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Lead Photo What’s the county got against Barney?

Steve Friess | Wed, Aug 24, 2011 (2:10 p.m.)

Steve Friess defends Barney.

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Lead Photo Clark County could learn from Eureka’s fiscal responsibility

Steve Friess | Wed, Aug 17, 2011 (5:15 p.m.)

The Northern Nevada county knows how to manage its money. Find out how here.

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Lead Photo Renovation rundown: Reviewing the Plaza’s $35 million overhaul

Steve Friess | Wed, Aug 10, 2011 (3 p.m.)

It is difficult to recall a hotel-casino redevelopment in modern Las Vegas history that has received as much hype as the $35 million job taking place at 1 South Main Street.

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Lead Photo Weight Watchers magazine gets its first male cover model—and he’s from Las Vegas

Steve Friess | Wed, Aug 3, 2011 (3:50 p.m.)

The actual news in there is that Weight Watchers is finally highlighting the importance of weight loss for men.

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Lead Photo As he prepares to leave town, Steve Friess ticks down his Vegas bucket list

Steve Friess | Wed, Jul 27, 2011 (4:30 p.m.)

“The best is yet to come, and babe, won’t it be fine."

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Lead Photo For MGM Resorts, bad luck isn’t only in the cards

Steve Friess | Wed, Jul 20, 2011 (3:15 p.m.)

The flames devoured the roof at such a dramatic pace that the Monte Carlo seemed doomed.

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Lead Photo Janis Sartin has seen Vegas’ ‘Phantom’ 55 times … and counting

Steve Friess | Wed, Jul 13, 2011 (2:40 p.m.)

Find out what keeps this super "phan" coming back time and time again!

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Lead Photo Annie Duke’s new poker league favors skill over fluke

Steve Friess | Wed, Jul 6, 2011 (4:04 p.m.)

Weekly columnist Steve Friess looks into WSOP's new rival: Epic Poker League.

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Lead Photo When it comes to gay marriage, Nevada is a few states too late

Steve Friess | Wed, Jun 29, 2011 (1:40 p.m.)

Like most gay Americans not on the happy streets of Greenwich Village on Friday as the New York Senate deliberated whether to make my home state the largest and coolest state to recognize same-sex marriages, I sat with one eye glued to cable news coverage and the other avidly scanning the web.

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Lead Photo An afternoon with the Starkey Hearing Foundation changed Steve Friess’ life

Steve Friess | Wed, Jun 22, 2011 (1:21 p.m.)

Steve Friess will soon embark on a new adventure with the Starkey Hearing Foundation.

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Lead Photo Nevada’s Capitol ignores sin and our city, but we can change that

Steve Friess | Wed, Jun 15, 2011 (3:33 p.m.)

The Carson City building makes no mention of a few key state facts.

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Lead Photo Local favorite Firefly won’t reopen at the Plaza

Steve Friess | Wed, Jun 8, 2011 (2:40 p.m.)

In what can only be viewed as a major setback for the Downtown dining scene, the brilliant tapas joint that began as a sleeper hit on Paradise near Flamingo will not reopen in the Plaza’s iconic glass-domed dining space overlooking the Fremont Street Experience.

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Why AB 456 is a huge middle finger to Nevada’s education system

Steve Friess | Tue, May 31, 2011 (12:07 p.m.)

Forget watering down the test; this bill waters down the whole diploma.

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Lead Photo Terry Fator claims he was being controlled by his ex-wife; was he?

Steve Friess | Tue, May 24, 2011 (7:30 p.m.)

To hear the 45-year-old singing ventriloquist tell it, until quite recently he was a dummy.

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Lead Photo A personal account from one victim of the city’s real estate collapse

Steve Friess | Wed, May 18, 2011 (2:10 p.m.)

I’m not sure why it took so long to figure out how interminably badly this had all gone.

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A&E

Conventional Strip wisdom aside, the Smith Center books Broadway
And according to ticket sales, it’s a great idea.
Hard-rock home sweet home: Motley Crue’s Joint residency starts with a bang
Veteran quartet shakes off some opening-night snags to get its “Sin City” residency rolling.
CD: Van Halen’s ‘A Different Kind of Truth’ is surprisingly decent
David Lee Roth’s first album with the band in 28 years is much better than its first track would indicate.

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Cocktail of the Week Feb 8, 2012
by Sarah Feldberg

The Wynn’s Aphrodite cocktail is liquid flirtation

In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty and love, and she’s often depicted nude with voluptuous curves and come-hither eyes. It makes sense, then, that she gets a ...
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