Nights on the Circuit

Lead Photo I kissed a girl

Xania Woodman | Thu, Nov 20, 2008 (midnight)

"Twas the night before Kissmas and things just got freaky …” The emcee calls the room to attention and reads from the invitation to Merry Kissmas, Rok Vegas’ four-week girl-on-girl kissing contest.

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Lead Photo Workin’ a room

Xania Woodman | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

Pockets and pocketbooks bursting with business cards, they attack networking functions at nightclubs and bars with varying amounts of ferocity and restraint.

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Lead Photo All the rave

Xania Woodman | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

I encounter my first group of Fabulous festival-goers: slender boys, not a day over 18, shirtless and wearing tiny backpacks.

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Lead Photo Sunrise or bust

Xania Woodman | Published Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (7:41 p.m.)

"It’s 8 a.m. Do you know where your soul is?” I scan that final text and switch my phone off. I reek of smoke, booze and other people’s sweat.

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Lead Photo They doth protest

Xania Woodman | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

Poetry is doing brisk business with a queue snaking around its stanchions. Owner Mike Goodwin shakes hands with customers loyal since the hip-hop club’s 2003 opening as OPM.

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Lead Photo Gay Days

Xania Woodman | Thu, Oct 16, 2008 (midnight)

Hot girls holding hands is a good sign. So I follow them to CatHouse, where Vegas is experiencing its first-ever gay-centric weekly party.

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Lead Photo Second chances

Xania Woodman | Thu, Oct 9, 2008 (midnight)

We give bad milk a second chance. Though our eyes might be swimming in our heads, we go back in for a second whiff, just to be sure.

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Senior Citizens

Xania Woodman | Thu, Oct 2, 2008 (midnight)

There are two sides to every prom: There’s the dreamy, romantic image of what the night will bring, coupled with anticipatory outings to check things off a fantasy shopping list. And then there’s what really happens.

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Lead Photo Lady love-in

Xania Woodman | Thu, Sep 25, 2008 (midnight)

Maybe it was stolen, like Deanna’s purse at Seamless afterhours. Or maybe I “gave it up” like one does one’s virginity … and forgot about it. Or maybe I’ve just misplaced it over time, over too many meandering relationships.

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Lead Photo So fresh and so clean

Xania Woodman | Thu, Sep 18, 2008 (midnight)

When Lavo’s imminent arrival was in doubt—thanks to construction delays caused by lawsuits and their ensuing appeals—I wondered if all was lost. It was probably the closest this little Jewish girl ever came to despairing that Christmas might never come.

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Lead Photo On Planet Perfecto

Xania Woodman | Thu, Sep 11, 2008 (midnight)

We’re not in Vegas anymore, Toto. Hell, we’re not even on this planet. Rain nightclub slipped the surly bonds of Earth around 11:30 p.m.—aided in part by a sexy onscreen flight attendant—to touch the face of a god of progressive trance music, Paul Oakenfold.

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Lead Photo Doing hard labor

Xania Woodman | Thu, Sep 4, 2008 (midnight)

Aaaaaaaaaaaaack! OhsweetJesusohmyGod. Ugh.” I honestly haven’t thrown up from anything that wasn’t germ-related in a long, long time. But it’s Saturday morning and I’m mid-Labor. (No, not like that.) Mid-Labor Day weekend.

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Lap stance

Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 28, 2008 (midnight)

Why no one else has tried to set a record for the most simultaneous lap dances is beyond me. It’s beyond Scores Las Vegas as well, which is why tonight Scores has set the stage to videotape a Guinness World Records attempt to do just that.

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Blame it on Rio

Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 21, 2008 (midnight)

In this, Sugarcane’s opening night, the Sushisamba bartenders are beyond bustling—they’re downright flustered. Though they’ve had a month to softly open inside the Shoppes at the Palazzo, tonight is, well, kind of a big deal.

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Lead Photo Making space for ND

Xania Woodman | Thu, Aug 14, 2008 (midnight)

So what the heck is going on with the third floor of the Shoppes, just above Barney’s?! It’s the future, kids. And it’s bright.

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A&E

‘A living gallery’
Co-directors Richard Havey and Gail Gilbert have created the Nevada Dance Project—a dance umbrella that offers the opportunity for contemporary choreographers and dancers to show their best work, new or preexisting, but always original.
Dray, his art head for Atlanta
For those who keep an eye on the arts district, Dray’s departure—for Atlanta—changes the metabolism of the scene a little.
R.I.P. TRL
MTV managed to pack Times Square one more time this past Sunday for the last episode of TRL, dubbed Total Finale Live, although nostalgia was pretty much the only reason for anyone to show up.

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Cocktail of the Week

Cocktail of the Week Nov 20, 2008
by Xania Woodman

The Capital Grille $1,000 Luxury Martini

What could be better than a martini and caviar? Nothing! Especially when the caviar in question is a limited-edition White Topaz and Diamond Caviar rope bracelet, served up with a ...
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