The Strip Sense
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Featured Cocktail
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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