love, Will Travel

CineVegas Review: The Living Wake

Rules Of The Game Followup #2: Paris Is Our Vietnam

By Frank Kogan Oh, bah, I was going to put off writing about Paris Hilton for weeks, if ...

CineVegas Review: Drama/Mex

In which we don’t reference anyone associated with chins, boomsticks or Spiderman cameos

Let’s imagine the most prominent B-movie actor of his generation screened a self-deprecating work-in-progress at CineVegas...

CineVegas Review: Throwing Stars

Further reading

Surf, turf and shop talk

Hawaiian-fusion joint Roy's hosted this afternoon's filmmaker's luncheon, featuring a appearance by fest chairman Dennis Hopper and obscene amounts of coffee consumption...

The four-movie day

CineVegas Review: Look

CineVegas Review: Viva

A star whore is born

I’ll readily admit it: I get giddy when I return from the bathroom to find Annette O’Toole standing behind my saved place in line...

The pros and cons of growth

FABULOUS LAS VEGAS

SCREWBALL: FANTASY BASEBALL LAS VEGAS STYLE

Fantasy Baseball a Real Hit in Vegas

The No-BS News, June 7

SORE THUMBS: WHAT’S NEW IN VIDEO GAMING

Dropping in at church

Jim and Tammy Faye's punk pastor son preaches at Community Lutheran

The Rules Of The Game: Joining in

Respected music and cultural critic Frank Kogan is beginning a column on lasvegasweekly.com in which he explores ... well, see for yourself in this first ...

CINEVEGAS 2007 EVENTS CALENDAR

Wednesday, June 6

• “Ocean’s 13” premiere and party.

• “The Grand” movie party at ...

Music: Rules of the Game, continued!

The Rules of the Game Followup #1: The Visceral Extends Its Domain

Full Screen Action

"a happy home": The new collection by Brian & Jennifer Henry (Trifecta Gallery

FULL SCREEN ACTION

Setting fires

Young Vegas promoter doubles up for second metal fest

Triumph’s triumph

KDT in“pre-shock” after winning Epic deal

Funeral For a Friend

Digitalism

Satellite Party

Chris Cornell

Paul McCartney

The Weekly Playlist: Please, please, please, Morrissey

On his current tour, Morrissey has plucked a few Smiths gems from his past—“The Queen Is Dead,” “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side,” ...

Journey From The Fall

Surf's Up

COCKTAIL OF THE WEEK

Ciroc Chic
CineVegas Parties
The Palms
subject to open bar

Venue death and rebirth

University Theatre out, Jillian’s back in music business

The No B-S News, June 6

Xania's Hot Spots

This week's special events

Special Screenings

DVD Corner

Time to rock the tube

"Blinded" Anew

A fresh twist on an old warhorse

Pretentious book cover of the week

Now that we look at it, the title is awfully precious, too

What we're eating now

Nothing our mothers would want us putting in our mouths

Family reunion

Not so happy wedding

Swords, sorcery and a farm

Reading two old masters, and a third new one

...and two more with the Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers

The longtime folk-rock duo jumps on the True Colors Tour for one show only—opening night in our humble burg.

Croon vs. Spoon

Noisettes

What's the Time Mr. Wolf? 3 stars

Hymns

Brother/Sister 3 stars

NIGHT ON THE CIRCUIT

The Hold Steady

Mash-Up

BEYOND THE ROPE: Jeremy Greenup

Dj Eric Forbes

DJ Name: ERIC FORBES Real Name: Eric Forbes Genre: Hip-hop, rock, mash-ups, house. Year: 07 - present;  Club: Cherry Pool, LV   Year: 07 - ...

Great Japanese food, by Koreans

Wherever it's from, the food at the Ka is top-notch.

Carnegie Deli

Cafe Martorano

Roadrunner Centennial

Horoscope: Peggy Plots Your Planets for the Week of June 7 - 13, 2007

Peggy Allison is the author of The Fundamentals of Astrology: A Comprehensive Guide for the Beginner. She is a professional astrologer who lives on St. ...

Dream Zone for week of June 7-13, 2007

Our Feature Presentation

Please silence your cell phone

Bruuuuuce! Chatting with low-budget legend Bruce Campbell

Winging it

Hollywood writer Zak Penn takes on improv in The Grand

The state of local filmmaking

Four directors chat about festivals, online video and why no one has made a great Vegas feature

He is the law

An in-character interview with Davy Force, aka TV Sheriff

Where are they now?

Tracking the fate of CineVegas winners past

CineVegas Schedule

All screenings are at the Brenden Theatres inside the Palms and are $10 for individual tickets, unless otherwise noted.

Squaring up with challenges - Great black hope?

Why Barack Obama’s best days are behind him.

Squaring up with challenges: Not just another show for Clint Holmes

Superbeasts

Fat, gun-toting Americans vs. thousand-pound pigs

Battle of the porn-peddlers

Stadium or dust bowl?

Downtowners worry about their future now that rezoning has begun

A brief expression of (unnecessary?) economic fret

Keeping it Legal:

On the scene with bureaucracy

TRUST US

Week: June 7-13, 2007

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The No-BS News, June 5

On the Media Horizon: ‘We Invest, You Decide’

10 Bands Vegas Needs to see!

TO LIVE & WORK IN LAS VEGAS

ALL ENCOMPASSINGLY: VEGAS COMEDY

Vegas’ TCF: No longer HBO’s Sole Fest in the West?

ALL ENCOMPASSINGLY: VEGAS COMEDY

Third Annual TCF: Seinfeld and Rock Announced as Headliners

FABULOUS LAS VEGAS

RICHARD ABOWITZ ON POP CULTURE

RICHARD ABOWITZ ON POP CULTURE

The No-BS News, June 4

SORE THUMBS: WHAT’S NEW IN VIDEO GAMING

SORE THUMBS: WHAT’S NEW IN VIDEO GAMING

SORE THUMBS: WHAT’S NEW IN VIDEO GAMING

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FABULOUS LAS VEGAS

RICHARD ABOWITZ ON POP CULTURE

No B-S News, June 1

Bettie Page Dreamtini

Bettie Page Dreamtini
Heart Bar Planet Hollywood Resort $7

SIMPLY EDITORIAL

An arranged marriage … and you’re invited

Screen- Short Takes

Short Takes

Replacements: Hey, that's not your band!

Oracle Bob

How well does Dylan understand America? Let’s keyword-search his lyrics at bobdylan.com!

FEAR AND LOATHING OFF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

FROM THE WILD DESERT TO A VEGAS STAGE WITH DISILLUSIONED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (AND COMEDIAN) DOUG STANHOPE

FABULOUS LAS VEGAS

Pregnant with feeling

Knocked Up has more on its mind than gross-out humor

Line Pass: HOLA, MAMIS

A first-look at the next in-mall, in-theater club offering

The No-BS News, May 31

Pastrami-palooza

Plenty of the classic sandwich meat, and other New York favorites, at Carnegie Deli

The Rules of the Game #1: Joining In

TO LIVE & WORK IN LAS VEGAS

SORE THUMBS: WHAT’S NEW IN VIDEO GAMING

TO LIVE & WORK IN LAS VEGAS

The Right stuff

Putting a new spin on gin in Las Vegas

DVD corner

Because otherwise it’s another night of Scrubs reruns

DVD Corner

Trippy Discs To Relieve A Few Hours Of Your Mundane Life

Spider nonsense

The latest web-slinging video game has plenty of swing, no zing

Signs of unwarranted optimism

Examining futile efforts to make life a little better