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SEPTEMBER 18 - SEPTEMBER 24
The Curator of the Erotic- She went from a Lutheran school in a small Texas town to director of a sex-based museum in Las Vegas, but Dr. Laura Henkel has no regrets read article
Can’t smile without you- A homeless woman, a nervous do-gooder and a guiding star: a Vegas story like no other (and like every other) read article
The Intersection
Rebel Recycler- It was the year after graduation, and Tara Pike was driving her go-kart against the wind, pulling a giant bin filled with a day’s worth ... more
Lowden Clear- Come November 4, we’ll know whether Nevada Republican Party chair Sue Lowden is Nero, sitting idly by as the empire burns, or the political version ... more
The best bet- By now you’ve probably heard so much about how John McCain and Barack Obama will restore our faith in government and have seen enough hit ... more
- The “thanks but no thanks” newspaper insert of the week
- Imagine our surprise when we opened our Sunday Review-Journal to find a free DVD bundled in. And imagine our even greater surprise when we popped ... more
Bad frogs- Clawed frogs—they may be the world’s only interesting-sounding amphibian. But they’re also illegal in Nevada—they jack up the ecosystem—and last week state game wardens fined ... more
- Star Blight(1 comment)
- I was pushing my editor at a major newspaper hard last week to let me do a piece on Donny and Marie Osmond’s surprising resurgence ... more
Nightlife
Have a gay ‘ol time- With adolescent awkwardness and popularity contests out of the way, it’s time to give prom (yet) another chance. The Fourth Annual Vegas Prom is on ... more
Relax, Comrade- I’ve never known much about Russian culture. In college, our studies focused almost exclusively on Europe, so most of what I know about the former ... more
So fresh and so clean- 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 ... more
Arts & Entertainment
A band grows in Brooklyn- Caleb Lindskoog and his band The Silver State pause after their first song last Friday night at the Beauty Bar. A Republic Services garbage truck ... more
World-beat hoedown- Outside the Beauty Bar on Saturday night, two young women in black-and-white shirts and black berets smoked cigarettes like a pair of striped bookends. more
Rabbit hunting- As the ridiculously tall and lanky Andrew Karasa sits behind his drum kit, something seems out of place. more
Four questions with The Dwarves lead singer Blag Dahlia- “You know, we enjoy it, and we do it really well because we’re older and we come from a period where punk rock was a ... more
Righteous anger- Graham Greene called them “entertainments.” Ian McEwan says his own brief books are “one-sitting reads.” Neither term, however, conveys the swift, jagged density Philip Roth ... more
The long haul- Philip Roth may have roared onto the American literary scene on the back of the sexual revolution, but all the exuberant carnality of his early ... more
Tickling the ivories- We Las Vegans know that Liberace is still with us—his exuberant personality is writ large in the soul of the city. This Sunday it gets ... more
Sipping into something comfortable- He’s here, like, always. Yet Kevin Downey Jr. brings something new to the table—or rather, to the bar top—every time. more
Screen
Difficult questions- Race in America is such an inherently combustible subject that Hollywood rarely goes anywhere near it without using comedy as a skittish safety net. Which ... more
Keith- There’s a kind of weird perversion behind the love story at the center of Keith. That love conquers all hardly removes the acrid taste of ... more
Igor- The horror and family genres make an uneasy combo. The trouble is that the middle ground between the two is very narrow, and the results ... more
Ghost Town- Ricky Gervais makes a serious play for Jim Carrey-level stardom in Ghost Town, a resolutely mainstream comedy that just barely gets by on Gervais’ sarcastic ... more
Yeah, we’re lookin’ at you—both of you- So let’s start with Heat. 1995. Michael Mann’s mammoth crime drama revolves around the meaty existential showdown between two men. more
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Taste
- Waistbands beware
Transplants love to bring their native comfort foods with them, as witnessed by the proliferation of restaurants in this Valley from places such as Hawaii and Chicago. I can say that in general, most of them are shadowy approximations of the originals, Xeroxed Xerox copies without a soul, poseurs with …
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Minnesota hip-hop group comes to the HOB
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James
- In America, most considered James a whimsical Brit-pop act, thanks to the ubiquity of 1993’s coyly sexual “Laid.”
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Jessica Simpson
- There are many reasons Jessica Simpson failed at pop music: Her song choices were laughable, her voice was unremarkable, and she didn’t have even a sniff of charisma. Shockingly, “goin’ ...
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Metallica
- Metallica’s last album, 2003’s St. Anger, with its raw, messy, unfocused songs and dingy production, was like group therapy on CD, and spoke to the personal demons that the band ...
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Cocktail of the Week
Sep 18, 2008
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Xania Woodman
Oktoberfest Beer
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 ...
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