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Boomer bust
- The demise of The Great Indoors reminds us of how the Dr. Spock Generation blew it read article
A party bestiary
- The Weekly goes medieval on your clubbing agenda read article
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The Intersection
Let’s make a deal!
- Real people who have bills and not enough money might put their useless stuff up for sale on eBay, the contemporary take on a garage ... more
- Learning with less
- Through it all, there is math. He’s good at math. Five is the number of months since his dad lost his job as a warehouse ... more
How Danny got his groove back
- Something very odd happened at Wynn. Danny Gans, the brunt of my jokes and my ire for several years now, made me laugh. A lot. more
- Shutting the doors
- Nevada State Prison in Carson City, which dates back to the 19th century, is the oldest prison in the state, and one of the oldest ... more
- The Help Desk
- Las Vegas’s traffic-ticket amnesty program extended after collecting at least $4 million in unpaid tickets. So when do we start the amnesty program for CEOs ... more
Suggestion Box: Oscar, stop cutting off your nose
- We’re as fascinated by our mayor as the rest of the free world, but we really feel the need to call him on his latest ... more
No crapping birds, please
- Tiny Bubbles isn’t your average 450-pound Cher impersonator; he’s also a magician, a comedian and most of all, a mentor. more
Nightlife
Utopia at 13: Remembered and celebrated
- Utopia is long gone, but the party lives on. While most of Team Hangover is too young to have experienced partying (legally) at the legendary ... more
We’re telling
- When New York’s famed piano bar Don’t Tell Mama (DTM) opens up a Vegas outpost on Fremont East in the next week, it will bring ... more
‘Dominic sent me’
- Though the details of the era when speakeasies ruled have faded into history,l the more romantic notions of illicit tipples, flappers and bathtub gin continue ... more
Hey, DJ: (Don’t) play that song!(5 comments)
- 1. Robin S., “Show Me Love,” (Show Me Love, 1993) No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play list … over 15 years ... more
Arts & Entertainment
But what are you guys gonna do, Maynard?
- Sometime Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has been cagey regarding three upcoming Vegas shows by his latest project, Puscifer—the band’s first-ever stage appearances. more
- Hothouse romance
- What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a couple of plays about the claustrophobic effects of relationships? more
A shaky foundation
- In a surprising move, fans of TV writer-producer Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly) have already mounted a campaign to ... more
No crapping birds, please
- Tiny Bubbles isn’t your average 450-pound Cher impersonator; he’s also a magician, a comedian and most of all, a mentor. more
Mad man
- If you’ve listened to the audio clip of Christian Bale’s eruption on the set of Terminator: Salvation, then you know that Bale understands that a ... more
Unplanned reunion
- It was supposed to be a one-off thing: guitarists Mike Johns and Richard Burnett and drummer Brian Smith—one-time members of Vegas metal band-made-good Hemlock —joining ... more
Successful signs
- Experimental folksters Akron/Family, indie popsters Say Hi and SoCal rockers The Shys will anchor the out-of-town lineup for next month’s Neon Reverb festival, co-organizer James ... more
Anarchy on the AM(1 comment)
- Steve Fodor and Zak Farrell look about like anyone else does on a Friday night at the dingy punk haven that is the Double Down ... more
- Canoodling with Tchaikovsky
- From its passionate opening symphony to its romantic finish, the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s All-Tchaikovsky Program is the perfect choice for a Valentine’s Day date. more
Four’s company
- Group invitationals typically don’t imply a shared theme or artistic concern, but the Clark County Rotunda’s current exhibit is so coherent, you’d swear the four ... more
Screen
Confessions of a Shopaholic
- Hollywood’s legion of flighty, pseudo-independent urban “career” women gets another shameful addition in Rebecca Bloomwood, heroine of the deeply conflicted romantic comedy/cautionary tale Confessions of ... more
Friday the 13th
- The original 1980 Friday the 13th achieved massive success by ripping off elements from Halloween, Psycho and Carrie. The new Friday the 13th seems content ... more
Don’t bank on it
- Action thrillers are inherently preposterous, of course, but there’s a limit to what we’ll swallow. more
- Top 10 reasons a “Friday the 13th” remake is necessary
- As far as we’re concerned, asking why the producers of Friday the 13th keep remaking their movie is like asking why McDonald’s keeps remaking Big ... more
Taste
- Bun and games
Perhaps you just have to be French, like star chef Laurent Tourondel, to get this wacky with burgers.
- 60-second grocery shopper
One of the most popular protein sources in the American diet, not all tuna is created equal.
- Farewell to a friend
Like a lighthouse in a storm, it beckoned weary travelers off the interstate en route from Las Vegas to Phoenix and vice versa.
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Lily Allen
- This might be the worst time in history to brag about bling, but it’s still a cool novelty when a potty-mouthed, 5-foot-2 Brit does it. Yeah, Lily Allen still doesn’t ...
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- Anyone familiar with Robyn Hitchcock’s ear-catchingly eccentric pop has probably wondered if he’s an inhabitant of—or at least a frequent visitor to—a parallel universe.
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- The Jersey sextet that helped establish the screamo movement ultimately valued artistic merit over creative compromise, allowing scores of also-rans’ careers to rise and fall around them.
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FEBRUARY 12 - FEBRUARY 18
Cocktail of the Week
Feb 12, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Chocolate-covered cherry
There’s a holiday coming up?! Time to visit Noir Bar’s Ken Hall, the holiday-cocktail go-to-guy who created this drinkable dessert. The Chocolate-Covered Cherry is as delectable as it sounds. The trick: ...
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