Nights on the Circuit
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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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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Bottle-flippers saving our economy? Crazier things have happened
Xania Woodman | Wed, Oct 21, 2009 (4:30 p.m.)
I’m quite over flair. And yet, like a tide or a boomerang, it keeps coming back. So perhaps it is I who should be sitting up and taking notice? All right, flair, I’m listening.
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The Club Vibe—friend or faux pas?
Xania Woodman | Wed, Oct 14, 2009 (6:21 p.m.)
It's just your typical Wednesday night at Body English, really... Until Xania whips out a vibrator.
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It doesn’t suck: Lollypop’s Adult Nightlife
Xania Woodman | Wed, Oct 7, 2009 (6:24 p.m.)
Third time hopes to be a charm at another Vegas titty bar with not a trace of Eau de Victoria's Secret and which bills itself as "home of the free lapdance."
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Vegas bartending show served straight up
Xania Woodman | Wed, Sep 30, 2009 (7:45 p.m.)
If Vegas was last year’s dark horse in the running to win the first season of On the Rocks, then Season 2 is shaping up to be Vegas’ time to shine as a gracious two-time host city.
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Hazy details
Xania Woodman | Wed, Sep 23, 2009 (7:37 p.m.)
It’s no surprise that Light Group is keeping mum on the goings-on at CityCenter’s Aria Resort.
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We’ve got spirit
Xania Woodman | Thu, Sep 17, 2009 (midnight)
We the People, in order to form a perfect bar, seek to establish Cachaça as “Cachaça, Brazil’s Noble Spirit.”
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Death becomes us?
Xania Woodman | Thu, Sep 10, 2009 (midnight)
Suicide or accidental overdose, DJ AM robbed himself of a future and us of the chance to see just how bright his star could someday shine. It’s the very definition of a tragedy.
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Dissed and dismissed!
Xania Woodman | Thu, Sep 3, 2009 (midnight)
It’s not so much that GQ magazine snubbed Sin City in this month’s list of "The 10 Best Drinking Cities in America." It’s that ... okay, yes, it’s that they snubbed us.
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Splash/ Sunkissed meltdown
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 27, 2009 (midnight)
Vegas, not big enough for two gay pool parties? Vegas?!
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Good game, good game
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 20, 2009 (midnight)
I've never won any of those crazy nightclub contests I include in the Hot Spots each week. But never before was there a cash prize on the line. So it never occurred to me that I might win Tao’s first ever Tweasure Hunt. Oh, yeah: Spoiler alert!
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The other Prives
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 13, 2009 (midnight)
I gave the Bellagio valet my name and inquired, “How do I get to Club Privé?” His pleasant face contorted into a grimace. But I’m not looking for that Privé. I’m looking for the other Privé. Club Privé is the Bellagio’s high-limit gaming salon, located just off the casino floor.
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Games pink elephants play
Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 6, 2009 (midnight)
So I’m at Cathouse. The drinks are flowing, and so is the conversation. But then I look down and notice I’m wearing only my pajamas! Aaaaack! And then I wake up! What does it mean, doctor?
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Under pressure
Xania Woodman | Thu, Jul 30, 2009 (midnight)
The economy, the closures, citations, allegations … the heat is on!
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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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Xania's Hot Spots - This Week's Special Events
- Everclear at the Hard Rock Cafe on the Strip (Saturday, Nov. 07)
- Shayne Lamas hosts at Coyote Ugly
- Ho'Down Throw Down at McFadden's (Saturday, Nov. 07)
- Starf**kers at the Bluff Magazine party at The Playground (Saturday, Nov. 07)
- Dirty South at Rain for Perfecto (Saturday, Nov. 07)
- The Dreaming with 2012 at Cheyenne Saloon (Saturday, Nov. 07)
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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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