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Drink and a Show
Rock & Rita’s at Circus Circus hosted “Flair for the Cure” on Aug. 18. Co-sponsored by the American Cancer Society’s Young Professionals Against Cancer and some of the world’s top flair bartenders, the event raised $6,387. Nearly a dozen bartenders took the stage to flip, spin and juggle while creating their fantasy drinks, which were then auctioned off, with other treasures, for the charity.
Gallery: Flair for the Cure
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How to Be Here
Ten rules for successful Las Vegas living
Rule 1. Get out! At least three times a year for at least three days each stretch. Otherwise, you will go insane. Cabin fever aside, you need to experience how the rest of the world lives to remind yourself that Las Vegas, for all its shortcomings, is like summertime, when the living’s easy. For every cool out-of-town bar, there is a last call. For every big-city museum, there is the price of admission and the realization that you don’t need a boring museum every day.
Read More »Julie Murray
The president and CEO of Three Square talks about community, philanthropy and the hidden problem of hunger in Las Vegas
In a city where philanthropy isn’t always high on the to-do list, Julie Murray has dedicated her life to helping. She was volunteering even before she graduated from UNLV, and worked at the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation before co-founding the “I Have a Dream” Foundation, which helps at-risk students graduate from high school and pursue higher education. A sobering study conducted by Eric Hilton, son of hotel mogul Conrad Hilton, about hunger in Las Vegas drove Murray to become involved in Three Square. As president and CEO, she is in charge of Southern Nevada’s only food bank, which distributed 17.5 million pounds of food to 270 nonprofit organizations in 2009. Restaurant Week, Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, partners Three Square with area restaurants willing to donate proceeds to help Three Square achieve its mission of eradicating hunger in Las Vegas.
Read More »Why go to Japan to see kabuki?
Besides teaching at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, Eric Alterman writes columns for numerous publications tilting leftward. Recently, he wrote “Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now,” at TheNation.com.
“The piece came from a feeling I had that every time a problem cropped up, the media discourse treated it as a brand-new notion,” Alterman wrote to me, “rather than something that could have been predicted given the way the system was structured. I had this feeling over and over, and decided it would be worthwhile to delineate them.”
Read More »Justify her Paycheck
The rumor swirling around London is that Madonna was in negotiations for a five-year, $1 billion deal to headline somewhere on the Strip. Ian Halperin, who’s written biographies on Kurt Cobain, Michael Jackson and Celine Dion, broke the story without saying who, exactly, was going to pay Madge all that money. At $200 million a year, it’s more likely Guy Ritchie lets her direct Sherlock Holmes 2.
Read More »Mild Hogs
Just another weekend out with the boys for John Travolta. No matter how much he tries to reinvent himself as a tough guy in flicks like From Paris With Love and The Taking of Pelham 123, Travolta is still the dude who spends his Vegas weekends rolling through Cirque and Norah Jones shows.
Read More »Seven Days
The highlights of this week in your city.
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The desert is a different place at night, awash in moonlight instead of the merciless sun. If you haven’t experienced it, the Full Moon Hike at Spring Mountain Ranch is your chance. Be sure to bring along a flashlight and water. A park ranger will lead the hike. No pets are allowed. Hikers meet at 7:45 p.m. at the tour gate; admission is $7 per vehicle. Call 875-4141 to reserve your spot.
Read More »With the Sun in Our Hands
Solar energy is the power of tomorrow. Can we afford it today?
I have not seen this bumper sticker, but surely it exists somewhere, uniting the environmentalist and the evangelist: God wants you to have solar energy. A solid pitch. And it’s hard to argue with the supposition, given the empirical evidence that there is indeed a gleaming ball of fire in the sky.
Gallery: Solar Energy
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Sounds Good
It has taken much longer than I planned to write this review of Shure’s newest high-end earphones, because the music sounds so good that it’s hard to concentrate on what I’m writing. I often stop and just listen, much to the chagrin of my editor’s concept of a deadline.
That’s what can happen when using earphones that cost $500. (That’s not a typo, Mr. Editor.) But if you can afford such a luxury and consider yourself an audiophile, you will not be disappointed with the Shure SE535 Sound Isolating Earphones. You hear tones in the music that standard models miss—the touch of drummer’s cymbal, a tight bass line and a startlingly crisp sound often overlooked in the age of digital music as background noise.
Read More »More Meat on the Street
The mobile burger trend rolls on Sept. 4, when another sandwich purveyor hits Las Vegas’ streets. This one is dubbed the Flow Rider Truck, and the food its cooks will be pushing out the window at you won’t be dainty.
“We will be the first food truck to serve an eight-patty burger,” says truck owner and server Gladys Ramos. That monster is dubbed the “Extreme Hydraulic.”
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