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After an impressive start to the season, the UNLV men’s basketball team has hit a bit of a rough patch, including consecutive losses to Louisville and University of California, Santa Barbara. The Rebels try to regain their momentum at 7 p.m. when they take on the Central Michigan Chippewas at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Rebels should have no trouble with the team from the Mid-American Conference, as long as they don’t look ahead to facing rival BYU the following week. Visit UNLVRebels.com for tickets and information.
Read More »The Voice
His voice has been the soundtrack of UNLV athletics for four decades. Longtime Rebel fans know the cadence of his famous calls.
“Let’s roll out the red carpet for your … Rrrrrrunnin’ Rebels!”
Read More »Mid-Mod Mexico
The old hot spot, Acapulco, has redefined itself for the 21st century
Silver-screen stars jetting off to exotic locales to frolic in the sun and commit indiscretions outside of the glaring eye of Hollywood is nothing new. One of the destinations favored by celebrities since the 1950s is Mexico—close but not too far away. One of their original cities of choice was Acapulco.
Read More »Sean Christie
The man behind Encore Beach Club and Surrender talks about getting started in the business at keg parties in Boston, and the emergence of nightlife as one of the city’s dominant industries
Sean Christie has been working in the hospitality industry since he was 7, helping his parents and grandparents at a family-owned restaurant in his native Boston. By the time he was in high school, Christie was turning a profit throwing parties at friends’ houses, and by the age of 19 he began promoting and managing Boston-area nightclubs.
Read More »Dining With the Co-stars
Cosmopolitan employees sup in a space suitable to their new gig
At the Cosmopolitan’s ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 15, property CEO John Unwin paid tribute to the 5,000 employees—the Cosmo term is “co-stars”—delivering “spirited and vibrant” service to the new resort’s guests.
Read More »Tailor-Made Nightlife at Savile Row
2010 returned “bespoke” to popular usage, though not exclusively in reference to custom suiting. Previewing New Year’s weekend and promising a bespoke nightlife experience, Angel Management Group’s new boîte, Savile Row (rhymes with “gravel”; named for London’s street of custom suit shops), aims to embody discriminating taste as it replaces Noir Bar beneath LAX’s entry bridge.
Read More »After the Blast
The Attic, an internationally known vintage clothing store in downtown Las Vegas, has been hit hard, literally, and may not be able to recover. In July, an NVEnergy transformer immediately next to the store exploded, damaging the building so badly that it will need to be torn down and rebuilt.
Read More »The Other Big Debut
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Americans love hamburgers, ordering 9.5 billion in restaurants in 2009. But that doesn’t explain the overwhelming response to the Las Vegas debut of Steak ’n Shake.
Read More »Caught Him Because They Could
Juan Carlos Guzman-Betancourt, 34, first made headlines in June 1993 when he showed up at the Miami International Airport, dazed and dirty, claiming that he clung to the wheel of an airliner to escape his native Colombia for a better life in the United States. The story was probably a lie. He last made headlines Dec. 13 when he was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for entering the country illegally.
Read More »Girls Night Out
Musician (kind of), risque-cell-phone-picture-enthusiast (certainly) and High School Musical-stress Vanessa Hudgens took to Pure at Caesars Palace on Dec. 18 for her 22nd birthday, rolling with friends after her recent Zac Efron-ectomy.
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