Xania Woodman
Nightlife Editor
Graduating in 2000 from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration with a concentration in Food & Beverage, Xania Woodman, 31, waited out the dot-com boom (and consequent bust...) by cooking and waiting tables at an Ithaca, NY martini bar and leading wine tastings in the Cayuga Lake wine country. In June of 2001 she put her degree into action by moving to Vegas, arriving just in time for the explosion of the Vegas nightlife industry.
After assistant managing at Club Rio inside the Rio Hotel & Casino and later managing Shadow Bar inside Caesars Palace, Xania left operations and found love in the arms of publishing. The affair began with her nightlife website TheCircuitLV.com and progressed with her column Nights On The Circuit, featured in the Las Vegas Weekly alternative newspaper. Xania's writing has since been declared "edgy and modern" and "wildly entertaining" by the Nevada Press Association. And so it is.
Today, Xania, one of 2007's "Top 30 Under 30" is the Las Vegas Weekly's nightlife editor, a consultant, and a freelance writer with an overly-ambitious to-do list; she has written for the LA Times, OK!, Us Weekly, Remix and on AOL's VegasPopular.com, and her work has also appeared in Greenspun Media Group publications Las Vegas Life and on Vegas.com. Xania is currently the Vegas Editor for UrbanDaddy.com and recently completed her contribution to the nightlife section of the The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2009, her first book appearance. She has guest-judged countless cocktail competitions including the Food Network's "Throwdown With Bobby Flay" and the United States Bartenders Guild's regional and national finals, painted the town red with MTV Australia's show "Full Tank" and appears regularly on LasVegasWeekly.com to present "Xania's Clubinar", a tongue-in-cheek look at the Vegas nightlife landscape.
When not covering a red carpet affair or chasing down exclusives in a cocktail dress, Xania volunteers with the Las Vegas Jewish Federation, Homeless Helpers, New Vista Community, and the Cornell Hotel Society.
Xania's favorite cocktail is Ketel One, rocks, dirty, three olives. Please.
Recent Stories (view all stories)
- Beergarita
- Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
- It was quite by happenstance that I came upon the beergarita, or perhaps it found me.
- One club, two worlds—Forbes Bar lives
- Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
- At a sprawling 11,000 square feet, Forbes is easily the largest and most opulent karaoke bar in Las Vegas.
- C’est la Vie
- By Patricia Richards, property mixologist, Wynn/Encore
- Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
- Super-premium Oxley small batch gin has the chops to back up her bottle’s outer beauty.
- The Closet leads the pack on gay parties
- Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
- 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.
- Fever Stimulation Beverage
- $14 for four 14-oz. bottles, $39.99 for 12 at feverusa.com or GNC stores
- Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
- With just 130 calories per serving, Fever Stimulation Beverage is said to be “making healthy sexy.”
- Pizza in a glass! The Weekly's pizza cocktail contest
- That’s right. We held a contest for pizza cocktails. It was awesome.
- Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009
- Vegas happens to be home to some very creative individuals behind its bars, so for the pizza issue, we quickly assembled a crack team of mixologists to tackle the novelty notion of a pizza cocktail.
- Bottle-flippers saving our economy? Crazier things have happened
- Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
- 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.
- Nite Bite: "On The Rocks" starts rolling
- Bartending reality TV competition starts shooting in Las Vegas
- Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009
- Shooting for the second season of bartender battle "On The Rocks" commenced on Monday, October 19 in Las Vegas. This year representing Las Vegas is Wynn bartender/mixologist Darby Kelly.
- Moquin it work: The girls of summer—the migration continues
- Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009
- After three years at Bare Pool Lounge, marketing director Kalika Moquin is hanging up her bikini and heading for dry land to become The Bank nightclub’s marketing director.
- Purista Cocktail Mixes
- $9.99 at puristacocktails.com
- Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
- “Muddling is a bartending nightmare,” says Purista creator Michael Hensel. “It’s fine if the place is empty, but when your bar is eight customers deep, you can’t make sophisticated cocktails perfectly balanced without putting the customer on hold.”
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)
Download and print Xania's Club Grid
NOVEMBER 5 - NOVEMBER 11
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