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FEBRUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 25
Making designs on Vegas
- Four of Sin City’s leading architects and urbanists join the Weekly for a spirited discussion about building ... read article
A completely biased account of a fake sporting event
- Can the Washington Generals finally beat the Globetrotters, with a little pep talk from our own reporter? read article
The impossible dream
- One man’s unlikely quest to transform the Strip read article
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The Intersection
Affordable trees, cared-for children and drive-up pawn shops
- So here we are at the Henderson Parks and Recreation Center conference room, where, during the monstrous downfall of civilization, seven people have gathered to ... more
- Suggestion box: No more fodder for GOP
- We have to hand it to Harry Reid. At a time when the country can ill-afford pet projects, Reid, with a straight face no less, ... more
Is it Oscar vs. Obama or Oscar vs. Oscar
- There is an axiom I’m sure you’re all very familiar with that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. It is, it often seems, a ... more
Sorry, Sammy
- It seems almost like a fairy tale in which a lone black woman—before the civil rights movement, before the integrated Rat Pack appeared on the ... more
- The Help Desk
- Forbes calls Las Vegas America’s “emptiest” city. We’re so desperate, we’ll even let Chris Brown stay here. Oscar Goodman demands Barack Obama apologize for Las ... more
Nightlife
Merry in the face of Fear
- When I first read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I felt the smug satisfaction of “getting it.” I went so far as to assume ... more
On Fuego
- Club Rio, which opened in 1995 and closed in 2006, has been something of an eyesore the past few years. I can say this because ... more
The Ultimate Caipirinha
- Hard to pronounce but easy to enjoy, cachaça (ka-SHAH-sah) is Brazilian rum distilled from freshly pressed sugarcane. more
V Bar gets some love, turns 9
- A ninth anniversary is a rare milestone for a Vegas nightclub/lounge/place you go to get tipsy. Having done just that, V Bar is celebrating with ... more
Things that make us go ‘eww’
- Through our frequent nightclub excursions, we’re struck by reoccurrences of the things that make us recoil in horror. If you’re looking to avoid scrutiny from ... more
Arts & Entertainment
“Monkey” in the middle
- Whatever happened to good old-fashioned nature shows? You know, National Geographic specials with dry British narration and lots of scenes of lions chasing gazelles? more
Must-scream TV
- Less a look at how the law works than an unfiltered examination of the human condition, the Vegas-set documentary series Sin City Law returns with ... more
Noara Mello as a zebra in “O”
- Mello, who describes herself as “spontaneous and playful,” jumped at the chance to double as a back-up zebra. more
Brainerd
- Noteworthy aspect: Intermittently, a singer rasps it up like a Captain Beefheart/lost-at-sea-pirate hybrid. more
Puscifer(2 comments)
- It’s probably Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s own fault that the debut (and so far only scheduled) performances from his side project Puscifer were unable ... more
Boot and rally
- Ink Fridays briefly relaunched inside Sinister Rock Bar on Friday the 13th (eek!) with veteran Vegas metal band Hemlock bringing the fans out in droves—including ... more
Sound and furry
- Traditionally nerdiness hasn’t been known to score points in abrasive subcultures, and the guys in Vegas outfit Mons Wolff know it. more
Shooting stars?
- They showed up to watch, just two of 13,529 spectators on hand for tonight’s Runnin’ Rebels game against Colorado State at the Thomas & Mack ... more
Perfecting practice
- Top sociologist Malcolm Gladwell knows the recipe for success: 10,000 hours of practice. more
Bust out, Mr. Berry
- Using the detective story to make a philosophical or cultural inquiry and get weird at the same time is a venerable tradition, handed down from ... more
- A higher class of doodle
- New from McSweeney’s: Be a Nose, a $29 bundle of sketchbooks from Maus creator—and Pulitzer-winner—Art Spiegelman. more
- The Weekly brainteaser
- 1. Jean is shorter than Brutus, but taller than Imhotep. more
Locals disappoint at Dam Short Film Festival
- At Boulder City’s Dam Short Film Festival , Amber Beard’s sweet coming-of-age story Growing Up Vegas (also shown at CineVegas in 2008) took the top ... more
Production predictions
- Shutter one Strip production, nobody raises an eyelash. But even by our standards, this is getting ridiculous. more
Screen
Fired Up
- Loud, aggressive, desperately ribald and pathetically unfunny, Fired Up lives down to every expectation you might have for a film produced under the aegis of ... more
Some real Oscar surprises
- The producers of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony (airing February 22 at 5:30 p.m. on ABC) have promised a show full of surprises, even if ... more
Taste
- Breakfast, Chinese-style
One of the weekend’s essential components has to be the big-breakfast meet-up with friends. But really—pancakes and eggs, again? Time to branch out.
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Brainerd
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Solarcade
- Solarcade is the musical brainchild of Las Vegan Paul Van and Los Angeleno Tony Pomilla, who strive to be a kind of Coldplay for the high-minded crowd.
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Mark Olson & Gary Louris
- Two decades ago, Minnesotans Mark Olson and Gary Louris helped launch the alt-country movement with their band The Jayhawks.
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FEBRUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 25
Cocktail of the Week
Feb 19, 2009
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Xania Woodman
The Ultimate Caipirinha
Hard to pronounce but easy to enjoy, cachaça (ka-SHAH-sah) is Brazilian rum distilled from freshly pressed sugarcane. Cabana Cachaça’s master distiller visited Summerlin’s Via Brasil earlier this week to meet ...
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