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Debriefing

The Weekly continues its quest to eradicate ignorance, one blog entry at a time.

01.1.09 · 3:37 PM

A very Vegas New Year’s Eve with Oscar Goodman

It is New Year’s Even in downtown Las Vegas and everything about this scene is set at maximum volume. High above, on the multimillion-dollar Fremont Street Experience canopy, a splash of color accompanies the pulsating Queen anthem, “We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions.” A crowd estimated at 30,000 seems bent on redefining “revelry.” It is a staggering throng in every respect, and in the midst of the chaos a onetime mob attorney knifes through the real-time mob, managing to ... Read more...

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12.28.08 · 2:11 PM

Frank Mir is Vegas’ own action hero

The last UFC of the year lived up to its name of “The Ultimate 2008” as the crowd of 14,103 witnessed two belts change hands and saw Quinton “Rampage” Jackson avenge his losses. Jackson had previously suffered two losses when he met with fellow light heavyweight Wanderlei Silva in the Pride organization. Jackson endured some personal problems since his recent loss to Forrest Griffin, but last night he was able to put his demons aside and conquer Silva in a ... Read more...

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12.28.08 · 12:36 PM

The best of everything: 2008 in lists

As 2008 draws to a close, lists of the year’s top things are popping up around the Web. Keeping with the trend, here’s our list of a dozen interesting “top” lists that highlight the high and low points of the year that was 2008. Best Mug Shots of the Year Staffers at the Smoking Gun sorted through thousands of headshots to give us their mug shots photo album, a 20-page photo collection of the funniest and notable po-po pics from ... Read more...

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12.22.08 · 6:22 PM

Steve Wynn’s multi-billion dollar baby, Encore, is revealed

In the theater rotunda that forms the borderlands between Wynn and Encore, red butterflies decorated in 14 colors of hand-applied Swarovski crystals float on the ceiling overhead. They are an amuse-bouche that teases the casino and hotel beyond – the first taste of the recurring themes of butterflies and crimson that populate much of the property that follows. Beyond the Weekly Encore Las Vegas Steve Wynn’s Encore, his $2.3 billion dollar baby, opens to the public tonight at 8 p.m. ... Read more...

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12.12.08 · 1:35 PM

Ultimate Fighter stages finale fight at the Pearl

This season of The Ultimate Fighter proved to be one of the most entertaining, thanks in large part to the antics outside of the octagon and a few liberal applications of bodily fluids. Viewers of the intense fighting show are used to seeing blood and sweat fly in every direction, but this year the fighters threw urine and other male excretions into the mix when they used them in disgusting pranks in The Ultimate Fighter house. Season eight had 32 ... Read more...

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12.9.08 · 12:36 AM

Mirage volcano has fiery rebirth

After months of the Mirage’s volcano lying dormant, the hotel and casino reignited the fiery icon in a public ceremony, showcasing a new look and a new sound. Mirage president Scott Sibella and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman were there to unveil the resort’s $25 million outdoor project. “We [Las Vegas] don’t implode ourselves anymore, we just recreate ourselves,” Goodman said. The new volcano show fires up for 4 minutes and 30 seconds, its eruptions choreographed to the music of ... Read more...

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12.3.08 · 12:54 PM

Libby Lumpkin leaves Las Vegas Art Museum

Libby Lumpkin’s unexpected resignation as director of the Las Vegas Art Museum has dealt a shocking blow to the arts community. In three short years, Lumpkin turned a relatively conservative, if not provincial, institution into a vital contemporary art museum. Beyond the WeeklyChief who set new course for LVAM is out, suddenly (Las Vegas Sun, 12/3/08)Her leadership, enthusiasm and intellectual exuberance has been an inspiration to the community; her faith that a world-class city needs a world-class art museum has ... Read more...

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11.27.08 · 10:31 PM

Camping out for computers on Thanksgiving Day

While heading to the grocery store for some last minute items that inevitably didn’t make the Thanksgiving dinner shopping list, I stumbled upon an unusual Thanksgiving tradition. Passing Best Buy, I saw a city of tents set up inside a barricaded area around the front of the store. Upon closer inspection, I realized this wasn’t a display of camping gear for sale; it was a line of enthusiastic shoppers eagerly awaiting the opening of the doors for Black Friday shopping ... Read more...

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11.26.08 · 5:27 PM

On the trail of “America’s worst governor”

Las Vegas Weekly has been committed to documenting the failures of Governor Jim Gibbons for a long time. We’ve reported on the special designation that lowered the annual property tax on his 40 acres in Elko County from $5,000 to $15. We’ve quizzed you on the salacious language in Dawn Gibbons’ now very public divorce motion. We’ve compared Gibbons’ May 2007 approval rating to President Bush’s – 29 percent versus 34 percent – and discussed the FBI inquiry into the ... Read more...

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11.5.08 · 12:37 AM

A generation later, a look back at the election of 2008

It is a generation beyond the administration of President Barack Obama. The questioner is a grade-schooler studying U.S. history. He wants answers to questions not found in the official, recorded account of American politics. He starts asking … “You saw him, didn’t you?” “Yes, when he campaigned in 2008, the first time. I heard him speak a few times during that campaign.” “Where?” “Once in a ballroom at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas, on what we called, ‘The Strip,’ ... Read more...

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Cocktail of the Week

Cocktail of the Week Dec 31, 2008
by Xania Woodman

The Bearded Clam

A verrry distant cousin of the Mojito, the Caipirinha and the Batida is the Bearded Clam, created by Frankie's Tiki Room by bartender Alice Hartling. In a pint glass, muddle ...
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