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Lead Photo Stargazing

Spencer Patterson | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Judging from the throng queuing up for autographs and handshakes outside Zia Record Exchange, it’s a safe guess a well-known visiting headliner has just stepped offstage. Not bad for a local band playing its first-ever show.

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Lead Photo Homie don’t play that anymore

Spencer Patterson | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

“For the last 12 years, I’ve been this guy, ‘Homie’ … and then you wake up one morning, and that whole part of your life is not there anymore.”

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Lead Photo Literary Las Vegas

T.R. Witcher | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

The Vegas Valley Book Festival, which wrapped up last week, can be understood as the community’s attempt to find a place for itself on the high-culture map.

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Lead Photo Poker with “priceless” stakes

Sarah Feldberg | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

The winner of the World Series of Poker's Main Event finals table gets to take home a duffel bags of cash and commemorative bling. It's value? Priceless. The cash in those bags? $9,119,517.

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Lead Photo The cat’s pajamas, Primm edition

Allison Duck | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Mistress Lily leads the six beautiful Kitties in a lively song-and-dance routine so tasteful you almost forget about the topless aspect … until a bra lands on your table.

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Lead Photo Utopian and despairing

Mike D'Angelo | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Rachel Getting Married, an emotionally wrenching family melodrama with a uniquely paradoxical tone, at once utopian and despairing, easily ranks among the year’s best films.

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Lead Photo Pyramid scheme

Richard Abowitz | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

In July 2007, Luxor announced a $300 million renovation to undertake the seemingly perverse task of taking the Egyptian theme out of the pyramid-shaped resort.

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Lead Photo Trying their (lady) luck

Jeremy Adams | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Chemical Ex plans to make Vegas’ arts scene a “big-ass orgy." From which planet has this group descended?

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Lead Photo Three reasons to check out Fabulous

Spencer Patterson | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

A rave in the Orleans Arena. Sounds … interesting. Strange as the setting might seem, however, the lineup for the Fabulous festival ought to excite any serious fan of electronic dance music.

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Lead Photo A “Porno” with heart

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

With Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Smith has fully appropriated both the Apatow aesthetic and one of Apatow’s top collaborators, actor Seth Rogen, while maintaining a hold on what made his own movies distinctive in the first place.

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Lead Photo Sign of the times

T.R. Witcher | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

Vegas is all about signage, but something about the splashy new sign that went up on top of the Vdara condo tower at CityCenter doesn’t click.

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Lead Photo Five strange observations from last Saturday’s Jimmy Buffett street party

Allison Duck | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

A man with six tequila-filled shot glasses and six limed Coronas on his belt. A half-Elvis, half-Parrothead costume, complete with sideburns, golden glasses and a giant bird head.

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Lead Photo Back to Basics

Scott Dickensheets | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

"It feels like it’s kinda time.” Not much of an epitaph, perhaps, but that’s what Mark T. Zeilman offers in the way of final words for his soon-to-close Downtown art gallery, MTZC.

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Divine intervention (and nuts!)

Stacy J. Willis | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

“Don’t you want someone smarter than me to be president?” the Divine Miss M asked a crowd at Krave Monday evening.

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Lead Photo Air raid

Spencer Patterson | Thu, Oct 16, 2008 (midnight)

Las Vegas’ Afghan Raiders have been booked for New York’s prestigious CMJ Music Marathon for weeks. At least, they’ve had flight reservations.

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Stargazing
Judging from the throng queuing up for autographs and handshakes outside Zia Record Exchange, it’s a safe guess a well-known visiting headliner has just stepped offstage. Not bad for a local band playing its first-ever show.
Homie don’t play that anymore
“For the last 12 years, I’ve been this guy, ‘Homie’ … and then you wake up one morning, and that whole part of your life is not there anymore.”
Literary Las Vegas
The Vegas Valley Book Festival, which wrapped up last week, can be understood as the community’s attempt to find a place for itself on the high-culture map.

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Cocktail of the Week Nov 13, 2008
by Xania Woodman

Harvest Spice

Yep, back at SushiSamba again for the last in a series of kick-ass cocktails, this one incorporating the world's first super-premium ginger liqueur, Domaine de Canton, which is currently tearing ...
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