Story archive for August 2009
B-boy to the bone
Deanna Rilling | Mon, Aug 31, 2009 (6:19 p.m.)
Famed turntabilist Mix Master Mike is best known as a producer and DJ for the Beastie Boys. He chatted with with us last week about catering to a Las Vegas crowd and the art of mixing.
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Beer here
Deanna Rilling | Mon, Aug 31, 2009 (2:26 p.m.)
Mmmmm. Beer. Locally brewed, perfectly chilled, utterly refreshing beer. Sin City Brewing Co. is opening its third outpost in town so fans can down even more pints of the stuff.
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Celeb recap: Paris Hilton, Hometown Hotties and SuperDraft dream girls
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 31, 2009 (12:56 p.m.)
The Strip was packed with stars this weekend, including Paris the heiress, Stacy Keibler, Jason Priestley and Annalynne McCord.
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Killer dance moves and kick-ass music at a B-movie premier
April Corbin | Mon, Aug 31, 2009 (12:30 p.m.)
B-movie Killer Biker Chicks features boobs and some great local music. What else could you ask for?
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A little kid’s play enlivens Michael Jackson benefit show
John Katsilometes | Mon, Aug 31, 2009 (10:46 a.m.)
Saturday's lineup at "Las Vegas Celebrates the Music of Michael Jackson" wasn't used to having the spotlight taken by a kid, but Lil' Elijah really put on a show at The Pearl in the Palms.
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Jon Gosselin not quite king of Wet Republic
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 31, 2009 (12:13 a.m.)
File under not exactly a shocker: Jon Gosselin was at Wet Republic on Saturday but the Jon and Kate Plus 8 patriarch failed to make much of a splash.
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Cocktails for the cure
Xania Woodman | Sun, Aug 30, 2009 (11:25 p.m.)
Local beverage industry insiders will be weighing in on the second annual Ultimate Cocktail for the Cure mixology competition.
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Rain remembers DJ AM
Melissa Arseniuk | Sat, Aug 29, 2009 (4:40 p.m.)
Rain nightclub went quiet last night as it said goodbye to one of its own. “Today is a sad day in the nightlife community, and an especially somber time for Djs across the world,” Goldstein’s friend and opening DJ act, DJ R.O.B., said last night.
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Sleepy scene
Spencer Patterson | Sat, Aug 29, 2009 (4:19 p.m.)
Seriously, Sleepy Sun sounded so righteous, it could have eaten Wolfmother for breakfast and left room for a few more Blue Cheer riffs at lunchtime.
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No spandex, no problem for Steely Dan at Pearl Theater
John Katsilometes | Sat, Aug 29, 2009 (1:27 p.m.)
At one point in last night's show, Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen said of the set list, "They're all old."
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Jackson-inspired charity show just part of a larger Vegas spectacle
John Katsilometes | Fri, Aug 28, 2009 (6:46 p.m.)
Lifelong Michael Jackson fan Erich Bergen originally hatched the idea to produce a Las Vegas benefit show after Michael Jackson's untimely death. The resulting investigation that spread to Vegas was entirely unexpected.
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Reports: DJ AM found dead in New York
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Fri, Aug 28, 2009 (4:57 p.m.)
DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, was reportedly found dead today in New York. He was booked to perform at Rain tonight.
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Speak the truth: Gala dinner for the Human Rights Campaign
Deanna Rilling | Fri, Aug 28, 2009 (2:47 p.m.)
The country’s largest organization for LGBT civil rights is having its gala dinner in Las Vegas tomorrow evening.
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Oops!… We did it again: Win FREE tickets to see Britney!
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Fri, Aug 28, 2009 (1:47 p.m.)
Britney Spears is the ringmaster of a $50 million spectacle that's no ordinary concert. Win your way in with the Weekly.
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Carmen Electra books second stint at Crazy Horse
Melissa Arseniuk | Fri, Aug 28, 2009 (12:36 p.m.)
Electra’s second Crazy Horse run will see her showcased in three vignettes, “Leçon D’Érotisme,” “Étoile de Paris,” and an unnamed solo number that will be “choreographed around Electra’s fluid dance style.”
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Celeb forecast: 90210 stars from then and now
Melissa Arseniuk | Fri, Aug 28, 2009 (12:04 p.m.)
Jason Priestley, Annalynne McCord and a slew of other stars are hitting the Strip.
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British invasion: Singer Matt Goss leaves fame at home for a shot at Vegas
Deanna Rilling | Fri, Aug 28, 2009 (6 a.m.)
The Palms is preparing for a British invasion. Well, just one Englishman, actually. British sensation Matt Goss is gearing up to begin his residency at the resort.
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Harrah’s shuffle means new decks for Marrandino, Mazer
John Katsilometes | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (5:44 p.m.)
Dissimilar in many ways, Harrah's executives Don Marrandino and Rick Mazer are focused on navigating a difficult economy and new (and even familiar) climates.
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Warm, dull nostalgia
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (5 p.m.)
Ken Johnson of Foxx & Mackenzie in the Morning on 97.1-FM joins Josh to talk about safe, boring (or maybe heartwarming) movies Taking Woodstock and Adam.
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One of the last of a generation, Pearl Harbor hero Ray Turpin laid to rest
John Katsilometes | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (4:17 p.m.)
Las Vegan Ray Turpin helped pull his fellow Marines to safety from the crippled USS Oklahoma during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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The emancipation of Mimi
Melissa Arseniuk | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (11:14 a.m.)
Ladies and gentlemen, Mimi Bobeck has left the building. Well, almost.
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The deadliest job fair
Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (8:26 a.m.)
If you’ve ever watched The Deadliest Catch and thought that you could handle life on the Bering Sea, know this: 1) You can’t. 2) Now is your chance to apply.
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Green Day
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
It’s nice that the members of Green Day connect so well with their audience, but the band’s concert this past Friday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center too often seemed more like a summer-camp talent show than an arena production by a world-famous rock band.
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Same/difference
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Sen. John Ensign insists he’s different from Bill Clinton. Let’s examine that more closely.
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New Pecking order
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
After 13 years of hell-raising as executive director of the Las Vegas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Gary Peck is finally calling it quits, in what the ACLU calls an amicable parting.
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Three questions with Sleepy Sun
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Guitarist Matt Holliman chats about how moving from Santa Cruz to San Francisco, psychedelic rock, and the interesting roster of acts on the ATP record label.
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Depeche Mode
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Depeche Mode ended up opening for itself, playing three songs off their flat new disc before unleashing a string of grade-A catalog cuts that showed why it can charge $200 a head 15 years after most of America stopped paying attention.
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Splash/ Sunkissed meltdown
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Vegas, not big enough for two gay pool parties? Vegas?!
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Kings of Leon
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Alternating between somewhat gritty Southern garage-rock and more M.O.R. arena cuts, Kings of Leon did nothing to embarrass (unless you count those distracting and unnecessary video screens), but did little to stand out, either.
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An honorable tribute
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
This is one way pitiless Sin City shows its heart: throwing an A-team of Strip performers at a good cause. In this case, to remember Michael Jackson for the benefit of school music programs.
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So long, Whole Foods
Ken Miller | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
A Weekly staffer trades in Whole Foods' endless olive selection and fields of salad toppings for eateries that don't tell him how to feel about Obama's health-care plan.
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Mama said there’d be nights like this
Rick Lax | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Soaking in the scene at Downtown’s favorite piano bar.
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Gone and back again
Claire Vaye Watkins | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Claire Vaye Watkins grew up in Southern Nevada, then left. A recent return gave her a new, more complicated vision of the city. Three essays by an exciting new talent.
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Rideout
Damon Hodge | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Cut from the North Las Vegas thug-hustle cloth, Rideout is, perhaps, one of Northtown’s more able lyricists.
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Creating his own structure
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Classical mixed with hip-hop? Well, that’s something you don’t hear about every day, and that’s exactly the appeal for young Las Vegas violinist Anthony Williams, intent on taking the rigorous technique of his classical training and spreading it across the freer forms of jazz and hip-hop.
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Review of a preview
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Despite showings of the special 16-minute preview of James Cameron’s Avatar allegedly being sold out across the country, the 6 p.m. screening at the Regal Red Rock this past Friday was barely two-thirds full
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Getting (and sometimes making) her props
Richard Abowitz | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Emily Jillette doesn’t need the money—note the famous last name—but she’s still working her ass off on a super-risky venture: helping open shows in this economy.
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Killer Biker Chicks
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Killer Biker Chicks provides plenty in the gratuitous-nudity department, but it fails pretty miserably on most other fronts.
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Back to Berlin
Allison Duck | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
The crowd at White Square Gallery’s final reception was as diverse as the work on the walls. Present: the dreadlocked hippie, the fedora-wearing hipster and the suit and skinny-tie set—all addressed as “my artists, my guests, my collectors” by owner Natasha Young.
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Ask Dead Elvis: How long does Las Vegas Boulevard extend?
Las Vegas Boulevard was originally the old Los Angeles Highway, or Highway 91, and it’s a pretty long stretch of road.
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Suggestion Box: A thought for the new school year
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Teachers, administrators and, hell, even federal education bureaucrats—you take the achievement tests used to judge schools.
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The Help Desk
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
- Lawsuit alleges builders used defective Chinese drywall in some Las Vegas neighborhoods.
- Thank goodness no one owns a house in Las Vegas anymore.
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trails GOP challenger by 11 points in recent poll.
- Reid already working up a strategy to deal with this problem in a completely ineffectual way.
- Chinese tout the quality of their products at Las Vegas trade show.
- Well, the quality of everything except drywall, we’re guessing.
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Horror Showdown: Halloween II vs. The Final Destination
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Horror sequels Halloween II and The Final Destination both open this week, but neither was screened in time for review. We pit them against each other to see which is worth your time and money.
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Cash for other clunkers
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
The auto program is over. But there are still plenty of things that don’t work around here.
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It’s only money
Richard Abowitz | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
For his recent Las Vegas cover story in Time, writer Joel Stein scored a rare sit-down with Sheldon Adelson. Stein describes the interview as one of the strangest of his career.
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Minor in a major key
Mike Trask | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
This weekend’s minor-league game proves one thing: If you throw a football, they will come.
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Where’s the passion?
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
A health-care forum yields little drama, while a workshop on the domestic partnership law proves—too pragmatic.
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Slapstick noir
John Freeman | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
In Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, a dope-buzzed PI watches the ’70s California dream unravel.
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Soul Power
Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Power’s colorful footage follows James Brown, B.B. King, The Spinners and others on their journey from an airport Holiday Inn through a mid-flight jam to a homeland they’ve never seen.
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Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
A lovely diagram review of the book edited by Peter Terzian.
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The story so far
Ken Miller | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Updates on Buffalo Jim Barrier, the medical "mafia," the guy with the chainsaw and a few other big Las Vegas stories.
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Peggy plots your planets
Peggy Allison | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Mars encourages you to share your ideas, hopes, wishes and goals. The sun in your sign brings a burst of energy. Work on a few of your dreams.
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Italian shake-up
Max Jacobson | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
So few Italian places bring anything new to the table, not so at Caffe Dolce.
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Eating for the hungry
Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Fighting hunger has never been so delicious. From August 31 through September 6, more than 80 of the Valley’s best restaurants will serve prix fixe menus for Las Vegas Restaurant Week.
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Things fall apart
Ken Layne | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
This slim book argues that we can put it together again, the right way. But is America too broken?
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Kiwi Watermelon Lemonade
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Though it will remain summery here for some time, we want to bid adieu to that season with a classic porch-sipper, an ode to those icons of summer picnics and barbecues, lemonade and watermelon.
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Skydro
Damon Hodge | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Daydream-inspiring, but in a generally good way, Success Stories is unlike anything you’ve ever heard from Vegas hip-hop. For starters, the 20-song CD is overwhelmingly positive.
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Hack the Mack
Damon Hodge | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Hack the Mack starts strong, but as the CD proceeds, there’s less spitfire, and Hack’s retreat to tired and ultimately unadventurous topics (guns, girls and ganja) seems to sap his energy.
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Tracy Mahoney—You go-go, girl!
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
In 2003 Tracy started Flaunt Entertainment, a go-go, model and special-act booking agency, and in 2005 created the Flaunt Foxxes, a collaboration of 20 of her top go-gos, the “A Team.”
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Ang Lee’s lamest movie ever
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
It was inevitable, I suppose, that Ang Lee would eventually get around to the historical docudrama—or, as I’ve recently dubbed that generally useless collection of bullet-point factoids, the Wiki-movie. Enter Taking Woodstock.
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Goodbye Solo
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
The immigrant community depicted here is Africans in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, represented by Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), a cheery Senegalese cab driver who sees life as a long string of opportunities.
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Adam
Tasha Chemplavil | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Somewhere between Oscar fodder and unpredictability, Adam, about a man with Asperger's syndrome, is one of those rare gems that manages to meet at the crossroads.
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Introducing The Jet Stream: Chef Jet Tila’s take on Top Chef: Las Vegas
Sarah Feldberg | Wed, Aug 26, 2009 (5:17 p.m.)
The executive chef of pan-Asian restaurant Wazuzu at Encore, Jet Tila knows a thing or two about what it takes to be a top chef. That's why he'll be blogging about this season of culinary competition Top Chef.
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This birthday will not be a crazy 8
I turn 24 this week, but the party will be nothing so splashy as the event that celebrated my eighth birthday.
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An open(ly snarky) letter to GQ Magazine
Xania Woodman | Wed, Aug 26, 2009 (12:42 p.m.)
We, the drinkers of Las Vegas, wanted to pass on to you our sincere condolences. Only a serious tragedy could have caused the lapse in judgment that led you to leave Las Vegas out of your story, The 10 Best Drinking Cities in America.
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Man vs. mollusk: Vegas chefs do battle at Shuck and Swallow
Sarah Feldberg | Tue, Aug 25, 2009 (6:49 p.m.)
Forget athleticism and months of practice; quick hands and an open throat brought home top prize in Monday's oyster-eating competition.
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Satirical Monday List: Top Nine Things I Overheard at the Flamingo
John Katsilometes | Tue, Aug 25, 2009 (11:59 a.m.)
Not on this list at No. 10: "Can you actually order grilled Flamingo at Steakhouse46?"
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Jackson’s kids spotted in Vegas
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 24, 2009 (7:11 p.m.)
As the controversy surrounding their father’s death continues to flash across TV screens nationwide, Michael Jackson’s children were spotted in Las Vegas this weekend.
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11 party hosts stranger than Jon Gosselin
Deanna Rilling, Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Mon, Aug 24, 2009 (7 p.m.)
When we heard Jon & Kate Plus 8’s Jon Gosselin would be hosting at Wet Republic this Saturday, it got us thinking: Who would be an even weirder party host than the Audigier-clad dad?
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Green Day marries old and new at Mandalay Bay
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 24, 2009 (6:08 p.m.)
Green Day may be 22 years old but that doesn’t mean the band has grown up. At least, not much.
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Satisfying a need for speed
April Corbin | Mon, Aug 24, 2009 (2:32 p.m.)
If you're into driving fast but not into paying the fines, there's a local car club that provides a safe and completely legal way to race.
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Afghan Raiders win… what, exactly?
Deanna Rilling | Mon, Aug 24, 2009 (12:30 p.m.)
The Monthly Filter Mixed Series brings Las Vegas into the spotlight with the local electronic band taking top honors thanks to their remix of the Black Lips' "The Drop I Hold."
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Celeb Recap: Party all the time
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 24, 2009 (12:21 p.m.)
From shock rock and punk-pop to rap and R&B, there was a show in town for almost every music-loving concertgoer.
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Prive lift a downer
Xania Woodman | Mon, Aug 24, 2009 (10:49 a.m.)
An unauthorized elevator is to blame for Privé's latest citation. Could the bottom be falling out for the embattled nightclub?
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Advice from strippers is always take-it-or-leave-it
Among the tricks of the trade we've learned during a career spent dancing, ther is always another customer out there willing to pay for clean dances.
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Black Eyed Peas give surprise performance at Rain
Melissa Arseniuk | Sat, Aug 22, 2009 (7:05 p.m.)
Friday was a good, good night at Rain nightclub. The Palms hotspot made a last-minute announcement Friday and said Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas would perform at the club that night.
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Send in the cheesy movies… the worst you can find
April Corbin | Sat, Aug 22, 2009 (4:47 p.m.)
The guys who brought you Mystery Science Theater 3000 kept riffing alive with a special screening of Plan 9 From Outer Space... and it was awesome.
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Never too young to give
Allison Duck | Sat, Aug 22, 2009 (12:21 a.m.)
With the many charity fundraisers going on this weekend, local bands have gotten the all ages scene involved with the giving at a Muscular Dystrophy Association benefit concert at The Farm.
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Prive, open for business
Xania Woodman | Fri, Aug 21, 2009 (6:58 p.m.)
Privé nightclub is cleared to re-enter the Vegas nightlife scene - for 30 days anyway.
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Win tickets to Dream Theater at The Joint!
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Fri, Aug 21, 2009 (5:42 p.m.)
Metal fans, give thanks. It's time to win some tickets.
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Celeb forecast: Shock rock, crooning Boyz and Ms. Conrad
Melissa Arseniuk | Fri, Aug 21, 2009 (5:21 p.m.)
Music fans will be well-served this weekend as the usual line-up actors, actresses and reality show personalities takes a back seat to bands.
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Green Drinks
Deanna Rilling | Fri, Aug 21, 2009 (11:33 a.m.)
The beverages themselves aren’t green in color, but the topic of conversation is decidedly eco-friendly. And don’t worry, there are drinks—just make sure you recycle the cup or bottles when you’re finished.
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A Basterd of a film
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (5:23 p.m.)
Film critic and historian Tony Macklin joins Josh to talk about Quentin Tarantino’s new Inglourious Basterds and ends up in a debate over the nature of film criticism.
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Atmosphere slugs it out at House of Blues
Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (4:23 p.m.)
From the first lines of “God Loves Ugly” to the last chants of “let it shine,” indie-rap outfit Atmosphere owned the House of Blues on Tuesday night.
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Kings of Leon bring the best of times to The Joint, almost
Melissa Arseniuk | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (4:11 p.m.)
The lessons learned from last night's concert at The Joint: Kings of Leon’s fans love to dress in plaid; they love to drink; oh, and they love Kings of Leon, too.
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Up on the roof: Inside Hotel 32
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (12:46 p.m.)
On the top floor of the Monte Carlo there is a hotel within a hotel. Rising from the ashes of a fire that destroyed a portion of the property last year, the entire 32nd floor has been transformed into its own entity.
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Phil Anselmo: mellow metal dude?
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (12:52 a.m.)
The murder of ex-Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell in 2004 seemed to be a wake-up call for Phil Anselmo, and at tonight’s House of Blues concert by his current band, Down, the metal legend was downright mellow.
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Good game, good game
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
I've never won any of those crazy nightclub contests I include in the Hot Spots each week. But never before was there a cash prize on the line. So it never occurred to me that I might win Tao’s first ever Tweasure Hunt. Oh, yeah: Spoiler alert!
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Ask Dead Elvis: Day Trippin’
Do you recommend any good day trips from Las Vegas? And please exclude the two usual suspects—Mt. Charleston and Red Rock. Done those.
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Facebook
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Local MugShots is giving Las Vegans a one-stop shop for all the city’s bad guys.
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Things we learned in school (that really mattered)
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Ketchup showers, math sheet cheaters, school day drinkers and other school years memories that left their mark.
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Weekly updates
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Catching up on some recent stories, such as Al the Bounty Hunter and the shooting of an ice-cream truck driver.
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Movie classics to admire and mock
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Movie fans have a couple of opportunities to check out genre classics from two very different perspectives this week: One with the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and also a silent film festival.
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Green for a Day
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Dreamt of being the fourth member of Green Day? (And really, who hasn’t?) You could actually get your chance on Friday.
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It’s our time again
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Minutes before deadline, we did a Google news search on the terms “Oscar Goodman” + “Time Magazine.” After all, Time’s new cover piece about effed-up Vegas is just the sort of vandalism that reliably gets Oscar foaming.
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Signs of frustration
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Deciding to save Elton John’s Red Piano signs was the easy part. Now what?
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Encounter
Rick Lax | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
There's nothing sweeter on a Saturday than free cupcakes, massages and ogling dead bodies. At least, that's how writer Rick Lax chose to spend his day.
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A healthy debate
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Judging by the fired-up crowd at an informal town-hall meeting at Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Friday evening, hosted by conservative KDWN 720-AM, supporters of Barack Obama’s health-care reform agenda have their work cut out for them.
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The Help Desk
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
- Floyd Mayweather says mixed martial arts “is for animals and beer drinkers.”
- He went on to say that boxing “is for people who have been on desert islands and have never heard of mixed martial arts.”
- Floyd Mayweather to host WWE Raw in Las Vegas next week.
- We don’t know about the rest of you, but we’re really starting to trust this Mayweather guy’s judgment.
- Kiss planning to bring Cirque du Soleil-style show to Las Vegas.
- O was taken, so the show will be called OLD.
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Top Chef: A quickfire judgment
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
The contestants don’t appear to have been chosen for their ability to party and frolic in a hot tub; collectively they seem like the most talented collection in the show’s history. And the first two challenges had nothing to do with buffets or steak & eggs.
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Pucker Up
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Mimicking the flavors of Krol itself, James Deyro’s Pucker Up combines the flavors of ripe, sweet berries with tart citrus, like the perfect raspberry Lemon Drop.
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Filmmaking inside the box
Michelle Orange | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Tarantino’s is foremost a cinema of the cinematic; in an obsessively referential age, his passion for pastiche was first seen as thrilling, then exhausting, then something worse—irrelevant, easily dismissed.
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Disappointing Basterds
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
While Tarantino spent the better part of a decade describing this project as his version of The Dirty Dozen or The Guns of Navarone—a badass, action-heavy, dudes-on-a-mission war flick - he’s actually made ... well, a Tarantino movie.
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A Tarantino fave: The 5 Deadly Venom
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Chang Cheh’s The 5 Deadly Venoms (1978) boasted a concept so memorable that it was even parodied in the animated Kung Fu Panda.
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The Stoning of Soraya M.
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh (an American) stages Soraya’s story as an over-the-top harangue, overemphasizing all the obvious points into incoherence.
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Post Grad
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
If only life after college were as easy as it’s depicted in Post Grad, a listless comedy starring Alexis Bledel as a recent college graduate trying to find her place in the world.
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And the WTF?! Award goes to …
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Team Hangover would humbly like to enter our submission for the absolute worst party idea of the year … or at least the most inappropriate host thus far.
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Paper Heart
Jeffrey M. Anderson | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
In mock documentary Paper Heart, the actors travel the country and interview several seemingly real-life couples as well as various other love experts, such as scientists and pastors at Vegas wedding chapels.
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Sound sanctuary
Becky Bosshart | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Talbot Snow’s home-based recording studio is open to all musical styles—just leave the demons at home.
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Delicious experiment
Steve Friess | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Why we hope a hotel executive’s decision to populate properties with locally based restaurants is a hit.
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The reluctant wino
C. Moon Reed | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Anyone know how to hit on a mechanical bartender?
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Food Fight! The Cheesesteak
Brock Radke | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
For this sandwich scrimmage, we’ll pit arguably the city’s favorite sandwich shop, Capriotti’s, against Pop’s, which stands for “Pride of Philly.” Let the delectable carnage begin!
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The curious case of Wok On In
Ken Miller | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Five odd things we found at the Mongolian grill.
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What’s a French Horn Rebellion?
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Coming soon aboard a ’93 Explorer named “Lucy,” brothers Robert and David Perlick-Molinari, aka French Horn Rebellion, are on a mission.
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The book on Facebook
Rick Lax | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires proves his talent for snapping up a juicy topic. This time around the author takes on Facebook.
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It’s not confidential
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
The most important thing Robert Root wants you to know about the Battle Born recording studio is that it exists.
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Dogfight for dollars
At the Nevada Legislature last spring, the Nevada Arts Council, which distributes public funds to Nevada artists, organizations and schools, faced a dogfight for limited state dollars.
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Rabid fans. Days off work. Tequila shots.
Mike Trask | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
The message crawls across the bottom of the projection screens: “To listen to the Mexico-United States soccer game in English, adjust your digital audio to French.” Nobody here wants to hear English. Approximately 99.9 percent are from Mexico.
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Checking in on The Lazystars on the eve of their EP-release show
Allison Duck | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Timing is everything for The Lazystars. They'll tell you that themselves. In fact, that's what they told us on the eve of their CD-release show.
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Peace, love … and texting
Greg Beato | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Looking back through the glass at TRL’s pop-culture revolution
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Remembering Wade
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
When Wade Aldy died on March 13, Las Vegas music lost a key contributor. The promoter and dedicated music fan is remembered by friends and family as a big-hearted guy who loved the scene.
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Wandering around the world
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Receiving kudos and support from industry heavyweights such as Tiësto, Pete Tong and Carl Cox, native Russian Serge Devant chats about his first artist album, his Soundgarden remix and why he doesn’t play trance.
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Joe Henry
Annie Zaleski | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Although he’s released 11 studio albums over the past two decades, Joe Henry is no household name. His chief claim to fame: occasional collaborations with his sister-in-law, Madonna.
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Random photo of the week
Ryan Olbrysh | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
So, where can we get a fake donut?
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Peggy plots your planets
Peggy Allison | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Write down your wishes and set a goal for the next month. The new moon is in your house of dreams, so reach for a dream this month.
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Dream Zone
Lauri Quinn Lowenberg | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Last night I dreamt that my mom was shot in a drive-by shooting. All of my college friends and best friends who I am still close with came to the hospital with me.
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Colbie Caillat
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
Colbie Caillat is the musical equivalent of warm milk: bland, safe and best consumed when you need to get some sleep.
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Cooking up the odds on Top Chef: Las Vegas
Sarah Feldberg | Wed, Aug 19, 2009 (5:40 p.m.)
We’re betting folks in a betting town, so we turned to the Wynn's Johnny Avello for the odds of each white-coated chef winning the cash.
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This girl has ‘new’ written all over her
The new girl is called to the stage but, like a new puppy, hasn’t been conditioned to associate her new name with herself.
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A look at Monte Carlo’s newest headliner, Frank Caliendo, in action
John Katsilometes | Wed, Aug 19, 2009 (1:10 p.m.)
Frank Caliendo's ruthless impression of John Madden launched him to nationwide fame during Fox Sports coverage of the NFL.
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It’s official: Marrandino to head up Harrah’s Eastern Division from Atlantic City
John Katsilometes | Wed, Aug 19, 2009 (7:31 a.m.)
Don Marrandino, whose executive career in Las Vegas includes stints with Station Casinos, Wynn Las Vegas and the Hard Rock Hotel, is heading to Atlantic City as the company's eastern president.
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Professional dominatrix says Vegas doesn’t live up to Sin City nickname
Sarah Feldberg | Wed, Aug 19, 2009 (12:52 a.m.)
If Dr. Drew Pinsky were an Irish woman with a slight accent and expertise rooted in bondage culture and cathartic play, he’d be professional dominatrix Rowynn Eire.
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Dave Matthews Band among acts expected at Planet Hollywood Theatre for the Performing Arts
John Katsilometes | Wed, Aug 19, 2009 (midnight)
The Theatre for the Performing Arts has sat still since May, but Dave Matthews Band should return the famed concert hall to relevancy.
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Night bite: Ménage Mondays
Deanna Rilling | Tue, Aug 18, 2009 (4:02 p.m.)
Why attend a party hosted by a lady who’s name you don’t know when you can share the evening with an entire household of familiar faces?
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Celeb recap: Olympic swimmers, Kardashian sisters and Hollywood A-listers
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 17, 2009 (6:39 p.m.)
Pirates, pretty sisters and stars with birthdays all invaded Las Vegas this weekend. Here’s how the parties shook out:
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Prive close to receiving a temporary liquor license
Xania Woodman | Mon, Aug 17, 2009 (5:15 p.m.)
In an apparent show of confidence, rumor has it that Privé has already put out feelers to secure talent and celebrities to perform and host when Privé’s doors reopen under the management of the three new key employees.
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Monday List: Judging a fight in a four-punch combination
John Katsilometes | Mon, Aug 17, 2009 (4:51 p.m.)
Watch the fight. It seems easy enough, as long as you ignore the ring girls eating cake.
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The great bingo battle: paper versus plastic
April Corbin, Deanna Rilling | Mon, Aug 17, 2009 (1:25 p.m.)
To daub or not to daub? Two Weekly writers hit the bingo hall to settle a debate over the use of paper versus electronic machines.
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Local tattoo artists stack the deck with custom cards
Deanna Rilling | Mon, Aug 17, 2009 (2 a.m.)
Not all tattooists trace pictures off a wall. When you know where to look, tattoo artists with extraordinary abilities are creating works that transcend the medium of skin. One group in Las Vegas aims to dispel the stereotype that tattoo artists aren’t real artists, while helping the less fortunate in the process.
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Dolyniuk’s Yellow Brick Road leads to Queen tribute
John Katsilometes | Sun, Aug 16, 2009 (10:22 p.m.)
For 10 years, Yellow Brick Road has been one of Las Vegas' more popular live acts. Now its founder, Brody Dolyniuk, is branching out with an orchestral tribute to Queen.
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Navigating the high seas at the Palms to discover a ‘Pirate’s Guilty Pleasure’
Melissa Arseniuk | Sun, Aug 16, 2009 (4:21 p.m.)
Oreos, threesomes or alcohol: One writer heads to the Palms to find out exactly what makes a pirate feel guilty.
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Top Chef Countdown, Day 3: Out of the frying pan, into the blogosphere
Sarah Feldberg | Sun, Aug 16, 2009 (10:19 a.m.)
When each episode of Top Chef wraps, the conversation is just beginning. Find out which judges and past competitors will be blogging about Top Chef: Las Vegas.
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A pregnant Kourtney and other Kardashians come to play
Melissa Arseniuk | Sat, Aug 15, 2009 (10:57 a.m.)
Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian might have taken Miami, but the eldest Kardashian forgot to take something else, and is now pregnant.
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Win your way into Depeche Mode at the Pearl
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Sat, Aug 15, 2009 (10:17 a.m.)
Win free tickets to the legendary band from Las Vegas Weekly!
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Top Chef Countdown, Day 4: Spinoffs we’d like to see
John Katsilometes | Sat, Aug 15, 2009 (10:04 a.m.)
From Top Barber to Top Desert Landscaper, Las Vegas has potential to produce a number of Top Chef spinoffs.
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Privé appeals withdrawn: Privé managing partner steps down, club changes hands, starts all over
Xania Woodman | Fri, Aug 14, 2009 (1:06 p.m.)
Just days before Privé’s scheduled August 18 appearance before the County Commission, representatives withdrew their appeals of the club’s liquor license denial on Thursday, August 13.
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Celeb forecast: Booty plundering and sisters with booty
Melissa Arseniuk | Fri, Aug 14, 2009 (12:50 p.m.)
A pirate's life at the Palms and Kardashians by the pool: Just another weekend in Vegas.
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Culinary cable shows turn the camera on Las Vegas
Sarah Feldberg | Fri, Aug 14, 2009 (9:10 a.m.)
Somebody must have rung the dinner bell at a meeting of TV producers, because three – count ’em, three! – foodie cable shows are stopping by Las Vegas in the span of a week.
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Harry Basil’s in town, hide the Krazy Glue
Allison Duck | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (10:15 p.m.)
Rodney Dangerfield acolyte and prop comic Harry Basil has a 25-year Vegas history stretching all the way back to a "band of zanies" taking over The Dunes. Still zany, Basil is back.
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Jeremy Piven finds peace as a pushy salesman
Melissa Arseniuk | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (9:59 p.m.)
“He could be Ari Gold’s trashy cousin,” Jeremy Piven said of his character in The Good, Don Ready, as he walked the red carpet Wednesday at the film's Vegas premiere.
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With new song and Nevada Ballet Theatre honor, Marie Osmond has ‘Vegas Love’
John Katsilometes | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (7:40 p.m.)
Donny & Marie's new Vegas-centric song is on their new album. It's called "Vegas Love," and Marie hopes it will have Elvis-like staying power.
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Will Ferrell talks two great men: Jesus and Manolo Blahnik
Melissa Arseniuk | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (6:36 p.m.)
While walking the red carpet for the Vegas premiere of "The Goods" last night, Ferrell had to decide who he would like to high-five. The Son of God! No wait, the god of stilettos!
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6 hours of Stevie, a Wonder-full tribute indeed
Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (4:49 p.m.)
The schedule for the afternoon DJ set is the first indication that this is no ordinary poolside party. It starts with a question-and-answer session and ends with no less than six hours of Stevie Wonder music.
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The good(s), the bad and the ugly
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (2:52 p.m.)
Michael T. Toole, contributor to Las Vegas Weekly, Turner Classic Movies and many other outlets, joins Josh to talk about the quite good sci-fi movie District 9 and the quite bad Jeremy Piven comedy The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.
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Third time a charm for Prive?
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (11:03 a.m.)
In the days leading up to the Privé appeal, and amid reports of new players, abdication, and continued employment by Privé’s deposed directors, the Weekly drags out the crystal ball.
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Top Chef Countdown, Day 6: The myth of Marcel
John Katsilometes | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (12:39 a.m.)
He was the tablespoon of cayenne dumped into the Season 2 Top Chef stew: the most-popular but least-liked contestant, Wolverine-maned Marcel Vigneron.
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Numbers Like Pi
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Who knew the studio could be such a band-killer? Already this year, Vegas rockers Cherry Hill and Skorchamenza released new discs and called it quits, and now local group Numbers Like Pi has done likewise.
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The other Prives
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
I gave the Bellagio valet my name and inquired, “How do I get to Club Privé?” His pleasant face contorted into a grimace. But I’m not looking for that Privé. I’m looking for the other Privé. Club Privé is the Bellagio’s high-limit gaming salon, located just off the casino floor.
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On & on … & on?
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
House-music pioneer Jesse Saunders is said to have written, produced, performed and released the world’s first documented house-music recording, titled On & On, in 1984. Decades later, the Vegas-based DJ/producer might once again make history with his latest project, the Electronic Music Café.
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George Strait
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
George Strait has had approximately 97,569,708 top-10 country hits, and releases an album roughly every 10 minutes. No one gets to that place without being incredibly consistent.
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Home in Vegas
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Vegas has always been a peculiar place to call home. Upon deciding to move here, people often get a queer look from friends and family—Vegas? To live?
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Japandroids
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
More than anything, Post-Nothing makes one yearn to witness Japandroids’ electricity live, preferably in a small, dark space with stuff falling off the walls.
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The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
When you can’t get will Ferrell, you get … Jeremy Piven? That’s apparently what the makers of the awkwardly titled The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard. decided, since the movie originally conceived as a starring vehicle for Ferrell.
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Yacht
Annie Zaleski | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
At times, the mythology surrounding YACHT—which stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology—threatens to overwhelm its music.
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Nights and Weekends
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
With an almost uncomfortable level of intimacy, Swanberg and Gerwig chronicle the fumbling sex, circular arguments and vague, uncertain plans for the future that define so many relationships.
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Mad about this show
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
TV critics everywhere are salivating in anticipation of Mad Men's return on August 16. Here are the four reasons we're all a-flutter...
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Call it ‘American art’
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Even as the black arts community in Las Vegas struggles to establish itself, many artists bristle at the term.
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Ask Dead Elvis: What are the oldest bars in town?
So you want to get a touch of old Vegas the liquid way? We applaud this, and yes, we have some suggestions. After all, there is a certain allure to a classic bar, and, fortunately, Las Vegas doesn’t lack for old-school taverns.
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Colicchio 101
Brock Radke | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Before you tune in to Top Chef: Las Vegas, there are some things you need to know about the man behind it: Tom Colicchio.
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Random photo of the week
Ryan Olbrysh | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Uh, what kind if services are considered expressly "Latino"?
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Cash for dealers?
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
The federal program to jump-start the auto industry still carries many question marks.
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Make room for Anthony’s
Max Jacobson | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Coal-oven pizza is something of a religion in New York’s SoHo; the coal oven creates a blackened crust, chewy, bubbly and yielding. It’s really all about the crust.
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Master (pint-sized) builder
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
The artist Frank James is precise. Very precise. Set your watch by him precise. In his living room there are three tables; and on these tables are scale models, each about the size of a footlocker, that James assembled by hand: a church, a house and the Tabernacle of Moses. The church alone took him 8,985 hours to make.
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An addition to the Dollhouse
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Produced without Fox’s involvement and never aired on TV, the 13th episode of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse is now available exclusively on the DVD set of the first season.
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Books I Couldn’t Finish
Rick Lax | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Glenn Beck is great on TV; he shouts, he scoffs, and he cries. But when he writes, when his words are stripped clean of the paint-by-numbers, manufactured emotion that television facilitates, one thing becomes clear: The man has absolutely nothing of consequence to say.
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Giraffe at a bus stop
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
This moment is brought to you by Clark County Parks and Recreation, Friends of Winchester Park Public Art Committee and the Regional Transportation Commission...
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Drawn in?
Danielle Kelly | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz. With so many consonants and so little time, the name says it all. That beautiful collection of letters is redolent of the artist’s pen-and-ink drawings, a multitude of exploding shapes and patterns that fill the eye and tickle the imagination.
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Orderly Progression! At the Disco
Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
On Friday night, Panic 2.0 was just another skinny-tie-and-dark-vest-clad emo-pop foursome. The exclamation point may be back, but the enthusiasm behind it has yet to return.
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Our own private (Under)World
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
In case we needed confirmation, we got it last Thursday: Las Vegans are officially lame. So Underworld crossed the Atlantic to open its first U.S. tour in who-knows-how-long at the Joint, and a few hundred people bothered to check it out.
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A Fuller life
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
A few weeks ago, Dolores Fuller, the so-called “Queen of the B Movies,” suffered a stroke, and she’s been in pain ever since. But last weekend, the 86-year-old actress donned a sequined gold sweater at the Montara Meadows Retirement Community on East Tropicana and retained an astounding amount of her formidable presence.
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Blunt but effective allegory, with aliens
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Structured as a fake documentary, a city-sized spacecraft mysteriously stalled 20 years ago Its starving, frightened occupants, who resemble huge bipedal prawns, were evacuated by humanity and given what was meant to be temporary shelter in a hastily constructed shantytown.
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Hot and Sweaty
Pj Perez | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
In the opening lines of its self-penned bio, local pop-punk band Air Raid Anthem compares its sound to “the feeling of eating Pop Rocks while drinking soda.”
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Exiting The Stript for Saint Rose
April Corbin | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Sometimes, you find that you’ve squeezed all the juice from your orange, and it’s time to move on to something new. Sometimes that means it's time to start a new band.
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Slow Children
Pj Perez | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Slow Children demonstrates its ability to not only smoothly morph from near-metal (“Feeling of Release”) to reggae (“Misery for Sale”) to pop-rock (“Happy in Hell”), but also to ably excel in every style.
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Ponyo
Jeffrey M. Anderson | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
In a story loosely inspired by The Little Mermaid, five-year-old Sosuke (voiced in the English-language release by Frankie Jonas) finds a very odd fish, with a face, near his house on the cliff by the sea. He names her “Ponyo” but loses her back into the sea.
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Catchy and Caribbean
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
There’s something super summery about Caribbean flavor in August. So imagine our delight to find that Las Vegas’ Super Summer Theatre is producing Once on This Island.
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Suggestion Box: Shut the hell up!
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
As the health-care debate tenderly makes its way to Nevada and Las Vegas, please, please, please heed these carefully chosen words: Shut the hell up!
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The Help Desk
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
- Michael Jackson’s Neverland may be dismantled and moved to Las Vegas as a tourist attraction.
- Yeah, this is a ridiculous idea, but be honest—you’re really looking forward to seeing the “sleepover room,” aren’t you?
- New ads encourage California businesses to relocate to Las Vegas.
- It’s all part of the “It’s slightly less crappy here” campaign.
- Chanel sues Las Vegas-based company for allegedly selling counterfeit goods.
- Has anyone from Chanel been to New York-New York? Venetian? Paris? Everything’s counterfeit here!
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A museum for every crime
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Why stop at a mob museum? If the Mayor is right, if we can launder the city’s grubby soul into squeaky-clean tourist coin, why not capitalize on the full range of immorality Vegas offers?
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Teachable moment
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Yeah, the poll was commissioned by Republicans, and there are plenty of reasons why things can and will change by Election Day. But this week’s survey that shows state GOP boss Sue Lowden beating Sen. Harry Reid.
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This’ll wrinkle some brows!
Mike Trask | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Welcome to the debate about the Botax, an issue custom-fitted for bad jokes and tabloid headlines.
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Dream Zone
Lauri Quinn Lowenberg | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
Last night I dreamt that I was in the house I grew up in, but it was decorated differently. A young man I went to college with was keeping me trapped in my old bedroom unbeknownst to all who lived there.
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Peggy plots your planets
Peggy Allison | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
As the week begins, you could feel like you are being pulled in two directions. Wait until the moon enters your sign Tuesday. Then you can go with your hunches.
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Splash down at Mandalay Bay Beach
Xania Woodman | Wed, Aug 12, 2009 (1:11 p.m.)
It was only a matter of time before more casinos started following in the Luxor's footsteps and throwing LGBT pool parties. Enter Splash Sundays at Mandalay Bay.
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Carrie Snow’s mom is meaner than your mom
Allison Duck | Wed, Aug 12, 2009 (12:35 p.m.)
Comedian Carrie Snow has written for Roseanne Barr and joined the comedy fraternity with her role in The Aristocrats but now she's in for another interesting career path: writing about her "crazy" mother.
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Hard Rock dives into the pop pool with Kelly Clarkson
John Katsilometes | Wed, Aug 12, 2009 (12:30 p.m.)
Hard Rock Hotel VP of Entertainment Paul Davis booked Kelly Clarkson into the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in 2005. She sold out in less than two weeks.
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Top Chef Countdown, Day 7: Words of wisdom from Gene
Sarah Feldberg | Wed, Aug 12, 2009 (12:55 a.m.)
We're counting down to the premiere of Top Chef: Las Vegas with musings on bacon, Marcel and whether sous vide cooking will be this season's molecular gastronomy. Today, Season 5's Gene Villiatora offers advice for the chefs watching their primetime debut.
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Redneck and proud: Gretchen Wilson
Melissa Arseniuk | Tue, Aug 11, 2009 (3:46 p.m.)
Born to a single, 16-year-old mother and raised in a trailer park, Gretchen Wilson was a high school dropout. Since catching her break in 2004, however, she’s gone on to record 10 top 10 singles, win a Grammy and earn her GED.
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Monday List: An ode to the UFL’s Las Vegas ‘Locos’
John Katsilometes | Mon, Aug 10, 2009 (4:58 p.m.)
The new UFL team's nickname might strike one as a bit offbeat, but it is better than the Las Vegas Derailment.
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Your life would suck without Kelly Clarkson tickets!
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Mon, Aug 10, 2009 (12:27 p.m.)
Before you can buy them, win tickets to see the American Idol-winner-turned-actual American idol at The Joint.
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Celeb recap: Panic, Gossip and Playboy
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 10, 2009 (10:58 a.m.)
Have No Doubt: From Gwen to Usher to Ali Landry celebs were out and about this weekend.
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Q&A with new UFC Octagon girl Natasha Wicks
Allison Duck | Sat, Aug 8, 2009 (7:57 p.m.)
From a Las Vegas farm to the UFC Octagon, new ring girl Natasha Wicks is all natural and proud of it.
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No Doubt, we know them well at The Joint
John Katsilometes | Sat, Aug 8, 2009 (7:31 p.m.)
When Gwen Stefani hits the deck for 10 push-ups, you know this is no ordinary entertainment experience.
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New Panic! At the Disco lineup? Pretty. Odd.
John Katsilometes | Sat, Aug 8, 2009 (4:52 p.m.)
Panic! At the Disco unveiled its new lineup at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel last night, and watching the band perform without deposed members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker was a bit odd.
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10 things you missed if you weren’t at Underworld Thursday night
Deanna Rilling | Sat, Aug 8, 2009 (2:02 p.m.)
From a shiny disco ball jacket and humongous balloons to saucy Mick Jagger moves and of course, "Born Slippy," why you should have seen Underworld at The Joint.
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In face of league punishment, Rashard Lewis hits Studio 54
Melissa Arseniuk | Sat, Aug 8, 2009 (11:04 a.m.)
When Rashard Lewis celebrates his 30th birthday at MGM Grand tonight, don’t expect him to do any shots unless he sees exactly where they came from.
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UFC 101: Where to watch
Allison Duck | Sat, Aug 8, 2009 (10:43 a.m.)
If you can’t afford the plane fare to Philly, you can still watch UFC 101 right in your own backyard at these local bars and casinos.
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For Usher, there’s no place like Palms
Melissa Arseniuk | Sat, Aug 8, 2009 (10:37 a.m.)
Usher says the Palms is his “second home,” and last night the R&B singer had a few hundred guests over to his second living room for a little cocktail party.
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Celeb forecast: Cloudy with a chance of Usher
Melissa Arseniuk | Fri, Aug 7, 2009 (4:20 p.m.)
Have No Doubt: Usher, Gwen Stefani, Estelle and Jenny McCarthy will all be doing Vegas this weekend.
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500 days of awesome
Josh Bell | Fri, Aug 7, 2009 (2:18 p.m.)
Filmmakers Jerry and Mike Thompson of Thor at the Bus Stop join Josh to talk about unconventional romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer.
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135,000 cupcakes
Sarah Feldberg | Fri, Aug 7, 2009 (1:15 p.m.)
It’s been a year and a half since Retro Bakery opened its doors, but the time can be measured in cupcakes – that's about 135,000 of the shop’s buttercream-crowned cupcakes.
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Pay to be played: Local bands can donate for radio airtime
Allison Duck | Fri, Aug 7, 2009 (1:16 a.m.)
KOMP 92.3-FM is trading radio airtime for donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Feeling charitable?
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Tiki torches, gnomes and a bit of organized chaos with Vegas’ newest biker gang
April Corbin | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (6:43 p.m.)
Leave your Huffy at home. The bicycles ridden by the members of Hammer & Cycle are all custom, all awesome and coming to a downtown hotspot near you.
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Tao’s Tweasure Hunt postponed due to Twitter hack
Las Vegas Weekly staff | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (6:04 p.m.)
Sorry, Twitter fans, the Tweasure Hunt at Tao has been postponed.
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Some of John Hughes’ best work, all from the 1980s
John Katsilometes | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (4:57 p.m.)
In "National Lampoon's Vacation," a pellet pistol-packing Clark Griswold confronted a flummoxed John Candy with, "The moose says you're closed. I say you're open!"
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Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche on sex and Spread
Melissa Arseniuk | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (11:07 a.m.)
Ashton Kutcher has been having a lot of sex and he likes to talk about it.
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What Now?
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
What Vegas’ nightlife community can look forward to under the bright light of post-Privé scandal scrutiny
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Peggy plots your planets
Peggy Allison | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Happy birthday to all you Leos. It’s your month to celebrate. If things appear a little slow right now, chill out. Four planets are retrograde. Play it cool on Monday. Not the day to share your ideas, goals, hopes and wishes with others.
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Dreamzone
Lauri Quinn Lowenberg | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
"I dreamt that I was in the woods with family, but I had gone to find my own place to be by myself. While I was there, I saw an old friend from grade school. She was just finishing up a chemo treatment and had vomited during it, but told me that was okay."
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A Perfect Getaway
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Twohy’s first film since Riddick, A Perfect Getaway, smartly scales back the ambition, and although it’s a mediocre thriller at best, it has a certain pulp charm and appealing toughness to it.
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House of the holy
April Corbin | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
I feel uneasy. I’m not the biggest fan of churches, but new all-ages music venue Anthem - housed in a church - works, if you can get past the pews.
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And who said you could nick our name?
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
If Glasvegas expects to be taken the least bit seriously, the band needs to recruit a real drummer. Or, perhaps, encourage current drummer Caroline McKay to get a real drum kit.
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(500) Days of Summer
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Although it puts on a front of being the antidote to quirky indie romantic comedies, the deceptively conventional (500) Days of Summer is actually just as sentimental and optimistic as the movies it purports to refute.
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Gloriana
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Pop-country quartet Gloriana is about as far as you can get from genuine country music and still manage airplay on country radio.
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Set Your Goals
Annie Zaleski | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Enter Set Your Goals, a Bay Area sextet poised to break out with This Will Be the Death of Us, which takes its cues from Blink and Sum 41’s penchant for dueling harmonies and scrappy vocals.
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DVD Spotlight: Repulsion
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Few films have depicted the descent into madness with as much sheer nightmarish brio as Roman Polanski’s 1965 Repulsion.
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Patrick Wolf
Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Fourteen tracks filter legend, history, sci-fi and modern personal introspection, yet all the pick-and-choosing establishes a sweepingly timeless mood.
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The Help Desk
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
- Some Las Vegas ATMs allegedly debiting people’s accounts but not handing out cash.
- Residents were slow to report the problem because they’re used to putting their money in machines and getting nothing back.
- Las Vegas Sands seeks to raise $400 million to ease cash crunch.
- The first part of the plan is the trickiest—finding 400 million homes to sell.
- Michael Jackson’s doctor renting a storage facility in Las Vegas.
- It might never have been found, but the doctor rented from “U-Store-Incriminating-Evidence.”
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Tiny Little Rant: Homeowners without balls
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
When homeowners who can actually afford their mortgages decide to either buy a cheaper house and then walk away from their present one or—gasp!—just walk away, we have to cry a mad-as-hell foul.
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Wandering the drink desert
C. Moon Reed | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Rhumbar's shadows contained people I wanted to meet. People who inhabited that sweet spot between hip and conservative, ironic and genuine, artistic and well-groomed.
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Julie & Julia
Josh Bell | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Very little other than lots of cooking happens in Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia, a Frankenstein’s monster-like adaptation of two separate memoirs, but when it comes to Ephron, avoiding plot is probably a good thing.
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Games pink elephants play
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
So I’m at Cathouse. The drinks are flowing, and so is the conversation. But then I look down and notice I’m wearing only my pajamas! Aaaaack! And then I wake up! What does it mean, doctor?
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Ruby Rose
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
For July’s Mixology Monday with guest-tender Trevor Thorpe of Noir Bar, George Austin Sproule of Downtown Cocktail Room incorporated Trevor’s own line of homemade bitters (peach and eucalyptus) into the night’s menu.
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Serra’s weighty drawings
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
So what do you make of these prints by New York sculptor Richard Serra? Start with the obvious: They’re big and uncomplex and heavy. Not intimate, these etchings.
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Overheard at San Diego Comic Con
Jerry Miller | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Illustrator Jerry Miller takes a trip to Cali for Comic Con and reveals his findings through a comic, of course.
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Not quite first
Brock Radke | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Shared plates, fun food and simple favorites are the strength of the cuisine here - like Crazy Little Tacos that come in five flavors, from catfish to lamb gyro.
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Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations
J. Caleb Mozzocco | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Sometimes the single panel of a political cartoon just isn’t a big enough space for a cartoonist to work with, especially if said cartoonist is interested in providing a detailed, nuanced discussion or honest-to-God reporting on a topic.
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Intimate yet grandiose
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Francis Ford Coppola capitalizes on his freedom to indulge himself with Tetro
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Opinion: Regulating morality?
James P. Reza | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Should state gaming-control officials meddle in nightclubs?
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What they’re saying about the Prive scandal
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
The local nightlife community weighs-in on the Privé scandal.
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Birthday wishes, from Woodman to Goodman
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Xania breaks a sweat (and her back) to honor his honor with the Official Martini of Las Vegas.
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Tall tale
John Freeman | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
McCann explores the lives of characters through his Twin Towers account.
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Who’s that girl?
Richard Abowitz | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Meeting the mystery woman behind the sexy courtesan blog.
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Minimum overdrive
Ken Miller | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Yes, some are making a little more money, but why does it feel so ... pointless?
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As Dead Elvis: Vegas’ unsolved mysteries
"What mystery from this city’s past would make a good episode of one of those cold-case shows?"
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Two-act disco
Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Already locked into one-upmanship coming off their July split, the current Panic! At the Disco and ex-Panic members— founders of new band The Young Veins—both released new singles on July 28. Coincidence? Nah.
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Not sissy books
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
I absolutely am not one of the tortured writers. I’m having a good time, and if I wasn’t I’d do something else. I don’t like to suffer. Depression doesn’t work for me—I think I could have a good time at a car wreck.
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Girdles … for men
Greg Beato | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
They eliminate inches in seconds. They’re surprisingly comfortable. They’re flying off the shelves at trend-setting retailers: They are Mirdles - girdles for guys.
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Girls gone … not so wild
Susanne Forestieri | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
When I heard the title It’s a Girl Thing, I fantasized the Guerrilla Girls, those gorilla-masked anarchic gadflies of the art world, would put in an appearance. Not. So. Much.
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(More than) three questions with comedian Bryan Bruner
Allison Duck | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
Bryan Bruner, former host at the LA Comedy Club at Trader Vic’s, left Las Vegas for the bright lights and bigger options of New York City. Now, he's back for a night of laughs.
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It’s celebration, then litigation, for Zowie Bowie
John Katsilometes | Wed, Aug 5, 2009 (7:35 p.m.)
In mid-afternoon, Zowie Bowie appeared at Monte Carlo to announce an extended residency at the hotel. Hours later, they learned they were being sued by Marley Taylor's ex-boyfriend.
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“F#%k Ed Hardy”
Deanna Rilling | Wed, Aug 5, 2009 (4:09 p.m.)
Dirty Nasty, Andy Milonakis and Rich Hil are bagging on Christian Audiger’s tired clothing line with their new track, “F#%k Ed Hardy.” Treasure Island might not be a fan of Audigier either. Could the nightclub could soon disappear like a bad fashion trend?
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Nerdwrap: Vegas overrun by influx of brainiacs
Melissa Arseniuk | Wed, Aug 5, 2009 (4:02 p.m.)
The recent boost in brainpower started over the weekend with Defcon and hasn't abated, with Diggnation and Tao's "tweasure" hunt upon us.
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Playing themselves: Country duo Third Town leaves impersonating to go original
Allison Duck | Wed, Aug 5, 2009 (12:27 p.m.)
Local band Third Town is a little bit of country, a little bit of rock ’n’ roll and a little bit Nashville Star, too.
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A bevy of notes: Misplaced showgirls, Wayner’s lawsuit and Holly’s house plans
John Katsilometes | Tue, Aug 4, 2009 (6:33 p.m.)
Oscar Goodman says he loves water colors and ceramics, but says filling a museum in downtown Las Vegas with such works would draw three visitors.
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Defcon 17 hacks into Vegas
Deanna Rilling | Tue, Aug 4, 2009 (6 p.m.)
Hackers are people, too. Really, really, really smart people. This n00b found they also know how to throw a good party.
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From all corners of the globe, a hip-hop hoedown hits Vegas
Sarah Feldberg | Tue, Aug 4, 2009 (2:55 p.m.)
Tommy Lee, Mark Wahlberg and Justin Timberlake's choreographer all took in one hell of a hip-hop dance show last weekend. This is what you missed...
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Celeb recap: Sasha Fierce and a whole lot of stars
Melissa Arseniuk | Tue, Aug 4, 2009 (2:09 p.m.)
Beyoncé wasn't the only show in town this past weekend: Reality stars, rock bands and really hot models were all on hand for another Vegas weekend.
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Privé appeal postponed until August 18
Xania Woodman | Tue, Aug 4, 2009 (9:31 a.m.)
Privé nightclub will remain closed until the appeal of its permanent liquor license rejection is heard later this month. Opium Group confirms "Greg Jarmolowich and Frank Tucker are no longer employed by Privé Nightclub" or by parent company Opium Group.
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Underworld ticket giveaway!
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Tue, Aug 4, 2009 (12:28 a.m.)
It’s been about a decade since dance music duo Underworld made a stop to perform in Las Vegas, and now that they're back you definitely don’t want to miss their Thursday night show at The Joint.
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Too many Midsummer nights: Consulting Shakespeare for other party ideas
Deanna Rilling | Mon, Aug 3, 2009 (4:45 p.m.)
With multiple venues latching onto the “Midsummer Night’s Dream” theme, we consulted Shakespeare for a few other plays to translate into Vegas-ready blowouts.
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Monday List: A quote barrage from Oscar Goodman
John Katsilometes | Mon, Aug 3, 2009 (3:21 p.m.)
To mark Oscar Goodman's 70th birthday, we trace some of our favorite comments made during his tenure as mayor of Las Vegas.
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Rule the Rink: Fashion tips from Robot Chicken on Wheels
April Corbin | Mon, Aug 3, 2009 (1:12 p.m.)
Forget good balance and coordination. The most important thing about roller-skating is what you wear.
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A night with the bootylicious Beyoncé
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 3, 2009 (12:26 p.m.)
Backed by an 18-member, all-female band, Beyoncé drew from a range of hits for last night’s concert, sourcing songs from both her solo career and former Destiny’s Child days.
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The pants, they aren’t a-changin’
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 3, 2009 (10:57 a.m.)
A plea for Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil: Please, change your pants.
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Goodman’s 70th birthday is a Fremont Street experience
John Katsilometes | Mon, Aug 3, 2009 (10:51 a.m.)
Oscar Goodman celebrated his 70th birthday in characteristic fashion, drinking martinis and hanging out with showgirls amid a couple thousand revelers on Fremont Street.
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Vince Neil has hectic homecoming weekend
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Aug 3, 2009 (9:40 a.m.)
Between signing autographs, visiting his bar and rocking The Joint with Crüe Fest 2, Vince Neil had a hectic homecoming weekend in Las Vegas.
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Win tickets to No Doubt at The Joint!
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Mon, Aug 3, 2009 (1:58 a.m.)
It's just our way of saying, "Yea, we know you really want to see Gwen Stefani's six-pack."
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Joint’s pulse quickens as Motley Crue pays another visit to ‘Dr. Feelgood’
John Katsilometes | Sun, Aug 2, 2009 (3:14 p.m.)
Forget the ambiguity, Motley Crue put out a full-force rock show to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "Dr. Feelgood" to highlight CrueFest 2.
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The “happiest mayor in the universe” makes a birthday wish
Allison Duck | Sat, Aug 1, 2009 (1:10 p.m.)
Mayor Goodman entered the VIP pre-party for his 70th birthday bash to 50 Cent's "In Da Club." In case you weren't aware, our mayor is a p-i-m-p.
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A $29,000 tab at a strip club? Oh yeah, it’s possible
Six strippers keeping a guest company for several hours can easily explain a $25,000 charge for such services.
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