Bar Exam

Lead Photo Drinking with mermaids

C. Moon Reed | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (2:35 p.m.)

Mermaid's Lounge at the Silverton is neither hip nor tacky, but there are mermaids. And sometimes that's enough.

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Lead Photo A watery grave (and cheap drinks, too)

C. Moon Reed | Tue, Oct 13, 2009 (6:34 p.m.)

Every time I’ve gone to Davy’s Locker, it’s been with a different guy. No, it’s not like that; they’re just friends. I originally recruited them as bodyguards, actually.

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Lead Photo Stumbling into Dino’s, the ultimate dive

C. Moon Reed | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 (2:35 p.m.)

Where can you meet shitsters (shit + hipsters), sing karaoke and vote for the "drunk of the month?" Only at Dino's.

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Lead Photo Fong’s, Hogs, Hard Rock: In search of the perfect bar experience

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 (midnight)

On a quest for the perfect bar experience, criss crossing the city with two fake names and two fake boobs.

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Lead Photo Fox hunting

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 (midnight)

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to drink cheap.” I don’t believe that quote is posted anywhere at Ellis Island Casino & Brewery, since I just made it up. But it should be.

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Lead Photo The reluctant wino

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)

Anyone know how to hit on a mechanical bartender?

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Lead Photo Wandering the drink desert

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)

Rhumbar's shadows contained people I wanted to meet. People who inhabited that sweet spot between hip and conservative, ironic and genuine, artistic and well-groomed.

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Lead Photo Half-baked thoughts about Half Shell

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jul 23, 2009 (midnight)

The sunset was a dud. In my rearview mirror, I watched the golden disk dip behind the mountains with as much fanfare as Pac-Man bopping off the screen.

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Lead Photo Slushie solos

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jul 9, 2009 (midnight)

“No extra shots this time,” said the tourist from Austin, Texas, as he handed over his empty 100-ounce tube o’ booze to be refilled.

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Lead Photo The youthful rush of hookah

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jun 25, 2009 (midnight)

Now I’m grown up, and I’d long forgotten the feeling of being a princess inside a cloth palace … until I went to the Hookah Lounge at Paymon’s. I don’t know whether the Hookah Lounge is like that childhood tent or that childhood tent was like the Hookah Lounge, but they both sparked my imagination in a special way.

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Lead Photo Mystery solved?

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jun 11, 2009 (midnight)

According to Mr. Bar Manager, this bar was the lone spark of rock ’n’ roll in town, which was apparently defined by female Jell-O wrestling. Dude even shared photos of the joyous escapades.

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Lead Photo This is the end

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Jun 4, 2009 (midnight)

Scripting a strange night at the Nice Place.

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Lead Photo The happily-ever-after bar

C. Moon Reed | Thu, May 14, 2009 (midnight)

Parasol up is the type of bar that looks best from the outside looking in. The bar is the adult version of a Christmas-toy display window that you can press your nose against and wish on.

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Lead Photo Return of the freeze

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Apr 30, 2009 (midnight)

There’s a dark secret many of us try to hide: Back before I was a local, I was a tourist. I’d like to say tourist me was too good for yard-long containers of frozen sugar-booze, but ... well, you know.

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Lead Photo Breakfast at the bar

C. Moon Reed | Thu, Apr 16, 2009 (midnight)

The nice thing about a crowded bar is that even if you came alone, you’re surrounded by friends. In this case, my new “friends” were a class of people I’d never before seen: the Earlyrisers.

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Cirque reveals City Center show will be named “Viva ELVIS”
Today Cirque du Soleil revealed that the new show opening in December at Aria Resort & Casino at City Center will be titled Viva ELVIS.
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A Perfecto Halloween makeover
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Cocktail of the Week Nov 5, 2009
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Beergarita

It was quite by happenstance that I came upon the beergarita, or perhaps it found me. I was blissfully unaware of the house-party staple’s existence until two glasses literally put ...
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