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Do you believe in magic?

Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

Family entertainment? Oh, come on! Who wants to see that? This is Vegas, for crying out loud!

Is our economy at the point where it's worth considering the UNCONSIDERABLE?

An exploration into risky ideas

Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008

Is there a threshold of economic turmoil at which Las Vegans will consider legalizing prostitution? Accepting Yucca Mountain?

Getting smart

Taking a test drive of a tiny automotive marvel

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

"I’m going to fit in that?” I was there to test drive the Smart Car, the latest import from Mercedes, but it had been a while since I’d seen one up close. It looked like someone sawed a perfectly nice automobile in half.

The out there is in here

George Knapp, working the fringe

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

Her sign reads, “LV UFO—8:30 p.m. Meet here.” “I’m looking for work,” jokes the sign’s holder, J.R. Scully, aka Jacqueline Nelson, the media representative for the Las Vegas UFO Hunters.

Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll & Sipe

Live

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

How can a group sound loose and tight at the same time? Phish-heads trying to stay busy until March, consider this CD your methadone.

Battleground Primer

Could our state be the linchpin for either presidential candidate? (And other burning questions. )

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

There’s little argument that this year’s presidential race is the most hotly contested and all-encompassing political battle our country has seen in decades.

Culture clash

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008

Imagine the Las Vegas Valley’s cultural entities all under one web-based roof. That’s the goal of the nonprofit Metro Arts Council, which unveiled the prototype for its web portal at a party Monday night.

Second time's a charm

The first time was underwhelming, but Bistro Divino dazzled on the return visit

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

One rule I abide by as a diner is to always give a restaurant a second chance. Every business has an off day, and snap judgments based on one fair-to-middling experience can sometimes rob you of a genuinely great haunt.

Keith

Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

There’s a kind of weird perversion behind the love story at the center of Keith. That love conquers all hardly removes the acrid taste of an overwritten, contrivance-ridden plot that requires a monumental viewer suspension of disbelief.

The "thanks but no thanks" newspaper insert of the week

Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

Imagine our surprise when we opened our Sunday Review-Journal to find a free DVD bundled in. And imagine our even greater surprise when we popped it in, only to witness a “documentary” bleak enough to make Lars Von Trier look for the double-edge, super-blue Gillettes.