Debriefing
The Weekly continues its quest to eradicate ignorance, one blog entry at a time.
05.29.09 · 5:13 PM
Bloodless bullfighting: A tradition evolved or just plain bull?
Let me say this plainly: I like bullfighting. Five years ago, feeling fairly conflicted about the slaughter I had paid money to witness, I attended my first corrida in Seville, Spain. Come September, I’ll watch my second bullfight just 15 minutes from my front door, at the South Point Arena and Equestrian Center. But one major element – some might say the major element – will have changed: There will be no blood. La corrida is the bullfight, a fetishistic ... Read more...
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Facebook05.24.09 · 2:37 AM
UFC 98: Controversy enters the Octagon
In a sport like mixed martial arts, referees have the power to affect the outcome of a fight, often to the annoyance of fans. UFC 98 proved to be a very controversial ticket with two fights facing questionable referee stoppages and one with an outcome that for many was completely unexpected. When announcer Bruce Buffer proclaimed the Matt Hughes and Matt Serra grudge match was scored a unanimous 29-28, you could see Matt Serra’s eyes light up. He, and many ... Read more...
05.22.09 · 3 PM
Two Las Vegas tastes that taste great together
Sometimes you discover two things, equally delicious on their own, that are only improved upon combination. Like peanut butter and chocolate, strawberries and whipped cream, fried plantains and mild white cheese when it’s melted on top until it coats the … well, you get the picture. Some cool things are cooler when paired. It’s like coolness squared, or something. What I’m trying to say amid the gathering drool is that two Las Vegas tastemakers combined forces earlier this week, and ... Read more...
05.22.09 · 1:27 PM
The Joint goes Rogue, for marketing purposes
Would The Joint by any other name be just as hip? We’ll soon find out. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino recently announced that the naming rights to their beloved concert venue have been purchased by Relativity Media’s film and lifestyle brand, Rogue. A spokesperson for Hard Rock said the venue will be referred to as The Joint by Rogue. Much like Citi BCS National Championship Game or Super Bowl 43 sponsored by Cadillac, The Joint will be called The Rogue ... Read more...
05.20.09 · 9:16 AM
Get your flag here (legal drinkers and gamblers only)
While there’s lots of talk of bikinis and skin in advance of this weekend’s Memorial Day orgy, the most fashionable swath of fabric to sport from Friday to Monday isn’t bedazzled, sequined or ironically hip. (Go easy on the plaid, ok?) Its only spangles are 50 white stars, and the tri color design couldn’t be more classic. Literally, the American flag is one of the oldest images in the history of the United States. And what goes better with the ... Read more...
05.18.09 · 8:07 PM
Half-baked brilliance: Denny’s embraces the stoner market
Denny’s isn’t just marketing to Grandpa anymore. Some absolute genius in the corporate offices has finally understood the true demographic that frequents its establishment before the sun comes up: drunks and stoners. Anyone who’s ever had a long night of partying knows a plate of greasy breakfast goodness fixes everything, save a potential waistline expansion. Too drunk to make it home? Got stupid baked while watching Harold and Kumar and there’s no White Castle in your state (or it just ... Read more...
05.15.09 · 11:47 PM
Celebrated Cuban poet leaves Las Vegas
Pablo Medina doesn’t seem a creature of Las Vegas or even of the Nevada desert. His essence is pure Cuban. The soul that stares from his richly dark-coffee eyes belongs in a Panama hat and a loose white guayabera seated on a Havana doorstep, inhaling with every breath the cracked and colorful city, its poignant jacaranda and sensual music. Yet here he is on a bourgeois couch in just another stucco tract home in just another gated community in Henderson, ... Read more...
05.15.09 · 11:19 AM
Sketching the same sunset: How one local found hope though art
You don’t need to head Downtown on First Fridays to find art in the Valley. Jak B. spends hours with his sketchbook at one Green Valley Starbucks. He’s never sold a painting. But then again, the 33-year-old Hawaiian native only began his journey in the art world eight months ago. “I first got into [drawing] when I was in the hospital,” says Jak while sketching under the familiar green Starbucks umbrella at 1500 N. Green Valley Parkway. Suffering from seizures, ... Read more...
05.7.09 · 11:45 AM
Las Vegas Weekly.com wins award for best entertainment Web site!
LasVegasWeekly.com was named the best entertainment Web site of its size today at the annual Editor and Publisher/Mediaweek EPpy awards luncheon in New Orleans. The site won the award for “Best Entertainment Web Site” with fewer than one million unique monthly visitors. The Las Vegas Sun Web site, which is also owned by the Greenspun family, was honored for the “Best Web Special Feature – News or Event” for its interactive history project and the “Best Newspaper-Affliliated Web site” of ... Read more...
05.6.09 · 1:08 PM
Oprah’s buying everyone in America a chicken dinner!
Who wants some Kentucky UNfried Chicken? ‘Cause Oprah’s buying! Until tonight at 11:59 p.m. CDT (that’s 9:59 p.m. for us Vegas folks), you can go to unthinkfc.com and print out a handy-dandy coupon for a free meal from the Colonel. But before you pick on Oprah about her weight struggles or about how joining forces with KFC to feed a starving and poor America seems like a bad or fattening idea, get this: The deal is for a two-piece grilled ... Read more...
05.2.09 · 2:26 AM
Pride parade is a rainbow of optimism and energy
Of all the visually arresting images that paraded down 4th Street from Coolidge Avenue to Ogden Avenue for the 11th annual Las Vegas Pride Parade, a pair of loving lesbians may be the hardest to forget It’s not because they were beautiful, though they were. It’s because they embodied the energetic, optimistic spirit of the entire event, which claimed Downtown as its own starting with a platoon of bikers, followed by a couple high school cheerleading squads, scores of drag ... Read more...
05.1.09 · 8:25 AM
Longtime Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans dead at 52
Encore Las Vegas headliner Danny Gans has passed away. He was 52. Known as “The Man of Many Voices” Gans reportedly died early this morning at home in his sleep. After stints at the Stratosphere, where he opened in 1996, and the Rio and eight years at the Mirage, where he reigned in his self-titled theater, Gans recently moved into the new Encore Theatre and resumed his long relationship with Steve Wynn. Gans was a quick-change artist, using his supple ... Read more...
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Featured Cocktail
May 15, 2013
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Sabrina Chapman
The Golden Pillar: An architectural cocktail built for XS
This Sunday, XS nightclub celebrates the grand reopening of its after-dark pool party, Night Swim. Along with the bash comes a new offering of signature cocktails served by the pitcher, ...
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