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- State of siege
- It’s not hyperbole to say this year’s legislative session will be unlike any other in the state’s ... read article
Cheap (and free) tricks
- A bunch of fun stuff to do and acquire for the right price—little to nothing read article
What’s that in your genes?
- Beauty and deception: Looking at hot women through the lens of evolutionary psychology read article
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The Intersection
The museum we can’t use
- 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. more
- Mini rant: R-J Editor Tom Mitchell, Bullshit!
- 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. more
- Old ladies, please!
- 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 ... more
Re-experiencing Fremont Street
- 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 ... more
Staying power
- Even sex, at least the not-for-profit kind, is feeling the recession. But, as with other museums, big sponsors help. more
- The Help Desk
- 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 ... more
- Si, vamanos
- “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 ... more
Emissions impossible
- Fixing a Toyota 4Runner at a 2G station after failing the smog check: $1,344.75. Getting around the smog check by spending a minimum amount in ... more
Nightlife
Tao moves on down the road at Sundance
- 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 ... more
Emma Hughes
- 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 ... more
Cold hands, warm hearth
- Just 10 hours ago I was calf-deep in fresh Utah powder, floating over slopes I couldn’t have climbed back up without an oxygen tank, in ... more
- We’re not gonna take it
- Forget acoustic guitars and hippies singing “Kumbaya.” A Vegas rally needs dance music! more
Arts & Entertainment
A tale of two Super Bowls
- While the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers churn up the field this Sunday in Tampa Bay, Las Vegas’ Super Bowl XLIII parties will also be ... more
Strange circle of friends
- “Friends” might not be the best word to describe the uneasy yet undeniably connected gathering of artists grouped at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art’s ... more
Anthony Crivello as the Phantom in Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular
- 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 ... more
Stay the night(8 comments)
- 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 ... more
The NFL’s secret lover
- Las Vegas has a long and complicated history with the National Football League. more
Century markings
- 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 ... more
- The Weekly’s Voice
- The results are in for the latest edition of The Village Voice’s prestigious Pazz & Jop critics poll, and the winner is … Las Vegas ... more
- Portal to … nowhere
- 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 ... more
H.O.T.S. bound for somewhere
- 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 ... more
American beauties
- Jay Parini’s latest book, Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America, plots the course of America’s Manifest Literary Destiny. more
Screen
Stupid yet watchable
- 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 ... more
The Unnecessary
- 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 ... more
New in Town
- 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 ... more
Taste
- Unusual name, great food
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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2009-02-04
Nobody leaves without hearin' the blues . . .
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Central
“CineVegas From the Vault” screening of 4th and LIife at Clark County Library
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Macro Fi's Common Ground First Friday after party at the Bunkhouse
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The Opera Las Vegas presents Gone West! at the Clark County Library Theater
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"Flashback Features" at Aliante Station presents Viva Las Vegas
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Soundcheck
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Almost a dream
- Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Working on a Dream, is most satisfying at its saddest and most disappointing at its most ambitious. It’s also the only Springsteen album in which the ...
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A.C. Newman
- 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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Steve Martin
- 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 ...
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JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 4
Cocktail of the Week
Jan 29, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Panacea
Before GM Brian Mongeon and manager Eric Smith’s co-creation the Panacea—meaning “The Elixir of Life”—Boa had another Alchemia Ginger cocktail on their list, and “it was good,” says Mongeon, “but ...
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