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They’ve got killer hooks

Lips Like Morphine looks to take local success to the next level

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

Charles Earland jumps up and down on the checkerboard floor, sips his beer and makes love to the microphone.

Swap a lot

North Las Vegas hosts a flavorful flea market

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

On a sunny afternoon, stroll down the dusty aisles filled with puppies and parrots and boots and bikes and soccer balls and strawberries, feel the reggaeton music pounding out of huge speakers and, when the sun gets strong, buy a freshly cut coconut.

Heavenly bodies

Las Vegas' newest salsa night heats up the South Point

Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

Baby-faced Michito Sanchez gives it to them good and long, just how they like it. The Cuban bandleader of the 11-piece salsa orchestra has a way with the Thursday-night crowds at the South Point, especially the women.

Strip it good

The sexy path to empowerment

Thursday, June 5, 2008

In an estrogen-rich room, I am full of testosterone. I want to ace this course. I want to prove my sexual prowess, assert my feminine power. However, I soon learn that lap dancing and pole dancing are more about mastering technique than shedding inhibitions.

Custard's last stand

Settling the frozen-custard argument once and for all: Luv-It or Sheridan's?

Thursday, June 5, 2008

This is my first visit to Luv-It Frozen Custard, a bastion of Las Vegas decadence, and I have a blast treating myself to a tasty slice of the Vegas demographic. It’s been in the same spot and run by the same family since 1973. It’s a tiny shack adjacent to a Mighty Mart and Olympic Garden Strip Club on Oakey off of Las Vegas Boulevard, and many of its customers have been coming for decades.