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12.24.09 · 12:52 AM

Forget Frosty: Four unique ways to spend your Christmas

Santa has Mrs. Claus, the holly has the ivy, and Rudolph has eight – count ‘em, eight! – reindeer brethren to play reindeer games with come Christmas. If you’re not so lucky, don’t fret. You don’t need to swap saliva under mistletoe or sit around a fake fireplace sipping eggnog with relatives to be merry this holiday season. Whether you want to channel your inner redneck or keep it classy, here are four ways the Weekly suggests you spend your ... Read more...

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12.20.09 · 9:01 PM

Bull riding and stripping: 5 awesome uses for a Snuggie

Commercials for this year’s hottest holiday gift, the Snuggie, show smiling white people playing board games, answering the phone and doing other menial tasks previously impossible during the cold winter months. But the blanket with sleeves’ uses don’t end there. SnugCrawl, a pub crawl/tweet-up held downtown Friday night demonstrated this, and we’ve got photographic proof: Riding a mechanical bull at Las Vegas Country Saloon has never looked so cozy. The Snuggie’s fleece keeps you warm, in case the fear and ... Read more...

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12.18.09 · 10:34 AM

Observations, comments and questions from the first 24 hours of Aria

At midnight on December 17, CityCenter’s Aria hotel-casino turned one day old. Here are a few ponderings on its first 24 hours on the Strip. • More than one visitor to Aria on its first morning of operations stopped to ponder Jenny Holzer’s contribution to the fine art collection, simply titled “VEGAS.” Made up of LED panels that span 226 feet, the work scrolls through words of wisdom selected by Holzer for the piece. The short phrases range from truly ... Read more...

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12.16.09 · 6:31 PM

A tale of two Thai dinners

Tasting food can be like looking at art — one person’s Picasso is another’s Panda Palace. So when local food critic and self-proclaimed Spring Mountain Road connoisseur John Curtas started a debate with Wazuzu chef and Weekly blogger Jet Tila over the best Thai restaurant in the Valley, there was only one way to settle things — a dinner duel. Rather than wielding knives — Tila would win that face-off handily — we picked up forks and spoons and set ... Read more...

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12.12.09 · 1:11 PM

UFC 107: Where to watch

The UFC is pulling out all the stops for the year-ending fight card taking place at FedEx Forum in Memphis. For those who can’t attend in person, Las Vegas sports bars and casinos are making holiday wishes come true for fight fans who want to watch the action. Look below to find out where to watch the lightweight title fight between BJ Penn and Deigo Sanchez plus match-ups between local fighter Frank Mir and Cheick Kongo and between Clay Guida ... Read more...

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12.9.09 · 1:24 PM

Holiday tips from Martha Stewart fans (and from Martha Stewart!) at a Las Vegas book signing

Nothing says “happy holidays” like Martha Stewart and a 40 of Olde English 800. The grand dame of domesticity stopped in Las Vegas on Tuesday to sign copies of her new cookbook, Dinner at Home: 52 Quick Meals to Cook for Family & Friends, at Williams Sonoma in Summerlin, and with the holidays fast approaching, I headed her way in search of advice for entertaining this season with sanity in tact. I wimped out on the malt liquor – it ... Read more...

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12.7.09 · 4:54 PM

Has anyone seen Rampage Jackson?

I guess Quinton Rampage Jackson was too busy running lines for his upcoming role in the A Team to be in the corner for the two fighters he “coached” on this season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show. When Kimbo Slice and Marcus Jones entered the ring at the Pearl on Saturday night for the season finale fights, Coach Jackson was nowhere to be seen. When it was announced Jackson would be coaching the heavyweight season of TUF, I, like ... Read more...

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12.6.09 · 11:53 PM

A freezing First Friday (with free hugs!)

A decent-sized crowd amasses at The Gypsy Den to hear live music during First Friday, but it’s not nearly enough for the body heat to mean anything. The dashboard of my car has informed me it’s 34 degrees outside. My brain makes a futile effort to forget about the freeze warning in effect. Walking from the dark parking lot toward the glow of the downtown monthly arts festival, I think to myself that it’s five degrees from me saying, “Screw ... Read more...

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12.4.09 · 4:08 PM

Oogled by Google: Big Brother is watching (my house)

Google-Mapping my route to a surprise party not long ago, I was somewhat alarmed to find my home documented on the usually helpful site with such frightening zoom-detail that I can almost pinpoint the date and time the snapshot was taken by the state of the bushes (neglected and weepy) and the lack of the latest pigeon to die on my roof (the current stiff has been there at least eight months). From the aerial view I can almost see ... Read more...

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Cocktail of the Week Jun 19, 2013
by Ken Miller

Postrio’s nod to Don Quixote makes for a perfect summertime drink

When you think of summer, odds are thoughts of legendary literary character Don Quixote don’t spring to mind. But after trying a Distorted Chivalry at the Venetian’s Postrio, that might ...
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