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  • Tuesday, March 3, 2009

    "Player Emeritus" Pretty Tony shares his tips for picking up women. Don't hate the game, just learn the rules and play.

  • Tuesday, March 3, 2009

    Local rockers Slow to Surface release their first full-length CD, This Is The Reason We Do This, tonight at Wasted Space, after four years of blood, sweat and tears. Listen here first and decide if it's any good.

  • Monday, Feb. 23, 2009

    At an 8 Mile-style freestyle rap battle at hip-hop clothing store Grapes & Scittles, you only get one shot.

  • Monday, Feb. 23, 2009

    Someone get Oscar Goodman on the phone: other cities are out-partying Vegas this week.

  • Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009

    Sam Edelman is talking about the ballerina and the gladiator, two shoe styles he is famous for, and then says something about how Steve Madden copied him. Then he tells a story.

  • Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009

    The man ladies love is playing on February 11 in Primm. Test your LL Cool J knowledge with this quiz and you could win a free pair of tickets to his show.

  • Friday, Feb. 6, 2009

    This weekend CineVegas and Springs Preserve team up to present Still Life, an award-winning film about personal and environmental change along the Yangtze River.

  • Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009

    Comedian James Stephens III has gone from the church choir to law school to the comedy club stage. Now, the improv vet is enrolled in a seminary, a year and a half from becoming a pastor.

  • Monday, Jan. 26, 2009

    The animal rights organization notorious for its attention-getting antics - some sexy, some scary - staged a Strip boycott on Monday directly addressing Giorgio Armani's broken promise to stop using fur.

  • Monday, Jan. 26, 2009

    Arianny Celeste, homegrown model and UFC octagon girl, beat out 19 local hotties for the Las Vegas Top Model title. What will she do with all that prize money?

  • Friday, Jan. 23, 2009

    Perfect ten redheads, blondes and brunettes sport bikinis, lingerie, evening gowns and jeans in pictures provided for your viewing pleasure. I like Cicilia, with Joanna a close second. Vote online now for your favorite of the 20 local models competing in the Las Vegas Top Model 2009 competition.

  • Friday, Jan. 23, 2009

    After getting my heart broken, I needed some chocolate. On my way home from work I stopped off at the Albertson's at Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch, but there was not a basket in sight.

  • Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009

    The electronic vibrations running through my body at Rain on Saturday night gave off a slightly sexually charge. And Rolling Stone agrees.

  • Monday, Jan. 19, 2009

    Where you are during Barack Obama’s inauguration will likely be remembered for your lifetime, so get off your couch and watch it somewhere interesting.

  • Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009

    Fresh off their overseas tour, The Killers will touch down in the city that knew them before they were stars where they’ll christen the newly opened Joint at the Hard Rock.

  • Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009

    Ten months after walking out of a Nevada jail, the Girls Gone Wild founder is talking seriously about a $5 billion economic stimulus package and his plans to release a Vegas-based DVD.

  • Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009

    Before Mötley Crüe plays the closing of the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, you can join front man Vince Neil for a different kind of play: a charity poker tournament.

  • Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009

    “Nervous? Why would we be nervous?” retorts male porn star D. Wise. “We’re just some happy-go-lucky people having sex.”

  • Monday, Jan. 5, 2009

    Ditch the heels, the mini-dress that might actually be a shirt, those stifling collars and non-sneaker shoes. If you’ve ever wished you could hit a Strip hotspot in your sweats, January 6 is the night – the dress code at Pure is strictly sweatsuits.

  • Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009

    A catfight, "doobage" and kids in handcuffs - the grittier side of New Year's on the Strip.

  • Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008

    Listening to Tiesto’s spin at Jet on Christmas night was like chugging a Red Bull: His music provides a flood of stimuli that keeps you awake and alert for hours. Dance music fans maintain that Tiesto broke a world record in 2001 by drinking 31 cans of Red Bull in 24 hours.

  • Monday, Dec. 15, 2008

    Cupcakes are like crack, only less illegal. And today at the Cupcakery they're free!

  • Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008

    You would think the schoolgirls would win. Plaid is like a double secret nuclear ingredient in hot girl contests.

  • Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008

    On any given Saturday morning, The Cracked Egg’s tables are cluttered with kids scribbling with crayons on their menus and getting sticky from their banana chocolate chip pancakes. Starting this month, Henderson egg-eaters can get in on the syrup and wax orgy.

  • Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008

    As our holiday gift to you, we’d like to let you in on a Vegas secret: Shows on the Strip from Phantom to Ka are slashing ticket prices and offering two-for-one deals for anyone with a local ID. Learn how to cash in here.

  • Friday, Dec. 5, 2008

    Imagine a house in which walls disappear with the touch of a button. The barriers between inside and outside are flexible, not rigid, and sunlight enters not through windows, but through totally open walls.

  • Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008

    On the proverbial Morning After, you wake up feeling satiated and stung by varying degrees of guilt. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and the only thing that can save you from a winter of flabby flesh shamefully hidden under sweats is exercise. Try any or all of these inane, insane ideas, and you’ll never need a treadmill again.

  • Monday, Nov. 24, 2008

    A line-up of top-tier eateries are offering multi-course, pre-fixe meals this Thanksgiving. Remember to give thanks for Wolfgang Puck.

  • Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008

    "Look at all these white people who came to see me! I didn't know y’all knew me!" Mike Epps says as I walk into the ballroom. From what I can make out, my date and I are actually two of the only white people here.

  • Friday, Nov. 21, 2008

    If you’ve ever tried to build furniture, you know about the inevitability of arguing with one’s spouse. “Their motto should be ‘Ikea: We hope your marriage is stronger than our furniture.’”

  • Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

    The holiday season is all about parties. Or is it giving? Tonight, Mist is encouraging both with an offer of one complimentary cocktail for one donated non-perishable food item.

  • Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008

    A crowd gathers like another Bellagio water fountain show is about to start, except that everyone is much more transfixed. Side-by-side it’s hard not to compare the contestants for Miss Nevada 2009. Kevin Polce offers his selection, "At first glance, South Las Vegas."

  • Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008

    Mi Casa Grill Cantina at Silverton has made amazing decor part of dinner, with an elaborate lighting system that recently received an award from the Illuminating Engineering Society.

  • Monday, Nov. 10, 2008

    Laraine Russo Harper looks like a brothel madam. She wears thick makeup and sports garish gold rings on every finger and stacks of bracelets. She calls everyone “gorgeous” and “sweetheart,” and says that when she was running the show at Pahrump brothel her "ladies" called her "mom."

  • Friday, Nov. 7, 2008

    Vegas Police Sergeant Harry Fagel has seen things you can’t forget, bad things, really bad things. He looks hardcore, hulking like a WWF wrestler with a shaved head, often packing guns under his off-duty t-shirt. He looks like he could kick your ass (he probably could), but Harry is a poet.

  • Friday, Nov. 7, 2008

    Downtown’s Icehouse Lounge may not seem the obvious choice for this event, but it’s like Snoop’s Vegas Holiday Inn, a place he can chill and make as small a scene as is possible when your name is Snoop Dogg and your cornrows receive more press than most people get their whole lives.

  • Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008

    Tool's Maynard James Keenan was in town signing autographs this week, but not on T-shirts, CDs or the occasional bare breast. Keenan was at Henderson Whole Foods signing bottles of his Arizona wine.

  • Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008

    These “movers and shakers of Las Vegas” are too occupied with networking and passing out business cards to watch the election progress. I ask an older man why no one is reacting to the historic occasion. “This is a mature crowd,” he replies. So, I leave.

  • Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

    When A.J.'s Steakhouse first opened in 1999 the New York strip steak cost $33. By 2008 it was up to $44, but no longer. Before it closes this December A.J.'s is inviting diners to "dine like it's 1999" with a return to its original prices.

  • Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008

    Through my cracked windows the tourists see a bat-out-of-hell girl behind the steering wheel, night-driving glasses on, one lens missing (thankfully, the left, my stronger eye), hair and makeup decidedly un-Strip worthy. I get ready in the casino parking lot.

  • Monday, Oct. 27, 2008

    Score big this Halloween: cash and action, not candy corn and Snickers. Our guide will help you pick and choose out of a week stuffed full of Halloween parties, as well as give costume ideas that could win contests and points with the opposite sex.

  • Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008

    By mid-October summer in most places is nothing but a salty, sun-tanned memory, but today, one last pool party at Rio's adults-only Sapphire pool bids a final adieu to the oven-baked season.

  • Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008

    Theory of Flight is three things at least, but tonight it's mostly the local alt-rock band that will bring their high-inducing sound to Wasted Space.

  • Monday, Oct. 20, 2008

    A man tips his head back to get his dreadlocks out of the way and hoovers a sword. A seven-foot drag queen—introduced as a “bastion of beauty” – simulates sex with a random woman kidnapped from the audience.

  • Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

    The 12th Annual Bite of Las Vegas sounds like a promising afternoon: 11 bands, 3 stages, 45 restaurants serving small tasting portions. But the full-day outdoor festival is sadly lacking teeth.

  • Music

    Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

    Charles Earland jumps up and down on the checkerboard floor, sips his beer and makes love to the microphone.

  • Monday, Oct. 13, 2008

    In the bowling alley upstairs at Jillian’s, a guitar player from a local band brings me a plastic cup of beer. The Earland brothers of Vegas band Lips Like Morphine, fair-skinned despite being the sons of a famous black jazz musician, are working their way through a heady line-up of songs.

  • Friday, Oct. 10, 2008

    Joshua Kane may be in an Armani suit, or he may be in an old-fashioned vest and ascot. Anything could happen this Saturday night at the Historic Fifth Street School, but a few things are certain. “An old man will be murdered, eight politicians will be set aflame and there is one creepy black bird.”

  • Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008

    A red, white and blue VW bus, stenciled with the words: “Obama-Biden,” “hope,” “change” and “progress,” is lost somewhere in Vegas, trying to find the UNLV campus from the intersection of Rainbow and Sahara.

  • Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008

    Four men are on stage at Jillian’s in tube socks, booty shorts and headbands. They throw stuffed monkeys and homemade headbands into the crowd, while “mandancers” boogie behind them in spandex suits. They are local pop-rock band Air Raid Anthem, and they are willing to do whatever it takes to make it.