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OH YEAH, I CAN feel the seasons changing – not so much, like, you know, in the air or via deep climactic rhythms or anything, but rather in the shifting proportions of rosé (less) and beer (more) in my diet. Whatever your preferred beverage, we're serving up a generous
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VEGAS CULTURE PEOPLE are always like, grrr, we want an art museum already – and sure, who doesn't? – but I kinda want a legit chess club first. Same broad civic impetus as an art museum – a site of cultural edification and education that reflects a more aspirant, dignified public
Welp, another Vegas summer is coming to a close. The heat isn't going anywhere for another month or so, of course. But once I start seeing the twelve-foot skeletons on display at Home Depot, I'm getting ready to call time. Daily temperatures broke records and AC
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SO ALL I GOT out of the much-hyped meteor shower was a stiff neck and confirmation that my light-polluted downtown backyard isn't that deeply connected to the cosmos. Oh well, on to other celestial pursuits, like when the moon hits your eye, etc.: This week, we've
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AUGUST IS CONSIDERED Elvis Month for a bunch of various, mostly contrived reasons. But in Las Vegas, August does in fact have some plausible Elvic mojo: It was here in August 1969 (okay, fine, technically July 31, 1969) that Elvis launched his return to performing live after an eight-year absence
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Beat the heat with indoor adventures in museums, theaters and libraries all over the Las Vegas Valley. Hunting for Dinosaurs Now-September 2: Bloodthirsty animatronic dinosaurs are prowling about the Origen Museum at the Spring Preserve. And you were worried about AI. The visiting exhibit is only here through September 2.
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⚡ Friday * The atmosphere should be, uh, electric at Shock Collar Comedy at Notoriety where, in grimdank dystopilicious fashion, you can zap the comics if they're not funny enough. * As long as we're mining a dark vibe: You can play a locally produced nuclear strategy wargame at
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MY NEW SLEEP schedule these days involves a deep disco siesta every afternoon because I've been up since like 3 a.m. due to a recently acquired Olympic badminton addiction. Thanks, Paris! The upside is that when 10 p.m. hits I'm wide-eyed and ready to
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YOU EVER HAVE one of those out-of-body moments when you're standing outside yourself, watching yourself with clinical curiosity and slight dismay, noticing something novel and strange and maybe a bit alarming about yourself from, like, a third-person perspective? Yeah, happened to me on July 29, 2023. I noticed
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When I was young I promised myself I would never talk about the weather. But so often now I find myself starting conversations with, "Well 106 isn't so bad in the shade." We're in the Dog Days of summer. It's kind of
