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JUNE 19 - JUNE 25
Crusading for your community
- Whether they’re helping kids, refugees or read article
The man behind Mouse
- Don Cheadle’s brilliant career read article
I, Caan
- Vegas icon winner James Caan looks back on a long and varied career read article
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The Intersection
The Jacko Pack-O?
- The King of Pop playing the Strip? It’s been a rumor longer than most of us here at Weekly can remember, but there’s been more ... more
Cirque has class
- Back when I first arrived in this city in 1996 to cover public education for the Review-Journal, the very notion of schools and Vegas elicited ... more
- Pep talk
- If you think life was tough in the old days, when housewives prepared dinner using manual can openers instead of microwave ovens, when teens rode ... more
- Of masks and Packers
- This is an excerpt from the radio show Our Metropolis, a half-hour issues and affairs program that airs Tuesdays at 6 p.m. on KUNV 91.5-FM ... more
Pool Position
- Of all Vegas’ pool parties—Wet Republic at MGM Grand (billed as Vegas’ first ultra pool), the Palms’ Ditch Fridays, Tao Beach’s Sunset Sundays, Venus at ... more
- Waste Not, Want Not
- Sunrise Landfill has officially become a thorn in the side of Republic Services, which was ordered by the EPA last week to “permanently” seal up ... more
- The Help Desk
- Nevada among top five states in the nation for Internet speed. Our new motto: Faster poker and porn. Gov. Jim Gibbons uses government cell phone ... more
Nightlife
- The Real World
- It’s about time someone tells it like is. Ironic, though, that that someone should be a prominent Las Vegas nightlife company. Whatever the reason for ... more
Above & Beyond
- Sad songs, they say so much… Above & Beyond will be bringing their award-winning music, along with a few of their critically acclaimed remixes to ... more
- Art and Symbolism
- In the temporary home of the Symbolic Gallery on Dean Martin Drive, I and my plastic cup of chardonnay rest on a glass case wherein ... more
Sex in the City Flight
- It’s official. The Sex and the City movie has cleared $119 million in just three heart-fluttering, shoe-dropping, dressed-to-kill weeks. If ever there was cause for ... more
Arts & Entertainment
Country callback
- James “Little Tony” Kouns was deciding what to eat for dinner when he received the biggest phone call of his life. Or rather, the fourth ... more
EPs, tacos and “First Blood”
- Caravels hasn’t left town, and its summer tour has already run afoul of the law. “We got pulled over on the way here for not ... more
Panic at the Disco
- It only took one number for a fan to throw a black top hat onstage, where it landed at the feet of Brendon Urie. more
Erykah Badu
- “I appreciate you letting me share my art.” From most any other singer, the comment would have been the height of pretentiousness, but from the ... more
Stone Temple Pilots
- Stone Temple Pilots arrived at the Pearl last Thursday on a tide of bad buzz about their reunion tour, with rumors circulating about singer Scott ... more
More than Skin Deep
- In case you haven’t been paying attention, it’s cooking up to be a stellar summer for art in Vegas. The list of solid shows that ... more
- Eight things to know about One Pin Short
- One Pin Short celebrate their CD release party Thursday night plus more fun facts about the band that you should probably memorize. more
Chatting with Gnarls Barkley
- What most people probably presumed was a one-off collaboration has produced a second album and appears to be going strong. more
- Who are broken spindles?
- Actually, a more accurate question would be, “Who is Broken Spindles?,” since the band comprises exactly one person: Joel Petersen, better known as the bassist ... more
- Angrier, inchier than ever
- Leave it to a Wicked Little Town like ours to relaunch a production of the John Cameron Mitchell stage show turned 2001 film turned reinvigorated ... more
Screen
Get Smart
- The 1960s spy-parody TV show Get Smart was, contrary to its title, often very silly, and certainly not the most sophisticated bit of satire ever ... more
The Love Guru
- Mike Myers’ The Love Guru has everything a big summer comedy is expected to have, including star cameos, sex jokes, gay jokes, penis jokes, testicle ... more
- The Promotion
- America’s self-image as the land of opportunity has such a stranglehold on the national psyche that our movies—even the ones made independently and on the ... more
Taste
- Ay caramba!
The free-standing structure that houses Caminos de Morelia, one of our newer Mexican restaurants, is simmering with history. For years, it belonged to Lou and Angie Ruvo, a couple who operated a seminal Vegas Italian restaurant called The Venetian, the only place in town I knew of to eat pork …
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Soundcheck
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Earlimart
- Is there a more underrated Los Angeles band than Earlimart? While fellow Silverlake darlings Sea Wolf and Silversun Pickups dominate the spotlight, Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray have spent the ...
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Sigur Rós
- Something’s rotten in Hopeland. Or, at the very least, something’s different, judging from the final track on Sigur Rós’ fifth album, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust.
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The Watson Twins
- If your knowledge of the duo formerly known as Black Swan begins and ends with Rabbit Fur Coat—Chandra and Leigh Watson’s alt-country effort with Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis—you’d be forgiven ...
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JUNE 19 - JUNE 25
Cocktail of the Week
Jul 3, 2008
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Xania Woodman
Dirty Blonde Cocktails
“Sweet” doesn’t even begin to describe the full impact of a Dirty Blonde Cocktail, Sunday night, where five ladies and one somewhat bewildered guy sampled the DBC variety pack. The ...
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