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November 11-17, 2010

NIGHTLIFE

Erick Morillo’s new Marquee role in Vegas

A&E

9-year-old painter: Is she too good to be true?

TRAVEL

What’s new on ski slopes

Don’t Tread ON US

The Tea Party took us for a helluva ride. But if you want to talk freedom, ﬁnd a libertarian. Special report by Greg Blake Miller

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Contents

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sEVEN Days

Majestic birds at springs Preserve, handcrafted beer at Lake Las Vegas, and ethel M lights up for the holidays. By Patrick Moulin

LocaL NEwsroom

A short-lived Fremont street music club was ahead of its time, and an entrepreneur works to bring silicon to the Valley. Plus: David G. Schwartz’s Green Felt Journal and Michael Green on Politics.

NatioNaL NEwsroom

reports on culture, politics and business from The New York Observer. Plus: The NYO crossword puzzle and the weekly column by personal ﬁnance guru Kathy Kristof.

thE LatEst

arts & ENtErtaiNmENt

A young artist’s work is well beyond her years, rod stewart makes a compelling case for residency, and Jarret Keene anticipates this month’s music scene.

93 DiNiNg

Gaming ofﬁcials from around the globe gather, and Las Vegas real estate garners attention in Canada. The Latest Thought: even in wartime, Veterans Day festivities fail to resonate for one soldier. By H. Lee Barnes

Fireﬂy helped introduce tapas to the Valley and is still a delicious choice. By Max Jacobson Plus: Neighborhood Epicurean visits West sahara Avenue.

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Lift your spirits with new features at the region’s ski resorts this winter. By Carla Ferreira

sociEty

The Beaux Arts Ball raises money for Golden rainbow at MGM Grand.

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sports & LEisurE

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A tough offseason hasn’t diminished the optimism pervading unLV basketball. By Sean DeFrank Plus: After beating the saints and Patriots, the Browns are worthy underdogs, says Matt Jacob in Going for Broke.

This week’s Look, a few choice Enviables, and haute holiday looks for him.

NightLifE

Seven Nights ahead, fabulous parties past, and DJ erick Morillo prepares his marathon sets for Cosmopolitan’s Marquee.

Above and on the cover: Wayne Allyn root. Photography by Tomas Muscionico; styling by Jessica Galindo; hair and makeup by Jessica Woo; post-production by Steve Krall, Digital Spinach. All wardrobe provided by Buffalo Exchange; ascot, Leather Couture by Jessica Galindo, LeatherCouture.com; black ring, Paint It Black by Ari Eberlin.

Features

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sEVEN QuEstioNs

Political analyst Jon ralston on his increased national stature, the state’s budget woes and his no. 1 passion. By Elizabeth Sewell

thE frEEDom fightErs

A look at the history, personalities and inﬂuence of nevada’s libertarians. By Greg Blake Miller November 11-17, 2010 Vegas Seven 9

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CONTRIBUTORS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Erika Pope “Empowering Autumn,” Page 77 Pope is an art enthusiast with an eclectic freelance career and two small children who sometimes thwart her passion for travel. Additionally, she enjoys all things epicurean and believes wholeheartedly in the kindness and intellectual prowess of her fellow Las Vegans. She has written about the Las Vegas art scene since moving here 11 years ago, and really means to start adding to her collection of Las Vegas art masterworks again very soon.

Keep It Happy I read your publication because I want to feel good and happy about entertainment and social fun in Las Vegas. I don’t want to be lectured on politics from left-wing radicals like [Vegas Seven’s columnist] Michael Green. What makes him so qualiﬁed as to lecture us on how we should vote? Those in academia mostly have never operated or owned a real business and live in la-la land, and he probably is no exception. Columns by him ruin an otherwise ﬁne magazine. I am boycotting most mainstream media because they are no longer objective. While I can ignore one column, I hope you will consider a fair and balanced approach if you insist on injecting politics into Vegas Seven. – Bert Benevento, Las Vegas

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Christopher A. Jones Art Director Jones has a long history in the creative ﬁeld in Las Vegas. He spent his formative years at Greenspun Media Group working on titles such as Showbiz (Las Vegas Magazine), Las Vegas Weekly and VegasGolfer. After leaving Greenspun, CBS hired him to direct a $5 million, museum-quality exhibit at the MGM Grand hotel-casino called CSI: The Experience. When he isn’t making things look pretty, Jones operates a gallery and studio in the Emergency Arts Collective in downtown Las Vegas with his two cocker spaniels, Esmeralda and PeePaul.

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Seven Days

The highlights of this week in your city.

Compiled by Patrick Moulin

Thu. 11 With Nellis Air Force base a Valley institution since 1941, Veterans Day is a big holiday here. One of the oldest celebrations is the free downtown Veterans Day Parade. Starting at 10 a.m., more than 5,000 participants will travel from Gass to Ogden avenues in custom ﬂoats, along with a number of marching bands, including the 300th Army Reserve Band. On Friday, the Cannery is hosting, GI Jams, a concert featuring nine musical groups comprised of veterans and active military personnel. For information, visit CanneryCasino.com.

Fri. 12 If you’ve spent much time outdoors around these parts you may have seen large birds soaring high in the air. But unless you hunt for their nests, that’s as close as you’re likely to get. The Springs Preserve (333 S. Valley View Blvd.) is offering guests the chance to see majestic birds of prey up close and personal at Wings Over the Springs. The live, interactive show featuresh red-necked falcons, African hawk eagles and Eurasian eagle owls in free ﬂight. The air show starts at 11 a.m. and is free for members or with paid admission. Visit SpringsPreserve.org for information.

Sat. 13 Foodwise, not much grows in the desert. But one staple taking root is locally brewed beer. As evidence of that, we present the Village at Lake Las Vegas’ second Brew’s Best HandCrafted Beer Festival, starting at 1 p.m. More than 50 varieties of beer, many unavailable in stores, will be on hand for sampling, including Buckbean Brewing Co., Tenaya Creek, Boulder Dam Brewing, Barley’s Brewing, Stone Brewing Co. and Nevada Beverage. Tickets are $25 and proceeds beneﬁt the New Vista Community, a group that helps the intellectually challenged lead independent lives. Visit NewVistaCommunity.org for more information.

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Described as a musical picture book, Joseph Haydn’s The Creation is a one-of-a-kind symphonic experience. Presented by the Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society and performed at UNLV’s Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall, the oratorio features a 35-piece orchestra, 70 choir singers and guest soloists including Alisa Thomason (pictured). Douglas Peterson, in his 43rd year as director, will lead this talented group as they weave a magical tale describing the creation of the world around us. For ticket prices or information, call 895-2787 or visit SNMAS.com.

Mon. 15 “That looks good enough to eat” is probably something you’ll be repeating as you stroll through the Sugar Confection Recollection art exhibit at the Historic Fifth Street School Gallery (401 S. Fourth St.). Artists created mouth-watering images inspired by memories of their favorite desserts, as part of the cookbook section of the Vegas Valley Book Festival. Some of the works include accompanying recipes or real food. For information, call 229-1012.

Tue. 16 It’s the middle of November and you know what that means: Christmas is here! Well, not really, but the festivities are starting with the 17th annual cactus lighting event at the Botanical Cactus Gardens at Ethel M Chocolates near Mountain Vista Street and Sunset Way. The unique threeacre garden contains some 300 varieties of cacti draped with more than 500,000 brilliant lights that will bring the desert alive at night. If you can’t make it to the lighting ceremony at 6 p.m., fret not, as the illuminated Cactus Garden will be free for visitors to see until Jan. 1. Visit EthelM. com for more information.

Wed. 17 Comic books have come a long way, making the leap over tall buildings and soaring from the back of the newspapers to become an entertainment juggernaut, influencing films, television and now the sometimes-too-serious world of art. On display now at UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum, Drawn in the Dust is an art exhibit featuring local comic book artists who use the medium to weave one-of-a-kind tales. These DIY comic creators tackle topics including the environment, life on the Strip and even a day in the life of local Las Vegans. Check it out for yourself—you might find yourself immortalized in the frames of comic book. Visit UNLV.edu for information. November 11-17, 2010 Vegas Seven 13

THE LATEST

What’s hip, what’s happening, what’s going on—and what you need to know right now.

Changing the Game

At the Global Gaming Expo, talk turns to the Internet

When the annual Global Gaming Expo makes its return to the Las Vegas Convention Center on Nov. 16-18, the hottest topic will be Internet gambling. With declining revenues at Las Vegas casinos, and growing support in Washington for the legalization of e-gaming, it’s a topic that brick-and-mortar casino operators can’t ignore. Insiders believe Internet gambling will grow by 50 percent in the next five years, and even Harrah’s, the world’s biggest casino operator, has lobbied for its legalization. At last year’s expo, results of the annual G2E Future Watch survey revealed that 50 percent of those questioned believe e-gaming will be legal in the next couple of years, and 29 percent thought U.S. online gambling revenues could reach $18 billion to $20 billion by 2014. The issue will be addressed at G2E with no less than seven conferences, including discussions on the history and future of the industry, charting the course of legalization, challenges facing legal operations, profiling and defining online gamblers, preparing land-based casino companies to launch online operations and the financial potential for online casino operations. G2E is the leading trade show and conference event for the international gaming entertainment community. More than 26,000 people are expected to attend. For more information, go to GlobalGamingExpo.com. – Sean DeFrank Try this at home: Online gambling could hit $20 billion by 2014.

Host Alton Brown wants you to watch The Next Iron Chef.

Seven Reasons

Buffet Battle

As of Nov. 7, The Next Iron Chef has moved to Las Vegas. That week was all about chocolate desserts. This week, Nov. 14, will be about re-interpreting the classic Las Vegas buffet. The show airs at 9 p.m. Sundays on the Food Network. Here are seven reasons why you should tune in: 1. Contestants have one hour to make ﬁve dishes that feature the secret ingredient, which in the past has been everything from trout to trufﬂes to cognac. What’ll it be this time? 2. The show gives us props as the new culinary mecca. 3. Past winners have seen their celebrity status skyrocket. Since winning 14 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

the ﬁrst season, chef Michael Symon has returned to the show as a regular judge and, in addition, hosts two cooking shows. The winner of the second season, Jose Garces, has also returned as a guest judge this season and has recently opened his seventh restaurant in his hometown of Philadelphia. 4. This week is all about the casino buffet, giving you a glimpse of what’s to come under the sneeze guard. 5. Current Iron Chef Bobby Flay has a restaurant here, the Mesa Grill in Caesars Palace. His restaurant provides an excellent example of the cooking style that he uses in competition. 6. Fellow Iron Chef Mario Batali has

three eateries here: Otto Enoteca Pizzeria, Carnevino Italian Steakhouse and B&B Ristorante, along with one more to come in April. The orange-Crocswearing Italian has even begun to change the food culture in Las Vegas by founding the Molto Vegas Farmers Market, bringing fresh, regionally grown produce to the Valley. 7. Someday soon you could see one of our homegrown chefs test their mettle against the Iron Chefs. Will it be chef Todd Clore of Todd’s Unique? Wes Kendrick of Table 34? An unknown sweating it out under the heat lamps and dreaming big? Watch and learn. – Patrick Moulin

THIS WEEK IN YOUR CITY Invasion

Welcome to the Neighborhood, eh Sharron Angle may have thought our northern border is where all the terrorists come from, but she apparently missed the larger story: It’s the Canadians themselves who are invading! An Oct. 30 article published in the Calgary Herald notes that our northern friends are snapping up houses in Las Vegas. “Canadians, particularly those from Calgary and other western Canadian cities, are climbing off ﬂights almost daily to investigate the real estate opportunities available,” Lydia Clarke of Canadian agency Investment Properties International says in the piece. Apparently, they’re ﬁnding that the

entire country is for sale, real estate- wise. The economy never tanked as badly up there as it did here, so more than a few denizens of the snowy North are buying investment property in the United States. “Many buyers from around the world are saying that the United States is on sale—and we agree that there has never been a better time to acquire property,” Clarke says in the article. “Canadian buyers are looking for both investment properties that provide cash ﬂow and second homes for their own use.” There are a lot of houses to be had here in the $135,000 range, the article

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Artful Spaces Bellagio recently unveiled two initiatives designed to whet art aﬁcionados’ palates. The ﬁrst comes in the form of Cirque du Soleil’s third art gallery, which opened earlier this month across from the resort’s conservatory and botanical gardens with the Art of Richard MacDonald Presented by Cirque du Soleil. The show features MacDonald’s rare and limited-edition bronze sculptures, all of which are inspired by Cirque productions. The resort’s second artful project aims to answer age-old questions such as, “How does Pierre-August Renoir’s Young Algerian Woman Leaning on a Parapet look while sipping a 2008 Domaine de Triennes viognier?” and “What thoughts and emotions does Vik Muniz’s Boy With a Pipe, After Pablo Picasso conjure while sipping John Duval’s 2008 Plexus shiraz from Australia’s Barossa Valley?” Queries such as these are now answered every second Wednesday during a new series of art-and-wine events at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art. “I have spent many years studying wine, and these events are pushing my wine knowledge to a whole new level,” master sommelier and Bellagio wine director Jason Smith said. Smith channeled works in the gallery’s current collection to pair the paintings with choice wine and spirits from the hotel’s massive collection. The result—Art & Wine: A Perfect Pairing—kicked off Nov. 10. The next event is scheduled for Dec. 8. – Melissa Arseniuk

Third act: Bellagio’s newest gallery features Cirque-inspired art by Richard MacDonald.

Tech

Radar Love

notes, and investors can buy “a fantastic luxury property” for $200,000. Or at least more luxurious that you can get in Calgary for your Canadian dollars. – Bob Whitby

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The term “New England charm” may conjure up images of quaint coastal towns, but when Mobstah Lobstah came West, it skipped the cute. Instead, Mobstah Lobstah deals in fresh Maine seafood served in a style that’s more Tony Soprano than Martha Stewart. The brawn behind the venture, mixed martial arts fighter Allen Berube, was born and raised in Maine. UFC fans may recall the fighter-turnedrestaurateur from Spike TV’s Ultimate Fighter 5. Berube went by the nickname “Mobstah Lobstah” as a fighter, and already owns and operates one nicknamesake seafood restaurant in his current home town of Tampa, Fla. He expanded into the Las Vegas market in late October when he opened the first of two locations inside Doc Holliday’s, 2551 Anthem Village Dr. The franchise has already expanded since, opening its second spot two weeks later at 9310 S. Eastern Ave., near Interstate 215. Both Mobstah Lobstah locations are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and both claim to have the “best tail in town.” Check MonstahLobstah.com. – Melissa Arseniuk

GPS navigation and radar detection converged at the recent SEMA trade show in Las Vegas when Escort introduced its new GPS navigation unit with a built-in radar detection device. The Passport iQ features a convenient and practical design, and its appearance doesn’t attract the same attention (or scrutiny from police) that a traditional radar detector might. The unit looks like a standard GPS system that attaches to your vehicle’s dash or windshield. It has a full-color, 5-inch, touch-screen display. Itineraries and corresponding voice-assisted directions come courtesy of Navteq navigation software, which powers popular GPS navigation systems for Garmin, Magellan and Navigon devices, as well as built-in GPS systems for BMW, Chevrolet, Honda, Ford, Volkswagen and Volvo. Similar to models already on the market, the Passport iQ also alerts drivers to known red lights and speed cameras, and displays the posted speed limit on its screen, along with the vehicle’s traveling speed. But if your lead foot tends to get the best of you, the secondary function—the radar detector— comes in handy. At a suggested retail price of $650, the Passport iQ isn’t cheap. But it is two devices in one, and the potential savings, in terms of avoiding speeding tickets and hiked insurance rates, could pay for itself in a year or two. Just keep in mind that in Nevada, cops can nab you just by eyeballing your speed—they don’t have to have you on radar. – Melissa Arseniuk

Escort’s iQ Passport.

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THE LATEST GOSSIP

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Tao Turns 5 As anniversaries go, it was an eventful one when Tao marked its fifth year Nov. 6. There was Jack Osbourne celebrating his 25th birthday. There was Brittny Gastineau doing her 28th. There was Karina Smirnoff confirming she was engaged. There were cupcakes served on a mostly naked girl, body-sushi style. Owners Jason Strauss, Rich Wolf, Noah Tepperberg, Marc Packer and Louis Abin were all on hand for the occasion, with Strauss blowing out the candles lodged in strategically placed cupcakes. Dancing With the Stars’ Smirnoff, though, stole the show by confirming that she’s engaged to former Cardinals and Dodgers pitcher Brad Penny. “I said thank you before I said yes,” Smirnoff said. “He planned it very well, and this is the first time I’m even talking about it. I’m going to keep Smirnoff as my last name” Karina Penny does have a weird ring to it. The righty hurler may have made a convincing case for a name change, though, by sending a diamond necklace to be delivered inside a Tao fortune cookie. Smirnoff flashed her rock for Christina Milian, but it was Osbourne who came with the practical advice. He said she should get a pre-nup, and that he’d get one when he got married. That may be more of Ozzy’s concern than Jack’s, though. Also at the party were swimmer Michael Phelps, 90210’s Ryan Eggold, Sean Stewart and Jurnee Smollett of The Defenders, Aussie Rhys Wakefield from Home and Away, White Sox great Frank Thomas, Real Housewives’ Kelly Bensimon, Sarah Jane Morris from Smirnoff (top) got hitched, Jack Osbourne (left) gave Brothers & Sisters with husband Ned Brower from Rooney advice and Jason Strauss (above left) enjoyed the view. and Fame actor Cody Longo.

Lil Wayne, free at last. 16 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

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@mtsearlyrisers The McRib is the Susan Lucci of the sandwich. world, always there but never truly appreciated. Gloria Allred should rep it. Discrimination!

@righellis My hair’s a mess, left my UNLV hat at my cousin’s house, and I still can’t bring myself to buy a UNR hat. Loyalty > Vanity.

@ItsRonBurgundy Sometimes I riverdance in the shower.

@NerdJuice Someone needs to create a robot that keeps me entertained when I’m bored! O, wait ... it’s my iPhone!

@e_to_the_m I’m eating breakfast in Paris. I’ll have dinner in Italy and then see a show in New York. I love #Vegas.

@StephanBonnar “All you need is love... love is all you need.” ... especially after a savage beating. @TBMgolf You can beat 50% of the people by working harder, 40% by honesty/integrity, leaving 10% to compete with! #truth.

@TClarkeWasHere I hate how hard it is to ﬁnd a job. And why is it that people who are in charge of hiring people have Mondays off here in Las Vegas?

Party Like You’re on Probation Lil Wayne hasn’t wasted any time since he got out of prison. Right after he was released from Rikers Island on Nov. 4, where he’d been locked up since March on a gun-possession charge, Weezy announced he was planning a get-out-of-theclink party in Miami on Nov. 7. But ﬁrst, he was at The Joint on Nov. 6, where he joined collaborator Drake onstage. While the “surprise” appearance was tipped by Drake himself to MTV News, the crowd still went bonkers when Wayne came out to do “Miss Me.” The after-party, though, would have to be tame by necessity. The terms of Weezy’s probation—from a 2008 drug charge in Arizona—forbids him from consuming alcohol for three years.

Tweets of the Week

@MrsRupertPupkin Ugh, apparently guys are still doing that whole “wait 3 months to call” thing. @jackﬁcation Crocs are like fanny packs for your feet … you can tell you’ve lost your man card!

Michael Phelps (in plaid) and Antonio Esfandiari make friends.

Phelps Plays His Hand Swimmer Michael Phelps got the poker bug after his medal-hoarding run in Beijing—and it looks like he hasn’t lost any interest in the game. The Olympian turned up at Blush during a party for Tony Hawk’s Stand Up for Skateparks charity about 2 a.m. Nov. 7 with poker pro Antonio Esfandiari. They didn’t hang around too long though— they took off before 3 a.m. to go play some cards.

@WelchysGripe Until it provides some sort of sexual gratiﬁcation and/or chocolate, the “Perfect Pushup” is a lie. @Dsaulss Shout out UNLV football!!! Y’all always win me $$. @Kendragarden I think I’m ﬁnally mature enough to pitch my idea for a pop-up scratch n’ sniff anatomy book without giggling. Anyone interested?

Smirnoff, Osbourne and Strauss photo by Denise Truscello; Lil Wayne photo by Erik Kabik/ Retna Digital; Phelps photo by Bryan Steffy

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THE LaTEsT THougHT

Barnes, left, with his fellow soldiers in 1966, just after returning from an operation in Binh Hoa.

I Don’t March in Parades A Vietnam combat soldier reﬂects on a hollowed-out holiday

By H. Lee Barnes No parades awaited my generation. Separation papers in hand, I mounted a plane in San Francisco and grabbed a window seat where I wouldn’t have to look at people staring at my uniform and green beret. Following a year in Vietnam at A-107, a Special Forces camp in I-Corps where I’d lost teammates, popped a few clips of .556 rounds at Charlie and toured some of the densest jungle on Earth, I was on the final leg back to “the world.” We came home one at a time, one day a warrior, the next just another Joe standing in some employment office looking for work. That was our parade. Mine was standing in a line for the unemployed and then later at a union hall hearing a man tell me I couldn’t apprentice as a carpenter because I didn’t have a “sponsor.” The next day I went to the American Legion Post, where I had beer and asked about joining. This was in December 1966 and the Legion was run by World War II and Korean War vets. I was told being in Vietnam didn’t qualify me, that it wasn’t considered a war, just a “police action.” I guess the four teammates and 50-odd Montagnard in my A-camp died playing cops and robbers. I just hadn’t figured it out before. The rest of my welcome-home parade consisted of going from print shop to print shop and from contractor’s office to contractor’s office seeking work. That’s the parade I remember, a parade of one. To be clear, I’m 18 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

not angry over it. That return home and the reality that no one cared that I had served, shaped my life as much as Vietnam itself. I once rode my motorcycle in a Memorial Day parade with a group of middle-aged Legionnaires. The whole affair took maybe an hour, for me, an hour of hell I vowed never to repeat. We lined up in between several high-school bands and a small ﬂeet of trucks and convertibles ferrying a mix of teenage beauties and elderly veterans who wore blazers and caps with goldand silver-embroidered patches that proclaimed their branch of service. Las Vegas summer was already at full strength; by midmorning we were roasting in our biking leathers. Announced by brass and drum, the parade set off westerly on a street in Summerlin. Each time we advanced 20 or 30 feet, the lead bikers would hoist their hands, signaling us to stop, and we would sit stationary for three or four minutes at a time, heat radiating up like a campﬁre from the asphalt. Nothing, not even buckets of ice water, could cut the discomfort. I looked at the others riding beside me, most of them pleased to be there as they waved to kids sitting on the curbs. Only they and the children and a handful of women seemed to get a charge out of us throttling past. If my reaction to that hot day seems jaded, it’s not only because the parade came a few decades late. It’s

got more to do with what our military holidays have become. I meet people who are entirely unaware of the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. For the record, Memorial Day honors fallen soldiers, a tradition that began in 1868 to honor the Civil War dead. Veterans Day, meanwhile, was originally Armistice Day, a day to honor those who served in World War I, the War to End All Wars, which concluded on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. Over the years, it evolved from a day to honor combat soldiers into a salute to those who served in any capacity. Today, it has been reduced to a day when Americans get paid to stay home. Now a fresh crop of veterans returns from war zones where the line between combat and support soldier has blurred and women have been front-lined as pilots, military police and transportation specialists. Those returning for discharge will re-enter society during the worst economic cycle seen in 70 years. Parades on Veterans Day will honor these new vets even as a large percentage of them become unemployment statistics. Their medals won’t put food on the table or heat their apartments. Among them, some will suffer painful memories, have difficulty adjusting, abuse alcohol or drugs. Some will resort to suicide. Few will tell their stories, mostly because they now have their own language that only their fellow veterans understand. Those who don’t suffer now from the after-effects of combat may well find the symptoms were only delayed. One day years or decades later they may feel as if a vice is clamping down on their temples and their heart will beat like a jackhammer and they will find themselves standing in line at a VA center. That’s their real Veterans Day Parade. On that hot Memorial Day, as I straddled my motorcycle, I realized I didn’t fit in with the bikers revving their throttles to thrill the spectators. All among them had served during time of war, but never in combat. The attention they received during the parade seemed to fill an unrealized need in them, some belated reward for their service. The parade confirmed what I’d long felt about the difference between those who hadn’t been under fire and those who had: My reward was merely being alive. Call me a snob or an elitist, call me a curmudgeon or just bitter or cynical, but on days set aside to honor warriors, I celebrate by displaying a flag, and the only company I care to share is with those men who held the line under fire, who hunkered down at the sound of incoming, men who shared a cigarette with a buddy in the aftermath of loading a body bag on a chopper, men who humped mountain slopes dense with tropical brush and picked leeches off their legs and who still smile whenever the subject comes up in conversation among others like themselves. To all others, I say, enjoy the parades. H. Lee Barnes is the Las Vegas-based author of the forthcoming Vietnam memoir, When We Walked Above the Clouds, which will be published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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over the top Hailed as the biggest Halloween costume party of the year, the Beaux Arts Ball drew a crowd of more than 1,100 to Studio 54 inside the MGM Grand. Known for its over-the-top attitude and spectacular entertainment, the late-night affair began at 10 p.m. and continued into to the wee hours (4:30 a.m.). The fundraiser on behalf of Golden Rainbow has become a showcase for original production pieces created for the night by Strip choreographers and entertainers. The event raised more than $28,000.

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Right Place, Wrong Time

The owner of a pioneering Fremont Street venue recalls his expensive lesson in nightclub economics By Sean DeFrank

Since the creation of the Fremont East entertainment district in 2002, city officials have gone to great lengths to rebrand the area as a hip and trendy pedestrian zone with cafés, clubs, bars and restaurants. In 2007, the city allotted $5.5 million for wider sidewalks and 40-foot-tall neon signs, and the Las Vegas City Council in September approved an $80,000 contract to better market the district. While the efforts to revitalize Fremont East have met with mixed results to date, there is little doubt that the overall perception of the area has changed. Locales such as the Beauty Bar, the Griffin and the Downtown Cocktail Room have become chic hot spots to meet for drinks; and the Vanguard Lounge, Maharaja Hookah Café and Azul Tequila nightclub all were added to the mix in September. Even the creaky El Cortez hotel-casino, once the poster child of downtown Las Vegas’ seedy reputation, has seen a significant upgrade in decor and image. These are all developments that came about 15 years too late for Terry O’Halloran, who was apparently ahead of his time when he opened the Fremont Street Reggae & Blues club in January 1993. The club, which had two 400-person capacity rooms, featured both live blues and reggae acts seven nights a week, yet it shut its doors in October 1996 because of lukewarm support. “I didn’t realize locals had a resistance to going downtown,” O’Halloran says. “When I used to visit there, I thought the downtown was cool, that it was old Vegas. “I got an education for about what it would cost to go to Harvard Business School. I learned a lot in my time there.” The club was critically acclaimed, even being named the city’s best blues club by the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1994.

It attracted blues artists such as Buddy Guy, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Tommy Castro, along with reggae acts such as Burning Spear, Toots & the Maytals and Pato Banton. One major obstacle that hindered the club was the Fremont Street Experience, which was being developed when it was in business. An 8-foot chain-link fence encircled the entrance of Fremont Reggae & Blues during its first year because of construction of the canopy. O’Halloran, who was 34 when he opened Fremont Street Reggae & Blues, split his time between Las Vegas and his native Omaha, Neb., while operating the club. He figured out quickly that he was fighting a losing battle here. “After about a year and a half I was about out of bullets and starting to scramble on how I was going to pay the rent,” he says. “I still had clubs in Omaha and was taking all their profits and sinking them into paying the bills in

Vegas. So for about the last year and a half, I was just looking for an exit strategy and trying to sell my lease.” He ﬁnally sold his lease to a drugstore, which never opened. And the city, which offered him no assistance, put its redevelopment efforts behind the $99 million, 250,000-square-foot Neonopolis entertainment complex, a colossal bust that now sits largely vacant at the former site of Fremont Street Reggae & Blues. Concert promoter A.J. Gross has lived in Las Vegas for 26 years and was the in-house promoter for Fremont Reggae & Blues during its brief run. He believes that downtown could have launched a vital music scene if the canopy for the Fremont Street Experience hadn’t been built and Fremont Street had remained open to vehicle trafﬁc. Even if that had happened, though, Gross says trying to operate an independent live-music club was like fighting Goliath on a daily basis.

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Leaping Toward Education High school dropout seeks to make UNLV a better school— one jump at a time By Kate Silver

Karla Washington has led an extreme kind of life. Back in her high school years, the now-41-yearold Las Vegas resident admits the extreme factor wasn’t always of the positive variety. When Washington attended Channel Island High School in Oxnard, Calif., she graduated with grade point average of 1.46. That was after she spent an entire semester skipping class and then dropping out, before working a series of odd jobs that didn’t lead anywhere.

Fast forward 22 years and Washington has spun that “extreme” energy into something positive. Now a junior in college, she has a 3.76 GPA at UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration. And last month, she celebrated being elected student senator by jumping 108 stories off the Stratosphere’s Sky Jump. That actually might have been a little too extreme for the full-time mother and student. “I will never do that again!” she laughs (and screams) during an

interview a few days after the jump. “I will never, ever do that again.” Washington was part of a ticket with fellow students Mike Rubin and Geoffrey Moran. Their campaign slogan was, “We’ll go to the extreme.” The two men jumped prior to the election in an effort to get votes, while Washington said she would jump after the election if they won. They won. “We went to the extreme, and that’s what we’re looking to do for the hotel college for this whole year,” she says. Continued on Page 40 November 11-17, 2010 Vegas Seven 37

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Gambling on debt By David G. Schwartz It’s no secret that casino companies are more debt-encumbered now than they’ve ever been. In 1990, the average big Las Vegas Strip casino (those earning more than $72 million a year in gaming revenue), had $7.8 million in long-term debt attached to it. By 1999, that number had soared to $171.5 million. And as of 2009, the total stood at $860 million. That’s a lot of borrowing. And yet casinos continue to borrow money—last month MGM Resorts International sold nearly $500 million in bonds that it plans to use to pay loans that are coming due in 2011. And Boyd Gaming is preparing a similarly sized bond offering for much the same purpose. Taking on debt to pay off debt is the ability to put off paying for today what we didn’t have money for yesterday. To those of us paying our bills each month, this seems too good to be true. Yet, in the corporate world, issuing debt to pay for debt is a common practice and one that can be a viable strategy. “Taking on more debt to pay for current debt can work, provided that the free cash coming in rises sufficiently to service the increased indebtedness,” says Christiansen Capital Associates CEO Eugene Christiansen, a veteran casino analyst who has performed numerous studies of casino operations throughout the world. Christiansen uses an analogy to explain the risk and potential rewards of the process. “For the chief executive officer of a highly leveraged casino company, selling new debt that increases corporate leverage to pay for old debt is exactly like a legislator or elected official putting off a difficult vote or decision as long as possible,” he says. “It gives the CEO (or legislator or elected official) another year (or two years) in office, another $1 million or more in annual salary and perks, and, who knows? Maybe the company won’t default. “But unless the company’s performance, as reflected in occupancy rates, gaming and resort revenues and the like improves significantly, the company will default eventually, and when it does the default will be worse. Dead man walking, in other words.” But while there’s life, there’s hope, and casino companies have fended off default in the face of long odds. “Take Las Vegas Sands,” Christiansen says, pointing to a company whose share price has battled back from lows below 38 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

the $2 mark in March 2009 to nearly $50 a share, and which compares favorably to another Las Vegas casino powerhouse, Station Casinos. “When the credit markets shut in August 2007, LVS had immediate problems in servicing its very high levels of debt, just as Station did, albeit for different reasons,” he says. “On the numbers, default appeared to be inevitable for both companies. LVS stock collapsed. “Circumstances, however, differed in ways that an Excel spreadsheet couldn’t capture. Station was 100 percent invested in Clark County, and Clark County market metrics got worse and worse. Station defaulted. “LVS, on the other hand, was operating in Macau in addition to Las Vegas, and would soon be operating in Singapore. The Macau market recovered rapidly, and the Singapore market is exceeding all expectations. LVS’s Strip investment, had it been the company’s only source of income, would have put LVS in Station’s box—the default box. But LVS’s properties in Macau and Singapore generated so much cash that LVS skated away from the precipice—although it might not have if Adelson had not dipped into his own pocket to keep the company out of default.” So sometimes it is possible for casinos to reverse what seems an inevitable slide toward bankruptcy, and borrowing money at the right time can be a part of the solution. Yet there should still be some concern about increasing levels of debt. The return on invested capital has fallen precipitously for big Las Vegas Strip casinos in the past 20 years; from a stellar 16.4 percent in 1990, to a merely good 10.8 percent in 1999 at the tail end of the 1990s boom, to an abysmal -4.3 percent in fiscal 2009. According to Christiansen, this means the casino industry will be less attractive for new capital construction for a long time. We could be seeing “unrefreshed properties aging into obsolescence—and half-finished investments like Fountainbleau” in our future. So while taking on new debt can give casinos a chance to fight another day, the more that is piled on, the greater the chance it will come toppling down. David G. Schwartz is the director of UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research.

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Silicon Vegas? A San Francisco entrepreneur sees a high-tech valley By Jessica Prois Can the quirky, workaholic culture of high-tech innovation take up residence in downtown Las Vegas? That’s a question Michael Tchong— a media, technology and marketing guru—plans to answer by summer. Tchong, a trend analyst and inspirational speaker, moved here from San Francisco three months ago to create a social engagement research center wherein a new social networking website for businesses—think Facebook, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Ofﬁce combined—would be born. His idea is to connect business people not only through the Internet, but also via conventions and meetups. As a startup, Tchong’s research center would initially be modest, with a small number of employees. At the moment, he’s looking at property downtown and interviewing employees. Ultimately, he’d like to see 1,000 high-tech companies in our version of Silicon Valley, which he estimates could contribute $100 million revenue to the state in expenditures, taxes and fees in just a couple of years. But why here? “To start a new trend, you need to go where no one expects the trend to begin with,” he says. Of course, there are reasons why the Valley isn’t already full of high-tech companies. Information technology and Web publishing employees comprise less than 1 percent of our workforce, according to the Center for Business and Economic Research at UNLV, meaning Las Vegas isn’t exactly a tech hotbed. Thomas Nartker, who teaches software programming at UNLV, says it will be tough to attract talent. Big-name backing is essential, Nartker says. “If you could get Apple to open a major development ofﬁce, that would be a start,” he says. “If he’s trying to invite a bunch of bright people to come to Las Vegas and they happen to be leaders of corporations leading in technology, that’s perfect. But if it’s just bright programmers, it’s not an exercise that will lead in the right direction.”

Nonetheless, Tchong sees potential in the empty offices and cheap real estate so prevalent here. And his background indicates he may be right. As a “trendwatcher,” he is the founder and trend analyst of Ubercool. He also founded Interstellar, a consulting and media company, which launched an online market research site called CyberAtlas in 1996. He created the tech company Atelier Systems, raising $1.2 million in venture capital to launch a personal communication system that programs such as Microsoft Outlook still use today. Tchong also founded MacWEEK, the original Apple industry magazine, and speaks to audiences such as Harrah’s Entertainment, Newsweek, Toyota and Zappos about business trends. He’s confident that his research center would help diversify the local economy, and Nartker concurs. “Software engineering is ranked as the top career for next five to 10 years,” he says. “We need more people in this field more than almost anything.” By the summer, Tchong plans to have enough venture capital to start work on a social networking site for businesses that addresses frustrations with existing sites.

His site might include easily navigable privacy settings and the ability to sort out potential contacts based on “social capital,” or what one person has to offer another in terms of business leads, for example. Contacts could be ranked based on this “social capital,” allowing users to easily ﬁlter requests. “That’s the kind of principle that will rule in future social nets,” Tchong says. “How much do you have to offer?” The research center will also devise new ways to draw business conventions to Las Vegas, he says. While the number of conventions held in Las Vegas dropped 7 percent over the past year, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, actual convention attendance is up by a sliver—2 percent. That shows potential, and he wants to develop advanced ways to measure convention revenues, attendance and statistic tracking. Of course, in the ever-evolving world of information technology, there’s always the threat of existing empires. Tchong acknowledges the challenges, but remains optimistic. “Facebook could try to eat our lunch,” he admits. “But I just think more needs to be done.”

“Something I learned after Fremont Street is you can’t compete in this market as a music promoter against hotel-casinos doing their own thing,” he says. “They’re going to take everything that makes sense, they’re going to pay them way more than we can pay them, and I just don’t see how the numbers can add up.” Gross says Fremont Reggae & Blues always did good business on weekends, but that wasn’t enough to sustain its long-term survival. “As a business, you can’t make it off of two days a week,” he says. “And no matter how much we lowered our overhead, we just could not make those other days of the week really pop. I doubt that the place could have survived unless we somehow came up some with something really magical.” O’Halloran, who returned to Omaha for good once he sold Fremont Reggae & Blues, says his time in Las Vegas was an eye-opening experience. “In retrospect, I feel like I was naïve thinking I could compete with the casinos and their million-dollar budgets. At the time, all of California was moving to Vegas, and I thought, ‘Those people need a music club.’” He now lives in downtown Omaha, and owns and operates the New Lift Lounge, where he has live music about once a week. “I don’t know that I’d ever open another live music club,” he says. “It’s just not feasible to have a full-time music club anymore.” Gross does have a suggestion for sparking a change in the Fremont East district, backing an idea that Mayor Oscar Goodman ﬂoated in 2003. “If Oscar could get them to make downtown the red-light district of America, downtown would never have to worry about making another dollar again. Let Oscar run wild with his idea, and downtown would be just ﬁne.” November 11-17, 2010 Vegas Seven 39

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UNLV student senator Karl Washington with an old nemesis.

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Her goal is to help better bridge the college with the resorts and amenities of Las Vegas. “I believe Las Vegas is our walking laboratory,” she says, adding that the school is positioned to send its graduates off to some of the best resorts in the world—just moments away from the UNLV campus. “We are steps away from the Strip, and we have industry leaders that come in all the time that are recruiting,” she says. When she graduates in 2012 with a major in meetings and events and a minor in leadership and civic engagement, Washington plans to get a job in human resources and employee development. It’s a big change from the years she spent as a wedding and events coordinator, a print shop employee and a truck driver, prior to going back to school. She attributes her turnaround to the birth of her daughter, Kennedy, four years ago. “A light switch went on and I was like, ‘You’ve got to do something with yourself,’” she says. She plans for her daughter to go to school, get good grades and go on to

college. But that wasn’t all. “I knew that if she was anything like me she was going to have my attitude and she was going to have my mouth,” Washington says. Because of that, she believed it was time to lead by example. Unless she went to college, Washington knew her daughter would one day challenge her for the choices she made. So she went back to school, starting with community college in Santa Monica, Calif., and then transferring to UNLV, where she’s not only a student senator, she’s also a site development chairwoman for Students Organizing Diversity Activities. Washington says everything she does now is for her daughter. Kennedy gets to go with her to campus every day, where she attends day care. “It’s been like a dream, and I don’t want to wake up,” she says. As a student senator, Washington hopes to make changes on campus so that when Kennedy and her generation enroll in college it will be an even better place than it is today.

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Reid learned his lesson By Michael Green With the president unpopular and stuck cleaning up the mess left by his predecessor, the midterm elections were likely to go strongly against his party. In Nevada, though, a veteran of close statewide campaigns bucked the trend, winning against an opponent too conservative for some in his divided party and with a tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. That was the 1974 Senate election. Republican former Gov. Paul Laxalt had no chance, thanks to Richard Nixon’s Watergate, Gerald Ford’s pardon of Nixon and a disastrous economy. Nonetheless, he beat a young Democrat named Harry Reid by 611 votes. This year, Reid learned from his tough losses and narrow victories—such as his 428-vote landslide in 1998 over Republican John Ensign, then a rising star and now every other Nevada politico’s favorite dartboard. He learned from the defeat of his friend and predecessor as Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, in 2004. But Reid may be among the few who did learn from these experiences. Nevadans haven’t learned. Almost 45 percent were willing to give up the majority leader’s power when their state needs inﬂuential senior senators not just to make good things happen, but to stop bad things from happening. Republicans haven’t learned. They stripped Bill Raggio of his state Senate leadership post, just when they need him for negotiating the budget and redistricting, because he saw Sharron Angle for what she is and joined every other sane Nevada Republican in endorsing Reid. Many lefties haven’t learned. They dismissed Reid’s leadership and political acumen, which got them a health-care bill that had eluded the country for decades. But it’s Reid’s colleague Russ Feingold, a liberal from Wisconsin, a state with a truly progressive tradition, who’s gone from the Senate—not Reid. The R-J hasn’t learned. It did its best or worst, depending on your point of view, to Reid, skewing its coverage every which way but loose. “Loose” kind of rhymes with “news,” and that’s what the R-J should concentrate on. Many political analysts from outside Nevada haven’t learned. Now they point to Reid’s ground game, cunning and tenacity, when all have been in full view for years. He survived the 1974 defeat, an embarrassing loss the next year for 42 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

mayor and a tough tenure as Gaming Commission chair, taking on the mob and facing accusations of ties to the mob and threats on his life and reputation. He elevated Nevada’s caucus into a high spot in the 2008 presidential race that helped build up his party. These kinds of efforts may have eased the losses that Nevada Democrats suffered as Republicans swept to victory across the country. After beneﬁting from the Obama wave in 2008, Dina Titus ran a strong campaign but barely lost to Joe Heck. Democrats lost a state Senate seat (in Titus’s House district) and two Assembly seats (one in her district), all of which suggests the mountain she and other Democrats had to climb, and scaled far better than hindsight suggests they should have. It’s also possible that, rather than helping, Reid hurt other candidates. Some of it was unavoidable: Republicans painted a big bull’s-eye on him, so the Senate race became a proxy war and, as Titus said, monopolized attention. Those who might have given money to other Democrats may have concentrated on Reid, although that didn’t stop Republicans from aiding both Angle and Heck. Getting out voters who would support Reid may have motivated conservative Democrats, Republicans and independents who had no use for any other Democrat, despite Titus’ efforts to link Heck to Angle. Few made the connection that Angle’s anti-Hispanic commercials appeared while Brian Sandoval campaigned for governor, and while Hispanics reportedly voted for Rory Reid, their numbers weren’t enough. For all the talk of one too many Reids on the ballot, the candidate for governor was in a spot: If he played the underdog role too well, he might hurt his father’s chances. What if Rory Reid had called for taxing mining as much as it should be taxed, or ran a pro-Clark County and thus anti-Washoe County campaign? Did getting out Hispanics help Sandoval, too? Titus and one of the Reids deserved better. But Nevada could have done much, much worse—for itself and the country. Michael Green is a professor of history at the College of Southern Nevada and author of several books and articles on Nevada history and politics.

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Entertaining options for a week of nonstop fun and excitement.

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Thu. 11 Leslie Sbrocco is thirsty, and tonight the Sonoma, Calif.-based wine (and lifestyle) specialist comes to the Shoppes at the Palazzo to celebrate libations, laughter and life, and host Thirsty Girl Live at SushiSamba. Her book, Wine for Women: A Guide to Buying, Pairing and Sharing Wine (William Morrow Cookbooks, 2003) won the Georges DuBoeuf award for Best Wine Book of the Year. The event includes wine tasting, food pairings (sushi, sashimi and seviche) and fun in the Thirsty Girl photo booth. A portion of the $25 ticket price supports Dress for Success. (6:30-8:30 p.m., $25, tglasvegas. eventbrite.com). Sammy Hagar (pictured) hosts a night of NFL football at his Cabo Wabo Cantina. With plenty of TVs to watch the game and no cover, drink specials abound: $3 Mike’s Hard Lemonades, $1 kickoff return shots and free shots after the game if you’re wearing the winning team’s jersey. Elsewhere, past and present military personnel drink free from 10:30 p.m.-midnight as Rockhouse honors Veterans Day. (At Imperial Palace, $10 men, $5 women, free before 10 p.m., military free with ID.) At the Hard Rock Hotel, DJs Tony Arzadon and Estrella get things going at Vanity. Doors 10 p.m., $40 men, $20 women.

Fri. 12 He was in The Hangover and tonight Bryan Callen (who played “Eddie” and performed the wedding ceremony in the ﬁlm) comes to Playboy Comedy inside the Lounge at the Palms. Friday’s 10 p.m. show follows one on Thursday, and precedes two on Saturday (at 8 and 10 p.m.) Also, your ticket ($40) gets you into the Playboy Club (and, therefore, Moon) after the show. Without a ticket stub, admission is $40, but local ladies get in free.

Sat. 13 Sing, laugh, or dance—take your pick. Tonight’s options include Usher, Trey Songz and Miguel performing live at Mandalay Bay Events Center (9 p.m., $49.50-$128, plus taxes and fees, all ages.) Alternatively, comedian Jo Koy is at The Mirage, first doing his stand-up inside the Terry Fator Theater (10 p.m., $39-$59 plus taxes and fees, all ages, under-18 must be accompanied by an adult), before hosting an after-party of his own across the casino floor, at Jet. (Doors 10:30 p.m., $30.) And finally, DJ sensations Sander Van Doorn (pictured) and Manufactured Superstars take to the turntables at Tao. At the Venetian, doors 10 p.m., $30 men, $20 women, local ladies free.

SeveN NIghtS Sun. 14 She had to postpone her show in September, but Sheryl Crow makes good on her promise, and tries again tonight, as her tour comes to The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel. (8 p.m., from $46, all ages.) Or stick to Sunday night staples: industry night at The Bank (at Bellagio, doors 10:30 p.m., $40, locals and industry free), or DJ Vice’s namesake Sunday night affair at Lavo. At Palazzo, doors 10:30 p.m., $20 men, $10 women, local ladies free.

Mon. 15 Blue Martini mixes things up with a country night—so why not give the football routine a break? Town Square’s martini-turned-country bar opens at 4 p.m., but live entertainment starts at 8 p.m. and continues till midnight. Meantime, shots of Jack Daniels and bottles of country favorite Coors Light can be had for $2.75. No cover.

Tue. 16 The go-gos take center stage, then go head-tohead tonight, as Blush hosts its third annual Go-Go Cup. There’s both pride and prizes on the line, and the contest promises to be a good show. (At Wynn, doors 9 p.m., $30, locals and industry free.) Also tonight, DJ Ruckus is at the Palms, where he headlines this week’s edition of Bang! Doors 11 p.m., $20, local ladies free.

Wed. 17 Mix art appreciation with a tasty libation (or two, or three ...) as Caramel at Bellagio hosts Expose and showcases art from UNLV grad students Shannon Eakins, Jessica Kenway and Heather Younger. (Doors 6 p.m., no cover.) Meanwhile, at Santa Fe Station, Revolver hosts a $1,000 two-step competition. If you don’t yet have the moves to win big bucks, show up early for free dance lessons 8:15-9 p.m. It’s also ladies night, meaning the girls enjoy $1 cover and $1 drink specials whether they can dance or not. Doors 8 p.m., $5 men. November 11-17, 2010 Vegas Seven 45

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Get Him to the Cosmo Morillo moves in on Vegas with 10 nights worth ﬂying in for By Jason scavone The breakthrough came quickly. Erick Morillo, as one half of house/ reggae duo Reel 2 Real, unleashed the club monster with the Godzillasize hook “I Like to Move It” in 1993, just about a year after he started getting serious about music. Seventeen years gone and you 60 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

could still hear “Move It” played in DJ sets tonight. In that same time, how many producers would have been left on the side of the road? Yet Morillo endures as one of the most sought-after in the game. It’s a feat worth fêting. With Tao Group set to open its

in America. I see all the clubs that newest super-venue, Marquee, at the used to play only hip-hop, now Cosmopolitan on Dec. 31, Mothey play dance music. Granted, rillo—already dubbed as the group’s they play commercial dance music, go-to major-weekend jock—is also to become Vegas’ newest major monthly but it’s a start. It’s resonating with people,” Morillo says. “People resident with 10 dates lined up for realize it’s such a great escape, a Marquee in 2011, including New great place to go after a hard week Year’s Eve, plus his perennial Memoof school or work. It’s a great way to rial Day and Labor Day appearances go and dance your problems away, at Tao. basically. Just to keep everyone in the proper “I see the [Las Vegas] scene just frame of mind for Morillo’s maragetting bigger and bigger. I’ve seen thon sets—notorious for stretching the scene go from well into the a.m.— parties eight or nine Tao brought the DJ years ago where in on Halloween you didn’t know to spin at Morillo Erick Morillo at who was who—who Mayhem. It was a MarquEE insidE were the gamblers, night that saw him cosMopolitan who were the fans. go head-to-head Now you know with DJ trio Swedish Dec. 31, and in 2011: people are there for House Mafia, who Feb. 5, March 5, April 9, the party.” brought their own May 7, July 2, Aug. 6, Frequent-flier Masquerade Motel Oct. 8, Nov. 5 and Dec. 3. miles will also factor event from Ibiza’s greatly in creating Pacha, where Morillo that party. Morillo, has had a residency spurred by the success of Swedish for 13 years, to The Joint. House Mafia, plans on teaming up “The wonderful thing about Vegas with Harry Romero and Jose Nunez is it can sustain six Cirque du Soleil (“They’re my Mafia,” he says of shows at the same time on one night the pair, who are inked to his own and they’ll all be busy. There’s only Subliminal Records label) to perform one Vegas, just like there’s only one at Miami’s Ultra Music Festival Ibiza,” Morillo says, laughing off the and Coachella. He’ll also commute idea that there would be any kind between Las Vegas and Ibiza in the of rivalry between the Mafia and summer. himself. “I love those guys and they Morillo’s Subliminal Sessions has love me, so we’ll party after.” been a Wednesday-night staple in If anything, this is just the opening Ibiza since 1997. Even with that kind salvo for dance music enthusiasts of veteran experience, he’s being who will face some tough choices careful about building something in the near future. Morillo’s Marnew at Marquee instead of just quee residency will occur on select replicating what he’s done off the Saturday nights in 2011—just like Spanish coast. three-time World’s Best DJ, Tiësto’s “I don’t normally do residencies. I monthly engagements at The Joint. don’t take them very lightly. I had the In fact, half of Morillo’s dates land on the same nights that Tiësto will be longest running residency in Ibiza at Pacha on Wednesdays—13 years so in town. far. That’s 13 summers doing every Thanks to DJ/producer David Wednesday,” he says. “[Las Vegas] Guetta, the Black Eyed Peas and is a high-turnover city. As far as the Lady Gaga, Morillo says American production values I’m bringing to it, pop music is starting to follow the it’s nothing like I’ve done before— same path Europe has been on for even at Pacha in Ibiza. The guys at the last 20 years. That’s not news Marquee have really let me out of here, of course, where there’s an the cage. It’s going to be a complete established DJ culture, but the idea experience from head to toe. From of DJ residencies leading to destinathe time you walk in to the time you tion travel is something that’s been leave. You’ve got to walk in and go, taking on a life of its own at least ‘Wow, what the fuck?’ It’s not only since Paul Oakenfold launched his going to be an aural pleasure but a full-scale production show, Perfecto, visual one as well.” at Rain. “I think not just Vegas, but the U.S. as a whole, it’s finally hapWant more Morillo? Visit WeeklySeven. pened: Dance music has become com/morillo to check out video of Morillo the culture. It’s become the culture Mayhem at Tao at Halloween night.

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As served at Social House inside Crystals at CityCenter, $14 A former world champion flair bartender turned worldclass mixologist, Social House bartender Christian Oldan knows precisely what to do to get—and more importantly, to keep—his patrons’ attention. Whether by deftly tossing his mixing tins around as he constructs Social House’s signature cocktails, or by combining the subtle sweetness of Sailor Jerry rum with the sneaky heat of Serrano peppers, all eyes are on Oldan. “This cocktail pairs really well with some of our dishes,” Oldan says. “The spiciness of the rum and the Serrano chili cuts the oiliness of the fish [Seven suggests the rich citrus-peel miso cod] without taking away the flavor of it.” Oldan recommends this cocktail to, well, socialites, of course, but also to “adventurous drinkers who are looking to discover new flavors and a new experience, not only in our cuisine, but also in our beverage program.” The fourth in Cocktail Culture’s series of peppered cocktails (read: it’s a trend), the Socialite takes us on a hiatus from tequila and demonstrates how rum, too, can benefit from a little sweet-heat. But really, who wouldn’t? ½ ounce freshly squeezed orange juice ½ ounce cranberry juice ¾ ounce Boiron passion fruit purée 1 ounce house-made Serrano chili syrup (recipe below) 2 ounces Sailor Jerry spiced rum A lotus root chip for garnish

Mildly spicy right up front with a lingering ﬂavor that is instantly recognizable. Ideal for muddling, infusions and garnishes. The heat is almost entirely in the seeds, so muddle slices whole but be sure to double-strain. Garnishes should always be seed-free.

Serrano (10,000-25,000 SHU) An elegant, reﬁned heat that sneaks up on you. Perfect for syrups and infusions (see recipe below), but again, the heat lies mainly with the seeds, which should be strained out or removed from garnishes.

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Mise en Place: Serrano chili syrup Using a juice extractor, process enough Serrano chili peppers to yield 1 ounce of juice. Combine up to the full ounce with 2.5 liters of chilled simple syrup (50/50 water and sugar, heated, dissolved and cooled) according to the desired level of heat (halve the recipe for less). Remember that peppers can vary greatly in their heat, so taste as you go!

HaBanero (100,000–350,000 SHU) Use extreme caution when working with these firebombs! Just 3-5 drops of fresh habanero juice will turn five liters of simple syrup fiery. When working with habaneros, do so outside, if it’s not windy; wear gloves and protective eyewear. In carefully controlled amounts, habaneros perform well in syrups, with tropical nectars, coconut, chocolate and Caribbean and South American spirits such as rum, cachaça and pisco.

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The Thai chili (red or green) packs a whole lotta heat into a small but powerful package. Great for syrups; seeds are too small to make a garnish edible. Thai chilies love rum, tequila and Southeast Asian ﬂavors such as lemongrass, ginger, lime and basil.

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice, shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a dried lotus root chip.

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A New York agency is turning being hip into a job

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By Irina Aleksander Two weeks ago, at the Bowery Hotel in New York’s Lower East Side, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, the younger half-sibling of the artistically diverse Ronson family, described what can happen nowadays to kids like herself who don’t have professional representation. “I had done this collaboration with a major clothing company,” she began. “And the person they hired to do the casting tried to charge me a fee. She tried to rip me off, basically. My friends and I did this shoot together, and one other person and I were the only ones she sent this e-mail to. I checked.” The week she met The Observer, Dexter-Jones, a petite blonde with a healthy tan, had turned 24. Her résumé includes attending Chapin and Dwight Schools, and Bard College; modeling in campaigns for Erin Kleinberg, Hogan, Louis Vuitton eye wear and sister Charlotte Ronson’s line; appearing in Teen Vogue as an It Girl; acting in a short film by Theo Wenner; and currently dating André Saraiva, the 39-year-old proprietor of the forthcoming Le Baron nightclub in New York—in other words, the kind of modern, post-debutante existence that has made her fashion sense and bicoastal connections appear “marketable.” “I’ve been offered design collaborations,” DexterJones said. “Companies ask me to direct short films. This week, I had a meeting with a brand because they don’t want to be thought of as a mother’s brand. They want to access younger people. A TV network that wants to do scripted shows contacted me, asking if I knew anyone who would be great for this or that.” Dexter-Jones wants to be an actress. She is working with an acting coach in the West Village and plans to relocate to L.A., temporarily, for pilot season. But while her agent, Emily Gerson Saines, at Brookside Artist Management, handles her acting career, Dexter-Jones has signed with the 2-month-old Collaborative Agency to handle all of her other, well, collaborations. The agency’s other clients include Gia Coppola (model, filmmaker and Sophia’s niece), Isabelle McNally (actress, model and Keith’s daughter), Lucien Marc Smith (artist, model) and Tracy Antonopoulos (filmmaker, model). A few years ago, Dexter-Jones would have been called a socialite, a title that has become increasingly difficult to dispense given how much young men and women have capitalized on their socializing by designing, modeling, acting, styling, photographing and DJ’ing—possibly all at the same time. These are the kids who take lunch meetings at the Smile and reconvene later that evening at the Jane or the Bowery hotels—activities that instead of intervening with their careers have actually helped make them. The marketing departments of companies such as

Annabelle Dexter-Jones, right, with half-sister Charlotte Ronson, has turned her fashion sense and connections into a commodity.

Levi’s, Club Monaco and Target—eager, in this economy, to re-brand, downsize and cozy up to the buyer looking for their local designer boutique—have begun asking them (often through Facebook, how else?) to lend their distinguished coolness to national brands: Could Dexter-Jones design a capsule collection? DJ a brand launch? What about television—does she want to do television? Jean Touitou, the founder of A.P.C., the French clothing brand, mused to Style.com on a recent trip to New York, after attending a dinner hosted by Purple magazine: “There are too many hip kids. Hip is not a job. It makes me worry about the future.” And yet his own marketing team might disagree: A.P.C.’s winter campaign last year featured Ms. Coppola. Being hip, it turns out, to Touitou’s dismay, is very much a career path. “It’s kind of a new phenomenon,” Dexter-Jones said. “If you want to record your own music, you can have a studio on your computer. With DJ’ing, you can just use an iPod. There is just access to more ﬁelds now, and that’s why people aren’t deﬁned. They can be a DJ, actress and three other things if they want.” Her older sister, Samantha Ronson, who is considered to be a very good DJ, approached the table, overhearing Dexter-Jones’ last line. “Jack of all trades, master of nothing,” Ronson sighed. Dexter-Jones became self-conscious and giggled. Ronson asked her sister to accompany her to the Jimmy Fallon show, where she was booked as a guest, and the ladies hopped into an SUV with tinted windows. “I think companies see me as being in the demograph-

ic they’re looking to achieve, people that they want to be watching or buying their products,” Dexter-Jones said. “I’m trying to think of a way to say this without sounding obnoxious. … I’m not really conscious of what I’m doing; I just do what I do, and if that works for you, and we can do something interesting together, then maybe it’s something we can beneﬁt from mutually.” According to Aaron Bakalar, the 23-year-old founder of the Collaborative Agency, the downtown stage of young, painfully hip 20-somethings hasn’t been harvested properly for business and marketing opportunities. “When it has been tapped into it, it’s been tapped the wrong way,” he said. “Like Cory Kennedy and the whole strict party girl thing and nothing else. This article was written somewhere calling us the ‘It Kid’ agency. But I’m 23; some of them are 24. We’re growing up now, and that whole downtown party ‘It Boy and Girl’ scene needs to grow up. I wanted to get their careers on track and introduce them to people who are working 9 to 5, marketing for a brand. Just, like, give them an adult self.” Bakalar declined to disclose his clients’ fees, but said that he consulted with modeling and talent agencies when considering pricing. “There is no standard rate. It’s like Hollywood—if someone gets paid a million dollars for something, it becomes a new standard. Last week, I had to call this guy and I said, ‘Look, they’re experienced and unique so if you’re going to use them, please try to have a bigger budget because they’re not just kids you’re hiring off the street anymore.’ They’re Continued on Page 72 November 11-17, 2010 Vegas Seven 69

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Madame Bovary Goes to Washington George W. Bush’s memoir reveals a romantic self-deception that rings familiar

Reading George W. Bush’s new memoir, Decision Points (Viking Adult, $28), and Lydia Davis’ brilliant new translation of Madame Bovary (Crown, $35) at the same time, I had a sudden illumination. George Bush is Emma Bovary. Don’t turn the page, s’il vous plaît. The unhappy wife of a prosaic country doctor, Emma Bovary attempts to soar out of her stiﬂing existence on the wings of romantic fantasy. Desperate to inhabit her illusions, she detaches herself from reality more and more as she rushes toward destruction. Or as Bush/Bovary describes his ﬁrst visit to Iraq after the American invasion: “Secrecy was so tight that the agents on the ranch were still unaware that I had slipped away for the most thrilling trip of my presidency.” Thrilling indeed. Emma sets her downfall in motion by allowing herself to be seduced by two cads, one a mediocre intellectual who shares her fantasies, the other a cynical land70 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

owner who manipulates them. Bush also had two agents of doom, one a mediocre intellectual who shared his fantasies (Donald Rumsfeld), the other a cynical landowner who manipulated them (Dick Cheney). Emma gets her delusions from romance novels, then proceeds to more intense intoxications like tragic opera and melodramatic poetry, ﬁnally graduating to violent pornography as she slips into a steamy affair. G.W.’s romance novel was his dad, the swashbuckling, world-beating former head of the CIA, vice president and president of the United States. Reminiscing about the “Day of Fire,” which is the swashbuckling name he gives to 9/11, Bush recalls a speech he made at the time: “‘Terrorism against our nation will not stand,’ I said. … Later I learned that my words had echoed Dad’s promise that ‘this aggression will not stand’ after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The repetition was not

intentional. … Dad’s words must have been buried in my subconscious, waiting to surface during another moment of crisis.” Thus did Junior graduate to the violent pornography of war. But even at war, Bush projected his self-serving, gauzy misapprehension of the world onto the people and events around him. If there is a more powerful example of the cruelty of romantic illusion than the following passage, I don’t know what it could be. Meeting a veteran of the Iraq war who had lost both his legs, Bush listens as the man, a former runner, bravely vows to run again. Several months later, “I met Christian on the South Lawn. He had two prosthetic legs made of carbon ﬁber. We took a couple of laps around the jogging track Bill Clinton had installed. … [Christian] did not look at himself as a victim. He was proud of what he had done in Iraq, and he hoped his example might inspire others. … Our country owed him our gratitude and support. I

owed him something more; I couldn’t let Iraq fail.” A decent man, even if he was a politician, might have resisted the impulse to use a savage maiming to justify what is widely considered an irrational rush to a senseless war. But not only does Bush Bovarize this man who has lost both his legs as “proud of what he had done in Iraq”—when he had done nothing except lose both his legs, for the sake of nothing—but interprets this personal tragedy as a romantic call for more personal tragedies. For a while, after the publication of Flaubert’s novel in 1857, “Bovarism” was used throughout Europe as a clinical term signifying a fantastical detachment from reality. From Don Quixote, to The Sorrows of Young Werther, to Nostromo, the afﬂiction of romantic delusion fascinated European writers. One of America’s less radiant contributions to civilization, however, has been to Continued on Page 74

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By Lee Siegel

Blame the bankers! At my club downtown, suits and ties are banned

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By Bob Morris The young receptionist at the front door of my downtown club, a trendy London import I’m not supposed to name or else I could lose my membership, looked us up and down and grimaced. She said suits were not appropriate and that we should at least remove our ties. “Club policy,” she said. “It’s about a relaxed ambience.” Suddenly, we were feeling anything but relaxed. I inflated like a puffer fish. “Are you kidding?” I sputtered. “It’s what the management wants,” she said. I paid no attention last spring when the new no-tie rule appeared in a club memo to discourage bankers and lawyers and “to stay true to our creative roots.” But when you’re with creative people who are dressed up and get such a harsh dressing down, it gets your attention. Did I have to explain that we weren’t bankers, but innocent publishing folk coming from a benefit for poets and authors? I get why bankers are unpopular, especially in the wake of the economic crisis. But does a tie alone signify you’re unpleasant and uninteresting? And isn’t there something to be said for a diversity of looks in any bar or restaurant? In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, you see plenty of skinny ties and V-neck sweaters. Thom Browne is doing gangbusters with little suits and ties. Pee Wee and his bow tie are back. And, according to a recent piece in The New York Times’ Style section, wingtips are hot and trendy, too. “People are dressing up again,” says stylist Stefan Campbell, soon to be seen as an arbiter on The Fashion Show on Bravo. “And the hipsters have taken back the tie.” Go for it, kids. But then again, formality appeals to me—from thankyou notes to school uniforms and seated dinners. When the White House barred a visiting boy last month (whose grandfather was a war hero) because he was in shorts and a T-shirt, it made sense. Sorry, son, we’re talking about the White House, not Six Flags. Imposing the right kind of standards is exactly what makes a place feel special. Perhaps that’s why the Harvard Club decided against allowing Eliot Spitzer to join last month. And that’s why most

uptown clubs ban jeans and will put you in a jacket and tie from their supply if you aren’t wearing your own. The BelAir Country Club in Los Angeles forbids wearing backward baseball caps. San Francisco’s Union Club forbids working or even reading about business. At New York’s Union Club, two people told me to go to the booth in the coatroom to use my phone, instead of using it in the foyer. “The members don’t want to see you doing business here,” a front-door attendant told me. “Just turn off the phone, get off the computer and you’re home.” Good for them, I thought. In fact, one of the things I loved about my club when it opened was the no-cellphone rule. Too bad it’s not the rule they were enforcing the night we showed up. We refused to ditch our jackets and ties. And we went upstairs to the lounge and managed to have a relaxing evening even though we weren’t in T-shirts and sneakers. Imagine! If they want to keep the bankers out, they should do it during the application process, not at the door. Besides, so many creative icons, including Spike Jonze, the director; Gilbert and George, the conceptual artists; and Ozwald Boateng, the fashion designer, wear suits as their uniforms. But I guess they aren’t welcome. Perhaps they can go down the street to the Standard. The guest list for the rooftop bar there may be tough, but as far as I know, suits and ties are still welcome. The Standard has its own standards. But none of them require that you look like a slob.

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learning they can’t low-ball these kids.” But can these kids maintain their downtown cred after signing their names to shoe companies? “They’re not a Kardashian that’s going to work with TrimSpa,” he replied. Later, he added, “The whole downtown scene in New York is pretty sensitive. If someone does a certain project or dyes their hair red, everyone is going to talk about it whether it’s on Facebook or at the Jane hotel on Saturday night. They’re very cautious.” Last week, Antonopoulos, a former Nylon intern whose close friends include Coppola and Sage Grazer, Bryan Grazer’s kid, spent three days shooting a European campaign for Levi’s that Bakalar negotiated the terms of. “Now, I can just focus on the creative side,” Antonopoulos said about having an agent. “And not have to call parents’ friends, asking them for advice on how to handle fees and being my own agent.” Asked whether she was worried the insular downtown world would accuse her of selling out, Antonopoulos said, “I’m not afraid of that. If you can make something that’s commercial good, then that’s the best work of art because more people see it. I think it’s awesome that kids in Middle America, who don’t know about some small indie scene, get to see amazing work, too.” Photographer Ryan McGinley’s “Go Forth” campaign last year was masterminded by the advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy, hired to reinvent Levi’s image. “Part of it is about discovering who makes the stuff,” said Tyler Whisnand, a creative director at the agency. “And when it’s Ryan McGinley, maybe the consumer is curious that he’s an artist and how interesting it is that Levi’s collaborates with someone like him and such a young person on a big campaign. … Whomever we work with is a reflection of Levi’s as a brand.” Increasingly, Whisnand has seen companies cleverly using local, sometimes recognizable faces in their national campaigns instead of professionals. “For Levi’s, it makes sense to use regular people and cast people who are interesting,” he said. “But if you’re talking about Ralph Lauren, they’re going to swing to high-end supermodels and celebrities. Nowadays, with the way the economy is, brands like J Crew and Tommy Hilfiger and Diesel, even, are thinking, ‘Let’s be a bit more realistic. Let’s not be so high end.’” In 2007, a creative director at Urban Outfitters contacted Jack Siegel, a young man who had a website called The Skullset, on which he posted photos of bicoastal kids looking beautiful, carefree and remarkably cool. Their request? Take photos of your friends, the way you already do, wearing our clothes. “I was surprised they asked me because I never had a job before for my pictures,” said Siegel, who is 24. It was perhaps inevitable that an agency (and soon agencies, perhaps) would be founded on that word of the early “aughts” we all memorized: lifestyle. “Someone realizes that brands are casting street people,” Whisnand explained, “and maybe that can be done easier with an agent to make sure their contracts are done properly. That will grow and grow and become the norm, and then brands will find a new way of doing it—YouTube or Twitter or Facebook casting sessions.” Because once the casting process becomes regulated, what’s missing is this: “I think it was Doris Day or another Hollywood starlet who got discovered at the drug store,” Whisnand said. “Just down at the five-and-dime having a malt and then in walks John Huston or whoever and says, ‘My God, kid, you should be in the movies!’”

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normalize what Europeans considered an exceptional state of mind. “Romantic delusion” is our middle name. With the ascent of George Bush, we enthroned our national psychosis. “September 11 redefined sacrifice,” Bush writes. “It redefined duty. And it redefined my job. The story of that week is the key to understanding my presidency. … I would pour my heart and soul into protecting the country, whatever it took.” Bovarism is the replacement of one’s deficiencies with aggrandizing counterfactuals. This pampered American aristocrat had never made a sacrifice. He had never felt the onus of duty. As for redefining his presidency, he earlier relates that because of his father’s tenure in the White House, “my exposure to the presidency had revealed the potential of the job.” The potential of the job? G.W. inherited the presidency the way college students get summer work through family connections, and that is exactly how he writes about it. Sitting in the Oval Office was no more exciting than that. Until the “Day of Fire” made the job his own. After 9/11, he had two “concerns,” Bush tells us. The first was “complacency.” He was afraid the public “would eventually move on” before the fight was won. A true leader would in fact have wanted the public to move on so that he himself could proceed to other pressing national needs. But not Bush/ Bovary. He had finally found the meaning of his lazily bequeathed presidency in the fulfillment of his adolescent fantasy. The former two-term president of the United States isn’t certain of much more about himself: “I’ve been asked if I consider myself an alcoholic. I can’t say for sure.” In the end, Emma accumulates mountainous debts as a result of her expensive delusions. Crippled by an unmanageable deficit, she swallows poison and kills herself. From the taxpayers’ point of view, I guess you could say she did the right thing. We, on the other hand, and to speak unromantically, should have been so lucky. Reinterpreting History By Merl Reagle

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Bad online and cell-phone habits can hurt your career By Kathy Kristof, Tribune Media Services Could bad cell-phone and online habits be damaging your ability to get a job or a promotion? From e-mail to what the Web says about you, there are more ways to make career mistakes than ever, experts say. And in today’s persistently tight job market, there’s little room for error. Social networking Facebook is the biggest Achilles’ heel of many young job applicants, said job coach Jodi Schneider, who is also editor of the DC Works website. That’s because recent graduates have spent years posting party photos, never thinking that the revealing costumes, hangover comments and photos of “Medical marijuana sold here” signs could raise red flags for potential employers. Managers will almost always search the Web to see what information they can find on a prospective job candidate, Schneider said. The postings might have been done in fun, but anything that doesn’t present a professional image could diminish your chance of getting a job. If you’re applying for work, the first thing you need to do is scrub your Facebook page by removing profane comments and photos of you acting badly. Also, reset your privacy controls to ensure that only specific friends can see your wall, where you and others post personal messages, said Vicky Oliver, author of 301 Smart Answers to Tough Business Etiquette Questions (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010). Even after you’re employed, you may need to be cautious about what you post on Facebook. Stories about people being fired because of their “I hate my job/boss/company” comments are legion. Also common—but harder to quantify—are employees who get passed over for promotions because their bosses or co-workers noticed multiple Farmville posts during work hours or were left unimpressed by the status “Calling in sick today—sick of work.” Cell-phone sins Another way to leave a bad first impression is to provide a cell-phone contact number that’s going to force a potential employer to listen to your favorite Eminem song or your clever “Hello? Helloooooo? I can’t hear you!” message. Unless you’re applying for the type of job that would make an imaginative message a marketing tool (and it would be a good idea to make it more imaginative than the above examples), record an outgoing message that’s simple and to the point, at least for as long as you’re looking for work. Don’t even be flip, Schneider advised. “When I hear ‘You know what to do,’ I do know what to do,” she said. “I hang up.” You may think a flip recording is a silly reason to nix a job candidate, she added. But when there are dozens of qualified people applying for the same position, employers can be picky. They’re looking for the slightest reason to pick one candidate over another. Don’t provide an excuse to put your résumé at the bottom of the stack.

Also be sure to turn off your cell phone before an in-person interview, Oliver said. We’re all accustomed to multitasking, like when we respond to texts and e-mail while having lunch with friends, she said. But when the lunch is with your boss—or your prospective boss—he or she is going to be about as impressed as your grandmother was when you sat texting at her birthday dinner. It’s best to turn off your phone so you can focus on what’s being said and not be distracted by the buzzing in your pocket. E-mail mistakes Schneider was about to contact a promising job candidate when she realized the person’s e-mail address spelled out “I hate Republicans.” It was a journalism position, which would require dealing with people of all parties. She tossed the résumé. If you’re applying for a job, get an e-mail address that’s simply your name@e-mail-provider-of-yourchoice. Accounts are free at major providers such as Yahoo and Google. You can keep your old address for your friends and reserve the new address for work. E-mailing a thank-you note for an in-person interview can also be a great marketing tool, Oliver said. It gives your prospective boss an easy way to contact you and maintain a dialogue. Address the e-mail like you would a formal letter, she suggested. If the boss responds more casually, you can follow suit. But forgo abbreviations, profanity and misspellings. In other words, keep all communication professional. Give your prospective employer every reason to believe that you’d be an asset to the team, regardless of whether you’re communicating with co-workers or clients. When on the job, be careful about sidebar electronic conversations, Oliver said. It can be tempting to flame the boss in a private e-mail between you and your best friend/co-worker while listening in on an endless conference call from your respective offices. But it’s easy to accidentally hit the “reply to all” button, which could get you fired. Additionally, if that friend isn’t as close to you as you think, he or she could forward the message. There’s no denying or equivocating about written communication, so e-mail only what you wouldn’t mind sharing publicly, Oliver said. If you must say something critical, walk down the hall and do it in person where you can be sure the conversation is private. “There is so much competition for jobs that the hurdles to getting in and moving up are a lot higher,” Schneider said. “If you really want to be considered for a job or a promotion, you have to seem like a serious professional in every public aspect of your life.” Kathy Kristof’s column is syndicated by Tribune Media Services. She welcomes comments and suggestions but regrets that she cannot respond to each one. E-mail her at kathykristof24@gmail.com.

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Empowering Autumn A local artist is taking the art world by storm, and in 12 years she’ll be old enough to toast her success

By Erika Pope

Photo by Anthony Mair

Happy birthday: Artist Autumn de Forest turned 9 on Oct. 27.

Painter Autumn de Forest bounds out of her large home in northwest Las Vegas and calls a cheerful hello. Wispythin and dressed in jeans and a matching pink ensemble, she projects a pleasantly sunny, carefree disposition. Inside the de Forest home, most walls are covered with non-objective paintings in vibrant colors. The 3-by-4 foot canvases are done in the oft-imitated Abstract Expressionist style pioneered by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Of course, all the ones seen here are by Autumn. Since her ﬁrst auction in February when she earned more than $100,000 in 16 minutes, the artist has become a mini media sensation. She’s been featured on Inside Edition, NBC’s Today and a Discovery Health special titled My Kid’s Smarter Than Me. All that success and she’s only 9 years old. “Her mother and I are incredibly ﬂattered when people call her a prodigy,” says her father, Doug de Forest, “but that’s not a term we use.” He’s an artist himself—a musician and composer, currently performing at V: The Ultimate Variety Show in the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood—but he

seems determined to stay in the background. He leads the way to a garage-size space attached to the main house by a narrow breezeway: Autumn’s studio. Resembling many painters’ studios, Autumn’s is adorned with paintings in various stages of completion: portraits, landscapes and some that are purely fanciful. There’s a heart encircled with bands of paint and a ﬂoating whale that invokes Magritte. From an art connoisseurship perspective, these fantasy landscapes and decorative tableaux are mostly unremarkable, save for the fact they were executed by a very young child. While she settles herself in a low-slung chair (“My dog always sits here, so you don’t want to,” she explains with a laugh), Doug busies himself in the studio, doing the cleaning, organizing and prep work he says is his only contribution to his daughter’s oeuvre. “I’m happy to subjugate myself to doing the menial labor,” he says. While Doug must be listening to our conversation, he refrains from interjecting, even when Autumn struggles with one or two questions related to her career timeline. Surely he could have helped, but it’s as if his silence is saying, “No stage parenting going on

here, in case you were wondering. And I know you were.” Autumn indicates she likes school (especially science), has a lot of friends, loves babies and animals and has no siblings, but considers her poodle, Ginger, her “sister.” She also has no trouble expounding upon the mechanics of and inspiration behind her paintings. Autumn is composed, polite, has a charmingly precise way of enunciating and, when she remembers something she wants to recount, is prone to putting her hands to her temples and saying, “Flashback!” Autumn also reveals a respectable knowledge about Andy Warhol, to whom she pays homage in one of the home’s most eye-catching paintings, “Gold Barbie Marilyn.” She created it using the tricky encaustic, waxpainting medium and liquid gold leaf. (“Jasper Johns!” she exclaims, when asked where she learned about encaustic.) Whereas Warhol used reference photographs to paint “Gold Marilyn,” Autumn used her Marilyn Monroe Barbie doll, which her mother—former actor and model Katherine Olsen de Forest—smilingly drops off. Katherine doesn’t linger and, like her husband, doesn’t intrude. Continued on Page 78 November 11-17, 2010 Vegas Seven 77

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Clockwise from left: Autumn using a vacuum cleaner as a paintbrush; “Barbie Marilyn”; and “The Messenger.”

contacted Valenty, who happened to be conducting an art auction at Lake Las Vegas in October. He invited the de Forests to stop by and say hello. Doug knew “sometimes you only have one chance,” so he loaded a rented van with Autumn’s latest output and, to hear him describe it, more or less ambushed the dealer. Prior to the auction, Doug and Katherine recall Autumn being apathetic about selling her work, but her eyes lit up when she saw the elegant, exciting atmosphere. Valenty, too, liked what he saw. He requested 12 paintings, which Autumn eagerly agreed to supply. That meant using her winter holiday to meet Valenty’s January deadline. Autumn sold more than $100,000 worth of paintings at her first auction and has continued to sell in the tens of thousands at each auction ever since. (The money goes into a trust.) Her auction presentations, which are viewable on YouTube, show audiences receiving her witty, effusive art explanations with delight. Back at home, Doug says, “We maintain an atmosphere of creative discipline.” The family cites Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown and Co., 2008) as a major influence, and minimizes TV and video games. They foster a philosophy of “creative equality,” implying that Autumn and her parents enjoy a fruitful exchange on a level playing field. Meanwhile, he and his wife were raised in families where their creative pursuits were thrust upon them

and their passions squelched. That is the opposite of what they hope they’re doing for their only child. About “doubting Thomases”—including close friends— who have questioned the authenticity of Autumn’s artwork or her parents’ choices, Katherine becomes aggrieved. “To think that I would ever do something that would potentially harm my child or is meant to be self-serving to me is absolutely ridiculous,” she says. “I would do anything for her, and all I want is for her to be happy.” What’s most surprising about meeting Autumn’s parents is that they don’t seem motivated by their daughter’s monetary success, nor do they trade on the concept of “prodigy.” Doug prefers to describe his daughter as “empowered.” He and Katherine convey a heartfelt belief that Autumn’s success lies within reach of any child whose parents are as resourceful and passionate as they are. “Wouldn’t it be amazing if we gave more children the tools to maximize their creative potential?” Doug muses. When asked if they’re concerned about what might become of Autumn’s career when the novelty of youth fades, Doug is forthright. “Look at all the most important artists in the last half century and they all had a gimmick,” he says. “We just want her to have a foundation that she’ll be able to build upon as long as she wants to. That’s what her success now is going to allow her to do.” Seeing as he also believes in the tenet that “there’s no better art, only better promotion,” it’s reasonable to assume the de Forest “team,” as Doug describes it, will succeed. For Autumn’s part, she says no matter what happens, “I’ll never stop being an artist. That’s what I do.”

De Forest photo by Anthony Mair

The painting itself is pretty good by any number of measures. Featuring a near exact likeness of the Marilyn Barbie, harmonious composition and enough difference from its inspiration, it stands alone as more than just a copycat piece. Autumn has bona fide skill. When asked why she chose to paint this subject, she says it was because Marilyn was a “sexy brand” in Warhol’s time. And when Autumn considered sexy brands today, Barbie seemed the obvious choice. Of everything she will say during the interview, this comment alone smacks of adult-coached talking points. On the other hand, a precocious child maneuvering in an adult world would naturally pick up some adult jargon along the way. Autumn quickly adds, “I love Barbie,” as she turns the Marilyn doll around in her hands. “This one is Marilyn from the movie The Seven Year Itch, I think—the one where her dress went whoosh!” “Whoosh!” probably didn’t figure into any talking points. As if to further nullify the idea that her career is crafted by grown-ups—a belief that has been expressed by more than one hard-working adult artist—Autumn has a series of fetus paintings. She first saw a fetus at the human-corpse-on-display show Body Worlds 1 in Denver about four years ago. “We considered for a long time whether we should take her, but she was so interested in it and responded so positively,” Katherine says. One tableau, titled “New Dripping Life,” features a sunrise with dozens of painted and sculpted fetuses. Autumn says some of these plastic, injection-molded figurines—which resemble medical models—were purchased by her dad “from the computer,” but she molded the tiniest ones out of Sculpey clay. None of the fetus series has sold; her parents don’t expect any will and are “fine” with that. They raised their eyebrows when the fetus paintings first appeared, but wouldn’t think of editing Autumn’s creative process. In fact, the de Forests seem humbled by their daughter’s abilities. They recall first being struck by Autumn’s prowess when, at age 5, she created a “Rothko-esque” piece out of wood and stain from the garage. Trips to Michaels—and eventually Dick Blick—ensued, and she soon produced her first three, small-scale canvas paintings, which now hang in the dining room. In spring 2009, after a few months of collecting canvases, the de Forests exhibited Autumn’s work at the Boulder City Art Festival. Doug encouraged Autumn to introduce herself to passersby and invite them to see her paintings. She took to the task with natural zeal and even won an honorable-mention ribbon. Subsequently, Doug researched representation for Autumn’s work and came across Ben Valenty, who has enjoyed success representing child artists beginning with Alexandra Nechita in the mid-’90s. In June 2009, Doug

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Stage

Rhinestones Are Forever The Liberace Museum may have closed, but Wayland Pickard keeps the legend alive By Rosalie Miletich

Forever Young Rod Stewart’s energetic performance may win him a permanent gig at Caesars By Cindi Reed “Whatever it is, he’s still got it.” My concert companion said with an ear-to-ear grin after hearing Rod Stewart’s opening song, “Love Train.” The enthusiastic crowd seemed to agree. And if her opinion is any indication—she is the ideal demographic by the way, a Baby Boomer who saw him perform in the ’70s—then we can expect Stewart’s stint to turn into something more. 80 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

the spare stage, but a projection screen allows the audience to see Pickard’s hands ﬂy across the piano. A disco ball appears during Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The tribute to Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Cats features an animation of city streets. He ﬁnishes the show with a sentimental version of “I’ll Be Seeing You,” complete with a slideshow of Liberace with his family through the years. He’s escorted off the stage with a pair of angel’s wings upon his shoulders, telling the audience that he’s required back in heaven. If you’re in the mood for a quality impersonation with quips about fashion and the afterlife, this show is for you. 2 p.m. Sun-Thu at Saxe Theater in the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood. $40-$50, 932-1818. A portion of sales will support the Liberace Foundation scholarship fund.

Stewart took off his tangerine jacket and rolled up his sleeves to sing the next song, “Forever Young.” It’s as if the lyrics have a preservative effect on the 65-year-old with a pregnant wife. Throughout, an incredibly highresolution video screen focused on Stewart, while background animated visuals accompanied his set list—a mix of his hits and standards (Cole Porter’s “I Get a Kick Out of You” from his new album, Fly Me to the Moon…The Great American Songbook, Volume V ). After 90 minutes of Stewart singing, waggling his bum and kicking soccer balls into the audience, the English Grammywinner proved he’s perfect to replace the likes of Cher, Elton John and Bette Midler. The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, 8 p.m. Nov. 14, 17, 18, 20 and 21, $69- $225, (800)745-3000.

Rod Stweart photo by Frank Miraglia

In producer Randy Nolen’s new show at the David Saxe theater, Liberace: Music and Memories, Liberace is allowed a few hours from heaven to spend on Earth and entertain his fans. Sporting convincing prosthetics, dazzling costumes and considerable charm, Wayland Pickard performs his impersonation with ease, nailing Liberace’s signature wink and Wisconsin accent. He hits the piano with flair, accenting the flourishes and flowing arpeggios that defined Liberace’s musical style. In between numbers, he keeps up a light comedic rapport with the audience. Judging from the mature audience, this show appeals to those who remember Liberace’s heyday. Pickard makes numerous allusions to Lawrence Welk and ’50s-era celebrities—for younger viewers, he explains: “I’m your mother’s Elton John.” A large piano and candelabra grace

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CD Reviews

By Jarret Keene

BAROQUE-POP

Elizabeth & the Catapult The Other Side of Zero (Verve Forecast) Musical and melodic to a fault, Brooklyn’s imaginative popsters Elizabeth & the Catapult have succeeded in launching another minor opus with this sophomore album. It’s a sonically diverse affair that deﬁes easy categorization. Singer/songwriter/ keyboardist Elizabeth Ziman goes from an acoustic-guitar-and-symphonic-stringed, heartbroken torch song (“Thank You”) to rhythm-heavy, world music-ﬂavored jam (“Go Away My Lover”) at the drop of an Ella Fitzgerald piano fakebook. Ziman’s lyrics, meanwhile, are deft, clever, with just a touch of melancholy. “Best not to whine/before you’re dragged under,” she notes in the cutely titled “The Horse and the Missing Cart.” It’s not all intellect, however; there’s a sensual side to the band, as in the gorgeous ballad “Open Book,” better than anything the much-admired Norah Jones has ever done. Indeed, if you enjoy piano-based indie-rock with a bit of bite and a dollop of darkness, Zero is for you. ★★★★✩

POST-ROOTS

Black Dub Black Dub (Red Ink) As producer, Daniel Lanois has helped bring to life so many acclaimed, best-selling albums—Peter Gabriel’s So, U2’s The Joshua Tree, Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, to name a few—that it boggles the critic’s mind. But Lanois’ own solo efforts are equally as compelling and celebrated, even if his sales are nowhere near platinum. His 2003 masterpiece, Shine, stands among “the aughts” best, perfectly encapsulating his atmospheric style while showcasing his little-known songwriting abilities. Now Lanois has formed a supergroup of sorts, featuring the late Chris Whitley’s daughter, vocalist Trixie, with bassist Daryl Johnson and New Orleans journeyman drummer Brian Blade. The project, Black Dub, is indeed a deep, dark, rootsy collaboration. The funky “Nomad” rides a wicked bass line, Whitley’s Joplinesque voice blending nicely with Lanois’ and Johnsons’ Curtis Mayﬁeld falsetto backgrounds. The apocalyptic, reggae-kissed groove of “Silverado” is another standout, along with the shimmering, post-rock crescendo of “Ring the Alarm.” A brilliant, moody debut. ★★★★✩

ALT-METAL

The Ocean Anthropocentric (Metal Blade) This German post-metal collective’s new album has been hotly anticipated by the metal community for an obvious reason: Few other bands are able to marry absolutely devastating prog-guitar riffs with cerebral lyrical content. This time the concept—because an alt-metal album must always have a concept, right?—is Russian author Dostoyevsky’s parable “The Grand Inquisitor,” from his dark epic novel The Brothers Karamazov, in which Christ returns, is interrogated and quickly sentenced to death by fire. As far as this critic can tell, The Ocean is no Christian outfit, but they’re definitely seekers of the spiritual. Anthropocentric seethes with the anger that characterizes those striving for transcendence in the McWasteland. Hate to draw the comparison, but moments here, particularly the title track, bring to mind the dark progressive grunge of Tool. That is, until flashpoints like the lacerating “Sewers of the Soul” pulverize your poor eardrums. Definitely among my Top 10 metal releases this year, Anthropocentric deserves a wide audience. ★★★✩✩

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From literate indie to psychedelic metal By Jarret Keene In years past, the Las Vegas live music offerings seemed to always snow over with blandness by November. Not in 2010. As the holidays threaten to crush my sanity, the more great shows fill up my calendar. Here are a few must-sees this week. First, Brooklyn’s The Hold Steady— the thinker’s indie-rock band—will sway House of Blues on Nov. 12. Very literate vocalist Craig Finn’s lyrics are brilliant and specific in their rough-hewn poetry, even if his popsong constructions are fairly standard. Still, a tune like “The Sweet Part of the City” is art of the highest caliber in the way it articulates the slim joy of living somewhere that’s cool: “The part with the bars and restaurants/So we shot ourselves out into outer space/It was tough to place the aftertaste/It was stark but it was spacious.” Living in the downtown Las Vegas Arts District, I know exactly what he means. The band’s latest album, Heaven Is Whenever, is full of punk-rock-filtered-through-Springsteengrade-craftmanship moments. Too cerebral for you? In that case, try some shoe-gaze doom (talking My Bloody Valentine meets Black Sabbath) and brace your internal organs for only the second viscera-pounding, mind-expanding Vegas appearance of Portland, Ore., trio Megaton Leviathan, who will unleash a devastating, darkly psychedelic wallop at Brass Lounge on Nov. 12. Like a bad acid trip in outer space, this band will transport your eardrums into unbelievable places. Megaton Leviathan is touring in support of its just-released debut full-length, Water Wealth Hell on Earth, and it’s one of the top metal releases of 2010. Forget that noodling jamband crap; the Leviathan will swallow the precious yolk of your consciousness whole.

On the brutal crust-punk end of things, Trap Them is coming to Vegas to obliterate Area 702 Indoor Skate Park (Nov. 16, $19). This Salem, N.H., quartet exerts a teenage eardrum-smashing grindcore attack, equal parts Black Flag (hardcore), Swans (noise), and Entombed (death metal). Taking their name from the 1977 Italian cannibal gorefest flick Trap Them and Kill Them, these guys are visceral to a fault, their discordant, angular guitar riffing hung against a violent backdrop of jackhammering drums. But there’s also a minimalist, conceptual element (especially evident in the lyrics) to what they do that borrows from other unlikely forms such as, say, spoken-word poetry, elevating Trap Them to a level above the reach of most loutish extreme music acts. If you enjoy an edgy, arty take on ye olde punk rock, you will totally groove on this. The band performs with Every Time I Die and Howl. Finally, if it’s been a while since you’ve enjoyed a kick-ass Southern blues-rock band, please check out the searing John Zito. Dude plays a lot of covers, but they’re anything but faithful. Zito instead brings his own pyrotechnical flair to every riff and vocal line. He’s got an arsenal of killer originals that stand up against any of his classic renditions, too. Catch him and his powerhouse band at Divebar on Nov. 15. Man, what a week. Hopefully the last two months of my KISS calendar won’t collapse under the weight of all this great live music. Got an extra ticket for Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Nov. 27 appearance at Thomas & Mack? Contact jarret_keene@yahoo.com.

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Sites to see By Geoff Carter GETTING JIGGLY WITH IT (myjelloamericans.blogspot.com) I don’t have a whole lot of love in my heart for Jell-O shots. In my mind, they’re nothing but ammunition for those “won’t somebody think of the children” busybodies who are trying to get Prohibition back on the books. That said, I’m always impressed by great recipes and great art, and I have to admit that My Jello Americans spotlights both these things. These are Jell-O shots made by confectioners, by mixologists, by alchemists—and many of them look terrific. I particularly like the Jell-O-and-chocolate-vodka butterflies, and the absinthe shot crafted to look like Van Gogh’s ear. Scarfing these art pieces down at a bar would be unthinkable ... but if you get somebody drunk enough, you know, they’ll suck down any damn thing.

BACK TO THE OLD HOUSE (lettershome.ca) My childhood home is in Mission Viejo, Calif. (That’s not entirely true: I lived in a railcar apartment in northern New Jersey until I was 6 years old, but I have scarce memory of it.) I can look at my old house pretty much any time I want to courtesy of Google Street View, and if my feelings for the place turn particularly maudlin I can always go visit it. (Pay no attention to the teary-eyed man in a rental car parked in a nice neighborhood that just happens to be next to an elementary school.) But here’s the thing: It’s just a house, now. Other people have invested it with their hopes and fears. It doesn’t even look the same as it did when I lived there. I can’t expect the house to recognize me, either, unless I write it a letter beforehand—and that’s where Letters Home comes in. This thoughtful blog (with unfortunate, self-loading music ﬁles) is a clearing house for letters to the places where we once lived. You can read the letters that others have written, or if you’re so inclined, you can write one yourself; it’s wonderfully cathartic doing either. I’m going to write mine soon, and hope that the new occupants of my old home don’t read it; I may let slip about the “time capsule” I hid in one of the walls. I don’t even remember what I put in there.

PEW PEW PEW (erkie.github.com) This clever script allows you to destroy your favorite Web pages in the style of the classic arcade game Asteroids. All that’s missing is the sound effects, but if you read from the three-word script I’ve provided above, you should be ﬁne.

Journalist Geoff Carter is a Las Vegas native living in Seattle, land of virtual titillation. 84 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

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Movies

General Hospital’s James Franco in his latest tour-de-force performance.

From Rock Bottom to Top The masterfully made true-life survival story of one brave hiker By Rex Reed Multi-tasking graduate student, filmmaker, actor, poet, author and sometime soap star James Franco is back in an adrenaline rush called 127 Hours, director Danny Boyle’s first film since winning the Oscar two years ago for Slumdog Millionaire. It’s the most harrowing film of the year. In case you haven’t been paying attention, this is the real-life tale of Aron Ralston, a fit, adventurous all-American dude. While on an arduous hiking trip alone in April 2003, he fell through a crevice on a dangerous Utah canyon climb and crashed to the bottom of a gorge, crushed in a vise by an unmovable boulder. We watch helplessly as he lives through 127 hours of desperation—running out of water, losing circulation, trying to set up a rope pulley with one hand, hallucinating about rescue missions, possible escapes, girls and Perrier commercials, cursing himself for his own sense of reality (he arrogantly neglected to tell anyone where he was going). After five days of screaming for help to no avail, and trying everything an accomplished climber knew how to do to free himself, he was so dehydrated and half-conscious from loss of blood that he was forced to make a wrenching physical and emotional decision few people (luckily) have ever faced: The only way to stay alive was to cut off his right arm. The result was so hair-raising that Ralston wrote a book about it, Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Atria Books, 20004), and served as a technical adviser on the film, showing Franco the videotapes he made in the canyon when he thought he was dying, even acting out the entire experience on the actual locations in the Utah desert near Moab where it happened. The dedicated, diverse Franco was stuck in a hole long enough to read the entire collected works of Proust, but thanks to Boyle’s 86 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

energy, for a story about a man who cannot move, the ordeal moves at a pace that keeps you breathless. As a true survival story, it’s so intense that preview audiences at various film festivals have fainted and been carried away on stretchers. Boyle captures the inner panic under the canyon surface and juxtaposes that desperation with the vastness of the sunlit world above. The use of tiny digital cameras and improvisational working methods gives the movie spontaneity without sacrificing any of the details of Ralston’s mind-blowing situation. Far from a Hollywood version of an outdoor thrill ride from the pages of Boy’s Life, the film takes into account the dangers of Ralston’s passion for risk, even holds his arrogance partially accountable for what happened. Despite what an experienced climber knows from experience, luck can run out at any time. The director does everything that can be done in a man vs. nature epic to keep it alive and spinning, and so does his star. In what is essentially a one-man tour de force, Franco makes you feel every minute of this torture in a performance that is both grueling and captivating. Drifting into childhood reveries, living by his wits while facing certain death and recording everything with a camcorder held in his left hand, he acts in the moment and you live it with him, trapped by his side and vicariously sharing every mood shift. Fraught with tension, yet never claustrophobic, 127 Hours is a phenomenal piece of work in which a fine actor and an innovatively cinematic director join forces to keep you gasping for oxygen all the way. Rex Reed is the film critic for the New York Observer.

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Movies

When Bad Is Just Bad

Kids comedy Megamind fails to show the good side of villainy By Cole Smithey

Riffing on the same villain-as-good-guy motif that contributed to the confusion of this year’s Despicable Me, Megamind is a resounding flop. Although its $46 million opening weekend ticket sales say otherwise. The film opens with a lightly seeded sociological experiment involving the influence of environment over a person’s life path: Two wacky babies from far-off galaxies take very different paths when they arrive on Earth. As an infant, the future super-hero Metro Man lands in the lap of luxury with a wealthy family. The blue-skinned Megamind hits smack in prison. Brad Pitt voices Metro City’s much beloved if patronizing Metro Man who must continually face off against his ex-con rival, Megamind (Will Ferrell), and space-fish assistant Minion (David Cross). Megamind finally gets a leg up on his annoyingly charismatic opponent but doesn’t have much of a plan for running the town, much less the world, without an enemy of Metro Man’s stature. So Megamind transforms a geeky television news cameraman named Hal ( Jonah Hill) into his newest adversary using a dash of Metro

DreamWorks gives new faces to the voices of Tina Fey and Will Ferrell.

Man’s DNA. Local news broadcaster Roxanne Ritchi (Tina Fey) is caught in the middle as every hero’s and villain’s love object. We know from Pitt’s voice that Metro Man’s patriotism is implacable, and yet we later discover a loose stitch in our presumption. Everyone, even Fey’s Roxanne is duplicitous. As the story hits its early surprise plot twist, we witness a reﬂection of America’s social collapse with Megamind overseeing the carnage of infrastructure. The ﬁlmmakers make a direct visual correlation between Megamind and President Obama during a public address speech on an outdoor staircase where

giant Shepard Fairey-inspired red-and-blue posters show Megamind’s face similar to Obama’s pose in Fairey’s original poster. However, instead of the famous “Yes We Can” slogan, here we’re openly told “No We Can’t.” This type of political satire could be construed as evidence that we are living in an age of reverse-engineered misinformation, or at least message-loaded rhetoric. Tedious and mechanical, Megamind is an animated movie parents will regret taking their kids to see. Even the 3-D effects are lame.

Megamind (PG)

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By Cole Smithey

SHORT REviEwS

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (R) ★★★★✩

Alex Gibney’s documentary examines New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s downfall. The use of actress Wrenn Schmidt to perform transcribed interviews with Spitzer’s favored escort proves a masterstroke of creative substitution. Gibney captures a sense of New York’s vicious political skullduggery that launched the federal investigation into the now infamous Emperors Club. 88 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

Due Date (R) ★★★★✩

This conventional road picture draws on the delightful chemistry between Robert Downey Jr. and Zack Galifianakis. On his way to Hollywood to follow his dreams Ethan (Galifianakis) is an effeminate, scarf-wearing misfit who spoils straight-arrow Peter Highman’s (Downey) flight plans. Outrageous pratfalls and slapstick humor ensue. Due Date is a laugh-out-loud movie that earns its R-rating.

Fair Game (PG-13)

★★★★✩

The Bush Administration’s outrageously vengeful act of outing veteran undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame gets a vigorous telling under Doug Liman’s top-notch direction. The soul of the story hinges on the relationship between Valerie and her husband, a former U.S. diplomat. In the blink of an eye his wife goes from having a top-secret identity to posing a direct threat against the lives of her trusted international contacts.

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (PG)

★★✩✩✩

Lush animation can’t disguise a tone-deaf narrative. Screenwriters John Orloff and Emil Stern fumble with story construction about two young owl brothers (Soren and Kludd) who are kidnapped. The stunning visuals are at odds with the poorly executed tale. As for the ﬁlm’s timid 3-D effects, once again ﬁlmmakers are afraid to “break the window.”

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Movies

Saw 3D (R)

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Paranormal Activity 2 (R)

★★★✩✩

The year of worthless 3-D effects rolls on with the ﬁnal installment to the gimmicky horror franchise. With gallons of fake blood, director Kevin Greutert (Saw VI) takes audiences through a gauntlet of timed killing machines ostensibly designed by the prodigious serial killer known as Jigsaw (Tobin Bell). Slasher ﬂicks have never been big on story, but the Saw franchise takes screenwriting back to the Stone Age.

The low-budget sequel to last year’s Blair Witch-inspired horror movie relies on a found-document captured by surveillance cameras. Low on atmosphere, the anti-narrative involves a family of four, their Latina housekeeper, and the wife’s sister and brother-in-law. An utter lack of any thematic impulse beyond making its audience periodically jump in their seats makes the movie feel like a student ﬁlm.

Jackass 3D (R)

The Social Network (PG-13)

★★★★✩

What began as a juvenile MTV series in 2000 has gone on to inspire laughter via the Jackass franchise’s ever-funnier movies. As with the ﬁrst two ﬁlms, a carnival atmosphere of perverse male-centric performance art comedy pervades. It’s just funny watching people who are willing to get stung by bees. Yes, it’s over-the-top-gross-out humor but if you can’t laugh at this, you can’t laugh at nothin’.

★★★★★

Everybody will love David Fincher’s fast-paced drama about the meteoric rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Jesse Eisenberg gives Zuckerberg an acidtongued, fast-twitch cyberpunk attitude. Aaron Sorkin’s dazzling script toggles between law ofﬁce depositions and ﬂashback sequences. Context and tone are everything in a pitch-perfect drama about the cold-blooded Zuckerberg and the friends he lost on the way up.

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Secretariat (PG)

★★★✩✩

This dramatic ﬁlm follows the relationship between Penny Chenery Tweedy (Diane Lane) and the thoroughbred she guides to racing success in the early ’70s. Crafted as a PG-rated entertainment, as opposed to the PG-13 Seabiscuit (2003), this is a polished family movie. Lane and John Malkovich (as a veteran horse trainer) deliver showcase performances, and choreographed horserace sequences capture the excitement of the races. 90

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Dining Fireﬂy introduced Las Vegas to paella.

Spanish Evolution Fireﬂy’s Summerlin expansion is the latest sign of life in the tapas trend

By Max Jacobson Tapas, those savory little bar dishes from Spain originally eaten while standing, have taken a long time to catch on in this country. But the genre is ﬁnally hitting its stride, thanks to places such as Julian Serrano at Aria, and a host of other tapas restaurants scattered around the city. The most popular example is also one of Continued on Page 94

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Diner’s Notebook

Fireﬂy took over the old Z’Tejas space on West Sahara.

Vegas lands a New York classic—and vice versa By Max Jacobson

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the city’s first: Firefly, which opened along Paradise Road several years ago. In the past year, John Simmons opened two more branches, one downtown at the Plaza and the other in Summerlin last month. It brings credibility to the genre that this chef/owner, who has brought dishes such as paella, Spanish anchovies and merguez sausage to the Vegas dining public, has been such a passionate advocate for Spanish cooking. Small dishes have become a force in the dining world nationally. It was only a matter of time before the trend caught on in Las Vegas. This new Firefly occupies a space that once belonged to Z’Tejas, and it has been thoroughly redone. Now the wallpaper is lurid red, and there are fireplaces in the main dining room and outside, on a heated patio. That’s where my dining companion and I sat during my last visit, because the main area was booked solid. Even the bar tables—tall tables where you’ll perch on tall stools—had a waiting list. I’ve been here three times, and each time both the parking lot and the restaurant were jammed to the gills. Things get off to a tepid start with complimentary Spanish olives and almond butter, plus herb-brushed house bread. The olives are delicious but the bread is cold, so it’s hard to spread the butter. The cold tapas on the Firefly menu have merit, such as boquerones (Spanish white anchovies served on toast with roasted red peppers) and a terrific sausage plate (lomo and chorizo) accompanied by cornichons, capers and mustard. I would have liked the beet salad with goat cheese more had it had less cheese and more beets, and the house gazpacho is overly acidic. But most of the hot tapas—especially the ones based on seafood, meat or poultry—are excellent, although larger portioned than their Spanish cousins. I’ll always order a plate of Padron peppers (mild, salty and pungent) every time I come here. You eat every part except the stems. The ham-and-cheese croquettes need more ham, but they are deftly fried and a splatter of pink mayo makes them swooningly rich. One of my favorites here is chorizo clams: two kinds of sausage and clams in the shell in a bath of white wine, garlic and herbs. And even better is merguez, spicy lamb sausage that originated in Morocco. It is long, lean and blackened. 94 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

If meatballs are your thing, try albondigas, spiked with cumin. Chicken skewers are ho-hum, without much flavor. Ditto the crispy duck rolls, a deep-fried version that lacks the taste of the bird it is named for. The entrées—none more than $20, and all huge enough to feed two—are not what the restaurant is pushing, really, but they are among the best things to come out of the kitchen. The paella can’t cut it compared with the one at Julian Serrano, but at half the price it’s more than reasonable, with crunchy rice on the underside and good flavors. There is also an excellent herb-roasted chicken and a tasty rib-eye steak, both served with the terrific house fries. Naturally there is sangria: red, white or sparkling, spiked with fresh fruit that has been marinating in the wine for three days. For dessert, try the toothsome chocolate and cherry bread pudding, or the terrific chocolate tres leches cake, which drools milk when sliced. A little bit of Spain has made a three-point landing in Summerlin.

New York and San Francisco figure prominently into this week’s notebook, as well as local happenings. One of New York’s most famous institutions, the watering hole and social epicenter P.J Clarke’s, is slated to open at the Forum Shops at Caesars in early December. Frank Sinatra, Joan Crawford and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are a few of the celebs who were regulars at P.J. Clarke’s 1884, the original location. The menu will include its classic Cobb salad, French onion soup and Maryland handpicked lump crab cakes. Meanwhile, at 24 Fifth Ave., a Las Vegas institution, the vaunted Thai restaurant Lotus of Siam, has opened a branch. Call it man bites dog, in restaurant terms. When a New York restaurant opens here, it makes news. That’s what is about to happen at the new Cosmopolitan, where Scarpetta, STK and Milos—all from the Big Apple—will open in December. But Lotus is the first restaurant that originated in Las Vegas to storm the Apple. The location will be modest and offer a limited menu compared with the one here. New York City can use a great Thai restaurant. Now it will have one. With San Francisco gaga over the success of the Giants, One Market, a restaurant next to the Ferry Building at 1 Market St., feels more inviting than ever. The restaurant was started by our own Bradley Ogden of the Lark Creek Restaurant Group, and the swank décor and prime location make it the perfect place for a leisurely lunch. What a deal it is: $22.50 gets you a starter plus a main course. I’d swim back to the Bay Area for another shot at the lightly smoked trout with potato rosti and pancetta starter, Bradley’s Caesar, or mains such as rice-crusted Petrale sole and a perfectly roasted half chicken, cipollini onions and natural jus. Nearly all products here, as at Bradley Ogden in Caesars Palace, are organic and sustainable. Call 415-777-5577 if you’re in the neighborhood. Finally, the food of Taiwan is ably represented at a new Chinese deli, Ay Chung, at 5115 Spring Mountain Road. Taiwanese street dishes are the ticket here, and the authenticity level is high. I love a gooey mess they call oyster pancake, really an omelet on top of a sticky rice flour pancake laced with fresh oysters, and topped with a spicy red sauce. Fish ball soup, Chinese rice dumplings, crispy pork chops, marinated duck wings and various plate lunches are served, along with a variety of fruit juices, exotic teas and yogurt drinks. Hungry, yet?

9560 W. Sahara Ave., 834-3814. Open 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Sun-Thu, until midnight Fri-Sat. Dinner for two, $35-$73.

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One of the best Fireﬂy tapas: chorizo clams.

Dining

Dishing

“Gotta-Have-It” Roll at Tiger Sushi

Whether it’s catering large corporate events or serving customers at its sushi bar, the Tiger delivers outstanding sushi. This giant sushi roll, a favorite among locals, is noted not only for its size but its spicy crab ﬂavor that is balanced with cream cheese and avocado. The roll also contains shrimp tempura and is drizzled in a barbecue eel sauce. $10.50, 4825 S. Rainbow Blvd., 873-3288.

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Beef Wellington at Eiffel Tower

Chef Joung Sohn prepares classic dishes by her boss and mentor, Jean Joho, and perhaps none is more of a throwback than this tenderloin of beef smeared with a mushroom puree and wrapped in puff pastry. Once, like Baked Alaska, it was the darling of the Continental menu. Now it’s a relic. $56, in Paris, 948-6937.

Salmon at Off the Strip

At this popular neighborhood restaurant, the chef delicately seasons fresh salmon, grills it and ﬁnishes it in the oven with rosemary-pimento butter. The dish is served with a choice of rice or pasta, and zucchinis or potato pie. $23, 10670 Southern Highlands Parkway, 2022448; 9837 W. Tropicana Ave., 876-3080.

The Executive at Dad’s Grilled Cheese

This place has potential, if they ever decide to get creative with their sandwiches. But this one doesn’t need to be improved. It’s Muenster, Swiss and cheddar on Italian bread, with grilled onions, avocado, mushrooms and tomato. $6, 5255 S. Decatur Blvd., 247-6640.

Sushi, Salmon and the Executive photos by Anthony Mair

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Yes, there is life along that slight stretch of Sahara Avenue just past Palace Station, so stop with the eyerolling. If you’ve bothered to study beyond the low-rent, mason-bricked apartments, fetish shops and the interesting fashions of those hanging out at the bus shelters, you could be in for a lively time. Beyond the odd bar and coach deli in a parking lot, there’s an undercurrent of odd personality that surrounds the perks in this neighborhood. I enjoy hanging out on this piece of road between Valley View and Decatur boulevards for its melting pot of international buoyancy, its general affability and its faint vibe One of the delightful creations at Pastry Palace. of a David Lynch movie—you know, delights. It’s particularly fun to see the where deceptively uneventful exteriors pastries vary from day to day, but you can are met with nervy insinuation. Enough depend on good slices of cake. Noteworalready. Here’s the lip service on good thy, too, are pastries with an Armenian curry and worthy martinis: bent, such as the dolmas (shells stuffed with Egg & I. A staple of this city for more vegetable or meat) and the heaven-sent than 20 years, this casual restaurant kadayif (shredded dough with nut filling delivers a banner selection of breakfast and syrup). They’ve earned your attenand brunch items—the standouts, of course, being the egg-related dishes. Old tion. 4523 W. Sahara Ave., 251-1555. Samosa Factory Indian Cuisine. standards include the breakfast burritos: Sure, the light and flaky samosas are firstfour eggs, diced bacon, bell peppers, rate, but you can go beyond the literal onions, potatoes, cheese here. This joint has a variety of and salsa. The omelets strong standards, such as are why I’m here, spinach lamb, beef curry, though. A favorite is the tandoori chicken and, best kickin’ Kay’s Special: a of all, a ripping vegetarspinach omelet stuffed ian selection. The baigan with artichokes, Swiss bharta (charbroiled cheese, parmesan, eggplant, onions garlic and cream and tomato) and cheese, topped with malai kofta korma fresh tomatoes and feta (potato, carrot, cheese. Good sandwiches, paneer, pea kofta salads and service also in a coconut abound. 4533 W. Sahara cream sauce) are Ave., Suite 5, 364-9686. to be cherished. Tacos Mexico. The small Some good, cheap lunch opparking lot is often hogged by a Univitions include aloo matter (potatoes sion or Telemundo van in the middle of and green peas) and baby spinach curry. the day, and that goes quite a ways in demonstrating authenticity for me. Check 4604 W. Sahara Ave., Suite 6, 258-9196. Cellar Lounge. This underground out the specials written in faded black markers on crepe paper duct-taped to the watering spot serves its purpose for good walls. The food is quick, cheap and filling. drinks and a low-maintenance atmosphere. The dimly lit cellar connects all The carne asada burrito and the threethe right dots: good martinis; a nonjudgtacos plate (with rice, beans and a drink mental mix of Bohemians, tourists and for $5) are popular, but try the “tongue” those who just got off the swing shift; or “guts” taco if you have the moxie for that sort of thing. In true Vegas fashion, it fine acoustics as would befit a basement never blinks to sleep with a 24/7 schedule. with good live acts; and a breezy outdoor courtyard with a wine bar (for those 3820 W. Sahara Ave., 444-1171. who want to reconnect with the outside Pastry Palace. Although widely world). For a cozy, discreet quality, what acknowledged for its specialty cakes more could the jaded night-fly need? (weddings, baby showers, anniversaries), 3601 W. Sahara Ave., 362-6268. this small, lovely bakery holds a line of

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Travel

Think Ski!

Time to book your reservations: Here are seven regional resorts that have upped the ante for the new season By Carla Ferreira Hard to believe, with triple-digit temperatures still a fresh memory, but the ski season is just around the corner. Most hills open around Thanksgiving weekend and have already received some serious snow. In preparation, many resorts spent the summer getting face-lifts and adding amenities such as snowmaking machines, spiffy chairlifts and trick parks. Here’s a sampling of what’s new out West: Bald Mountain in Sun Valley, Idaho. Known as “Hollywood in the Mountains” and the ﬁrst ski resort in North America, Sun Valley’s Bald Mountain infuses 2010 technology with 1930s class. The hill still has some old-time chairlifts, but now there’s also a new gondola-style lift, the Roundhouse Express, which opened last year and takes skiers/pedestrians up 2,000 feet in eight minutes to a 1930s sit-down French restaurant, the Roundhouse. The gondola also brings skiers/boarders a third of the way up the hill, where they can ski down the River Run side or hop on an adjoining chair and go to the top. Bald Mountain also has a superpipe, on the Warm Springs side, with 18-foot walls, plus a terrain park with 24 new rails, boxes and jibs, and the bunny hill, Dollar Mountain. Scheduled opening: Thanksgiving. SunValley.com, 208-622-4111. Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort. To help get you up the mountain this season, the resort will launch a Ski Vegas Ski Bus route. The schedule includes daily stops at Town Square and Santa Fe Station hotel-casino, as well as an additional stop at UNLV on Fridays. Roundtrip fare is $20, with priority given to travelers with reservations (645-6053). The resort also enlarged its snowmaking pond from 1.6 million gallons of water to 7.5 million, allowing more snow early and a better base for skiers and snowboarders to enjoy throughout the season. Scheduled opening: Nov. 23. SkiLasVegas.com, 645-2754. Bear Mountain in Big Bear Lake, Calif. This season Bear Mountain 100 Vegas Seven November 11-17, 2010

From left: Fresh grooming at the Arizona Snowbowl thanks to new snowcats; Mammoth’s new terrain park; and Sun Valley’s new Roundhouse Express.

introduces Skill Builder Park, designed for novice terrain park skiers/boarders. The new park has snow features, rails, boxes and transitions, and the pros at Bear have installed signs with tips for getting started, polishing skills and proper ski/board etiquette. Bear Mountain and Snow Summit also spent more than $500,000 on new snowmaking equipment. On your cell phone, text the word SNOW to 52406 to receive on-demand powder alerts and updates from Big Bear Mountain Resorts. Scheduled opening: Thanksgiving. BearMountain. com, 909-866-5766. Mountain High in Wrightwood, Calif. This SoCal ski haven built a new terrain park at its East Resort with 1.6 miles of continuously ﬂowing terrain that blends big and small elements, including banks, hips, jibs and jumps, and a learn-to ride zone, which will also have a variety of banks and rollers. The west side of the resort got some touchups as well, such as a new stair feature in the Playground, and a “pipe” jib designed and sponsored by Skullcandy. The new pipe has built-in speakers and a removable DJ booth, so riders can hit the feature and be entertained at the same time. Skullcandy DJs will make regular appearances at the resort,

providing audible excitement for competitions as well as the general public. Scheduled opening: mid-November. MtHigh. com, 888-754-7878. Arizona Snowbowl in Flagstaff. With the new Hoover Dam bypass, Flagstaff is now only about a three-hour drive. Check out Snowbowl’s Sunset Terrain Park, which offers fun boxes, rails, hits, spines and more. The style of the park will evolve throughout the season, with bigger and better features as the inches accumulate. A 150-footlong conveyor has been installed to help children learn to ski/board, and two new snowcats will help ensure that runs will be groomed to perfection. Scheduled opening: mid-December. ArizonaSnowBowl. com, 928-779-1951. Eagle Point in Southern Utah. This secluded hill makes its debut this season. The lodges and lifts have been renovated and upgraded (the site, east of Beaver, formerly was Elk Meadows), and the hill has 40 runs designed to accommodate a variety of skill levels, plus designated back-country slopes. There will also be an 18-foot half-pipe, freestyle terrain and a tubing park. Check out the Outpost Grill après ski for comfort foods, a cozy ﬁreplace, private lounge and a dance

ﬂoor. Scheduled opening: mid-December. SkiEaglePoint.com, 435-554-8887. Mammoth in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. With the recent popularity of food trucks in Los Angeles, Mammoth is introducing two snowcat food trucks— the Roving Mammoths—this winter. Traveling around the resort, bringing food and beverages to remote locations, the snowcats will feature grab-and-go food items such as burritos, stuffed churros, calzones and tamales. A new private terrain park, the Stomping Grounds, will be opening this season, featuring jumps, rails/jibs and AcroBags. The park is designed to help users learn at their own pace. Scheduled opening: Nov. 11. MammothMountain.com, 760-934-2571.

SportS & LeiSure on the rebound

The addition of two big men to an experienced, versatile roster should help the Rebels overcome offseason setbacks By Sean DeFrank number of interchangeable parts on the roster. Besides Willis, the Rebels also possess talent in the backcourt with junior Oscar Bellﬁeld (9.3 ppg); senior Derrick Jasper (6.7 ppg), who looks fully recovered after suffering a season-ending knee injury in January; and sophomores Anthony Marshall (5.3 ppg) and Justin Hawkins (3.3 ppg). In the frontcourt, juniors Chace Stanback (10.7 ppg) and Brice Massamba (4.6 ppg) will be aided with the addition of 6-foot-11-inch redshirt freshman Carlos Lopez and 6-8 sophomore Quintrell Thomas, a transfer from Kansas. Freshman swingman Karam Mashour has shown promise in the preseason but could redshirt this year. “This group is very versatile,” Kruger says. “A lot of guys can move around. The wings are very interchangeable, capable of rebounding the ball and taking it in transition. They don’t have to worry about getting it to the point guard necessarily.” One of the lingering issues for the Rebels is outside shooting. Shaw and Wallace combined to hit 41 percent from behind the arc last season, while the rest of the team combined to shoot 30 percent, with Marshall going just 1-for-23. “I don’t know that we’ll have anyone that scores in the way [Shaw and Wallace] did,” Kruger says. “Collectively we’ll have some guys step forward and shoot the 3 better than we did a year ago. But they’ll have to score in other ways, too.” Rebounding was another Achilles’ heel at times for UNLV last season, but the addition of Thomas and Lopez should help shore up that deﬁciency. UNLV will need to be more physical if it wants to challenge San Diego State, BYU and New Mexico for the conference title. “The difference among those four teams is really pretty small,” Kruger says, “so it’s a matter of who takes care of the details the best and who executes the best.

Sophomore guard Anthony Marshall showed ﬂashes of stardom late last season.

WhaT oTherS are Saying aBouT The reBelS “The real key for UNLV may be the health of senior guard Derrick Jasper.” — Sporting News, which has the Rebels ﬁnishing fourth in the MWC and missing out on a NCAA Tournament bid. “UNLV will still be a contender even if Willis … sits for any length of time.” — Lindy’s Sports, which has the Rebels ﬁnishing third in the conference and being one of four MWC teams to reach the NCAA tourney.

“The Rebels have enough pieces to survive the turmoil.” — Athlon Sports, which has UNLV placing fourth in the MWC and falling short of the NCAA Tournament.

Controversial Margarito takes aim at Pacquiao in Texas

Manny Pacquiao, left, and Antonio Margarito.

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Many fans and experts believe Antonio Margarito doesn’t deserve a shot at Manny Pacquiao. But yet the boxers will ﬁght for the vacant WBC super welterweight title at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Nov. 13. This ﬁght wouldn’t even be allowed in Nevada or California. Margarito had his boxing license revoked for one year by the California State Athletic Commission after a plaster-like substance was found

in his hand wraps before his ninth-round loss to Shane Mosley in Los Angeles in January 2009. Margarito (38-6, 27 knockouts) beat Roberto Garcia by unanimous decision on May 8 in Mexico in his first fight following his suspension. He then reapplied to the California commission, which denied the Mexican boxer’s application. That didn’t stop Texas from licensing Margarito in August, setting up a fight

that could surpass the record indoor attendance of 63,315 at the Louisiana Superdome for the 1978 ﬁght between Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks. Nearly lost amid the drama is the fact that Filipino hero Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) is seeking a world title in his eighth different weight class. The scheduled 12-round ﬁght can be viewed live at 6 p.m. on HBO Pay-Per-View. – Sean DeFrank

Pacquaio/Margarito photo by Chris Farina; Marshall photo by Anthony Mair

Following UNLV’s third trip to the NCAA Tournament in four years, and virtually every major contributor returning to the program as well as a couple of big men added to the mix, the prospects for the 2010-11 season looked extremely promising for Rebel fans. Then came the offseason. Star guard Tre’Von Willis was arrested on felony charges of domestic battery and grand larceny, forward Matt Shaw lost his ﬁnal year of eligibility for failing a drug test, and sharpshooting guard Kendall Wallace was lost for the season when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a pickup game. “This past offseason we had a couple poor decisions, and that affected not just them individually but it affects the whole program,” coach Lon Kruger says. “But you can’t change that. We’ve now got to line up and learn from that and move forward. “Most teams at this time of year have the expectation of going to the NCAA Tournament, and that should be an expectation we have. … But we’ve got to work hard to do that.” The return of Willis, the Rebels’ leading scorer last season at 17.2 points per game, is a big part of that equation. The senior reached a plea agreement and received a three-game suspension (including exhibitions), however he still hasn’t been able to participate fully in practices after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in August. He expects to be ready to play after his suspension, though, following the Rebels’ season opener at home against UC Riverside on Nov. 12. “This is the most athletic and longest team we’ve had since I’ve been here,” Willis says. “We might be a little further along, as far as preseason. We’re all pretty excited around here.” Perhaps the biggest strength for UNLV is the

Going for Broke

Look for surging Browns to lead pack of ’dogs By Matt Jacob I should’ve known. The second I submitted last week’s column patting myself on the back for a positive October, I should’ve known the Gambling Gods would unleash their fury on me—and do so cruelly. To recap: My big play was the Falcons ($660) as an 8½-point favorite against the Buccaneers, and late in the third quarter Atlanta made a field goal to push a 10-point lead to 13. Good for us, right? Wrong. Tampa Bay took the ensuing kickoff back 89 yards for a touchdown, and those proved to be the final points of a game the Falcons won 27-21. So instead of going 4-2-1 for a net gain of $545, I ended up 3-3-1 with a net loss of $715—dropping my bankroll to $4,636— all because our kicker made a field goal. Then again, I didn’t do myself any favors by backing UNLV. Facing a BYU team that hadn’t scored more than 25 points in a game all season, the Rebels gave up the first 55 points in a 55-7 road loss (and somewhere Rory Reid smiled, having gotten off the hook for most lopsided local defeat of the week). On to this week’s picks …

$440 (to win $400) on BROWNS (+3) vs. Jets: New York hits the road for the second straight week and fifth time in the last seven games. In their last two trips, the Jets did their best David Copperfield impersonation, escaping in the last minute at Denver (24-20) and in overtime last week at Detroit (23-20). In between were a bye week and a 9-0 home loss to Green Bay. Now the Jets fly to Cleveland to face the resurgent Browns, who are coming off consecutive blowout victories over the Patriots (34-14) and Saints (30-17). Cleveland has been one of the best point-spread teams in the NFL recently, going 11-4 against the spread (ATS) in its last 15 games overall and 9-3 ATS in its last 12 as an underdog. Put it this way: If the Broncos and Lions can hang with the Jets, so can the Browns, who are gaining confidence about as rapidly as Heidi Montag gains cup sizes.

$220 (to win $200) on MISSISSIPPI STATE (+13½) at Alabama: Nick Saban’s ego is such that the Alabama coach probably believes he could solve world hunger, hunt down Osama bin Laden and resurrect Mel Gibson’s career,

all in the span of 48 hours. Well, let’s see how the “Nicktator” gets his team to respond after last week’s 24-21 loss at LSU officially ended the Crimson Tide’s dream of back-to-back national championships. Remember, a month ago Alabama followed up its first regular-season loss in 2½ years with a sluggish 23-10 home win over mediocre Ole Miss as a 20-point favorite. Now the Tide face a solid Mississippi State (7-2) squad that’s riding a six-game winning streak since consecutive losses to Auburn (17-14) and LSU (29-7). Alabama is playing for the 10th straight week and has now failed to cover in three of its last four contests. Also, the road team is on a 7-2 ATS roll in this rivalry. $110 (to win $100) on SAN DIEGO STATE (+27) at TCU: I regret not playing TCU last week about as much as the Republican Party regrets the Sharron Angle Experiment. I really liked the Horned Frogs against Utah but got spooked by the fact they were laying points on the road against a team that was 8-0 and had won 21 straight at home. Of course, TCU raced out to a 40-0 lead and rolled 47-7. So why fade the Frogs now? Because they’re in a classic “flat spot,” and because the Aztecs are pretty good. San Diego State sits at 7-2, the only blemishes being controversial threepoint losses at BYU and Missouri, and although they will face the nation’s stingiest defense in this one, the Aztecs have scored at least 24 points in all but one game this season. San Diego State is 7-3 ATS in its last 10 games overall and 6-2 ATS in its last eight as an underdog, and with TCU having covered in three straight and four of its last five, you know this point spread is inflated.

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Jon Ralston

As the pundit who correctly predicted the polls were wrong, Ralston emerged as one of this election’s big winners. We talked to him about 2012, Nevada’s Third World politics and his greatest passion.

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How does it feel to be on the national stage? It’s been fun, there’s no question about it. It’s been great to get to know a lot of different people and have people be so interested in the state. We got a taste of it during the presidential caucus in 2008, but the intensity of that has really been on doing a lot of national TV shows and that kind of thing. It has also been incredibly exhausting and draining. It’s by far the most intense election I’ve ever covered, with the most attention on it. Who is emerging as a key player in the next session? I think the key dynamic in the entire session is going to be between Steven Horsford, who is going to remain the Senate majority leader, and John Oceguera, who is going to be in his ﬁrst session as speaker of the Assembly. How well they can coordinate whatever the Democratic agenda is will have a lot to do with what they can get done. 110

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What are the key issues? The issue that’s going to dominate everything is the state budget, which has multibillion-dollar deﬁcit. If you’re conservative you’ll say it’s only $1.5 billion. How do you deal with that, how do you deal with what the Democrats want to do, which is not let the state’s education infrastructure suffer and try not to make more deep cuts? I think that is something that’s going to be a real struggle depending on what the legislative matrix looks like.

and the essential domination of the political process by one or two industries, which is somewhat endemic to Nevada. That’s not to say that steel doesn’t dominate Pennsylvania or oil doesn’t dominate in Texas, but not to the extent that gaming has in Nevada. Whether there is more corruption or less, it certainly seems to be more colorful corruption here.

What is your prediction on the state budget? My prediction is they will try to implement a combination of things, including some kind of business tax, probably a sales tax on services. They will probably try to repeal or reduce some taxes to make it more palatable, the most likely one being the payroll tax, which is universally hated. If they can reduce some things, if they can reduce the overall sales tax rate while expanding it, I think that’s the most likely solution—if they can indeed get two-thirds in each house to pass it.

What would be a sign that Nevada has emerged from its Third World politics? I’ve been waiting for 25 years for that sign, and I do remain ever hopeful that I’ll see it. If I see an actual debate up in Carson City about what kind of vision that people really want this state to look like, or whether we’re going to actually start to value things we dismiss, like education, like culture, even things like a transportation infrastructure that makes sense, or people will talk about this in some kind of elevated dialogue. It seems impossible. It sounds like a fantasy, but I’m still looking for it.

What makes Nevada politics different? It’s hard for me to say because I’ve now lived here for 25 years. I only know what I read and then what I pick up from other sources, but we have this unique factor in that we have, until the recession, been the fastest-growing state in the country, but our politics have seemed to remain so small town, small world, Third World maybe, with all these incestuous relationships

What’s your passion outside of politics? My No. 1 passion is raising my daughter, who is the greatest human being ever. But she’s a teenager now and she needs a lot of attention and I’m a single father. She is everything to me, so making sure that she is healthy and happy is the great passion of my life. If there’s nothing else, that’s what I want to be remembered for. The other stuff is all minor.

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As the top political oracle in Nevada, Jon Ralston was watched almost as closely as Sharron Angle this election season. His TV show Face to Face With Jon Ralston, on KSNV Channel 3, and The Ralston Flash newsletter became must-sees during the cycle, not only for Nevadans but also for the millions of people who watched Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid take on little-known Tea Party candidate Angle. The show became a must-stop for campaigning candidates, and he scored a coveted interview with the notoriously media-shy Angle. It was here that he also predicted, correctly, that Reid would defeat Angle, despite polling that said the opposite. Ralston’s position as one of the most-read political journalists in Nevada comes after spending 25 years writing about politics in the state at both the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Las Vegas Sun.