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  • Music

    Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009

    We made the festival co-founder name a few of the bands that have him all worked up this weekend.

  • Entertainment

    Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

    In bloodless bullfighting, does banishing the slaughter kill off the drama?

  • Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009

    Until last night’s performance at The Pearl it had been 16 years since I’d seen Mariah Carey. In that time, I'd gone through puberty and learned to drive. And Mariah? She'd ditched the plaid for something a little more fabulous.

  • Comedy

    Friday, Sept. 11, 2009

    “I hope that my husband never reads this,” says comedienne Kiki Melendez, chuckling as she explains the feeling of finishing a great show, “but it’s better than an orgasm.”

  • Dance

    Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009

    Another season of America’s Best Dance Crew, another booty-shakin’ team from Las Vegas. Latin crew AfroBoriké have their sights set on the season finale and then back on the Vegas Strip.

  • Entertainment

    Friday, Sept. 4, 2009

    Before Gary Sinise was Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump or Detective Mac Taylor on CSI: NY he was just a kid who wanted to be a rock star. Now, his band is playing Las Vegas.

  • Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

    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.

  • Dining

    Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

    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.

  • Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009

    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.

  • Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009

    Forget athleticism and months of practice; quick hands and an open throat brought home top prize in Monday's oyster-eating competition.

  • Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009

    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.

  • Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009

    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.

  • Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009

    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.

  • Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009

    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.

  • Friday, Aug. 14, 2009

    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.

  • Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009

    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.

  • Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009

    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.

  • Dining

    Friday, Aug. 7, 2009

    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.

  • Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009

    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...

  • Friday, July 31, 2009

    With the exception of stained bed sheets finding a second life as togas and college freshman in heavy makeup, O’Sheas 20th anniversary birthday bash held this Saturday is essentially one giant Strip-side frat party.

  • Dining

    Thursday, July 30, 2009

    With a menu of around 100 different teas and shareable snacks or full meals, Tea Station fills the role of flavorful adventure and modern urban hangout without breaking a sweat.

  • Dance

    Tuesday, July 28, 2009

    They looked like warriors in vinyl trench coats. They danced like a hip-hop SWAT team. The Philippine All Stars have traveled 8,000 miles to defend their title during the World Hip-Hop Dance Championships this week.

  • Monday, July 27, 2009

    With ladies in Kandy-themed lingerie, the costumes were playful and plentiful. Here are a few of our favorite get ups:

  • Music

    Saturday, July 25, 2009

    If you were a Blink-182 fan hoping for a flashback, the band’s deja-vu inducing set probably had you jumping, moshing and screaming for more Friday night at the Joint.

  • Comedy

    Thursday, July 23, 2009

    America has a weight problem, and we like talking about it. So too does comedian Gabriel Iglesias, but he’s got his own terminology to describe what until this year were the five levels of fatness: big, healthy, husky, fluffy and damn!

  • Tuesday, July 21, 2009

    Don’t call it a shoe store. If all you see when you walk into Undefeated are shoes, then you’re missing the point entirely.

  • Friday, July 17, 2009

    Jay-Z has a pair. DJ AM does too. If you want one of the 23 pairs of Palms-branded Supra sneakers made exclusively for the casino, you better know the man whose name is inside them: Jon Gray.

  • Dining

    Thursday, July 16, 2009

    Walk into nearly any California beer bar worth its hops, and you’ll see a No. 5 beckoning you at the bar. That 5, surrounded by a metal circle, is the tap for Racer 5 IPA, Bear Republic Brewing Company’s award-winning, hops-heavy signature beer.

  • Dining

    Thursday, July 16, 2009

    The multilingual, James Beard Award-winning chef of Alex and Stratta has a thing for cheap Mexican. As long as it's made just right.

  • Dining

    Thursday, July 16, 2009

    Food can trigger all sorts of reactions in people—joy, disgust, curiosity, comfort. When RM Seafood Executive Chef Adam Sobel created the bacon, banana, chocolate-filled egg roll called The Fat Elvis he was going for nostalgia.

  • Tuesday, July 14, 2009

    Deep-fried sushi rice, spicy sushi-grade tuna, sweet soy and a kick of Sriracha: Dig into Simon's addictive appetizer without heading to the hotel.

  • Tuesday, July 14, 2009

    There's no better way to celebrate the French Revolution than with bistro food, free Champagne and skydivers. Yes, skydivers.

  • Culture

    Thursday, July 9, 2009

    Come a modern woman with flat hair and bare legs, leave a 1950s goddess fit to be painted on the side of a B-52 bomber. Pretty Things Productions’ traveling pin-up class will spend the afternoon transforming local ladies into Bettie Page beauties.

  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009

    “It was eerily quiet,” said Las Vegas DJ Zach Moss, who won tickets to Michael Jackson’s memorial service yesterday at the Staples Center. “You clapped, you cheered maybe, but nobody spoke.”

  • Tuesday, July 7, 2009

    Carmen Electra is sore. You wouldn’t know it from the radiant 37-year-old’s smile or the way she sits perched on a plush red chair in a kimono-like dress and studded heels, but she is hurting. Physically.

  • Sunday, July 5, 2009

    If it smells like gunpowder and sparks are flying it must be time to meet the neighbors.

  • Thursday, July 2, 2009

    At a recent performance of The Lion King at Mandalay Bay it wasn't the heartwarming tale of triumph that caught my attention. It was the parachute pants.

  • Entertainment

    Thursday, July 2, 2009

    Las Vegas Salsa Congress’ Nate Strager breaks down three days of workshops and performances.

  • Features

    Thursday, June 25, 2009

    My first steps into Tijuana are met by a consumer Candyland. I can buy a taco, a poncho and a miniature guitar the color of blue Flav-R-Ice within 30 feet.

  • Dining

    Wednesday, June 24, 2009

    If you know anything about chef Gene Villiatora, know this: He’s a cook’s cook – creative, resourceful and perfectly comfortable doing whatever it takes to feed people, whether that’s frying up an order of calamari or McGyver-ing a hibachi grill out of next to nothing.

  • Friday, June 19, 2009

    Vegas-based Top Chef alum Gene Villiatora hasn't fled the desert since appearing on the show. In fact, he's probably cooking up something in Summerlin right now.

  • Thursday, June 18, 2009

    Some restaurants sell T-shirts and coffee mugs, but Rao’s restaurant at Caesars Palace has stuck with what they know: classic Italian food and the wines that complement it best.

  • Entertainment

    Thursday, June 18, 2009

    Twenty-seven years after Toni Basil’s chant-song “Mickey” reached #1 on the Billboard charts, the homegrown Las Vegan still has the Las Vegas High cheerleader’s uniform that she wore in the iconic music video.

  • CineVegas 2009

    Sunday, June 14, 2009

    And the $10,000 check goes to...

  • Sunday, June 14, 2009

    “Jenna, Can I give you a sensual massage? Then I will talk about Jesus,” Found magazine creator Davy Rothbart reads from a note found on a college campus.

  • A&E

    Saturday, June 13, 2009

    It’s virtually impossible not to think of Joseph Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness" while watching "Sea of Darkness," a CineVegas documentary that chronicles the lives and demise of members of the 1970s’ elite surfer community.

  • Thursday, June 11, 2009

    The first night of CineVegas is like a high school reunion, but when the hangover kicks in the festival is just getting started.

  • Monday, June 8, 2009

    Much ado has been made about the end credits of Vegas-based comedy The Hangover, but the real gem to look out for is a cameo by Rao's doorman Bubbles.

  • Thursday, June 4, 2009

    A farmer's market in a casino? Mario Batali says yes. We say yum.

  • Dining

    Thursday, June 4, 2009

    It’s 3 a.m., you’ve been singing karaoke and swigging beers for hours, and now you need meat, preferably a New York-style hot dog with all the trimmings.