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Meet the Freakin’ Frog’s freakin’ great bartender
- Jack Belden is an organic fit at Las Vegas’ illustrious bar read article
Great beer experiences
- At these places, the extra touches make the difference. read article
House by Craigslist
- With the right eye and a bit of patience, Eileen Merten Lorraine has turned cast-offs into chic decor read article
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The Intersection
Home brewer Eric Villareal is an engineer by day—and a confessed beer geek by night
- This home brewer puts out an amazing product with only about $100 worth of equipment. more
Nine of our favorite local brews
- Support your local economy by drinking these locally made brews. more
A look at upcoming beer-related events in Southern Nevada
- Tastings, fundraisers and more! more
Bypassing reality (and the Hoover Dam)
- The Mike O’Callahan-Pat Tillman Bridge may mean traffic headaches for Boulder City, but no one we talked to gives a crap more
Fresh & Easy is closing stores; why can’t it be the payday lenders?
- Here are some other overexposed phenomena that should be scaled back. more
Walleska EcoChicc stresses sustainability in all its products
- Walleska Tepping wants to turn your pop tab into a handbag. more
Las Vegas will soon lose one of its true unsung heroes to ALS
- Bob Forbuss is known for remaining cool and steady in virtually any situation. more
The Cosmopolitan’s writing on the wall
- The new resort’s underground art installation isn’t geared toward mass appeal, and that’s the best part more
- Notes from BlogWorld
- Rick Lax on tweeters, texters and stereotypes more
Thinking about fro-yo, Hispanics that look more Asian and more!
- Also, who benefits from moving the Gift of Lights? (Spoiler: No one.) more
Transforming T-shirts
- Wanna get cut? XXXL shirts aren’t just for sleepwear anymore. more
What did you want to be when you grew up?
- The Weekly digs deep. more
The ghetto blaster returns in a new guise
- Grandma’s luggage has never been so badass. more
Random photo of the week
- Submitted by Erik Chudy more
- Dream Zone: ‘my mother had a lion’
- When the lion started to get up, I started running! more
Nightlife
Vive la France! Bob Sinclar played to a keen crowd at Haze
- Who the f—k is Bob Sinclar? more
Hot Spots: T-Pain, beer pong, early Halloween parties and continued Jersey-fication
- A plethora of parties for all palates this week! more
A frightful libation
- What’s more frightening? This cocktail or haunted houses? more
Nightlife news & notes: Deadmau5 recap, new all-ages venue, ‘Fallout’ party
- Mau5 in the hou5e, Wayne Newton parties with Vampire Weekend, and DJing goes to the dogs. more
After years away, Genever is back at the bar
- Genever is its own category of spirit and it hasn’t hit American soil since Prohibition, before which it had apparently dominated cocktail culture. more
Arts & Entertainment
Chatting with Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler
- Interpol’s Daniel Kessler discusses Las Vegas, missing Matador at 21 and the band’s recent album and tour. more
Dammit, Onyx! Why’d you make us wait this long for ‘Rocky Horror’?
- it’s still refreshing to watch a performance that honestly aims to entertain its audience. more
Alice in Chains, Deftones and Mastodon span two decades of heavy
- Representing three significant movements in hard rock over the last two decades, Alice in Chains, Deftones and Mastodon joined forces for the final night of ... more
Kings of Leon’s fifth LP might be its most radical departure yet
- With each new album, Kings of Leon isn’t afraid to nudge its sound into uncharted territory more
Mad about Mid Mod
- Thank you, Don and Betty Draper. Seriously. more
My weekend in and among the world of ‘Off the Strip’
- Now in its second year, this mini-festival of performance and video work is unpredictable, ambitious and raw, beautifully reflecting in one fell swoop the joy ... more
Kid Meets Cougar, take two
- The local electro-dance duo is taking a hiatus. more
What to watch and where to go this week
- We’ve got Glee tackling Rocky Horror and Judge Judy being, well, Judge Judy. more
Checklist: Anastasia Synn, needle impaler/light bulb eater/fire breather
- What is this performer’s preferred brand of staple? more
Screen
‘Lost Boy’ Corey Feldman is back!
- Corey Feldman hosts the Lost Boys Ball at the House of Blues. more
‘Hereafter’ is the world’s dullest meditation on the afterlife
- Hereafter touts its own profundity at every turn, from its muted color palette to its maudlin score to its cheap use of real-life disasters as ... more
‘Stone,’ starring De Niro, Norton and Jovovich, is unusually bracing
- Not that there’s some big twist or anything—you just wouldn’t expect this kind of high-concept, star-driven American film to be so relentlessly interior. more
Education doc ‘Waiting for Superman’ fuels outrage
- “Superman” successfully jerks your tears and fuels your outrage, but it’s more a recruiting tool than a movie. more
‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’ will delight Woody Allen fans
- The movie’s story of romantic frustration among upper-class Londoners is hardly original, but it finds Allen ruminating seriously on aging and regret. more
Taste
- What we're drinking
When it comes to beer, the Weekly staff has varied tastes.
- The Palms cafe brings back Coastal memories
- Could the food at George Maloof’s coffee shop live up to the Gold Coast legend in Brock Radke’s mind?
- Raku’s 15-course meal plays out like a beautiful symphony
Kaiseki perfection for under $150.
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Kings of Leon's fifth LP might be its most radical departure yet
- With each new album, Kings of Leon isn’t afraid to nudge its sound into uncharted territory
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Sufjan Stevens' CD 'The Age of Adz' is a haphazard patchwork of ...
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'Clapton' is a living legend puttering about on new album
- Eric Clapton has nothing left to prove, so there isn’t anything wrong with his coasting through a bunch of old blues and jazz tunes.
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Cocktail of the Week
Oct 21, 2010
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Deanna Rilling
A frightful libation
Looking for a cocktail to steel your nerves before entering Fright Dome? Rock & Rita’s, also at Circus Circus, is offering the Thriller, a mix of vodka, red vermouth, blood-orange ...
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