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- Note to Vegas: Stop playing it safe
- Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
- Why saving Las Vegas will come down to entertainment that's both cheap and essential.
- Big Star
- Keep an Eye on the Sky
- Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
- Keep an Eye on the Sky is the grail for Big Star diehards.
- The fantastic journey of Angelica Bridges
- To court and back to stay onstage in Vegas
- Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
- To court and back to stay onstage in Vegas for Fantasy at the Luxor.
- Is poetry making a comeback?
- The lack of expectations has actually helped a long-ignored art form survive
- Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
- The lack of expectations has actually helped a long-ignored art form survive.
- Loving Leonard: The Cohen songs we’ll never get enough of
- Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
- Weekly editors weigh in on the Leonard Cohen selections we'd gladly keep on repeat.
- George Wallace
- Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
- George Wallace has often been complimented for his marketing savvy, his skill as a promoter and his friends who jump up to guest with him. But lost sometimes is the amount of talent he has as a comedian.
- Time to go for Wayne Newton?
- Wayne Newton remains an iconic draw, but shaky vocals and a stubborn streak detract from his latest show
- Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
- Newton could be a great host of a Vegas variety show. But he prefers to keep his show focused on his singing and not on his legacy. The result is sad.
- Fashion Rocks: Stylish clothing meets hard rock at Hard Rock
- Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
- John Varvatos believed there had to be a way to mix music, fashion and commerce together and keep it interesting.
- New media hits the Strip for Podcast-a-Palooza
- Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
- The second annual Podcast-a-Palooza brought three of Vegas’ most popular podcasts together to question Gordon Absher, a vice president at MGM Mirage, who complained about the inaccuracies of new media.
- Matt Goss and Zowie Bowie try to breathe new life into a Vegas oldie—with mixed results
- Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
- Matt Goss and Zowie Bowie are trying to reinvent and revive lounge for Las Vegas. Neither is a total pioneer.
- Le Reve
- Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
- Le Rêve, against the odds, is a show with a distinctive quality—more than Cirque minus the corporate brand.
- Introduction to obsession
- In Baker’s The Anthologist, a poet is crazy about ... poetry
- Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
- If you don’t know anything about the poetry world, The Anthologist remains a fascinating if lightly plotted study in obsession, creative ambition and the quirks of the human mind.
- After 23-year career, singer/dancer says farewell to the Strip
- Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
- Stephanie Dianna Sanchez has no hard feelings about leaving Fantasy. She understands: That's show business.
- Peepshow: An erotic novelty
- Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
- It's not all T&A. Peepshow was created with production values and staging in mind, and from the start, compared amazingly well to a traditional Vegas topless show.
- The real deal with Wayne Brady
- Vegas-based performer adds another page to his resumé
- Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
- He's already an actor-singer-dancer-comedian, and Wayne Brady is determined to add even more hyphens to his description.
- Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular
- Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009
- The show has survived the collapse of the Broadway West model, a nightclub revolution that pulled people’s money away from showrooms and, now, the recession.
- Hanging with the phans
- A Phantom of the Opera convention brings the devoted to Vegas
- Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009
- Even in a recession, the first-ever Phantom convention was a moment true fans could not miss.
- Staking its claim
- Stratosphere’s Bite rides vampire mania into sixth year
- Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
- Bite has all the elements common to Vegas shows - magic, aerialists, dancing, a singer - but it's got topless vampires, too.
- The Weekly Review: Human Nature
- Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
- With Smokey Robinson producing and fronting for them, Human Nature better be able to deliver the Motown goods at the Imperial Palace. And mostly, the four Australians do not disappoint.
- Magical Macbeth
- With a foray into Shakespeare, Teller shows what Vegas stage chops can add to the Bard
- Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
- There are few opportunities to work a Las Vegas magician and Shakespeare into the same sentence—most probably involve trickery, irony or metaphor. This one doesn’t involve trickery, though there is a magician.
- Poetic license
- Why a new novel, set in Vegas, isn’t concerned about the real city
- Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009
- Novelist Ivy Pochoda doesn’t get Las Vegas literally correct in her new book, but she wasn’t trying to. It’s the latest entrant in the growing collection of literature set here.
- Sin City in your hand
- It took a Vegas-obsessed techie from California to create the killer LV iPhone app
- Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009
- It took a Vegas-obsessed techie from California to create the killer LV iPhone app.
- Getting (and sometimes making) her props
- Emily Jillette doesn’t need the money—note the famous last name—but she’s still working her ass off on a super-risky venture: helping open shows in this economy
- Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
- Emily Jillette doesn’t need the money—note the famous last name—but she’s still working her ass off on a super-risky venture: helping open shows in this economy.
- It's only money
- Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
- For his recent Las Vegas cover story in Time, writer Joel Stein scored a rare sit-down with Sheldon Adelson. Stein describes the interview as one of the strangest of his career.
- Who’s that girl?
- Meeting the mystery woman behind the sexy courtesan blog
- Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009
- Meeting the mystery woman behind the sexy courtesan blog.
- The curse of Elvis
- Forty years on, looking back at a Vegas residency that spawned a stigma
- Thursday, July 30, 2009
- Forty years on, looking back at a Vegas residency that spawned a stigma.
- Palms production
- Matt Goss set to become hotel’s first resident performer, whether you’ve heard of him or not
- Thursday, July 23, 2009
- Since opening in November 2001, the Palms has never featured a regular headliner. In September 2009, that changes, with the arrival of English singer Matt Goss.
- A few minutes with Lance Burton
- On retirement, magic and the Vegas audience
- Thursday, July 23, 2009
- After months of speculation that he would retire following the expiration of his contract, Burton recently announced a multiyear extension of his contract at the Monte Carlo.
- Not in the cards
- Celebrity Tarot Lounge makes for iffy improv
- Thursday, July 23, 2009
- For two nights recently, an interesting and confusing group of celebrities was brought together at Town Square’s Shear Madness theater to create an interesting and confusing entertainment experiment.
- Hot, wired
- By chronicling their sex life online, can a local couple beat the recession?
- Thursday, July 16, 2009
- At the time, Amaryllis was 17, Matt 28. The two began to post their sex life on a website available to subscribers for $19.95. Matt and Amaryllis do not see themselves as pornographers.
- Topless, yes; crazy, not so much
- Thursday, July 16, 2009
- Crazy Horse’s stars are more natural than the silicone- and saline-sacked showgirls elsewhere. Otherwise, though, Crazy Horse Paris has not aged well.
- Cocaine, porn stars and dissing Mariah
- Weekly writer Richard Abowitz looks back at 10 years of Sin City memories
- Thursday, July 9, 2009
- From my dating life to my friendships, covering strippers, hookers and porn stars has changed me. Here, in chapters, is a look back at my decade working for the Weekly.
- Dude hooks like a lady
- Can male prostitutes legally work in Nevada? We may soon find out.
- Thursday, July 9, 2009
- Can male prostitutes legally work in Nevada? We may soon find out.
- Interview Issue: Dave Kirvin
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- The Kirvin Doak Communications partner's firm handles some of the biggest accounts in town, but do his kids know the marathon runner has "juice"?
- Interview Issue: Scott Zeiger
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- Scott Zeiger, the co-chief executive officer of BASE Entertainment, chats about building a brand with Peepshow, compares Vegas audiences to Broadway, and why he has no need for a house.
- Don’t stop till you get enough
- What does it mean to grieve for a celebrity?
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- There was a time when Michael Jackson’s statue at Madame Tussauds wax museum, in the Venetian, wore a red-and-black outfit and black loafers. No more; wax Jackson now wears a militaristic spacesuit of white and gold.
- Interview Issue: Sunset Thomas
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
- The adult entertainer and reality-TV star spills the beans one her personal life, as well as her children's.
- Red-carpet blues
- The star-studded event in Las Vegas isn’t what it used to be
- Thursday, June 25, 2009
- To many in the press, what started as the media using the Vegas clubs for celebrity material quickly twisted into the clubs using the media to attract patrons.
- Roll over, Ginsberg
- At a local poetry reading, Howl returns to its roots, sort of
- Thursday, June 18, 2009
- When Allen Ginsberg first performed parts of his Howl manuscript in San Francisco on October 7, 1955, the rhapsodically incoherent poem was clear in one way: the announcement that the taboos and hidden things of American life were eating the nation’s soul.
- Elvis Costello
- Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
- Thursday, June 11, 2009
- Even at his worst, Elvis Costello is pretty competent.
- A genius play
- The World Series of Poker proves to be a smart investment for the Rio
- Thursday, June 11, 2009
- Whoever bought Binion’s to get the World Series of Poker for Harrah’s, and then dumped the casino, still looks like a genius—even in this economy.
- Smartly, Supernatural aims to please casual Santana fan
- Thursday, June 4, 2009
- Legendary hippie rocker Carlos Santana and the Vegas tourist are on different wavelengths.
- Final encore
- A fleeting Roy, a key to the city, a fond farewell: at the Danny Gans memorial
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
- For years the Siegried & Roy shared a home with Danny Gans at the Mirage; now both of their shows have come to shocking and unexpected ends.
- Is a promise a contract?
- One high-profile nonprofit claims it is—to the tune of $11 million
- Thursday, May 21, 2009
- Developer Jim Rhodes and his wife, Glynda, probably count the past couple of months as one of the worst periods in their lives.
- Two fantasies
- Comparing the two most notorious documents connected to our city: Jay Bybee’s torture memos and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Thursday, May 14, 2009
- Comparing the two most notorious documents connected to our city: Jay Bybee’s torture memos and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
- Bob Dylan
- Together Through Time
- Thursday, May 7, 2009
- Of course, it should not matter that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter co-wrote all but one song on the new Bob Dylan record. But there is something unsettling about the greatest lyricist of all time going to the hippie Diane Warren.
- Always bet on black and white
- Anthony Curtis can gamble, but prefers to make his living writing about it
- Thursday, May 7, 2009
- Anthony Curtis can gamble, but prefers to make his living writing about it.
- A hound dog in a bear market
- Elvis impersonator Trent Carlini hopes the King’s appeal is impervious to the economy
- Thursday, April 30, 2009
- I just can’t help believing,” Elvis once famously sang. And that is how Trent Carlini is approaching launching his new show, Elvolution.
- Rhinestones, pianos and Bicentennial short shorts
- 30 years later, the Liberace Museum's celebration of the gaudy still brings the crowds.
- Friday, April 24, 2009
- Long before Criss Angel called flying on a Vegas stage a magic trick, Liberace did it as showmanship.
- If you build it, will they record?
- Musicians have one more option in town with the opening of the latest recording studio
- Thursday, April 23, 2009
- When you enter the studio, everything is new and shiny except for the collection of vintage amplifiers from manufacturers like Marshall, which date back to classic rock.
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