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NOVEMBER 5 - NOVEMBER 11
- Vegas Valley Book Festival at a glance
- Everything you need to know… and then some. read article
In praise of Poe
- Hitchcock? Stephen King? CSI? Hard to imagine any of them not owing a huge debt to the ... read article
Rolling Stone? Please!
- Ramparts magazine did it better, and influenced an entire generation of subversive journalists read article
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The Intersection
Trucks don’t need no stinkin’ badges!(1 comment)
- Why does the Highway Patrol’s “badge on board” program—in which troopers ride shotgun in selected 18-wheelers and cite drivers who stay in blind spots, don’t ... more
There’s a battle over the hump in Pahrump(4 comments)
- Pahrump—a town known for legal brothels and guns—is battling over the city’s image. more
- Suggestion Box: Hey RJ, tell us something we don’t know
- An R-J writer proclaimed that spiraling room rates are drawing a “trashier” clientele, one that—gasp!—brings coolers into rooms and apparently causes—double gasp!—room damage. more
Las Vegas appears to only be growing in intolerance(1 comment)
- Hello, rising wave of intolerance, I haven’t seen you in a while. I was tempted to believe that momentarily we had dispatched with the villainization ... more
“Deep Throat” merchandise (use your imagination)
- Las Vegas-based Arrow Productions, the porn house that brought you the most celebrated skin flick in the adult industry has rolled out a long line ... more
Good ol’ Boyd
- Since retiring as CEO of his corporation nearly two years ago, William S. Boyd has decided to “get back to what we did when we ... more
Random photo of the week
- “I can ride a bike with my old lady on the handlebars, on the handlebars…” more
- The Help Desk(1 comment)
- Steve Wynn says in conference call with investors, “The landscape in Vegas is troubling.” He then further shocked the group by revealing that water is ... more
Nightlife
I Vant to Suck Your Vace
- How do you make an emo douchebag look sexy? Give ‘em fangs. more
Cabo Wabo—and Sammy Hagar!—coming to Vegas(1 comment)
- One tequila, two tequila, three tequila—oooh! Sammy Hagar! The Red Rocker is bringing Vegas its own outpost of his famous Cabo Wabo Cantina complete with, ... more
A nice pair: Beer pairings as a nightclub alternative
- At beer pairing dinners cropping up around town, suds and supper are a great match. more
Nite Bite: Planet of the Drums
- In your face with some drum n bass! It’s been “ten f—king years” (their words, not ours) since Planet of the Drums formed and now ... more
Arts & Entertainment
Time to go for Wayne Newton?(1 comment)
- Newton could be a great host of a Vegas variety show. But he prefers to keep his show focused on his singing and not on ... more
George Wallace
- George Wallace has often been complimented for his marketing savvy, his skill as a promoter and his friends who jump up to guest with him. ... more
- Stealing without tweeting
- The Hollywood Burglar Bunch illuminates celebrity’s diminishing grip on us all. more
Busy Beekeeper sings … and prepares for zombie apocalypse
- There’s nothing funny about the zombie apocalypse. more
Destination Vegas: Hardcore band gambles on leaving LA
- One Stoney Anderson hits the stage, he transforms from quiet, unassuming punk into reckless, lewd rock ’n’ roll frontman. more
Slipknot
- The final performance on Slipknot’s latest tour, Halloween night at the Pearl, was as intense as would be expected. more
Some super-exciting, utterly random factoids about Kelly Clarkson!
- Our lives would suck without this American Idol winner. more
Drink in “Drunk” art
- Drunk is the perfect pit-stop for boozy tortured artists. more
Turning the page
- Altered States takes an age-old object—the book—in bold new directions more
Roll out the ’bones
- At UNLV, 76 plus four equals 100. more
Three questions with comedian Lily Tomlin
- Lily Tomlin (and Ernestine) tries not to take herself too seriously, but don’t tell the Academy that. more
Screen
The Men Who Stare at Goats
- The story of an elite unit of soldiers armed with psychic powers was plenty nutty on its own—playing it for broad laughs in “The Men ... more
The Fourth Kind(1 comment)
- In 2000, Dr. Abigail Tyler uncovered supposed evidence of widespread alien abductions in Nome, Alaska. In 2009, the movie about Tyler is just another lame thriller. more
A Christmas Carol
- Listen, Robert Zemeckis, I think we need to have a talk. Remember when you used to make those cool popcorn blockbusters full of real actors ... more
Coco Before Chanel
- As its name suggests, subtitled biopic Coco Before Chanel focuses on the “rags” aspect of Chanel’s rags-to-riches story. more
Taste
- Flashback dining at Summerlin's Carmel
Swanky, intimate and comfortingly classic, they don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
- The expanding Olive
- More space for Henderson’s hookah and hummus spot is a very good thing.
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Creed
- After eight years, nothing has changed.
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Julian Casablancas
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Wolfmother
- Lineup change have had a negligible effect on Wolfmother’s sound.
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Cocktail of the Week
Nov 5, 2009
by
Xania Woodman
Beergarita
It was quite by happenstance that I came upon the beergarita, or perhaps it found me. I was blissfully unaware of the house-party staple’s existence until two glasses literally put ...
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