Jennifer Grafiada
Story Archive
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How to be a player
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 "Player Emeritus" Pretty Tony shares his tips for picking up women. Don't hate the game, just learn the rules and play.
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New album from Slow to Surface, listen now!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Local rockers Slow to Surface release their first full-length CD, This Is The Reason We Do This, tonight at Wasted Space, after four years of blood, sweat and tears. Listen here first and decide if it's any good.
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Spittin' rhymes with swagger
Monday, Feb. 23, 2009 At an 8 Mile-style freestyle rap battle at hip-hop clothing store Grapes & Scittles, you only get one shot.
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I'd rather be in Rio
Monday, Feb. 23, 2009 Someone get Oscar Goodman on the phone: other cities are out-partying Vegas this week.
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If the shoe fits: Wishing for bare feet at the footwear convention
Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009 Sam Edelman is talking about the ballerina and the gladiator, two shoe styles he is famous for, and then says something about how Steve Madden copied him. Then he tells a story.
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Win tickets to LL Cool J with this pop quiz
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009 The man ladies love is playing on February 11 in Primm. Test your LL Cool J knowledge with this quiz and you could win a free pair of tickets to his show.
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Of ceaseless change: Still Life screens in Vegas
Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 This weekend CineVegas and Springs Preserve team up to present Still Life, an award-winning film about personal and environmental change along the Yangtze River.
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From the stage to the seminary, comedian James Stephens III cleans up his act
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009 Comedian James Stephens III has gone from the church choir to law school to the comedy club stage. Now, the improv vet is enrolled in a seminary, a year and a half from becoming a pastor.
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PETA stages Strip protest minus the fake blood or nude models
Monday, Jan. 26, 2009 The animal rights organization notorious for its attention-getting antics - some sexy, some scary - staged a Strip boycott on Monday directly addressing Giorgio Armani's broken promise to stop using fur.
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Arianny Celeste named Las Vegas' Top Model
Monday, Jan. 26, 2009 Arianny Celeste, homegrown model and UFC octagon girl, beat out 19 local hotties for the Las Vegas Top Model title. What will she do with all that prize money?
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Help pick Las Vegas' Top Model
Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 Perfect ten redheads, blondes and brunettes sport bikinis, lingerie, evening gowns and jeans in pictures provided for your viewing pleasure. I like Cicilia, with Joanna a close second. Vote online now for your favorite of the 20 local models competing in the Las Vegas Top Model 2009 competition.
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All the baskets have been stolen!
Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 After getting my heart broken, I needed some chocolate. On my way home from work I stopped off at the Albertson's at Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch, but there was not a basket in sight.
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The Crystal Method gives a good trip
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 The electronic vibrations running through my body at Rain on Saturday night gave off a slightly sexually charge. And Rolling Stone agrees.
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History in the making: A guide to Vegas' inaugural parties
Monday, Jan. 19, 2009 Where you are during Barack Obama’s inauguration will likely be remembered for your lifetime, so get off your couch and watch it somewhere interesting.
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The Killers come home to new Joint
Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009 Fresh off their overseas tour, The Killers will touch down in the city that knew them before they were stars where they’ll christen the newly opened Joint at the Hard Rock.
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Joe Francis gone wild! Amateur porn poster boy talks bailout and America's hottest girls
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 Ten months after walking out of a Nevada jail, the Girls Gone Wild founder is talking seriously about a $5 billion economic stimulus package and his plans to release a Vegas-based DVD.
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Join Vince Neil's poker crüe
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009 Before Mötley Crüe plays the closing of the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, you can join front man Vince Neil for a different kind of play: a charity poker tournament.
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Bored at the office? Consider sex work
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009 “Nervous? Why would we be nervous?” retorts male porn star D. Wise. “We’re just some happy-go-lucky people having sex.”
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Ditch the dress and break a sweat
Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 Ditch the heels, the mini-dress that might actually be a shirt, those stifling collars and non-sneaker shoes. If you’ve ever wished you could hit a Strip hotspot in your sweats, January 6 is the night – the dress code at Pure is strictly sweatsuits.
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NYE aftermath: the storm and then the calm
Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009 A catfight, "doobage" and kids in handcuffs - the grittier side of New Year's on the Strip.
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A Red Bull Christmas with Tiesto at Jet
Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008 Listening to Tiesto’s spin at Jet on Christmas night was like chugging a Red Bull: His music provides a flood of stimuli that keeps you awake and alert for hours. Dance music fans maintain that Tiesto broke a world record in 2001 by drinking 31 cans of Red Bull in 24 hours.
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Free cupcakes!!!
Monday, Dec. 15, 2008 Cupcakes are like crack, only less illegal. And today at the Cupcakery they're free!
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Tao kissing contest goes to creative Canadians
Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 You would think the schoolgirls would win. Plaid is like a double secret nuclear ingredient in hot girl contests.
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The Cracked Egg cooks up breakfast in Henderson
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008 On any given Saturday morning, The Cracked Egg’s tables are cluttered with kids scribbling with crayons on their menus and getting sticky from their banana chocolate chip pancakes. Starting this month, Henderson egg-eaters can get in on the syrup and wax orgy.
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Deals aplenty on Strip shows for locals in the know
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008 As our holiday gift to you, we’d like to let you in on a Vegas secret: Shows on the Strip from Phantom to Ka are slashing ticket prices and offering two-for-one deals for anyone with a local ID. Learn how to cash in here.
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$3.7 million house goes "green" and "wired" at the same time
Friday, Dec. 5, 2008 Imagine a house in which walls disappear with the touch of a button. The barriers between inside and outside are flexible, not rigid, and sunlight enters not through windows, but through totally open walls.
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Post holiday exercise for the lazy and bored
Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008 On the proverbial Morning After, you wake up feeling satiated and stung by varying degrees of guilt. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and the only thing that can save you from a winter of flabby flesh shamefully hidden under sweats is exercise. Try any or all of these inane, insane ideas, and you’ll never need a treadmill again.
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Gourmet restaurants do Thanksgiving right
Monday, Nov. 24, 2008 A line-up of top-tier eateries are offering multi-course, pre-fixe meals this Thanksgiving. Remember to give thanks for Wolfgang Puck.
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Racial comedy is recession-proof with Mike Epps
Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008 "Look at all these white people who came to see me! I didn't know y’all knew me!" Mike Epps says as I walk into the ballroom. From what I can make out, my date and I are actually two of the only white people here.
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Breuer and Correale talk domestic hilarity at TCF
Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 If you’ve ever tried to build furniture, you know about the inevitability of arguing with one’s spouse. “Their motto should be ‘Ikea: We hope your marriage is stronger than our furniture.’”
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One can = one cocktail at Mist
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 The holiday season is all about parties. Or is it giving? Tonight, Mist is encouraging both with an offer of one complimentary cocktail for one donated non-perishable food item.
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Miss Nevada contestants show off their sashes, personalities?
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 A crowd gathers like another Bellagio water fountain show is about to start, except that everyone is much more transfixed. Side-by-side it’s hard not to compare the contestants for Miss Nevada 2009. Kevin Polce offers his selection, "At first glance, South Las Vegas."
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Silverton's Mi Casa steals the spotlight at illuminating awards
Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 Mi Casa Grill Cantina at Silverton has made amazing decor part of dinner, with an elaborate lighting system that recently received an award from the Illuminating Engineering Society.
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Inside the "other service industry" with a former madam
Monday, Nov. 10, 2008 Laraine Russo Harper looks like a brothel madam. She wears thick makeup and sports garish gold rings on every finger and stacks of bracelets. She calls everyone “gorgeous” and “sweetheart,” and says that when she was running the show at Pahrump brothel her "ladies" called her "mom."
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A reading from Harry Fagel, the poet-cop
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 Vegas Police Sergeant Harry Fagel has seen things you can’t forget, bad things, really bad things. He looks hardcore, hulking like a WWF wrestler with a shaved head, often packing guns under his off-duty t-shirt. He looks like he could kick your ass (he probably could), but Harry is a poet.
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Believe the hype: Snoop at Icehouse this Saturday
Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 Downtown’s Icehouse Lounge may not seem the obvious choice for this event, but it’s like Snoop’s Vegas Holiday Inn, a place he can chill and make as small a scene as is possible when your name is Snoop Dogg and your cornrows receive more press than most people get their whole lives.
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Tool singer's wine is music to their ears
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 Tool's Maynard James Keenan was in town signing autographs this week, but not on T-shirts, CDs or the occasional bare breast. Keenan was at Henderson Whole Foods signing bottles of his Arizona wine.
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Despite all odds, "movers and shakers" ignore the election
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 These “movers and shakers of Las Vegas” are too occupied with networking and passing out business cards to watch the election progress. I ask an older man why no one is reacting to the historic occasion. “This is a mature crowd,” he replies. So, I leave.
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A.J.’s Steakhouse says goodbye with retro pricing
Friday, Oct. 31, 2008 When A.J.'s Steakhouse first opened in 1999 the New York strip steak cost $33. By 2008 it was up to $44, but no longer. Before it closes this December A.J.'s is inviting diners to "dine like it's 1999" with a return to its original prices.
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A ballroom moment amid the bump and grind
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 Through my cracked windows the tourists see a bat-out-of-hell girl behind the steering wheel, night-driving glasses on, one lens missing (thankfully, the left, my stronger eye), hair and makeup decidedly un-Strip worthy. I get ready in the casino parking lot.
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Halloween hits the Strip: Where to go and what to wear
Monday, Oct. 27, 2008 Score big this Halloween: cash and action, not candy corn and Snickers. Our guide will help you pick and choose out of a week stuffed full of Halloween parties, as well as give costume ideas that could win contests and points with the opposite sex.
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Summer's last stand: party at the Sapphire pool
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 By mid-October summer in most places is nothing but a salty, sun-tanned memory, but today, one last pool party at Rio's adults-only Sapphire pool bids a final adieu to the oven-baked season.
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Theory of Flight soars tonight at Wasted Space
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008 Theory of Flight is three things at least, but tonight it's mostly the local alt-rock band that will bring their high-inducing sound to Wasted Space.
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Vegas: The Most Interesting Show in the World
Monday, Oct. 20, 2008 A man tips his head back to get his dreadlocks out of the way and hoovers a sword. A seven-foot drag queen—introduced as a “bastion of beauty” – simulates sex with a random woman kidnapped from the audience.
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Bite of Las Vegas lacks teeth
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 The 12th Annual Bite of Las Vegas sounds like a promising afternoon: 11 bands, 3 stages, 45 restaurants serving small tasting portions. But the full-day outdoor festival is sadly lacking teeth.
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Music
They’ve got killer hooks
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008 Charles Earland jumps up and down on the checkerboard floor, sips his beer and makes love to the microphone.
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"There's no place like Vegas"
Monday, Oct. 13, 2008 In the bowling alley upstairs at Jillian’s, a guitar player from a local band brings me a plastic cup of beer. The Earland brothers of Vegas band Lips Like Morphine, fair-skinned despite being the sons of a famous black jazz musician, are working their way through a heady line-up of songs.
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An evening with Poe, courtesy of Joshua Kane
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 Joshua Kane may be in an Armani suit, or he may be in an old-fashioned vest and ascot. Anything could happen this Saturday night at the Historic Fifth Street School, but a few things are certain. “An old man will be murdered, eight politicians will be set aflame and there is one creepy black bird.”
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Art meets politics on the Bama Bus
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 A red, white and blue VW bus, stenciled with the words: “Obama-Biden,” “hope,” “change” and “progress,” is lost somewhere in Vegas, trying to find the UNLV campus from the intersection of Rainbow and Sahara.
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Is there a doctor in the house? Pop-rockers Air Raid Anthem to the rescue
Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008 Four men are on stage at Jillian’s in tube socks, booty shorts and headbands. They throw stuffed monkeys and homemade headbands into the crowd, while “mandancers” boogie behind them in spandex suits. They are local pop-rock band Air Raid Anthem, and they are willing to do whatever it takes to make it.