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Best Neighborhood Arrival: Andre’s Bistro
The fine French stalwart made a welcome debut in the southwest Valley.
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Readers' Choice—Best Vegas Chef: Chris Santos at Beauty & Essex
He's on Chopped when he's not in the kitchen.
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Best Strip Arrival: Momofuku
The cool Cosmo restaurant lives up to the hype.
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Most Inventive Coffee Shop: Bad Owl
This Henderson hangout pays homage to Harry Potter.
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Best Alternative Pool Party: The Aquatic Club
Palazzo's sophisticated new water offering is for grown-ups.
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Readers' Choice—Best Sushi Spot: I Love Sushi
It's been one of the Valley's most popular sushi stops for a long time.
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Readers' Choice—Best Coffeehouse: Sambalatte
There are three locations around the Valley.
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Reader's Choice—Best Music Venue: Brooklyn Bowl
Is it the calendar? The vibe? Whatever it is, it's working.
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Best Instant Brunch: Lulu’s Bread & Breakfast
The pulled pork-cornbread Benedict is a thing of beauty.
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Best Transplanted Regional Favorite: Giordano’s
Vegas needed Chicago deep-dish pie.
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Best Pre-Show Downtown Meal: Cornish Pasty
Live music sounds better on a belly full of stuffed-doughy goodness.
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Best New French Escape: La Maison de Maggie
It's a slice of southern France in the middle of the desert.
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Best Butcher Shop: The Butcher Block
Forget Arby's—this place truly has all the meats.
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Best New Neighborhood Mindblower: Sparrow + Wolf
Local foodies have been waiting for this one for years.
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Best Dish That’ll Make You Consider Going Vegan: Impossible Burger at Andrea’s
Andrea's at Encore is the only place in Las Vegas to find this veggie masterpiece.
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Best Nightlife Institution: Drai’s After Hours
Twenty years on, the basement parlor remains the essential capper to a night of revelry.
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Reader's Choice—Best Art Gallery: Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art
The BGFA consistently offers world-class exhibits.
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Best Street Sandwich: Bocata Rolls from Boqueria Street
Track down this food truck.
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Best Activism Warrior: Jane Heenan at Gender Justice
“I am an activist by nature of existing.”
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Best Hotel Pool for Locals: Silverton’s Sway Pool
Leave those hectic Strip pools to the tourists.
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Best Pro Team: Bishop Gorman
The Golden Knights better muscle up if they hope to wrest this one away in 2018.
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Best Dessert Mashup: Baklava ice cream at Meráki Greek Grill
A great pastry is an even greater ice cream dessert.
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Reader's Choice—Best Comedian: Carrot Top
There’s nobody like him. Not just in Vegas—on Earth.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Strip Casino: The Cosmopolitan
The Cosmo continues to get better and better.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Vegas Athlete: Bryce Harper
The baseball phenom wins this category every year and deservedly so.
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Best Alternative Wedding: Flora Pop
Let Victoria Hogan make your special day more special.
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Best Yoga Studio: The Grateful Yogi
Live-music yoga, call-and-response chanting, group meditation and more await at the GY.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Instagram Feed: Springs Preserve
So much breathtaking desert scenery and wildlife to share.
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Best Picnic with Strip Views: Beer Park
Enjoy a beer (or several) underneath the Eiffel Tower.
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Best New Theater Company: Majestic Repertory Theatre
Troy Heard's latest artistic vision is shining bright.
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Readers' Choice—Best Steakhouse: Cut
Wolfgang Puck's modern steakhouse at Palazzo wins this highly competitive category.
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Reader's Choice—Best Vegas Band: The Killers
Good news, Killers horde: Your favorite Vegas-bred act has a new album on the way.
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Readers' Choice—Best Local DJ: DJ Franzen
He's the heart of Vegas hip-hop.
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Best New Strip Mindblower: Chica
Celebrity chef Lorena Garcia's restaurant at the Venetian is about to be your favorite.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Neighborhood Casino: Red Rock Resort
Should we give another neighborhood casino a chance? Nah.
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Best Place to Get Flustered by Modern Video Games: Dave & Buster's
Live, die, stubbornly repeat.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Local Hero: Andre Agassi
Will anyone ever top Andre Agassi in terms of a Vegas hero? Probably not.
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Readers' Choice—Best Taco Shop: Roberto’s Taco Shop
Roberto's is a Vegas institution.
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Best Local Celebrity You’ll Probably Run Into: Nicolas Cage
You've probably already seen him around town.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Park: Sunset Park
Who says Vegas has no great parks?
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Best Poke Palace: Poke Express
Welcome to raw fish paradise.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Dispensary: Euphoria Wellness
Great customer service leads the way for Euphoria.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Place to Take the Kids: Wet ’n’ Wild
You can't go wrong with a good waterpark.
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Best Freebie: Bowling at the Nerd
A classic Vegas promotional device lives on.
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Best Pool Party: Nightswim
A splash bash so good, it's held at more than one spot.
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Best Free Wifi Work Spot: Makers & Finders
Just as important as connectivity: terrific coffee drinks and Latin-inspired plates.
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Readers' Choice—Best Industry Night: Marquee Mondays
There's actual dancing going on at this industry night.
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Best Downtown Spot to Take a Suburbanite: Vesta Coffee Roasters
Major Seattle vibes right here in Downtown Las Vegas.
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Best Vegas History Lesson: 'Out of the Neon Closet' by Dennis McBride
This is a must-read for anyone interested in Las Vegas' sociocultural evolution.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Gentlemen’s Club: Sapphire
The world’s largest strip club is used to standing out.
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Best Free Strip Parking: SLS
This is one resort that hasn't started charging for parking.
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Readers' Choice—Best Nightclub Hospitality: Drai’s
Pick your version of Drai's and get served at the service standard-bearer.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Outdoor Escape: Red Rock Canyon
Take a hike.
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Best Local Activist Group: Battle Born Progress
The advocacy organization empowers Nevada voters.
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Readers' Choice—Best Burger Joint: In-N-Out Burger
We had a Double Double for Father's Day.
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Readers' Choice—Best Buffet: Bacchanal Buffet
Biggest doesn't always mean best, but it does for Bacchanal.
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Best Dive Bar: Starboard Tack
A dive that feels like yours and only yours.
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Best Place to Escape the Bright Lights: Great Basin National Park
Talk about heavenly views.
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Readers' Choice—Best Headlining DJ: The Chainsmokers
They can't stop making hits, or rocking parties at Wynn Nightlife venues.
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Readers' Choice—Best Dayclub: Encore Beach Club
It's even bigger this season.
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Readers' Choice—Best Pizzeria: Pizza Rock
So many choices, all of them delicious.
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Readers' Choice—Best Lounge: Hyde Bellagio
You always take your out-of-towners there.
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Reader's Choice—Best Cover Band: Wicked Garden
They continue to win the hearts of Las Vegans with hard rock from the ’90s.
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Best Discovery in Waiting: Living Room
Need a reason to check out the new W hotel at SLS? This lush cocktail bar is it.
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Best Local Boutique: Tatyana
With shops Downtown and on the Strip, local designer Tatyana Khomyakova has you covered.
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Reader's Choice—Best Production Show: 'The Beatles Love'
No other show in Vegas has the key to the greatest band of all time.
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Reader's Choice—Best Strip Headliner
The erstwhile America’s Got Talent winner racks up yet another win.
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Readers' Choice—Best Megaclub: XS
XS has spoiled you.
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Readers’ Choice—Best Sports Book: Westgate
The SuperBook renovations were worth the price.
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Best Vegas Tchotchkes: Battle Born Pins
Get the Huntridge Theatre one.
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Best Brisket: Fox Smokehouse
This meat is worth the trip to Boulder City.
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Jermaine Dupri talks Atlanta influence and musical originality
The songwriter and superproducer returns to his Tao DJ residency this weekend.
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Green Valley Ranch Resort gets brighter with its latest revamp
The lobby space once home to Whiskey Sky has a fresh new look.
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K.Flay turns pain into power through her musical mashup
K.Flay is the first signing to Interscope Record’s Night Street imprint, helmed by Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds.
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SZA’s long-awaited debut plays like an emotional masterpiece
The singer and songwriter will perform in Las Vegas on September 8 at Vinyl.
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Bruno Mars, Wiz Khalifa, Dillon Francis and more big shows this week
Also, catch Migos at Drai’s, Diplo at Encore Beach Club, Ying Yang Twins at Go Pool and more.
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Social eating just got easier at Cleo
Danny Elmaleh’s contemporary Mediterranean cuisine remains a favorite at SLS.
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Discover something different at the Otheroom
There’s a new bar at the Forum Shops and it’s unlike anything on the Strip.
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Bellagio’s Curtis Briggs guides iconic Vegas experiences
“No one had done this before. It was a new show, so everyone was going to have to learn at the same pace.”
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Simians and humans wage grim battle in ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
It’s a shame the film stacks the deck by making the handful of humans cartoonishly evil, complexity be damned.
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Short Takes: Movie listings and reviews for July 13
Everything in theaters this week, plus special screenings and movie reviews.
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Obnoxious narcissists populate Netflix’s ‘Friends From College’
They’re all so unpleasant and treat each other so poorly, it’s hard to imagine they’d want to spend even a few minutes together.
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Five save-room-for desserts
Honey toast, bananas foster and sticky toffee pudding.
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Local music notes: a Killers’ pal’s Vegas video, The Quitters and more
Also: All-Night Visitors on the tube and Brittany Rose’s new EP.
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Vegas duo Coastwest Unrest sounds fresh on its latest LP
On this batch of 11 songs, the band digs deeper into poppy melodies and conventional song structures, a far cry from its early, spastic folk-punk.
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The Weekly interview: Shooter Jennings talks Nine Inch Nails, Giorgio Moroder and Bob Dylan
“The Downward Spiral was the record that inspired me to play music.”
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Shout, laugh and text your way through the addictive lunacy of the ‘Miss Behave Gameshow’
In her role as the show’s gold sequin-clad host, Amy Saunders urges her audience to confess personal details, run to the stage for impromptu performances and even throw stuff at her.
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Las Vegas songwriter Brett Vee channels his emotions into his music
His latest EP, Generalizing Anxiety, swells with fuzzed-out distortion, chunky hooks and lyrics about “not liking where I am in life, whether that’s geographically or emotionally.”
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A ‘Thrones’ parody, an outdoor ‘Lebowski, our Best of Vegas party and other stuff to do this week
Plus, the Liberal Redneck stands up at the Space.
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Vegas on home video: Four recent local features now available for streaming
Including Lance Burton’s feature about a birthday-party magician who takes on the mob.
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Haim’s second album revels in its retro cheese
By unironically embracing the lush sounds of ’80s soft-rock and ’90s adult contemporary, the sisters have succeeded at making the uncool cool.
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Simians and humans wage grim battle in ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’
It’s a shame the film stacks the deck by making the handful of humans cartoonishly evil, complexity be damned.
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Short Takes: Movie listings and reviews for July 13
Everything in theaters this week, plus special screenings and movie reviews.
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Obnoxious narcissists populate Netflix’s ‘Friends From College’
They’re all so unpleasant and treat each other so poorly, it’s hard to imagine they’d want to spend even a few minutes together.
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Vegas on home video: Four recent local features now available for streaming
Including Lance Burton’s feature about a birthday-party magician who takes on the mob.