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Debriefing

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

06.29.08 · 3:42 PM

Fleshing out the photogenic Presley-Riviera connection

The photos and accompanying video tell the story of the “who” – Liberace and Elvis Presley, cavorting and mugging in each other’s attire (or at least jackets), even switching out their chosen instruments. The shots are part of the lore for each entertainer, who might have been more alike than different, given their gift of showmanship. But the “where” in those photos is often lost – the Riviera, which is where the King, who never sang a single note onstage ... Read more...

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06.27.08 · 1:49 PM

With a twist, Dubai project turning heads

It’s been called the “Las Vegas of the Middle East,” but this week Dubai has stolen the spotlight after Italian architect David Fisher made an announcement in New York on Tuesday about his new project in the Persian Gulf. Fisher is going to build the world’s first moving skyscraper. It won’t walk or talk, but the 80-story building, which is planned to house office space, a luxury hotel and apartments, will twist and rotate, with different floors moving independently of ... Read more...

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06.23.08 · 4:38 PM

Gosh, we’d be major league — if we only had a team

On Sunday, Las Vegas Sun reporters Ron Kantowski and Joe Schoenmann navigated a freewheeling round-table discussion centering on (or revolving around, in this case) the prospects of a major-league sports franchise moving to Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, the consensus was that Vegas needs a new building first, and a team will follow. The assembled experts were Thomas & Mack Center Director Daren Libonati, former Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks owner Jerry Colangelo, Las Vegas Events President Pat Christensen, and Las ... Read more...

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06.18.08 · 11:25 AM

Former Escape the Fate singer Ronald Joseph Radke in custody

It’s like something out of your typical rock ’n’ roll playbook, a rock star on the lam for jumping parole. But in the sad case of 24-year-old Ronald “Ronnie” Radke, the former lead singer of popular local punk band Escape the Fate, substitute typical for tragic. The singer was taken into custody Monday afternoon after failing to check in with his probation officer and ending his nearly two-month run from the law. Radke currently is in custody at the Clark ... Read more...

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06.17.08 · 1:55 PM

Drive, He Said

So I’m at the pump the other day, giving that slightest of upward nods to my fellow fillers, as if to say, “Hey, we’re all in this together.” But who am I kidding? The only thing we’re all in together is a long-ass line to fill up our gas-guzzling, eco-killing machines, and we’ll be in the same long-ass line next week. If you believe TV news, all of America is sick—sick, I tell you! —of these rising gas prices and ... Read more...

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06.10.08 · 5:41 PM

Save the world, eat an apricot

So I’m heading to an orchard to get fed. It’s the right thing to do in this culinary, economic, environmental and moral climate: eat good-tasting, good-for-you stuff, straight from the ground; reject land-filling plastic packaging and preservatives; renounce the evils of spendy, wasteful mankind.; take better care of your colon. Impressively, I have figured out how to do all of this in one quick trip. I will visit Gilcrease Orchard. Bummer that I live in Henderson, and the orchard is ... Read more...

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06.5.08 · 4:46 PM

The Seventh Sign: K-Fed to be awarded “father of the year” award

If you need any more proof that our society is getting ready to go belly-up in an extraordinarily decadent firestorm of xenophobia, consumerism and irrefutable broadband-streamed ignorance, all you have to do is look at the perceived standards of parenting in the 21st century. Which is why then it really should be no shock that about every friggin’ blog site on earth is saying that Las Vegas nightclub Prive has awarded Ex-Brittany beau Kevin “K-Fed” Federline their father of the ... Read more...

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06.4.08 · 5 PM

Yucca Mountain: A project only Toxic Avengers can love

Today, the office of Nevada Attorney General and Executive Cougar of state law, Catherine Cortez Mastro, filed a formal petition asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reject the DOE’s application for a license to build the enormous-friggin’ nuclear waste dump 90 miles north of the Las Vegas Valley. While the distance from the city to the dump is marginal at best, especially considering the seismic activity like the 1992 magnitude 5.6-magnitude quake that shook the area or the 4.7-magnitude one ... 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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