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Does a Bar Stacked With Tequila Make Lolita's A Cantina?

The latest from our new contributor, Amanda. Last week she told us why she liked Carnaval Court. This week: why she doesn't rate Town Square newbie, Lolita's Cantina.

Lolita's Cantina might be the newest hot spot in Town Square but in my opinion, it's not living up to the hype, with serious issues as regards atmosphere, food and customer service.

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Now Presenting the Holograph Dancers at Lolita's

Don't forget it's Geek Week on VegasChatter! We're doing Vegas tech-stylee all this week. Today we have a guest post from one of our favorite Vegas Twitterers, @amandahimes, on the art of the Tweetup.

Ever wonder what sets Lolita’s Cantina apart from other hot spots in Sin City? Well, it's definitely not the food or décor which falls short of expectations. Instead, it's their dancers. But these aren't your average Vegas dancers.

Lolita’s Cantina is America’s first holographic nightclub. While that may sound like you will be able to get your groove on with a sexy go-go dancer without fear of rejection, you won’t.

Lolita’s utilizes Digital Illusions, LLC state-of-the-art fire retardant polymers and high-definition video that create an illusion second to none.

The life like illusions on stage never miss a beat, the performers never have to call in sick, and the performances will always be flawless.

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Where To Find The 'Sex' Addicts In Vegas This Week

It has come to our attention that there’s a certain high profile film being released on Thursday. And if you’re not content to merely squawk and squeal over Carrie et al in the cinema, there are places you can continue without annoying the rest of Vegas too much. Not as many as we’d think (maybe they’d heard the rumblings about the film not being so good), but a few, nonetheless. Here’s where to sniff out your fellow Sex addicts.

* Wynn is holding a SATC2 Shopping Soiree of “cosmos, champagne and shopping” tomorrow from 5.30-7.30pm on the Wynn Esplanade, including ticket giveaways for a Town Square screening on Thursday. Expect things to be pretty – we’re told there's a Manolo display by the cashier cage with a shower of shoes (OMG wheeeeeeeee etc etc). RSVP to personalshopper@wynnlasvegas.com.

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Tags: Snapshot / CineVegas / Film Festivals / The Palms / Las Vegas Hilton / Town Square / MGM Grand / → All Tags

Oh CineVegas, Where Art Thou?

Since CineVegas announced last year that the city’s premier film festival would be taking at least a year off, we’ve had some time to come to terms with the news. But we still weren’t prepared to see CineVegas branded coffee sleeves proudly on display recently at Coffee Bean at the Palms.

Our first reaction was excitement the festival was back. After all, it would be normally coming up within the next month. But it wasn’t to be as the hiatus was still on and the coffee sleeves were leftovers from 2009. So unless business has been terribly slow at Coffee Bean, we’ll interpret these sleeves as a living tribute to CineVegas during its break.

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Dueling Pianos Now Fighting It Out at Town Square

So what if most of the new Town Square shopping mall is straight-out-of-“The Truman Show” creepy—it’s still got a dueling piano show that’s sure to be the nighttime destination for a music fans who love a good live show.

The piano bar, dubbed Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar, comes to Vegas from Texas, where the “art form” (can we call it that?) of dueling pianos originated back in the 1990s.

During live music sessions between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m., Tuesday-Saturday, four different pianists get into the act with lively numbers that frequently involve audience members and servers alike. The musicians take requests from the audience, and banter back and forth with the crowd ad infinitum.

Singing along is recommended (though not supported by yours truly, especially if you are Lady Gaga).

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Get an Epicurean’s Buzz at Town Square’s The Grape

Across from the mammoth movie theater at the south-south-Strip Town Square open-air shopping mall, you’ll find The Grape, one of Las Vegas’ most sophisticated and, dare we say, reliably good wine bars. Because we’ve found Town Square a confusing place to get around, look for the big Rave Motion Pictures sign on the west side of the building (towards I-15) and park there.

The Grape offers numerous great ways to sample its lengthy wine list, which is helpfully organized for the wine-wary into eight, easy-to-navigate categories. Numbers 1 through 6 take you from light-bodied, fruity whites all the way through to the full-bodied reds with “intense, berry taste.” Category 7 includes sweet wines while Number 8 features sparkling wines and champagne.

All wines by the glass are available in either tasting-size portions, ranging from $5 to $9 or full-pour glasses starting at $9 and going all the way up to $18. Cheeses, charcuterie small plates and desserts are featured on a concise but diverse menu, and prices there range from $6 to $25.

Happy hour is offered from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, and features $5 glasses of wine and $2 sliders. On Thursdays, free wine tastings are held from 6 to 8 p.m.

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Cannibal! The Musical: The Best Show In Vegas You Haven't Seen

Too many Vegas musicals are short-handed imports of Broadway standbys: you've got your jukebox musicals like Mamma Mia and Jersey Boys. There're the Andrew Lloyd Webber shows (Phantom of the Opera, and the long-dead Vegas standby Starlight Express). Then, there are ones that simply didn't translate well (Avenue Q). Not that extravaganza musicals on the Strip aren't worth your dollar - some of them are great shows, truly - but you are gonna shell out a lot of cash, and see something you could see in New York that's (A) a cheaper ticket there and (B) the original production. So why not try something different?

Because, other than Cirque, choices for highbrow, first-rate theater in the valley are limited. Until now. Look no further than Town Square, where you'll find the Insurgo Theater Movement's stellar production of South Park creator Trey Parker's Cannibal! The Musical.

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Lollicup: Town Square's Boba Tea Boomtowns

Town Square: Las Vegas’ sprawling, homey, outdoor mega mall for tourists and residents of the city, right off of the Strip. It's armed with plenty of reasonable shopping choices to tempt you when you’re roaming around the premises, but choices for a cool drink can be cumbersome. Given that, we'd like to wholeheartedly endorse these little kiosks that pop up from time to time on the property that go by the twee moniker of Lollicup.

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Get Free WiFi With Your Quinoa Sandwich at Whole Foods at Town Square

365 bottle of water: 79 cents. Wireless Internet Access: Free. Working from Whole Foods in a booth undisturbed: Priceless.

Leaving Las Vegas the other day we decided to head out on Las Vegas Boulevard towards the 15, passing the famous Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, when we realized that we were starving. We debated over heading to the In-N-Out but instead we settled for a healthy salad (booo!) at the Whole Foods at Town Square.

The Whole Foods, like the rest of Town Square, is new and blissfully tourist-free. Well, ok. Maybe there are a few tourists doing some shopping at stores like Abercrombie, Banana Republic, H&M and Old Navy or eating at California Pizza Kitchen and Brio Tuscan Grille or perhaps downing martinis during happy hour at the Blue Martini. But everything is way calmer than the madness of the Strip. And there are no casinos here. Phew.

Anyways, after grabbing a BBQ chicken salad and some fruit, we plopped down in one of the booths that line the front of the Whole Foods. Then we noticed the store had free WiFi AND an outlet on the wall under our table. Glory be to god!

So we ended up eating and working from the Whole Foods for the next few hours--free of charge. Well, you do have to show proof of purchase when you're sitting in the booth but still, it beats the hefty in-room WiFi charges.

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Tie One On At Blue Martini’s Daily Happy Hour

None of this weekdays-only happy hour nonsense, thank you. No, we’re thirsty, our nerves are a little frayed by this endlessly troubled economy and we’d like a premium cocktail at a semi-affordable price, seven days a week.

Thankfully, Blue Martini is there for us. Well, it’s way over there, anyway, on Las Vegas Boulevard south of the Strip inside the lively Town Square shopping complex. On the second story and across from Town Square’s movie theaters, Blue Martini is one of the valley’s fave spots for networking and burning off a little work-related (or job-hunting-generated) steam.

From 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. daily, you get half-price food and discounted drinks off of one of the most imaginative drinks menus in town. Why not try a “Sweet Tea” martin (Teka Tee vodka, pink lemonade and fresh-squeezed lemon), “The Good Life” (Bacardi Grand Melon, sugar-free Red Bull and a splash of cranberry) or a “Pear-Tini” (Grey Goose La Poire vodka, Amaretto, Rose's Pear, splash of pineapple and sour mix).

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