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AUGUST 13- AUGUST 19
Call it ‘American art’
- Even as the black arts community in Las Vegas struggles to establish itself, many artists bristle at ... read article
Master (pint-sized) builder
- The artist Frank James is precise. Very precise. Set your watch by him precise. In his living ... read article
Home in Vegas
- CONSIDERED: bathrooms, community, America, your attitude, the eight ball, mother, hardship, responsibility, bugs, war, comfort, cops, neighbors, ... read article
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The Intersection
A museum for every crime
- Why stop at a mob museum? If the Mayor is right, if we can launder the city’s grubby soul into squeaky-clean tourist coin, why not ... more
Teachable moment
- Yeah, the poll was commissioned by Republicans, and there are plenty of reasons why things can and will change by Election Day. But this week’s ... more
- Suggestion Box: Shut the hell up!
- As the health-care debate tenderly makes its way to Nevada and Las Vegas, please, please, please heed these carefully chosen words: Shut the hell up! more
- The Help Desk
- Michael Jackson’s Neverland may be dismantled and moved to Las Vegas as a tourist attraction. Yeah, this is a ridiculous idea, but be honest—you’re really ... more
This’ll wrinkle some brows!
- Welcome to the debate about the Botax, an issue custom-fitted for bad jokes and tabloid headlines. more
Whole lotto love
- Easy-money fever at the state line, with stubbly Howard and the Lexus kids. more
- Cash for dealers?
- The federal program to jump-start the auto industry still carries many question marks. more
Beer Summit West(1 comment)
- It’s been a couple of weeks now, but I still can’t get that White House beer-summit image out of my mind. Which brought me back ... more
Random photo of the week
- Uh, what kind if services are considered expressly “Latino”? more
- Ask Dead Elvis: What are the oldest bars in town?
- So you want to get a touch of old Vegas the liquid way? We applaud this, and yes, we have some suggestions. After all, there ... more
Nightlife
The other Prives
- I gave the Bellagio valet my name and inquired, “How do I get to Club Privé?” His pleasant face contorted into a grimace. But I’m ... more
On & on … & on?
- House-music pioneer Jesse Saunders is said to have written, produced, performed and released the world’s first documented house-music recording, titled On & On, in 1984. ... more
Wardrobe malfunction(s) Or: Why Deanna can’t own nice things
- Someone call What Not to Wear. Stacy, Clinton: A Team Hangover member is in need of a serious wardrobe overhaul. Especially since she ruined three ... more
A benefiting tribute
- In the wake of a tragedy, the nightlife community came together on August 11 to rally around one of its own. more
Arts & Entertainment
Mad about this show
- TV critics everywhere are salivating in anticipation of Mad Men‘s return on August 16. Here are the four reasons we’re all a-flutter… more
An addition to the Dollhouse
- Produced without Fox’s involvement and never aired on TV, the 13th episode of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse is now available exclusively on the DVD set of ... more
Exiting The Stript for Saint Rose
- Sometimes, you find that you’ve squeezed all the juice from your orange, and it’s time to move on to something new. Sometimes that means it’s ... more
Hot and Sweaty
- In the opening lines of its self-penned bio, local pop-punk band Air Raid Anthem compares its sound to “the feeling of eating Pop Rocks while ... more
Our own private (Under)World
- In case we needed confirmation, we got it last Thursday: Las Vegans are officially lame. So Underworld crossed the Atlantic to open its first U.S. ... more
Orderly Progression! At the Disco
- On Friday night, Panic 2.0 was just another skinny-tie-and-dark-vest-clad emo-pop foursome. The exclamation point may be back, but the enthusiasm behind it has yet to return. more
Giraffe at a bus stop
- This moment is brought to you by Clark County Parks and Recreation, Friends of Winchester Park Public Art Committee and the Regional Transportation Commission… more
Drawn in?
- Emanuele Sferruzza Moszkowicz. With so many consonants and so little time, the name says it all. That beautiful collection of letters is redolent of the ... more
A Fuller life
- A few weeks ago, Dolores Fuller, the so-called “Queen of the B Movies,” suffered a stroke, and she’s been in pain ever since. But last ... more
Books I Couldn’t Finish(3 comments)
- Glenn Beck is great on TV; he shouts, he scoffs, and he cries. But when he writes, when his words are stripped clean of the ... more
Screen
Blunt but effective allegory, with aliens
- Structured as a fake documentary, a city-sized spacecraft mysteriously stalled 20 years ago Its starving, frightened occupants, who resemble huge bipedal prawns, were evacuated by ... more
Ponyo
- In a story loosely inspired by The Little Mermaid, five-year-old Sosuke (voiced in the English-language release by Frankie Jonas) finds a very odd fish, with ... more
The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard.
- When you can’t get will Ferrell, you get … Jeremy Piven? That’s apparently what the makers of the awkwardly titled The Goods: Live Hard. Sell ... more
Nights and Weekends
- With an almost uncomfortable level of intimacy, Swanberg and Gerwig chronicle the fumbling sex, circular arguments and vague, uncertain plans for the future that define ... more
Taste
- Make room for Anthony’s
Coal-oven pizza is something of a religion in New York’s SoHo; the coal oven creates a blackened crust, chewy, bubbly and yielding. It’s really all about the crust.
- Colicchio 101
Before you tune in to Top Chef: Las Vegas, there are some things you need to know about the man behind it: Tom Colicchio.
- Chef’s choice
Top Chef’s Las Vegas-set sixth season premieres August 19 on Bravo, and judge Gail Simmons promises that there will be plenty of on-and-off-Strip Vegas on the table.
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George Strait
- George Strait has had approximately 97,569,708 top-10 country hits, and releases an album roughly every 10 minutes. No one gets to that place without being incredibly consistent.
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Japandroids
- More than anything, Post-Nothing makes one yearn to witness Japandroids’ electricity live, preferably in a small, dark space with stuff falling off the walls.
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Yacht
- At times, the mythology surrounding YACHT—which stands for Young Americans Challenging High Technology—threatens to overwhelm its music.
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Cocktail of the Week
Aug 13, 2009
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Xania Woodman
Sapphire Flyer
What began as a delicate, feminine sister cocktail to the cigar-lover’s Aviation in the July/August issue of Vegas Magazine has since won the 2009 Bombay Sapphire/GQ Most Inspired Bartender regional ...
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