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Poker with "priceless" stakes

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008

The winner of the World Series of Poker's Main Event finals table gets to take home a duffel bags of cash and commemorative bling. It's value? Priceless. The cash in those bags? $9,119,517.

‘Like a bomb going off’

What it’s actually like to ride a ton of angry beef

Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

“It’s almost like there’s a bomb going off underneath you every time they open the gate. …" To Donaldson, sitting on top of a quivering mass of angry beef isn’t crazy—it’s the most extreme sport in the world.

Q&A with Super Cr3w's Ronnie Abaldonado

The America's Best Dance Crew winner makes us wish we could dance

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

When local b-boys Super Cr3w won the top prize on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew they not only put b-boying on the map, but reminded Vegas that not all our dancers do their best work in tights and sequins.

If the clothes fit

A Vegas designer heads to LA’s Fashion Week

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008

On the far end of designer Lana Fuchs’ Vegas workshop, a model is pacing back and forth in an extravagant black gown that glides on the floor around her in a wide puddle of dark fabric. The fitting in progress is for Fuchs’ October 14 runway show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in LA.

Atmospheric

Slug's take on life, success and how his music is like chewing rubber

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

“Have you ever chewed on a rubber band?” Sean Daley asks me over the phone. I realize, to my own surprise, that I actually have chewed on a rubber band. I can even remember what it tasted like … a little salty … earthy … very, uh, rubbery. But Daley is making a point.

World-beat hoedown

Pan de Sal breaks out the maracas—and the peanut-butter smushy dance

Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

Outside the Beauty Bar on Saturday night, two young women in black-and-white shirts and black berets smoked cigarettes like a pair of striped bookends.

Sex sells

In that way, Amplify!! is a lot like life

Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

Amidst four nights ostensibly devoted to supporting developing musicians and propping up the local music scene, crowds ultimately flocked to something truly timeless: sex.