Story archive for January 2009
Monorail: Once again, a viable alternative
John Katsilometes | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 (11:48 p.m.)
I've been on this Monorail kick lately, ever since I boarded the crazy trian for a ride during CES as couple of weeks ago. Tonight is no different.
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In the UFC, as in life, it’s all about the fear
John Katsilometes | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 (11:05 p.m.)
BJ Penn was defeated before the first bell tonight. You know it. He knows it.
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UFC 94: Observations from the octagon
John Katsilometes | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 (8:52 p.m.)
Octagonside at UFC 94 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, I have two thoughts: 1. Ouch. 2. I cannot believe how popular this sport has become.
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Shining a light
Josh Bell | Sat, Jan 31, 2009 (1:03 p.m.)
For the past eight years, the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival has been pursuing a successful strategy for attracting audiences, programming a limited number of films and pairing each one with a local Jewish organization or synagogue.
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It’s real, I swear!
Deanna Rilling | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 (5:56 p.m.)
Hey bouncers, bartenders, and even bachelors! You might be thinking there's a sudden surge of teens and prostitots with a batch of fake IDs circulating the Valley attempting to fool the industry and cradle-robbers alike with their new-fangled fake IDs, but think again.
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Hide behind something solid: The Kats Report debuts
John Katsilometes | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 (5:54 p.m.)
If it is happening in Las Vegas and it is important, or even if it isn't, John Katsilometes will be there -- unless he's following the mayor along Fremont Street or attending a black-tie event somewhere.
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The dregs of winter
Josh Bell | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 (11:59 a.m.)
Josh and Las Vegas Weekly Managing Editor Ken Miller survey the wasteland that is the January movie season, starring awful romantic comedy New in Town and slightly-better-than-expected horror movie The Uninvited, plus Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Zack and Miri Make a Porno on DVD, and a rundown of worthwhile movies still in theaters.
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No recession for Coachella’s ambition
Spencer Patterson | Fri, Jan 30, 2009 (9:09 a.m.)
The Coachella music festival's lineup includes such wide-ranging heavyweights as Paul McCartney and Franz Ferdinand - and that's just day one.
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Celebrity NFL Picks: We’re propped up by a bevy of Super bets
Sal DeFilippo | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (7:19 p.m.)
Betting on the coin toss is just the beginnings of a Super Sunday, which should see a big Steelers victory.
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Talk is cheap, UFC champs ready to back up words in ‘superfight’
Andy Samuelson | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (6:30 p.m.)
Everyone knows the key to a good fight is the trash talk beforehand. And this Saturday’s megafight at the MGM Grand has had plenty of verbal barbs.
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BC-Behind the Wheel-2009 Mitsubishi Outlander/925
Ann M. Job / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (4:48 p.m.)
Mitsubishi's smallest sport utility vehicle in the United States is still called a compact. But there's not much that's small about the 2009 Outlander. Stretching more than 15 feet in length, the second-generation Outlander is longer, overall, than many more popular compact SUVs, such as the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. Its 73 cubic feet of cargo area behind the front seats is bigger than those found in the Hyundai Tucson and Nissan Rogue.
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Pooled Resources: Now hiring!
Xania Woodman | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (2:42 p.m.)
How’s that resume looking? And your intro letter? What about your abs? Because that’s really what it’s gonna take to get hired at some of Vegas’ hottest pools, most of which will be opening in mid-March.
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Outside the Octagon: UFC 94 party guide
Allison Duck | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (2:25 p.m.)
Before and after BJ Penn and GSP face off, party UFC-style on the Strip.
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New in Town
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
What exactly is wrong with city living? Every time some confident, career-oriented city dweller in a Hollywood movie finds him or herself in a small town, it’s only a matter of time before he or she has cast off the oppression of go-go urban life and embraced the simplicity, community and low ambitions of rural domesticity.
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Emma Hughes
Team Hangover | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
As one of her many gigs, this professionally trained dancer/model is one of a handful of Bocce Bellas who in warmer months help folks play the Italian game on Rao’s poolside course at Caesars.
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Panacea
Xania Woodman | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Medieval alchemists searched their whole lives for an elixir of life … Turns out adding the St-Germain made all the difference!
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Old ladies, please!
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
So the movie at a packed Green Valley Ranch theater is about to start when three elderly ladies come in, looking for last-minute seats together and the drama really starts.
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Mini rant: R-J Editor Tom Mitchell, Bullshit!
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Last week’s anti-budget-cuts rally at UNLV caused the usual irritable-bowel syndrome in R-J Editor Tom Mitchell, who, in his blog, chastised students for demeaning public discourse.
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Steve Martin
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Yes, it’s that Steve Martin, adding musician to a resume that already includes comedian, actor, playwright, novelist and screenwriter. Actually, Martin’s been playing the banjo at least as long as he’s been a comedian.
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H.O.T.S. bound for somewhere
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Vegas punk trio Holding on to Sound (aka H.O.T.S.). is set to play for its biggest audience ever, at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel. The headlining act? A little SoCal band called NOFX.
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The Weekly’s Voice
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
The results are in for the latest edition of The Village Voice’s prestigious Pazz & Jop critics poll, and the winner is … Las Vegas Weekly!
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Re-experiencing Fremont Street
Richard Abowitz | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
The vibe at The Fremont Street Experience has changed from even a year ago, when panhandlers and bargain-hunters and a terrible odor were the most obvious memories taken from visits to the Experience.
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Century markings
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
When the city of Las Vegas celebrated its 100th anniversary a few years ago, Mark Hall-Patton, administrator of the Clark County Museum, knew that his institution would have to rise to the challenge—because the county’s centennial is this year.
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State of siege
Ken Miller | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
It’s not hyperbole to say this year’s legislative session will be unlike any other in the state’s history. Here are a few voices that will try to rise above the din on February 2. Let the carnage begin.
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Anthony Crivello as the Phantom in Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Crivello, who won a 1995 Tony Award for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman, has reunited with that production’s director, Hal Prince, in Las Vegas.
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Si, vamanos
Steve Friess | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
"You know,” Michael Weaver says to me at the tail end of a lunch appointment that has been filled largely with gloom about the state of the Vegas economy, “there actually is one segment of the population that is actually up over the year before.”
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Unusual name, great food
Max Jacobson | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Take one highly seasoned food and wine professional. Then add a brilliant young chef and a sleek modern design. The result is Pips at the Aliante Station Casino, so far one of this year’s big surprises.
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Cheap (and free) tricks
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
A bunch of fun stuff to do and acquire for the right price—little to nothing.
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Gimme even more
Greg Beato | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
"I think I’m ready for my close-up,” Britney Spears intones on her latest album, joylessly, mechanically, as if being the center of attention is now about as appealing to her as spending 72 hours locked inside an oil drum with Dr. Phil.
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Staying power
Richard Abowitz | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Even sex, at least the not-for-profit kind, is feeling the recession. But, as with other museums, big sponsors help.
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We’re not gonna take it
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Forget acoustic guitars and hippies singing “Kumbaya.” A Vegas rally needs dance music!
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What’s that in your genes?
Rick Lax | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Every day I go to the bookstore and page through men’s magazines that promise me six-pack abs in 30 days and mind-blowing sex with supermodels.
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Stay the night
Susanne Forestieri | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Maybe I’m just cranky, but I feel compelled to tell the artists where I think they’ve taken a wrong turn, as well as where I think they’re right on track.
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What really matters
Ken Miller | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Getting Nevada's finances back in order is obviously Priority 1 during the 120-day legislative session, but there are also hundreds of bills vying for attention. A few for your perusal ...
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Stupid yet watchable
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Arriving on U.S. screens nearly a full year after it opened in Europe, Taken, the latest hyperviolent potboiler produced and co-written by slick action ace Luc Besson (the Transporter series), feels even more retrograde and anachronistic than that delay might suggest.
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The Unnecessary
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
This week sees the opening of horror movie The Uninvited, which wasn’t screened for critics by press time. Just a few weeks ago, the same thing occurred with fellow horror movie The Unborn. We started wondering, what other similarly titled horror movies might not be screened for critics?
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American beauties
Edward Pettit | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Jay Parini’s latest book, Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America, plots the course of America’s Manifest Literary Destiny.
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The Help Desk
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
- Assessor’s office: 200,000 may pay lower property taxes this year.
- The remaining 1.8 million don’t have homes anymore.
- Las Vegas 3-year-old boy survives 325-pound snake attack.
- His mother vows to get a safer pet next time: a pit bull.
- Vegas oddsmaker says Slumdog Millionaire is best bet for Oscar.
- And after seeing an immensely more entertaining Golden Globes, the Weekly says Oscar is best bet for complete irrelevance.
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The museum we can’t use
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
At the north end of the Springs Preserve, construction crews are wrapping up work on the large new Nevada State Museum—the state’s most ambitious museum.
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Portal to … nowhere
Ken Miller | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Call it another casualty of the crappy economy. Originally expected to launch in late spring, the Metro Arts Council’s web portal, intended to put all the Valley’s arts organizations under one umbrella, is now indefinitely delayed until alternate funding can be found.
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Tao moves on down the road at Sundance
Xania Woodman | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
For the first year in recent memory (three years, to be exact), Tao Group did not hold its 10-day roster of wild and crazy nights at Park City’s Harry-O’s nightclub during the Sundance Film Festival.
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Dream zone
Lauri Quinn Lowenberg | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
When a man shoots you in the chest and a cloaked figure comes to collect you, don't panic, call Lauri.
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Peggy plots your planets
Peggy Allison | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
Act on your intuition. Show your creativity. Keep it real.
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A.C. Newman
Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Jan 29, 2009 (midnight)
With his second solo effort, The New Pornographers prolific songwriter and multi-instrumentalist merely demonstrates that in terms of output, less can be more.
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Super Bowl XLIII Vegas Party Guide
Allison Duck | Wed, Jan 28, 2009 (1:53 p.m.)
From gourmet treats to Bud Light pitchers to 36 foot screens, your guide to Super Bowl parties in Las Vegas.
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You gotta have flair
Sarah Feldberg | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 (4:48 p.m.)
Tonight at Red Room Saloon, local behind the bar talent will showcase their mixing skills, and they’ll do it all with flair.
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Claiming one’s virginity is something to dance about
A recent customer who lost his virginity was "atypical," in that he was relatively old -- 30.
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You betcha: Prop bets we’d like to see for Super Bowl XLIII
Ryan McAfee | Tue, Jan 27, 2009 (2 p.m.)
Every year come Super Bowl time, a fattened cash cow by the name of Prop Bets goes trotting down the Las Vegas Strip. Screw fumbles and third string QBs; here are some of the lines we'd like to wager on for the big game.
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PETA stages Strip protest minus the fake blood or nude models
Jennifer Grafiada | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 (8:17 p.m.)
The animal rights organization notorious for its attention-getting antics - some sexy, some scary - staged a Strip boycott on Monday directly addressing Giorgio Armani's broken promise to stop using fur.
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Arianny Celeste named Las Vegas’ Top Model
Jennifer Grafiada | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 (5:52 p.m.)
Arianny Celeste, homegrown model and UFC octagon girl, beat out 19 local hotties for the Las Vegas Top Model title. What will she do with all that prize money?
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ND’s Fuego brings the Latin heat
Xania Woodman | Mon, Jan 26, 2009 (11:11 a.m.)
Latin Salsa sensations Gilberto Santa Rosa and Victor Manuelle will perform an exclusive engagement at the soft opening of ND's Fuego (formerly Club Rio) as part of their current tour "Gilberto Santa Rosa & Victor Manuelle Show, La Historia Continua".
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Competitive chili makes beans serious business
Allison Duck | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 (3:37 p.m.)
Beans, beans they're good for your heart! What is it about chili that makes everyone go, "mmmmmm?"
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Celebrity stylist Ken Paves offers glamour (and therapy) to Vegas
Denise Spidle | Sun, Jan 25, 2009 (3:13 p.m.)
Teaming up with Nikki Oden to open ElevenSpa Vegas at Town Square in February, the man who has worked the tresses of starlets like Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Simpson brings a bit of old Hollywood to Las Vegas.
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Hoosier hysteria! Miss America 2009 thanks the Lord
John Katsilometes | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 (9:22 p.m.)
She said it over and over tonight: “I’m blessed. … So blessed. … This is a blessing. … I’m so very blessed. … I have the blessing of family. ... The scholarship money is a blessing.”
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Here she is, Miss Indiana takes home the tiara
John Katsilometes | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 (7:10 p.m.)
Katie R. Stam, has just been announced as the 82nd Miss America at the Planet Hollywood Theatre for the Performing Arts. Miss Georgia, Chasity Hardman, was first runner-up.
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Club Rio … returneth?!: A Weekly exclusive announcement
Xania Woodman | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 (5:25 p.m.)
It doth! Club Rio will reopen as ND's Fuego from soon-to-be nightclub magnate Nicole Durr.
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Suspense time: New Miss America just hours away
John Katsilometes | Sat, Jan 24, 2009 (9:22 a.m.)
Miss America makes her fourth appearance at the Planet Hollywood Theatre for the Performing Arts as current titleholder Kirsten Haglund and host Mario Lopez crown the new beauty queen.
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Vegas Escort Idol — a game whose time has come
Sarah Feldberg | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 (5:45 p.m.)
A game of Vegas Escort Idol requires little aptitude and hardly any equipment. All you need to know are a few simple rules, and call-girl protocol.
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Help pick Las Vegas’ Top Model
Jennifer Grafiada | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 (5:34 p.m.)
Perfect ten redheads, blondes and brunettes sport bikinis, lingerie, evening gowns and jeans in pictures provided for your viewing pleasure. I like Cicilia, with Joanna a close second. Vote online now for your favorite of the 20 local models competing in the Las Vegas Top Model 2009 competition.
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Bonkerz for comedy at new Palace Station club
Allison Duck | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 (2:47 p.m.)
In the face of challenging economic times, Palace Station has decided that laughter really is the best medicine. Hence, the addition of Bonkerz Comedy Club.
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All the baskets have been stolen!
Jennifer Grafiada | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 (2:09 p.m.)
After getting my heart broken, I needed some chocolate. On my way home from work I stopped off at the Albertson's at Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch, but there was not a basket in sight.
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On mechanical bulls and real ones, it’s all in the hips
Ashley Livingston | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 (1:01 p.m.)
Despite the contest's testosterone-laden title, it was two women who took top rankings Thursday during Stoney's Rockin' Country's Man vs. Machine event.
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Let the protests begin: College students and teachers rally against budget cuts
Sarah Feldberg | Fri, Jan 23, 2009 (1:39 a.m.)
A crowd of around 2,000 gathered at UNLV Thursday night to rally against proposed budget cuts for higher education. Chancellor Jim Rogers had this to say: “I want you as you go home tonight to forget who the governor is. He is of no importance."
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Of Kathy Griffin and a well-seated tranny: A night with Bette Midler
John Katsilometes | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (3:55 p.m.)
Not all of the entertainment was scheduled at Wednesday night's performance of Bette Midler's The Showgirl Must Go On at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
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Whatever, Oscar nominations
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (3:34 p.m.)
There really isn't much of a point griping or rejoicing over Oscar nominations. Still, they're a big deal. Weekly film critic Josh Bell offers his take on a few pleasant surprises and disappointing omissions.
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Who are The Head Cat?
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Chances are you’ve never heard of rockabilly trio The Head Cat, who play Wasted Space this week.
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Beat this
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Happy fifth birthday, Beatport! What a perfect excuse to throw more events than a Vegas socialite.
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Lawful liquor
Xania Woodman | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Las Vegans are used to getting it any time, any place (every place!), in any combination, at every volume and at any hour: booze.
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The Lucky Pear
Xania Woodman | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
When the Pear Bureau of the Northwest put out a call for pear recipes and cocktails, decorated Vegas flair bartender and molecular mixologist Steve Dorsey (2008 FBA Blue Blazer mixology champion) answered that call with his submission, The Lucky Pear
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Triumphant “Trojan”
Jacob Coakley | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Trojan Women 2.0 is the type of theater that is easy to make fun of, but it is also the type of theater, for some people, that offers the most thrilling insights into the possibilities of art, theater and humanity.
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Rock for change
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Two Metro police officers have crashed the Canvas Cafe’s Monday-night inauguration party, arriving to investigate the scene along the Strip mall at the corner of Silverado Ranch and Bermuda Boulevard.
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Franz Ferdinand
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
It’s almost unfathomable just how far the Glasgow foursome’s compositional abilities have decayed in the five years since its eponymous 2004 debut.
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Umphrey’s McGee
Annie Zaleski | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Hip tastemakers would flip out about Mantis if it was an album released by anyone but Chicago jam-band kingpin Umphrey’s McGee.
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Hoobastank
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Alt-rockers Hoobastank are unlikely ever to be known for anything other than their 2004 power balled “The Reason,” but they soldier on nonetheless.
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Inkheart
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Like most fantasy-adventure stories, Inkheart, adapted from German author Cornelia Funke’s popular series of children’s books, strives to conjure up a long-forgotten world.
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Leathermouth
Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
With the first release from his mad-as-hell side project Leathermouth, Frank Iero returns to his unruly roots with a nod to such precursors of social and political protest as Black Flag.
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Stop driving on Red Rock
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Saturday. A beautiful, clear, crisp day. The kind that used to become magically more so the further out West Charleston you got. Today it’s not like that. It’s trafficky.
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Amen Corner: Facebook has potential!
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
We owe a big thanks to Channel 10’s Mitch Fox for showing R-J columnist Jane Ann Morrison that there is “some potential in Facebook.” You don’t say!
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Which way to pork town?
Ken Miller | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Barack Obama has been very careful in his choice of words up to this point, but he might have let slip more than he wanted to when he told ABC News this pearl ...
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Suds and buds
Richard Abowitz | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
As with most things that come to Vegas, Beer & Blog originated somewhere else, in this case Portland, Oregon.
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The Help Desk
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
- Overweight, unkempt Joaquin Phoenix performs incoherent rap at Vegas nightclub, falls off the stage.
- Or as Britney Spears would call it, Saturday night.
- North Las Vegas foreclosure workshop draws nearly 1,500.
- Actually, most of them were just trying to get as far away as they could from Joaquin Phoenix.
- UNLV economist predicts Nevada jobless rate will hit 10 percent this year.
- What’s that? Oh, sorry ... recently laid-off UNLV economist.
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Wild, sweet and cool
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Triple XXX Vitamin Water plus vodka is now one of my favorite drinks, thanks to Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan.
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Lawyers, guns … and money
Steve Friess | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
A legitimate mob museum at the beautiful, restored historic old federal building Downtown would be an enormous success for Las Vegas.
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Forbes to Henderson, North Las Vegas: Whatever
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Forbes, last month, has gone and named North Las Vegas and Henderson two of America’s 10 most boring cities.
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The gift that keeps on pouring
Team Hangover | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Ever wonder why people pay real money to give imaginary Facebook gifts like cocktails and presents? Princeton alums Patrick Ledbetter and Adam Ludwig did.
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I read the news today, oh boy
Ken Miller | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Cheap Trick, the rumor mill has it, might soon be residing at the Las Vegas Hilton, performing The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Different times
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
At a time like this, when the bubble has burst on Las Vegas’ collective psyche, it’s nice to recall the good old days of sun and fun and money, when a writer could say of the city, without irony, “It is the most incredible oasis the world has ever known.”
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Smith Center drama
Jacob Coakley | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
At a projected budget of $475 million, the Smith Center for the Performing Arts is the biggest investment in the arts Las Vegas has ever seen.
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Allegory, with giant drooling wolves
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
In TV ads for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, scenes showing actress Rhona Mitra are edited in a speedy way that leaves just a little hope that the woman you see is, returning for a third time, Kate Beckinsale. It’s not.
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Lunch and a movie
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Local filmmaker Tom Barndt’s surreal short films have shown up at CineVegas and the Dam Short Film Festival, among other places, and last year he and partner Samara St. Croix took their short film The Mark to the Sundance Film Festival.
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Opening doors
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Ryan D’Agostino cold-called residents in some of America’s wealthiest neighborhoods to ask rich people how they got that way.
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“Seeing” is believing
Danielle Kelly | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
The individuals assembled for You See are Left Coast art gods, key players in one of the many cultural shifts that erupted in California during the 1960s and ’70s: West Coast funk.
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Untrustworthy
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Trust Me is thoroughly mediocre, an occasionally entertaining look at typical office shenanigans that could easily be transported to a law firm or a software company with few alterations.
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Peggy plots your planets
Peggy Allison | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Scorpio, get out and about on Saturday. Libra, run around the playground and enjoy yourself.
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Dream zone
Lauri Quinn Lowenberg | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
When your friend tells you to jump off a high building, should you do it?
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Democratic Dr Pepper
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Dr Pepper promised everyone in America a free soda if Guns N’ Roses’ long-delayed Chinese Democracy was released in 2008.
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Here’s looking at Casablanca
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
Everyone’s heard of the Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman classic, and is probably familiar with its numerous quotable lines, but that’s no substitute for watching the film itself.
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Truckasauras
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
These Pitchfork-approved Seattleites fiddle with synths, an 808 drum machine and a Game Boy to produce a texture to the 8-bit side of IDM.
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Sex > honey toast (but just barely)
Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
I take online restaurant reviews with a grain of salt, but when everyone agrees that a dish is so divine it warrants exclamation points, expletives and comparisons to sex, I yield to the communal will.
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Turkish delight
Max Jacobson | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
I've been reviewing restaurants since 1984, and if one great cuisine has been sorely absent from my columns, it is the glorious cooking of Turkey.
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Andrew Bird
Patrick Donnelly | Thu, Jan 22, 2009 (midnight)
When you hear that Andrew Bird is back with all the bells and whistles, you can take that at its most literal meaning.
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“We were there when”
Timothy Giles | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 (9:30 p.m.)
A Nevadan heads to Washington D.C. for inauguration and meets history head-on.
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On being there: thoughts from the inauguration
Timothy Giles | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 (8:48 p.m.)
These thoughts, hopes and reactions came people who attended the inauguration on January 20 in Washington D.C. From Nevada and beyond, their emotions were echoed throughout the historic day.
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Strippers for Obama take particular pride in new administration
The inauguration sparked deep conversation among Vegas strippers: What would Michelle wear to the event?
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Weekly’s most boring cities in the U.S. (Take that, Forbes)
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 (3:43 p.m.)
Forbes magazine had the nerve to name both Henderson and North Las Vegas among their 10 most boring cities in the U.S. Clearly, they've missed a few real clunkers. Here's our list for the dullest places to call home in the country.
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A gala mop-up: UFC star is light on his feet; Barrett muses about Phantom return
John Katsilometes | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 (2:47 p.m.)
A few notes, quotes and anecdotes from Saturday's NBT Black & White Ball at Caesars Palace.
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The multi-tasking President
Sarah Feldberg | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 (1:15 p.m.)
In the midst of all the pomp and circumstance, all the smiling and waving and wining and dining, on his first day in office Obama took the time to – gasp! – actually do some presidential work.
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A couple of lines to note, from a stranger and Carrot Top
John Katsilometes | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 (1:07 p.m.)
Sometimes the lines come from an obvious source, like Carrot Top, and sometimes they are uttered by a total stranger.
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A presidential roast and toast, 365 days apart
Melissa Arseniuk | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 (11:32 a.m.)
Two Washington D.C. parties one year apart highlight the transformation of a city with the arrival of a new president.
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A harmonically Vegas convergence for Lynette Boggs
John Katsilometes | Wed, Jan 21, 2009 (10:56 a.m.)
On the day Barack Obama was sworn in and the Miss America Pageant was in town, onetime rising political star and former pageant contestant Lynette Boggs paid a $2,000 fine in District Court.
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After the curtain closes: Packing up Stomp Out Loud
Sarah Feldberg | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (8:28 p.m.)
For Stomp Out Loud and production supervisor Mark Martin, leaving Planet Hollywood means it's time to pack up. But putting an entire theater's worth of found objects and set pieces into a 7,000 square foot warehouse is no easy task.
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The Crystal Method gives a good trip
Jennifer Grafiada | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (5:37 p.m.)
The electronic vibrations running through my body at Rain on Saturday night gave off a slightly sexually charge. And Rolling Stone agrees.
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Get this: Toby Keith, Obama fan
John Katsilometes | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (5:11 p.m.)
Toby Keith supported the whole Shock-And-Awe approach to Mideast foreign policy, but on the day Barack Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States, he's singing a different tune.
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Seeing, or rather, hearing history on the National Mall
Melissa Arseniuk | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (3:01 p.m.)
Evening with an obstructed view, watching - or rather, hearing - Barack Obama be sworn was an amazing experience.
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Toujours Paris (Hilton)
Xania Woodman | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (2:41 p.m.)
Everyone's favorite little snow bunny, Paris Hilton, is in rare form this year, parading around in pink, bunny-inspired cold-weather gear (think floppy ears).
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A sense of relief as Obama is sworn in
John Katsilometes | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (2:22 p.m.)
It was not a celebratory tone as I visited longtime friend and like-minded activist Peggy Maze Johnson at her home to watch the inauguration.
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We pose a single, contest-caliber question to Miss Nevada
John Katsilometes | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (1:02 p.m.)
On the spot, Miss Nevada Julianna Erdesz fielded a question about Barack Obama in the allotted 30 seconds. Nice job.
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Tears and hope in front of the JumboTron during inauguration
Amanda Finnegan | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (11:42 a.m.)
President Barack Obama seemed larger than life this morning to a crowd watching on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Words from the Mall
Timothy Giles | Tue, Jan 20, 2009 (9:56 a.m.)
From Washington D.C., thoughts, hopes and words from attendees at the inauguration of Barack Obama.
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Text of President Barack Obama’s inaugural address
Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Tuesday, as prepared for delivery and released by the Presidential Inaugural Committee.
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History in the making: A guide to Vegas’ inaugural parties
Jennifer Grafiada | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 (5:22 p.m.)
Where you are during Barack Obama’s inauguration will likely be remembered for your lifetime, so get off your couch and watch it somewhere interesting.
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Amidst the costumed mayhem, a punk rock bowling tournament
Allison Duck | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 (2:17 p.m.)
Stepping off the elevator at the Sam’s Town bowling center on Saturday felt like entering Raymond James Stadium in Tampa for the Super Bowl. The elevator doors opened to a scene of wall-to-wall punk rock fans and bowlers.
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Inauguration kicks off in Vegas with a local music marathon
Allison Duck | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 (1:05 p.m.)
Canvas Café in the Silverado Ranch neighborhood has quickly become the politically minded coffee drinker’s café of choice. Tonight's pre-inauguration party unites local bands, cheap beer and Obama pride under one roof.
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Sinatra and The Cafe: A dueling review
John Katsilometes | Mon, Jan 19, 2009 (10:32 a.m.)
Sinatra at Encore and The Cafe at the Eldorado Casino in Henderson have their own distinctive culinary traits.
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The Killers come home to new Joint
Jennifer Grafiada | Sun, Jan 18, 2009 (3:17 p.m.)
Fresh off their overseas tour, The Killers will touch down in the city that knew them before they were stars where they’ll christen the newly opened Joint at the Hard Rock.
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Celebrity NFL Picks: After halftime, Steelers gave no quarter
Sal DeFilippo | Sat, Jan 17, 2009 (11:48 a.m.)
The San Diego Chargers held the ball for a total of 17 seconds -- a near impossibility in the NFL -- in the third quarter in their loss at Pittsburgh last weekend.
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A poetic investment: Ray J’s role at Poetry goes beyond celebrity
Sarah Feldberg | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 (6:28 p.m.)
With Poetry welcoming R&B singer Ray J as a partner who will be a fixture at the club and not just a source of funds, a new model of celebrity investing hits Vegas.
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Blart!
Josh Bell | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 (3:46 p.m.)
Comedian and filmmaker Jason Harris joins Josh to chat about Oscar contenders The Wrestler and Revolutionary Road, plus clear 2010 Oscar front-runner Paul Blart: Mall Cop, along with Last Chance Harvey and My Bloody Valentine 3D. Want more Josh? Catch him Fridays live on Xtreme 107.5 FM.
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A sort of homecoming for Meg & Dia
Sarah Feldberg | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 (1:15 p.m.)
Sisters Meg and Dia Frampton are a modern day Brady Bunch. Tonight they kick off their tour at the House of Blues.
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Taking it to The Bank
Xania Woodman | Fri, Jan 16, 2009 (midnight)
To the Urban Dictionary: Collectively describing women who professionally use their bodies for monetary gain, also known as hookers.
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Back to Hebrew school with the “gangstaz of hilarity”
Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (6:34 p.m.)
Listening to Jewish hip hop group FA-COCK-TA as a Jew is a bit like being in on an hour-long inside joke. For a non-Jew, their show is a crash course in Jewish-American culture - matzo ball soup, relatives fleeing to Florida, the family burden of hefty thighs and a love of smoked fish.
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Calling all trendsetters, wannabes
Xania Woodman | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (6:25 p.m.)
Attention hipsters, scenesters, electro junkies, ravers, music snobs, sneaker heads, indie-ites, and you, the kid who can’t be left out. It’s now safe to venture south of Downtown.
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Joe Francis gone wild! Amateur porn poster boy talks bailout and America’s hottest girls
Jennifer Grafiada | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (4:29 p.m.)
Ten months after walking out of a Nevada jail, the Girls Gone Wild founder is talking seriously about a $5 billion economic stimulus package and his plans to release a Vegas-based DVD.
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Tanning often reveals a stripper’s dark side
Many women who tan end up looking like latex horror-movie girls, but not me. I'm cheesecake.
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Close calls and close quarters with One Pin Short
Allison Duck | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (2:08 p.m.)
Back in town after joining Reel Big Fish for the Southwestern leg of their tour, OPS is keeping busy with a steady lineup of local shows.
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Folies on its last legs after 49-year Strip run
John Katsilometes | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (10:04 a.m.)
Folies Bergere opened in December 1959 and has entertained 40,000 fans a month at the Trop, but will close on March 28.
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The Dereck Trucks Band
Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Derek Trucks has been personally and professionally shaped by his uncle Butch’s Allman Brothers; it befits the perpetual wunderkind more than any other modern-day guitarist—while eschewing the mic in favor of leading with licks.
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Peggy plots your planets
Peggy Allison | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
The sun enters Aquarius and puts a spark in your eyes. You may notice your personality perk up a bit.
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The Nice Age
Greg Beato | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
After the last inaugural balloon disappears into the heavens like a January 2008 campaign promise and the “Yes, we can!” era officially begins, what’s going to happen to public discourse?
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The headliner that got away
Steve Friess | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
I am one of just 70 people packed into an air-conditioning-less basement at an “experimental” theater in SoHo watching a gargantuan, nearly naked gender-bender stomping through a miniature set of New York City, à la Godzilla.
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The Help Desk
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
- Las Vegas sees dip in robberies.
- Well, unless you count the banks robbing people of their homes, their hopes and their dreams.
- Mayor Oscar Goodman wants four more years.
- Works for us. After all, would you want this guy walking around with time on his hands?
- Harry Reid tells Nevada: No pork barrel in economic stimulus package.
- Guess that Las Vegas Weeklybeer garden will have to wait.
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Matt & Kim
Ben Westhoff | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Brooklyn couple Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino didn’t know how to play their instruments—keys and drums, respectively—when they first teamed up in 2004.
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Sleek, red and sexy
John Freeman | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
The Red Convertible is Louise Erdrich's collection of fabulously sexy new and selected tales.
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A growing festival
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Now in its eighth year, the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival continues to expand and build on its success, this year branching out to encompass 13 films and three different venues.
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Defiance
Jeffrey M. Anderson | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Liev Schreiber) and Asael (Jamie Bell) are three brothers of Russian-Jewish heritage. When World War II and Nazi threats loom, they escape into the woods of Belarus.
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Alternative option
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Just because something says “alternative,” don’t expect to see a crowd swaddled in flannel. Alternative Tuesdays, which kicked off this month in the House of Blues Courtyard, will be an “open format” show.
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MBV 3D
Ken Miller | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
No movie caught my attention more than My Bloody Valentine, a 1981 Canadian horror film that originally featured, among other atrocities, an eyeball popping from its socket as the result of a pickax and a woman’s mouth spurting blood after being impaled on a shower minus its showerhead.
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Where the heart is
Susanne Forestieri | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
The American dream of owning one’s own home has turned into a nightmare. The good news is that nightmares can inspire artists.
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Springing a leak
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Take a peak at Morrissey's new album leaked online a month before its February release date.
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Wrestling with greatness
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Listening to the buzz about The Wrestler, you might guess that it’s a movie about the resurrection of Mickey Rourke’s career.
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Dream zone
Lauri Quinn Lowenberg | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
I dreamed I was going to be interviewed by Bill O’Reilly ... but then I noticed that my left eye had THREE pupils!
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Call it a comeback
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
In the ’80s, Patrick Dempsey was a teen-comedy star, thanks to his lead roles in Can’t Buy Me Love and Loverboy. And then ... nothing.
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Not exactly “Revolutionary”
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Revolutionary Road opens with two scenes so beautifully judged—so perfect a précis of a marriage in crisis—that they just about render the rest of the film redundant.
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Flower power
Jeremy Adams | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Having wine with The Petals is probably akin to having beer with a female Flight of the Conchords, or perhaps warm tea with Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon during their Saturday Night Live “NPR Ladies” skits.
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“Lost” confounds, again
Josh Bell, Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
A handful of important characters—Claire, Jin, Michael, Faraday and Locke—ended last season with their fates in question. Who is really dead?
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Last Chance Harvey
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
The standard line on Last Chance Harvey is that it’s refreshing to see a romantic vehicle for older actors, but the truth is that just because stars Hoffman and Thompson are north of 40 doesn’t mean that they get to avoid the worn-out pitfalls of the romantic comedy.
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A shrinking CineVegas
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Even as smaller local film festivals such as the Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival and Boulder City’s Dam Short Film Festival expand, the biggest of all, CineVegas (owned by members of the Greenspun family, who also own Las Vegas Weekly’s parent company), is downsizing.
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“United” it falls
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
In Diablo Cody's United States of Tara, there's the sarcastic, worldly teen girl; her gay, classic Hollywood-loving brother; some clueless but well-meaning parents; and plenty of casual, matter-of-fact sexual references.
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No bailout necessary
Kate Silver | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
If we hadn’t all just bought our shiny, new digital TVs, we’d be pretty tempted to bash them in and stop Suze Orman from making us hate ourselves even more.
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Epic compatriots
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
I’m not expecting to depart clutching a cassette tape when I enter the Freakin’ Frog Saturday night.
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Reading Room: Not dead yet!
Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
It’s still there, the Reading Room. You may have assumed that the plucky and wonderful independent bookstore occupying a broom closet in Mandalay Place had closed by now. Nope.
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That’s “Ray J’s Poetry,” thank you
Team Hangover | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
This Saturday, January 17, recording artist Ray J will celebrate his 28th birthday at Poetry Nightclub. Think of Ray J’s appearance as a house party.
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Up from the streets
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
It’s safe to say there’s not a lot of street art on the streets of Henderson. But in John Martone's online gallery, vegasstreetart.com, which he operates out of his home in, of all places, Henderson, there's plenty.
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MMJ: Live in Vegas, after all
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
So apparently, My Morning Jacket was too busy to play an actual show in Las Vegas in 2008, but found time to sneak into town to record a moneymaking live set at the Studio at the Palms.
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Animal Collective
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Will the first disc I review in 2009 be the best I hear all year? Quite possibly.
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Glasvegas
Annie Zaleski | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
A clever name is about the only novel thing about Glasvegas, the latest U.K. band to earn rapturous praise from fans and press alike.
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Notorious
Jeffrey M. Anderson | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Woolard plays Biggie Smalls as if he were born to the part; he so fully occupies this character that you might believe you’re watching the real man play his own story, like Eminem and 50 Cent played theirs.
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Varsity Fanclub
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Is it already time for another boy-band resurgence? Didn’t we just get done with the last one?
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Art movement
Ken Miller | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
The art life’s a bitch. Just ask Andreana Donahue, owner/director/curator of Main Gallery, who celebrated the new year by perusing the classifieds.
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Spicing up the suburbs
Max Jacobson | Thu, Jan 15, 2009 (midnight)
Where does one go for a decent goat curry? I hear you cry. Taza, Henderson’s first Indian restaurant, has one every day on its bountiful lunch buffet.
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Highly regarded McCartney touches down at Planet Hollywood
John Katsilometes | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 (6:03 p.m.)
Tom McCartney has spent a dozen years helping to helm the Luxor and New York-New York. He'll need all of that experience at Planet Hollywood, where he succeeds Mike Mecca.
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It’s loopy
Sarah Feldberg | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 (2:51 p.m.)
Playing an intriguing mix of footage that ranges from grainy hula dancers to surf porn to actual porn, the video loop at Frankie's Tiki Room is just as oddly wonderful as the bar itself.
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Suggestion box: Revive late night weddings
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Wed, Jan 14, 2009 (midnight)
Las Vegas has to step up its game in the bride wars. How should we fight back?
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“Live from Las Vegas” brings Palms performances to iTunes
Allison Duck | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 (9:56 p.m.)
Las Vegas music fans are in for a special treat as recording artists are making the Palms and its recording studio their venue of choice for laying down tracks and live performance recordings available on iTunes.
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Stuck between life and art with Stagliano
Melissa Arseniuk | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 (9:09 p.m.)
Oscar Wilde once said, "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” -- but what if your life includes seven federal obscenity charges, the prospect of 30+ years in jail, and seven million dollars in possible fines if convicted of a crime directly related to your art?
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More Spanish ‘Fly
Sarah Feldberg | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 (5:07 p.m.)
I can't get enough of tapas parlor Firefly's bite-sized meatballs in sherry tomato sauce or chorizo clams swimming in a broth so toothsome I’d chug it out of the bowl. Now, with a new expansion and an expanded menu there's more well-crafted Spanish food to go around.
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Join Vince Neil’s poker crüe
Jennifer Grafiada | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 (3:43 p.m.)
Before Mötley Crüe plays the closing of the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, you can join front man Vince Neil for a different kind of play: a charity poker tournament.
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CES/AEE postmortem: Why do they overlap?
John Katsilometes | Tue, Jan 13, 2009 (9:54 a.m.)
I wondered why CES and AEE have always been held the same week, and on Sunday I got the answer.
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A tale of two conventions
Andy Samuelson | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 (7 p.m.)
Snoop Dogg’s classic hit “Gin and Juice” played on the iPod as four Asian businessmen crowded around the Sergio booth at the Consumer Electronics Show Friday afternoon to check out the company’s iSpin, a mini mixing device on the small scale of a DJ’s turntables. Less than a football field away inside the Sands Expo Convention Center, the same rap song was pulsating through much larger speakers and another group of salespeople were pedaling their wares.
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The lesson of AVN: Recessions come and go, but sex is forever
Melissa Arseniuk, Sarah Feldberg, John Katsilometes | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 (6:35 p.m.)
After four days of toys, tarts and porn-obsessed fans, the 2009 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo has packed its pasties and headed back to LA.
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Locals alert! Monorail rides for just a buck
John Katsilometes | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 (6:17 p.m.)
Nevada residents who have proof of such residence can ride the Las Vegas Monorail for just $1 per ride. It might not be a fast buck, but it's still a buck.
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End of AEE just means it’s time for next convention
Levi "Big Red" Chronister | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 (12:30 p.m.)
The big names and vendors may have left Las Vegas, but the adult entertainers who share themselves on the Web are ready to fill that void.
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Shopping AVN with porno pro Aurora Snow
Sarah Feldberg | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 (12:12 p.m.)
As God would have intended it, Sunday was indeed a day of rest at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo. Rest and shopping for sex toys, that is.
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A breaststroke through the porn talent pool with Mark Spiegler
Sarah Feldberg | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 (8:55 a.m.)
To hear Mark Spiegler tell it, anybody can be a porn star. Of course, you need the looks, the libido and the willingness to try just about anything in the sexual playbook, after that getting the attention of the well-known adult talent agent is relatively easy.
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My first week in porn
Levi "Big Red" Chronister | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 (2 a.m.)
I'll admit it. I've seen my share of porn. Hell, I've probably seen your share, too. That said, nothing really prepares you for attending porn shoots and interviewing adult talent.
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Porn meets mainstream in elusive crossovers
Levi "Big Red" Chronister | Mon, Jan 12, 2009 (12:53 a.m.)
What does a porn star have to do to get into mainstream advertisements, music videos and movies? For Sasha Grey, it was just being herself.
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Raunch and politics make a hot couple at the 2009 AVN awards
Melissa Arseniuk | Sun, Jan 11, 2009 (5:38 p.m.)
When adult film temptress Stoya won the coveted Best New Starlet statuette at the AVN Adult Movie Awards last night, she knew who to thank: “Each and every person who jerks off to my smut.”
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L.A. is no Vegas for local porn star Nikki Rhodes
Levi "Big Red" Chronister | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (9:25 p.m.)
Less than two months after moving to Los Angeles, local porn star and model Nikki Rhodes is ready to come back to her home sweet Vegas.
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What is … “Celebrity Jeopardy” at CES?
Melissa Arseniuk | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (7:25 p.m.)
The first game show to embrace hi-def technology made history again this week at the Consumer Electronics Show when it became the first TV series to film an episode at the convention.
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Quiz: Which porn star are you?
Whether you know it or not you’re a porn star. Yea. You.
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Moments from a convention: An illicit bar tab and a swiped credential
Johnny "Monty Oakwood" Katsilometes | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (4:21 p.m.)
The actual drink payment was $16, but the receipt taken for that order was something a lot more than $16.
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A six-pack of distinctive porn titles
Johnny "Monty Oakwood" Katsilometes | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (3:49 p.m.)
Ron Jeremy as Sam the Butcher? It happens in Not The Bradys.
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GayVN: Blink and you’ll miss it
Joe "Boots Stoneleigh" Brown | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (3:41 p.m.)
Where were all the gay-oriented media booths (and honest-to-Sappho lesbian-media booths) at this year's AVN Adult Expo?
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No-sweat Schwinn makes for easy riding
Joe Brown | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (3:16 p.m.)
What could be less high-tech than the humble bicycle? Plenty, if said two-wheeler is Schwinn's Tailwind, an electric pedal assist bike.
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Techies know how to party, for charity
Andy Samuelson | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (3:06 p.m.)
Adult starlets were scattered all across Las Vegas on Friday night at various soirees and nightclubs for pre-AVN award fun, but the techies from the other convention in town seemed to have more substantial star power. While Diana Ross was belting out tunes at the annual Monster Cable’s Retailer Awards, a handful of other celebs mingled with invite-only Consumer Electronics Show attendees at the PC.com/Intel party at LAX at the Luxor.
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The loneliest booth at CES
Joe Brown | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (10:53 a.m.)
You probably wouldn't know after doing a double-take at the unfamiliar sight of polished wood (and bookcases?) in these aisles, but the shelves and chests of drawers conceal electronic lifts that, James Bond-style, reveal hidden flat screen TVs at the touch of a button.
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Celebritiy NFL Picks: Cold weather hardly a concern for soaring Eagles
Sal DeFilippo | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (6:43 a.m.)
The Philadelphia Eagles needed a storm front of unlikely events -- including a Raider road victory over the Tampa Bay Bucs -- to make the playoffs.
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Do you have a foot fetish or are you just happy to see me?
Levi "Big Red" Chronister | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (12:52 a.m.)
The biggest lesson I learned Friday at my first day attending the Adult Entertainment Expo is that porn stars are thrilled when all you want to do is shoot their feet.
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Girls gone slightly wild at CES
Joe Brown | Sat, Jan 10, 2009 (12:38 a.m.)
Spotted at the CES Expo on Friday: The daytime shades-sportin' cameramen from "Girls Gone Wild" was marching a little squadron of girls-on-the-verge-of-wildness through the hallways of the Sands Convention and Expo Center.
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What happens in Vegas … is porn
Levi "Big Red" Chronister | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (11:17 p.m.)
Just because Los Angeles is the epicenter of the adult industry doesn't mean Sin City's online adult talent can't help Vegas live up to its nickname.
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Aurora’s Stories: Orgasms, Kegels and Joe the Fan
Aurora Snow | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (8:11 p.m.)
Even though it's work for me, AVN is a lot of fun. I get to be the center of attention all day and get paid for it. Making it to the bathroom without posing for a half-dozen photographs? That's another story.
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The robot with the mostess
Joe Brown | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (7:19 p.m.)
Why would grown men crowd around the PARO booth, jostling to get their time with a plushy baby seal toy? Because it's a robot, of course.
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This is some serious Dick Tracy-esque technology
John Katsilometes | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (5:51 p.m.)
What do the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo and CES conventions have in common? Dick Tracy.
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Two befitting lines from the late, great Harvey Korman
Johnny "Monty Oakwood" Katsilometes | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (5:41 p.m.)
Somehow I thought of Harvey Korman while meandering through the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.
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An adventure in Vegas transportation, starring the Monorail
John Katsilometes | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (5:35 p.m.)
Before today, I'd never taken a ride as a for-real passenger on the Las Vegas Monorail. But thanks to some hefty parking fees at the Las Vegas Hilton, today was the day.
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I hate CES. Sorry.
Joe Brown | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (5:04 p.m.)
I just got back from spending 3 hours walking the expo floor, and -- although I'm as much of a gadget-hound as anyone, maybe more so -- I kinda hated it.
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Liberation comes courtesy of a circular bed at AEE
Sarah "Hopper Waban" Feldberg | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (3:49 p.m.)
A foam wedge that is placed under the woman’s bum during sex like, perhaps, a pillow, the liberator always tickled me in part because it bore such a noble title and in part because I had a college friend who bore the same title as a last name.
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Eastwood’s swan song: brilliant or ridiculous?
Josh Bell | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (2:50 p.m.)
Las Vegas Weekly Managing Editor Ken Miller joins Josh to chat about Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (Ken loved it; Josh did not), plus new theatrical releases Bride Wars and The Unborn, and Appaloosa on DVD.
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Single-serving condom dispenser aims not to kill the mood
Joe "Boots Stoneleigh" Brown | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (1:44 p.m.)
When C-Box inventor Gabriel Carreon suffered a mood killing condom search one night, he knew it was time to make a change.
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“Girlfriend factor” eliminated with FyreTV’s “master beta”
Joe "Boots Stoneleigh" Brown | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (12:49 p.m.)
Basically TiVo for porn, FyreTV announced the first wireless set-top box that delivers searchable adult content. Want to see Stormy Daniels in a “lesbian” scene, using “toys” “outside” with a “brunette?" You're in luck.
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Porn’s Patrick provides plenty of surprises
Andy "Buster Washington" Samuelson | Fri, Jan 9, 2009 (9 a.m.)
Tera Patrick was full of surprises Thursday evening during two appearances the Strip. The first was nearly devastating — we'll be seeing more of the local starlet with her clothes on.
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Yes He Can: Will.i.am video takes top prize at Global Media Awards
Melissa Arseniuk | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (11:10 p.m.)
"Yes We Can" outdid short-format nominations for Outstanding Format Informational at the first Global Media Awards at CES.
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Porn convention exhibitionists never tire of Big O
Joe "Boots Stoneleigh" Brown | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (8:22 p.m.)
The Audio Orgasm contest invites amateurs to step into a recording booth and make like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally for $500.
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With Beer Lube, it’s always Miller Time!
Joe "Boots Stoneleigh" Brown | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (8:13 p.m.)
There are hundreds of “personal care products” represented in the B2B (business-to-business) trade-show level of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, from the Naughty Shell shower accessory to Vigralis and other anagrammatical variations on Viagra. But one product emerged as the simplest signal of the economy’s effect on the adult market: Beer Lube, a brand-new product in the crowded personal lubricant market, is just what it sounds like – lube that looks and tastes like beer. The water-based, non-alcoholic lube is available in six-packs with different labels, including Hinie-Can and Whore’s Light. “Maybe when the economy turns around we’ll put out Champagne Lube,” says Beer Lube CEO Paul Snyder, of DeForest, Wisconsin.
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Understanding aural sex, loud and clear
Joe "Boots Stoneleigh" Brown | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (8:04 p.m.)
The punchline to the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo came not in a booth filled with porn darlings, but in the sounds emanating from the men's room urinals.
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At a porn trade show, it’s ALL appropriate
Johnny "Monty Oakwood" Katsilometes | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (6:43 p.m.)
I'm a sucker for just about any product, including one self-gratifying device that allows you to have sex with an actual adult star.
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Porn industry experiencing — dare we say — shrinkage
Joe "Boots Stoneleigh" Brown | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (6:15 p.m.)
The Next, Even Bigger, Preferably Biggest New Thing at this AVN Adult Entertainment Expo is actually a little smaller than last year.
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Porn Glossary: From A to you don’t want to know
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (12:58 p.m.)
Peruse the terms for come-on ideas if you're hoping to score with a porn star this weekend, or if you just want to spice up the bedroom (wink wink).
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At LAX, DJ AM and Travis Barker make a thunderous return
Performing for the first time in Vegas since June 18, Travis Barker and DJ AM make a triumphant return to LAX before a late-night crowd that nearly filled the club.
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Spellmaker Bottle Service
Xania Woodman | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
From 51 stories above the gritty city, the Voodoo Lounge is getting an upgrade, a unique twist on bottle service that starts you off with your choice of liquors, such as top-shelf vodka, gin or tequila.
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Surviving Sudan
John Freeman | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Somewhere in San Diego, there is an African woman with one kidney, a family of five and an astonishing story tucked behind her eyes.
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Clint’s Good, bad(ass) & ugly
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Clint Eastwood has said that Gran Torino may signal an end to his acting career. We’ve marked the occasion with a look at some of his most memorable onscreen moments.
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Jorg Lemke as the counselor in KA
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Lemke needs two hours a night to get into his costume and makeup, but it took far longer to develop the necessary psyche to play a villain described on the KÀ website as “ambitious, authoritarian and very devious.”
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Uncommon occurrences
Spencer Patterson | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
A painter mixes colors as electronic beats vibrate the palette cradled in his arm. Emcees spit rapid-fire rhymes in the direction of his canvas, on which a young woman’s face begins coming into focus.
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A host of expectations
Julie Seabaugh | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
His is an uneven comedy equation, yet the net sum is that Jimmy Fallon has scored himself the infinitely plum gig as Conan O’Brien’s replacement on Late Night, his boyishly likeable mug soon to be grinning behind the desk that’s helped launch so many other comedy careers.
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Cards and beers
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Crappy economic times call for an underdog success story to lift our spirits. Conveniently, our neighbors to the south have one brewing: The Arizona Cardinals made it to the second round of the NFL playoffs.
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“Wars” is hell
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
In Bride Wars, best friends Emma (Hathaway) and Liv (Kate Hudson) have been dreaming of their nuptials since they were little girls, and they both want the same thing: a lavish June wedding at New York’s Plaza Hotel.
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Veering off-course
Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Early in Gran Torino, playing what he’s said may well be his final role, Clint Eastwood growls. I mean that quite literally.
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“Pleasures” in paint
Danielle Kelly | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Jeff Britton’s collection of paintings at Trifecta Gallery, Guilty Pleasures, is funny, saucy, irreverent and pop-y—sort of.
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Renewable Nevada
Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Can we fail at being sustainable and yet lead an economic recovery by developing a renewable-resource industry? It’s a question that Vegas and, more broadly, Nevada faces.
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A slider primer
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
The days of belt-tightening are officially here, and everything is getting tinier. But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Case in point: the slider, a miniaturized burger.
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Down and out at Trop and Boulder
Richard Abowitz | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
A group of men are standing in the cold. They watch me with wan faces, rubbing their hands for warmth. They don’t speak much, only look at each other and at the castle behind them.
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Home movies
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
It’s 42 degrees out, and Derek Stonebarger is trying to get people to party. “Dance, so you get warm,” urges Stonebarger, the co-writer and director of local independent film I.M. Caravaggio as a piano player starts up, and the scene begins.
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Beatles fans: Cue “The Q”
John Katsilometes | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Dennis Mitchell announced last week that his long-running syndicated show Breakfast With the Beatles has a new home on KMZQ 670-AM, “The Q.” But AM?
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Tiny Little Rant: Knievel’s jump sucked
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
So the Strip’s New Year’s Eve fireworks show sucked. Know what else sucked? Robbie Knievel’s jump “over” the revamped Mirage volcano.
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The Help Desk
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
- CityCenter announces 12,000 job openings.
- Harry Reid denies any involvement whatsoever.
- Las Vegas remains the No. 1 travel destination in the United States.
- The No. 2 destination? Your local unemployment office.
- Las Vegas woman says she sees Jesus image in her kitchen tile.
- And that beats any excuse we’ve come up with to avoid cleaning the kitchen.
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Green Valley gets cracking
Max Jacobson | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Fans of hearty sit-down breakfasts, take heart. The popular Cracked Egg has opened in the mall housing Smith’s, on Green Valley Parkway adjacent to the 215.
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Who needs dinner?
Max Jacobson | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
I hate brunch, but the way I feel right now, I wouldn’t mind eating one at Simon Restaurant & Lounge every week for the next 10 years.
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Dream zone
Lauri Quinn Lowenberg | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
When you get bit by flesh-eating bugs, sometimes you have to keep going. Lauri decodes a dream.
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Peggy plots your planets
Peggy Allison | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Venus visits the career department. Expect the unexpected this week.
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R.I.P. Water Street Gallery
Danielle Kelly | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
A not-so-gentle reminder to support your local arts institutions: Adding to the recent list of shifting tides in the Valley’s art community is the closure of Henderson’s Water Street Gallery.
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Jaimie Johnson—Stepping it up
Team Hangover | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
After stints on cruise ships, in the Rio’s Show in the Sky, in the Tropicana’s Folies Bergere and at Hawaiian Tropic Zone (pictured, in uniform), Jaimie returned to the Rio this time to bevertain her heart out nightly.
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Real country radio
Josh Bell | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
These days, the term “country radio” might as well be changed to “pop-country radio,” since stations dedicated to the genre generally just repeat the same current chart-toppers ad nauseam.
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It’s bike-tacular!
Deanna Rilling | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
More stressful than the SATs. More dramatic than the relationship between the head cheerleader and the football star. Of course, we’re talking about choosing which high-school band to support in Las Vegas’ semiannual-ish Bike Rack Battles.
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The Ice House meltdown
Team Hangover | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
Drink till it’s all gone … then move on. On January 2 at the Ice House it was all-you-can-drink for $20 (including top shelf!) Then the well went dry, and the doors were closed permanently.
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The house loses
T.R. Witcher | Thu, Jan 8, 2009 (midnight)
There is construction at Inspirada, the massive master-planned community in the southern reaches of Henderson, tucked behind the Henderson Airport, but most of the land on the 2,000-acre site is vacant dirt,
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Geeks can party, too! CES electrifies Vegas nightlife
Melissa Arseniuk | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 (9:03 p.m.)
Two very different trade shows are coming to town this week that share an undeniably strong and common bond: the Internet. So, of course, right here online is the best place to find the CES parties generating a buzz around town.
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One Pin Short brings down the House … of Blues
Allison Duck | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 (7:26 p.m.)
This is what I overheard while waiting in line at will call last night at the House of Blues: “Man, who’s playing tonight?” “I don’t know. Um… uh, Reel Big Fish I think. And somebody else. Whatever, I’m here for One Pin Short anyway.”
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In the world of porn, Isaacs has endured his own trial
Scott Den Herder | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 (3:29 p.m.)
In 2007 Ira Isaacs was charged by the Department of Justice with multiple counts of distributing obscene material. The 57-year-old pornographer, who is based in Los Angles, had been producing films since 1999 on the extreme spectrum of the adult industry, so much so that he calls his videos shock art rather than porn.
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Bored at the office? Consider sex work
Jennifer Grafiada | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 (1:13 p.m.)
“Nervous? Why would we be nervous?” retorts male porn star D. Wise. “We’re just some happy-go-lucky people having sex.”
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Porn industry after $5 billion federal bailout
Las Vegas Weekly Staff | Wed, Jan 7, 2009 (11:53 a.m.)
As the 2009 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo opens in Las Vegas this week, Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis and HUSTLER magazine publisher Larry Flynt are hoping to get a financial bailout for the adult entertainment industry, a spokesperson for Francis announced today.
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Party like a porn star: Your guide to AEE and AVN after dark
Sarah Feldberg | Tue, Jan 6, 2009 (5:34 p.m.)
Partying like a rock star is OK, but partying like a porn star smells better, is far sexier, definitely sports less body hair and makes up for it in certain, uh, other departments. Narrow the space between fantasy and reality at these porn star-hosted bashes.
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Not coming up short this time
Allison Duck | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 (6:16 p.m.)
Local ska/reggae band One Pin Short is getting the chance of a lifetime this January as they join Streetlight Manifesto and Reel Big Fish on the Southwest leg of their winter tour.
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Ditch the dress and break a sweat
Jennifer Grafiada | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 (5:51 p.m.)
Ditch the heels, the mini-dress that might actually be a shirt, those stifling collars and non-sneaker shoes. If you’ve ever wished you could hit a Strip hotspot in your sweats, January 6 is the night – the dress code at Pure is strictly sweatsuits.
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Beer! Money! Scandal?
Sarah Feldberg | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 (3:57 p.m.)
This past weekend the World Series of Beer Pong brought 800 players to throw balls at cups for $50,000. That meant serious competition, serious crowds and one ambiguous attempt at cheating the system to take home the all too serious cash.
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So long, Mamma
Melissa Arseniuk | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 (12:39 p.m.)
After the final curtain closed on Mamma Mia! at Mandalay Bay on Sunday night, the cast celebrated and mourned the show's departure and looked to a future without Mamma.
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$50,000 on the line today in beer pong playoffs
Cydney Cappello | Sun, Jan 4, 2009 (11:47 a.m.)
The smell of Pabst Blue Ribbon filled the air the past two days at the Flamingo as mostly college-age competitors whittled their challengers down in the opening rounds of the fourth-annual World Series of Beer Pong.
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World Series of Beer Pong: The contenders
Sarah Feldberg | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 (11:26 a.m.)
They come wearing matching sweat suits, team t-shirts, sweatbands and sneakers. Coaches scream advice from the sidelines - looks of joy and horror alternately splayed across their faces. After months of rigorous training - 414 teams have descended on the Flamingo for the pinnacle of competition in their sport: The World Series of Beer Pong.
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Celebrity NFL Picks: Wild-card weekend invites favored visitors
Sal DeFilippo | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 (10:13 a.m.)
In an NFL rarity, visiting teams are favored in some intriguing match-ups on wild-card weekend.
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Dr. David Spade can cure what ails ya
Melissa Arseniuk | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 (2:04 a.m.)
They say laughter is the best medicine, so what better to cure a nasty hangover than a 75-minute session with doctor of comedy David Spade?
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An unexpected love affair on NYE
Denise Spidle | Sat, Jan 3, 2009 (1:04 a.m.)
Even minus one midnight kiss, a two-day stint at the Palms for New Year's yields an unexpected romance.
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A night in photos: NYE ‘08 at the Palms
Melissa Arseniuk | Fri, Jan 2, 2009 (12:09 p.m.)
Oh, what a night. The Palms is often referred to as the place to party by both young Hollywood types and party-loving common folk, New Year's Eve is – and was – no exception.
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On a roll in Jamaica, learning to make paper burritos
The unkempt Jamaican guy with a limp and discriminate eating habits knew how to handle the local herb.
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Motorcycle stuntman takes home injury after New Year’s jump
Melissa Arseniuk | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (10:35 p.m.)
Robbie Maddison may have cheated death on New Year’s Eve but he didn’t walk away from his motorcycle jump and freefall stunt unharmed.
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Passports and partiers storm Perfecto for NYE ‘08
Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (10:24 p.m.)
While Paul Oakenfold’s Saturday night Perfecto party and live show always draws large crowds, the New Year’s Eve line-up had two notable differences – it arrived a full two hours before normal club traffic gets heavy and it came bearing passports.
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A very Vegas New Year’s Eve with Oscar Goodman
John Katsilometes | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (3:37 p.m.)
Mayor Oscar Goodman was a veritable rock star on Fremont Street on New Year's Eve, and would we want it any other way?
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Celebs are just like us! (when it comes to New Year’s resolutions)
Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (11:39 a.m.)
Once a year for about a week, New Year's resolutions are on everyone's lips, including celebrities'. And it turns out, they sound a lot like ours.
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NYE aftermath: the storm and then the calm
Jennifer Grafiada | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (7:28 a.m.)
A catfight, "doobage" and kids in handcuffs - the grittier side of New Year's on the Strip.
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Fremont appeals to locals, laid-back crowd for NYE
Cydney Cappello, Natasha Shepherd | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (7:08 a.m.)
Relaxed atmosphere, free admission for locals makes Fremont Street Experience calm way to ring in the new year
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Footwear, foreigners rule NYE at Lavo
Allison Duck | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (6:27 a.m.)
CNN, Coolio, familes and foreigners ring in 2009 at Lavo, on Strip
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So long, 2008. Hello, 2009.
Steve Silver, Cara McCoy | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (5:33 a.m.)
A New Year's Eve crowd of about 290,000 visitors packed Las Vegas into the early morning, ushering in a new year and saying goodbye to 12 months that some hoped to forget.
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Snow and bingo for New Year’s Eve in Summerlin
Jeff O'Brien | Thu, Jan 1, 2009 (2:26 a.m.)
Whether they were dressed in their finest outfits or sporting goofy hats and sunglasses, thousands of people across Summerlin rang in the New Year with style on Dec. 31.
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