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OCTOBER 22 - OCTOBER 29

The Intersection

Who’s behind the “God” billboard along I-15?(3 comments)

In Sin City, it is no surprise to see billboards with scantily clad women that read “Totally Nude” or “Topless Club.” But not even a ... more

Random photo of the week

It’s all about the accessories. more

Fresh, yes; easy, we’ll see(1 comment)

Notes on Alice Waters, local growing and the slow-food movement. more

RT This! #bombscare

Journalist Ky Plaskon live-tweets a bomb scare. more

Back to basics—and Garth(1 comment)

Garth Brooks will sell out every seat of every show for however long he appears at the Wynn Las Vegas. Period. But there’s more to ... more

Other suggested wordings: How should UNLV relabel its fake Stella painting?

“If the school doesn’t destroy the painting or take it out, [Stella’s attorney, Neale] Albert suggests a placard to hang next to the work: ‘This ... more

The airport connector ain’t the tunnel of love

Look, it didn’t take a nickel’s worth of foresight to see that the tunnel would be this heavily used. Because it’s not a shortcut, with ... more

Suggestion Box: Represent the voters, Reid

The fate of health-care reform may rest soundly within the hands of Harry Reid, who as we speak is being pressured by progressives to include ... more

The Help Desk

Unemployment in Las Vegas climbs to 13.9 percent. We’re not saying it’s bad, but we just saw a guy in a suit offering to squeegee ... more

As We See It

Nightlife

Bottle-flippers saving our economy? Crazier things have happened

I’m quite over flair. And yet, like a tide or a boomerang, it keeps coming back. So perhaps it is I who should be sitting ... more

A Saturday night with Satan(1 comment)

Your first costumed stop for Halloweek should be Devil’s Night XII, the underground dance party so sinful it’s practically satanic. more

Confessions of a mid-gamer: The social cost of drinking for free(5 comments)

While out for a night of clubbing, Rick Lax tries unsuccessfully to woo a lady… one penny at a time. more

Moquin it work: The girls of summer—the migration continues

After three years at Bare Pool Lounge, marketing director Kalika Moquin is hanging up her bikini and heading for dry land to become The Bank ... more

Nightlife

Arts & Entertainment

Lab Partners: Modern Science prepares for CMJ fest(1 comment)

Kane Churko admits that an offer for his Vegas band to play the CMJ Music Marathon felt a little like a scam. more

Imagine Dragons(10 comments)

At present, fast-rising quintet Imagine Dragons appears the most logical contender for next corporate music phenomenon. more

Steel Panther

Steel Panther’s Feel The Steel is so bad it isn’t even funny. more

The Originators

The Originators appear to have settled into the role of surf-beaten bar band coaxing the final foamy spurts from the ska keggerator. more

Taking Dawn takes Vegas

Taking Dawn’s throwback hard-rock act is clearly going places. more

Count on Dusty to reel ’em in

Less than a week after the first Las Vegas Rumble barely drew 30 bodies to the Aruba Showroom, a crowd of some 120 has flocked ... more

The Flaming Lips

Embryonic feels willfully obscure, an album full of cluttered noise and sounds thrown together with little regard for, well, anything. more

Built to Spill

Doug Martsch sounds tired. more

Lyle Lovett

Lyle Lovett is holding back. more

Flavor of Chinatown

American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods chronicles Chinese communities in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu and … Las Vegas? more

James Ellroy, thinking machine

“I see myself as emblematic of extreme drive and ambition and focus.” more

Seeing more of Marge

Two thoughts on the occasion of Marge Simpson flashing some nip in Playboy. more

Spookiest Halloween costume?

Puscifer. Slipknot. Rob Zombie. Mitch Albom. Which of these acts—all in town this week—would help you scare up the most candy? more

Handel lends a hand

George Frideric Handel can help you. Here’s how. more

Landscape exhibit pairs perfectly with Springs Preserve

Everything about Robert Beckmann: Elemental Landscape dovetails beautifully: luminous landscape paintings, the Big Springs gallery at the Springs Preserve, a breezy October morning. more

A&E

Screen

“A Serious Man” proves to be seriously impressive

The Coen brothers are in top form with newest flick, A Serious Man. more

The Cove

If you’re looking to be entertained, forget The Cove. more

Amelia

Amelia Earhart was a woman in a male-dominated field, and Amelia beats that fact into the ground until it coughs up blood. more

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