October 2014 Posts, Page 2

Don't roll the credits on our "Vegas Movies In Real Life" series yet, we've got more flicks up our sleeves! Hopefully you've already explored "Bat Country" like in Fear & Loathing from our first edition and spruced up your blackjack skills to be a high-roller like 21 from our last movie article.

This isn't your average 7-year-old's Halloween. We won't be talking princess costumes without mentioning thigh-highs and we won't be covering how to check your kid's candy for razor blades. This is Halloween in Vegas and it's every ghoul for themselves. But where to get your adult tricks and treats? Sure, some of these items below can be attended by a 7-year-old-princess, but let's aim a bit higher and assume it's for the delightfully fun degenerate adults we know and love.

Fetish & Fantasy Ball | October 31, Hard Rock Hotel

The second annual Life Is Beautiful festival is kicking off this weekend on Friday, Oct. 24. This year’s event is all about inspiring people to recognize the beauty in life – wherever they are in their personal lives – it is about embracing life, finding happiness and seeing the world from a different lens. To achieve this, the creator of Life is Beautiful enlisted local Las Vegas chefs to inspire patron’s palettes, a bounty of musicians to inspire the soul and they’ve grouped together world-renowned artists to invoke the heart and mind with unifying artistic themes.

Ronnie Rainwater, Delmonico Chef de Cuisine and Duroc pig exhibitor, softly-stated our journey for the next 90 minutes in one sentence: “We used every part of the pig and just tried to be true to our restaurant and showcase the whole hog, using everything but the squeal.”

Hearing this made me a bit fearful as we anxiously awaited to travel the mapped menu of the hog’s carcass. I’m not a big fan of pork – except for the mainstream cuts of pork belly, bacon, and carnitas – and I was curious to see if this menu tasted roughly the same. Pork is pork, right? ‘The other white meat.’

Take a deep breath and just jump! We're going to harness your secret agent skills and your inner adrenaline junkie during your trip to Vegas, so skydiving is a must. Whether you do it indoors on the Strip or in the gorgeous outdoors of Nevada, this is one of the best places to get your free fall on. So sign this waiver right here - yes, just below that line about dying and how it would be anyone's fault but your own, and we'll get right to it!

Vegas Indoor Skydiving

The party doesn't stop when the clock hits midnight; this isn't a fairytale gala, you guys. This is Vegas and the best parts of your night are bound to be when you're full of liquid courage and on a serious quest for more fun with your crew.

Drai's After Hours

I’m from a small town in Colorado known as Loveland. I grew up idealizing rock stars and get star struck when I see a celebrity, specifically a rock and roll idol. An embarrassing admonishment, and a slight tangent, as I walked passed Dave Navarro in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in my first year in Vegas, I shouted out, ‘There’s Trent Reznor!’

More often than not, Vegas is considered one of the drinking capitals of the world. Whether you’re into frozen yard drinks and beer in football shaped cups or if you like fine wine or off-the-menu cocktails, we have everything in Vegas. But what does it take to be a bartender or, rather, a mixologist in Sin City? We got to step inside the mind of one of the city’s finest bartenders: Max Solano. Solano is the curator and beverage manager at Delmonico Steakhouse as well the mixologist for all of Chef Emeril Lagasse’s restaurants in Vegas.

After the heat of summer dies down and the pools begin to close, that doesn't mean the party stops in Vegas. In fact, things get even hotter in the winter with a pretty decent list of day parties ready for you to join in all the fun.

To help Vegas stay as unique as possible, visitors and locals can try an interesting new kind of activity where you’re thrown into a locked room on purpose and told to “figure it out.” Locked room escapes have their roots stemming from an internet sensation beginning around 2001, but they're just beginning to make their waves in an offline format. The trend is on the rise with one open venue in Vegas and another on the horizon.