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Lead Photo The great electronic music debate

Deanna Rilling | Fri, Nov 6, 2009 (7:15 p.m.)

Friggin’ genres. From suomisaundi to Nintendocore, an electronic music primer for educated clubbing.

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Lead Photo One club, two worlds—Forbes Bar lives

Xania Woodman | Wed, Nov 4, 2009 (6:24 p.m.)

At a sprawling 11,000 square feet, Forbes is easily the largest and most opulent karaoke bar in Las Vegas.

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Lead Photo I Vant to Suck Your Vace

C. Moon Reed | Wed, Nov 4, 2009 (4:43 p.m.)

How do you make an emo douchebag look sexy? Give 'em fangs.

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Lead Photo Nite Bite: Planet of the Drums

Deanna Rilling | Wed, Nov 4, 2009 (11:57 a.m.)

In your face with some drum n bass! It’s been “ten f—king years” (their words, not ours) since Planet of the Drums formed and now they're coming to Vegas.

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Lead Photo A nice pair: Beer pairings as a nightclub alternative

C. Moon Reed | Tue, Nov 3, 2009 (12:20 a.m.)

At beer pairing dinners cropping up around town, suds and supper are a great match.

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Lead Photo Cabo Wabo—and Sammy Hagar!—coming to Vegas

Deanna Rilling | Mon, Nov 2, 2009 (5:37 p.m.)

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila—oooh! Sammy Hagar! The Red Rocker is bringing Vegas its own outpost of his famous Cabo Wabo Cantina complete with, you guessed it, plentiful amounts of Cabo Wabo Tequila.

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Lead Photo Have an Uneasy Halloween with DJ P

Deanna Rilling | Fri, Oct 30, 2009 (2:10 p.m.)

Some people have a closet full of Christmas sweaters. Some folks get worked up over turkey and stuffing. For DJ P, it’s the spooky spectacular that rocks his world. The veteran DJ is bringing his love for Halloween to Rain tonight.

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Lead Photo A Perfecto Halloween makeover

Deanna Rilling | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (10:38 p.m.)

What’s blue and purple, nearly naked and doesn’t move for five hours? Weekly writer Deanna Rilling undergoing an otherworldly transformation.

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Lead Photo Everything but Ben Watt

Deanna Rilling | Thu, Oct 29, 2009 (3:15 p.m.)

Ben Watt is finally losing his virginity at 47 years old. His Vegas virginity, that is. Despite touring the globe as a DJ/producer (and part of the British band Everything but the Girl), somehow he’s never made in to Sin City until now.

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Lead Photo Getting it on (the record) with Pete Tong

Deanna Rilling | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (7:30 p.m.)

You might think a DJ would consider hanging up his headphones as he approaches 50, but Tong shows no signs of stopping.

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Lead Photo Five questions with DJ Sasha (plus a few random ones)

Deanna Rilling | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (6:30 p.m.)

Sasha (yeah, the same one who's name is usually followed by "& Digweed") is coming to Pure. But don't expect him to go all nostalgic with his set.

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Lead Photo Stop! Before you step out this weekend in your college Halloween costume (let it go already) read this

Team Hangover | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (6:05 p.m.)

Today’s movies, TV, books and the blogosphere have clearly informed the public’s costume choices with all of HalloweenMart’s top five best-selling costumes coming from the greater media sphere.

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Lead Photo The Closet leads the pack on gay parties

Xania Woodman | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (4:31 p.m.)

Celebrating its one-year anniversary, The Closet Sundays caters to the fashionable, attractive, poised and diverse, with every creed, color and sexual orientation represented—seriously, it’s like a casting call for Rent.

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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 rave double-take from a virgin and a veteran

Laura Davis, Deanna Rilling | Wed, Oct 28, 2009 (12:26 p.m.)

Experience Devil's Night XII through the eyes of a raving veteran and first timer.

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A&E

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.
Time to go for Wayne Newton?
Newton could be a great host of a Vegas variety show. But he prefers to keep his show focused on his singing and not on his legacy. The result is sad.
A Perfecto Halloween makeover
What’s blue and purple, nearly naked and doesn’t move for five hours? Weekly writer Deanna Rilling undergoing an otherworldly transformation.

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Cocktail of the Week

Cocktail of the Week Nov 5, 2009
by Xania Woodman

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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