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God’s showman
- Facing lung cancer, street preacher and gadfly John 3:16 can still tell a story. Or two. read article
The Weekly’s recession-busting guide
- The dollar not quite worth what it was yesterday? We’ve come up with a few ways to ... read article
10 ways to make a quick buck in Vegas
- Just in case it comes to that… read article
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The Intersection
Was Gov. Gibbons aboard the Titanic?
- Eerie similarities between the sunken ship and the sinking city. Will there be enough lifeboats? more
- The Help Desk
- Lindsay Lohan allegedly considering joining Peepshow topless revue in Las Vegas. We don’t really like it either, guys, but it’s either this or she keeps ... more
Liar, liar, car’s on fire!
- As the recession burns, more Las Vegans are taking a match to their own rides. more
- If you build it, will they record?
- When you enter the studio, everything is new and shiny except for the collection of vintage amplifiers from manufacturers like Marshall, which date back to ... more
How the mighty have … vanished (1 comment)
- A once-booming hodgepodge of great food and distractions, the intersection of Decatur and Sahara is now a road map of scuffed stucco, outlines of former ... more
Rhinestones, pianos and Bicentennial short shorts
- Long before Criss Angel called flying on a Vegas stage a magic trick, Liberace did it as showmanship. more
A rock and a Chinese place
- Sometime back in the 1990s, an eccentric fellow wanted to eat at a restaurant. He sent his advance team to scope out the place and ... more
Nightlife
Viva las bailout
- The economy may be contracting, but interest in all things rockabilly is somehow inexplicably expanding. Funny thing is, it costs a fortune to be retro! more
Don’t accept Luke-a-likes
- Who can mix 40 tracks in an hour, play multiple parties a night, and still find time to create killer dirty beats? Sounds like Dutch ... more
Putting out the Fuego
- The first upscale Latin nightclub in Vegas surgically removes the Fuego from The Club. more
- The roof is on fire(1 comment)
- Some yahoo at the Rio pulls the fire alarm, but the crowd is determined to keep dancing at VooDoo Lounge. more
Breakfast at the bar
- The nice thing about a crowded bar is that even if you came alone, you’re surrounded by friends. In this case, my new “friends” were ... more
Q & A with DJ/producer Chris Cox
- Pure’s new resident chats about skeletons in the career closet, keeping tired tracks interesting and DJing during a live sex show… wait, what? more
Arts & Entertainment
Postcards from the edge
- When you think of Oregon, what comes to mind? No doubt lots of trees and lots of rain. more
- Art for awareness
- Henderson gets an injection of culture when the first College Art Scene Festival hits the College of Southern Nevada’s Henderson Campus on April 24. more
Joint opening
- The Hard Rock’s new concert venue debuts strongly, except for a broken nose and one woman’s dashed hopes of marrying McCartney. more
Mr. Sunday night
- The measure of John Madden is simple: He helped make Sunday the new Monday. more
She-sweets
- Fling’s fingers are imbued with a faint metallic pink shimmer that straddles the line between “amusingly chic” and “scrumptiously contaminated.” If you haven’t guessed yet, ... more
Rock by committee
- Jill Sobule’s last two record labels have gone bankrupt. So she made a direct appeal in an e-mail to her fans: Would they finance the record? more
Gone but not forgotten
- Thanks to DirecTV, unjustly canceled shows get a second chance. more
Plugged in at Coachella
- There are concerts, there are music festivals, and then there’s Coachella. more
- Dispatches from the Polo Field
- Since Vegas doesn’t have a pro sports team, local musicians have filled that community vacancy. So, in order to obtain my official Las Vegas local ... more
Uncovering Cheever
- It is somehow continually surprising to discover how many of America’s essential writers were eccentrics, outsiders: in exile, even at home. more
Optical fiber
- It’s been almost 40 years since artists swapped their paintbrushes for needles and thread, and a century since they traded wood, stone and clay for ... more
A century of Hawkins
- Erick Hawkins (1909–1994) is considered by many to be one of the most influential classic modern dance choreographers of the 20th century. more
Screen
Duller than fiction
- Movies based on true stories generally like to trumpet their real-world bona fides right at the outset, so that we’ll be properly amazed as the ... more
Earth
- A sweeping, generic wildlife film, Earth features a few passing mentions of global warming but otherwise focuses on the same things as every other nature ... more
The Informers
- Los Angeles. Early ’80s. Vacuous, rich and pretty blond boys and girls get drunk, get high and get laid; a few come to a vague ... more
Fighting
- Maybe it’s a bad idea to expect much from a movie with a title as generic as Fighting . more
Sin Nombre
- Sayra (Gaitan) follows her uncle and estranged father from Honduras, heading to New Jersey to live with a family of half-siblings she’s never met. Mexican ... more
12
- The magnificence of Sidney Lumet’s irreproachable 12 Angry Men was the simplicity—and brevity—with which a legal injustice was brought to light by methodically revealing the ... more
Taste
- An epic experience
All the dishes I tried at Thai Pepper were interesting, and some were downright terrific. I started with a beef soup that I’ve never seen on a Thai menu in this country called kao-low - funky in the extreme and definitely not for the faint of heart.
- When classics collide on a bitsy bun
The newest slider variation is upon us, and it’s better than it sounds.
- The wrong choice
- At Timbers Bar and Grill on Sunday morning, in full view of my wife, friends and the overly caffeinated waitress, I commit the biggest mistake I’ll make all week: I don’t order the Sierra Madre Omelet.
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Depeche Mode vs. Pet Shop Boys
- In the 1980s, Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys helped synth-pop break into the mainstream. Now, both have released new records.
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Silversun Pickups
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Tinted Windows
- At first glance, the lineup of supergroup Tinted Windows seems pretty incongruous: singer Taylor Hanson (Hanson), bassist Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), guitarist James Iha (ex-Smashing Pumpkins) and drummer Bun ...
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Filthy Dirty Vodka Martini
Filthy Dirty Vodka Martini Hachi, Red Rock Casino. $11 ($7 during Hachi Hour, Mon.-Fri., 5-7 p.m.) Let’s talk for a moment about the martini. Like a king dethroned, the martini ...
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