People who thrive on foodie television shows wide-eyed and salivating, just wishing to have just a taste of the gastronomic masterpieces made on their big screens – should pack their bags for Las Vegas! 2013 continues to be a big year for celebrity chefs opening concept restaurants in Sin City. Below TravelsinTaste has showcased some of the most exciting restaurant additions to The Strip highlighting your favorite TV chefs and judges. …read more
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People flock to Las Vegas for over-the-top experiences that only Sin City can provide—cutting-edge hotels, crazy pool parties, excessive nightlife venues and celebrity-chef-driven restaurants with out-of-this-world cuisine. So it comes as no surprise that from May 9 through 12, foodies, fans, and wine and spirits aficionados from far and wide will hit the annual Vegas Uncork’d culinary festival. Some events are already sold out, but fear not, with a total of 29 happenings lined up, there will be plenty of others to attend. To make the most of this food-filled weekend, our Startle.com team highlighted some of the best on tap.
When the weather starts warming up in Las Vegas, that means one thing: pool season. For many hotels on the Strip, the pools kicked off their bathing suit seasons in mid-March. And we’re not talking standard hotel pools; these Sin City oases are destinations in themselves with famous DJs spinning onstage and luxurious cabanas stocked with more amenities than you can imagine. Our Startle.com crew has been counting down the days until pool season and we’ve got a stellar lineup of the very best Vegas has to offer. …read more
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It was a culture shock for sure during the season premiere of “Wife Swap.” Marissa was a big-time party girl from Las Vegas nicknamed Big Juicy. She was switching places with Angela, a Christian minimalist. To say that neither was quite prepared for their new lifestyle would be an understatement. And they didn’t seem too excited about the opportunity, either.
“I have never been to Las Vegas. I have a pretty negative connotation,” Angela admitted. “Sin City? So, I’m not really excited about that.”
Big Juicy was freaking out as well, “No! No! Are you serious?” she asked “Those people are Amish!”
While promoting his directorial debut Don Jon’s Addiction at SXSW this weekend in Austin, TX, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was asked about his experience working on Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s upcoming Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
In the comic book sequel, JGL plays Jonny, a brand new character in the Sin City universe, who will appear in the segment titled “The Long Bad Night” — which isn’t based on any of Miller’s previous comics.
“It’s interesting. They wanted to have a movie where fans of the books would still be able to look forward to something new and unexpected, so they added a story,” Gordon-Levitt told Coming Soon. “I remember being really intrigued by that and I was really looking forward to, ‘Oh that will be so interesting to have the actual comics to refer to as an actor’ but no I didn’t.”
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Restaurant Guy Savoy joins an elite group this week—it became just one of three restaurants in Las Vegas to win the coveted Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star rating. The famed French chef joins Joël Robuchon and Pierre Gagnaire as one of the top toques in the Sin City. …read more
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Known as Disneyland for grown-ups, Las Vegas brands itself as a place where tourists can enjoy a sense of edginess with no real danger.
But a series of violent crimes amid the throngs of tourists is threatening Sin City‘s reputation as a place to let your guard down with no fear of consequences.
A car-to-car shooting and fiery crash that killed two bystanders and an aspiring rapper Thursday followed an elevator stabbing and a movie theater parking lot shooting.
Though crime is falling on the Strip that houses the city’s major casinos, tourism officials worry that vacationers and convention planners could begin to steer clear because of a perception of mayhem.
They say that with violent crime, as with so much else in Vegas, perception may outweigh reality.
Director Robert Rodriguez tweeted the first photos of Josh Brolin as Dwight McCarthy in Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Check ’em out:
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One Las Vegas shooting range is selling “take a shot at love” packages that include 50 submachine gun rounds. Another is offering wedding packages in which the bride and groom can pose with Uzis and ammunition belts. And a third invites lovebirds to renew their vows and shoot a paper cutout zombie in the face.
Never known for its understatement or good taste, Sin City is bucking the national trend of avoiding flippant gun promotions after the Newton, Conn., elementary school shooting. Instead, it is embracing tourists’ newfound interest in big guns the only way it knows how: by going all in.
The newest crop of outlandish Valentine’s Day offers is no exception.
Capitalizing on the state’s relaxed gun laws, shooting ranges offer an armory of military-grade weapons that aren’t accessible in other states. And because this is Las Vegas, they also allow customers to destroy photographs of exes, make souvenir T-shirts full of holes and shoot fully-automatic weapons in barely-there bachelor party man-kinis.
Some gun control advocates say the promotions trivialize the dangers of high-powered weapons.
“These gun stores and shooting ranges offer bad puns in poor taste in their efforts to put a happy face on firearms, yet each day more than 86 Americans die from gun violence,” said Newtown native Josh Sugarmann, who is executive director of the Washington D.C-based Violence Policy Center.
“While Las Vegas gun promoters present assault rifles with high-capacity ammunition magazines as harmless Valentine’s Day props, the vast majority of Americans understand their true role: military-bred weapons that threaten police and public safety,” he said.
At least half a dozen ranges opened in Las Vegas last year, triggering a marketing arms race.
Before visitors even pick up their bags at McCarran International Airport, they are confronted by ads for the Gun Store, Las Vegas‘ most venerable shooting range. One ad features a blonde posing with an MP5 submachine gun under the words, “Try one.”
Machine Gun Las Vegas, which opened last winter, hires former go-go dancers as hostesses and sells its “femme fetale” package with the slogan, “There’s nothing like the scent of Cordite in a woman’s hair.” (Cordite is an alternative to gunpowder).
“We give what people are asking for, whether it’s the `mob experience’ and they want to test a Tommy gun, or a bachelor package, and they want a limo to take them to the club afterward,” said Lianne Heck, marketing director at Range 702, which opened in October.
This year, gun ranges are extending their tongue-in-cheek promotions to Valentine’s Day, always a moneymaker in this matrimony-and-sex-obsessed town.
The Guns and Ammo Garage is offering free vow renewals by the “Pistol Packing Preacher” for one day only. The Gun Store has built a permanent “shotgun weddings” chapel, because nothing makes a memory quite like the sound of gunfire.
Bob MacDuff said his “I do’s” there last July before posing with AK-47s for wedding pictures and going shooting with his 25 guests. He encourages others to celebrate their love with weapons in hand.
“For people who are gun people, you can’t find a better option,” …read more
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One Las Vegas shooting range is selling “take a shot at love” packages that include 50 submachine gun rounds. Another invites lovebirds to renew their vows and shoot a paper cutout zombie in the face.
Never known for its understatement, Sin City is bucking the national trend of avoiding flippant gun promotions after the Newton, Conn., elementary school shooting.
At least half a dozen Las Vegas ranges opened last year, triggering a marketing arms race. Many are now offering Valentine’s Day gun promotions.
Some gun control activists say the over-the-top advertising trivializes the dangers of high-powered weapons.
But shooting range marketing executives say it’s all in good fun, and the guns never leave the property.
It’s safe to say New Vegas was a high point for fans of the Fallout franchise. We loved its post-apocalyptic take on Sin City to the tune of a 9.0 review and an Editor’s Choice award when it debuted back in 2010, and we’d love it all over again if Obsidian ever had a chance to follow it up with a sequel. Well, no announcement on that front yet. But Obsidian’s CEO, Feargus Urquhart, has at least been dreaming up scenarios he’d like to see a potential sequel explore.
Like, say, Fallout: Los Angeles.
“We need an interesting confined area. So I mean, it could be LA. Fallout LA. That could be interesting. It’d probably be The Boneyard, which is from Fallout 1. It could be very different. It could be almost a Walking Dead meets Fallout-like thing because of all the radiation.”
Dimension Films announced today that actress Eva Green (Casino Royale, Dark Shadows) has won the highly coveted role of Ava Lord in Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.
Ava, the film and comic’s titular vixen, is described by Miller as “every man’s most glorious dreams come true, she’s also every man’s darkest nightmares.”
Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller said in a statement, “We’ve been wanting to tell this story for a very long time. Ava Lord is one of the most deadly and fascinating residents of Sin City. From the start, we knew that the actor would need to be able to embody the multifaceted characteristics of this femme fatale and we found that in Eva Green. We are ecstatic that Eva is joining us.”
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If you were hoping to see more sexy dancing from Jessica Alba’s Nancy Callahan in Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, well, then you’re in luck!
“I had to learn a bunch of dance sequences for it,” Alba told Vulture at the Sundance film festival. “I do a lot more dancing in this one.”
In fact, Alba does so much more dancing that she needed three months just to prepare for it! “It was kind of crazy,” said Alba. “It was very, very difficult, and you’ll see why.”
And just in case you forgot why this is important news that we must report:
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Director Robert Rodriguez revealed this week that Bruce Willis will reprise his Sin City role as Hartigan in the upcoming comic book sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
“Bruce is back. He’ll be seen,” Rodriguez hesitantly revealed to MTV in a recent interview. No other details were divulged, but suffice it to say Hartigan’s presence in the film wouldn’t be totally out of the question considering that Dame is a prequel.
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Three more actors have been added to the ensemble cast of Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, director Robert Rodriguez‘s forthcoming adaptation of the graphic novel.
The Playlist reports that Ray Liotta, Juno Temple and Jeremy Piven have been cast in unspecified roles. Liotta and Piven previously worked together on the 2006 action flick Smokin’ Aces, while Temple will be reunited with her Dark Knight Rises cast mate Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Sin City 2.
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Dimension Films announced today that Josh Brolin has officially been cast in Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
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Guillermo del Toro is writing a DC Comics movie, Transformers 4 has a new star, Joseph Gordon-Levitt hits Sin City, and Joss Whedon locks in his next Marvel directing gig.
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Dimension Films announced today that Josh Brolin has officially been cast in Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
The actor will play Dwight, a role portrayed by Clive Owen in 2005 film. However, since Brolin’s Dwight undergoes facial reconstructive surgery following the events of Dame, the recast actually works in favor of the story.
“Dwight is a constant character throughout the Sin City world and A Dame To Kill For is a defining episode in his life,” said directors Robert Rodriguez and Miller. “We’re looking forward to Josh’s take on Dwight.”
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LAS VEGAS—CES 2013 is underway, and we are roaming the show floor with an eye on the latest and greatest gadgets on display in Sin City. Unlike the days leading up to the show’s opening, formal press events are few and far between. Instead, it’s every tech writer for themselves when it comes to tracking down the gear that the world wants to hear about.
After strolling the aisles of the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday, we’ve noticed a few trends worth keeping an eye on. Take fitness gear—it’s everywhere you can spot on the showfloor. A number of device makers are creating gadgets that monitor everything from the steps you take to your vital signs—often logging that data on your mobile device. In our wrap-up video, we talk briefly about Withings Smart Activity Tracker, but our health and fitness coverage at CES also includes Zensorium’s Tinke, new offerings from iHealth, and how health gadgets are turning to Bluetooth for connectivity.
You also can’t walk very far on the show floor without seeing someone trying to destroy a mobile device, if only to show you how they can make your smartphone or tablet more resistant to damage. We’ve already told you about the latest version of Gorilla Glass from Corning and Liquipel’s water-resistant coating for mobile devices. But even phone makers themselves are now touting their devices’ durability. Sony’s Xperia Z demo included dousing its new smartphone with water, while Huwaei also took its phones for a dip.
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