CARNEVINO Cocktails with Abby and Nicole

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Batali/Bastianich Group mixologist Lucas Swallows has one of those names that’s too good to be true — you know like the florist named Rose Flowers or a lumberjack named Mark Wood. Hugh Alexander Curtas (d.o.b. 10-15-84 – The Official Number Two Son Of ELV) once had Mr. Earthman for a geography teacher, and there is actually an attorney in New York called Sue Yoo.

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What Vegas Needs Is…

ELV note: Click here to read today’s feature in the Las Vegas Weekly on a dozen or so things some of us think would vastly improve the quality of life in our humble burg. For your information (and ease of  digestion) of this discerning, delectable, diverse degustation of a discussion, here is our dutiful diatribe:

Way more good Mexican restaurants

Without naming names, it’s pretty easy to call Las Vegas the Southwest’s leader in dumbed-down, south-of-the-border food. Continue reading “What Vegas Needs Is…”

2011 Las Vegas Weekly Awards – Partially Written by ELV

2011 Las Vegas Weekly Awards – Food

ELV note: Here is the link to today’s edition of the Las Vegas Weekly wherein these awards are bestowed upon the worthy recipients. Yours truly wrote about ten of these (can you guess which ones?) and disagrees with a few others, but on the whole, the recognition is more than earned by most of the winners.