Story Archive

Desert flow

As the hip-hop scene continues to expand in Las Vegas, more budding rap artists are cutting their teeth in battle contests

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Inside a circle of onlookers, two men face each other. Sometimes they get up in each other’s faces, and it looks like one of them is about to pull a gun, as they often threaten to do.

Chelsea Handler mouths off

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Chelsea chats about her least-favorite celebs, lovin' bad boys, and growing up with a Mormon mama.

Ky-Mani Marley brings rain and reggae to the desert

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Ky-mani Marley will bring more than passionate music and a heartfelt message to the Reggae in the Desert festival this weekend. "I love the desert, and I shall bring the rain with me."

Rock, with benefits

Penthouse’s music venue puts a brand new spin on “dancing”

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Filthy is already here, in the form of a stripper wearing nothing but strips of black lace. She’s chatting with rock fans she’ll soon invite to the VIP room next door.

Drawn to the human form

Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008

It’s just like riding a bike,” the art instructor tells me when I voice my apprehension. I can hear loud pants and moans coming from somewhere behind me, where there is a BDSM video exhibit, and it’s making it hard to concentrate.

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.