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Who’s washing dishes now?

The Weekly chats with latest Vegas Top Chef contestant Gene Villiatora

Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008

After putting together a Las Vegan-free fourth season, Bravo’s casting team came to its senses, choosing local boy Gene Villiatora for reality cooking competition Top Chef.

Hallmark cards

Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008

The 10 of spades sports a tribal mask. The king of clubs reveals not twins but enemies, a Native American warrior folding into an army general. The seven of hearts is black with a large photo of an actual heart, pink and veiny.

Let it snow—at Mt. Charleston!

Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008

This is going to be the year I learn how to snowboard. I promise myself this every winter. But really, this is the year.

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.