Sexxpresso: Erotic coffee shop opens in Vegas

by Justin Glow on

Where can you find the hottest cup of coffee in Vegas? At Sexxpresso, no doubt — Sin City’s first erotic coffee shop, where you can order your favorite caffeinated drink in three different cup sizes: A, B, or the gigantic, 20oz DD. But is the coffee any good, or is it all novelty? Las Vegas blogger, VegasRex, decided to find out.

“I thought they would skimp on the beverage due to the novelty factor, but it was easily as good as anything I have gotten at the boutique shops.”

Plus, it’s served to you by one of the eye-catching “Bodacious Baristas,” decked out in too little clothing for six in the morning. But hey, it’s Vegas, so why not?

Location: 670 E. Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, NV [map]

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Photos courtesy of VegasRex.

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Circus Camp in Vegas

by Neil Woodburn on

I’ve never been one to fantasize about running away to the circus, but I certainly do understand the fascination, especially for children.

If your child is suffering from circus envy, you’ll be happy to know that there is a temporary solution. And you’ll even be happier to learn that it involves Las Vegas.

The Sandou Theatrical Circus School in Las Vegas, Nevada serves primarily as a training gym for Circus Circus and Cirque du Soleil. A few hours a day, however, it also doubles as a circus camp for kids.

While the real pros are training high above on the trapeze, kids are taught juggling, tumbling, fire breathing, aerial skills, gymnastics, and balancing. Oops, just joking about the fire breathing. They do, however, get a real taste for the circus life and the difficulty of performing such acrobatic stunts.

Kids can come in for a couple of hours while mom and dad take a break from gambling, or they can come back in the summer time where a five day camp (9 a.m. to 1 p.m.) costs just $125. But be careful; if you do enroll your kids and they later grow up and really do run away to the circus, don’t blame me!

400 Pound Plus Pumpkins and a Carving Knife

by Jamie Rhein on

Gus Smithhisler carves pumpkins like nobody’s business. I saw him at work this past Saturday at Jack Hanna’s Fall Fest at the Columbus Zoo where Gus was turning the most enormous pumpkins into animal art. Being ever so on my toes, I grabbed his card and contact information.

Gus has emailed me back to let me know of his upcoming engagements. If you get a chance to see him at work, don’t miss it. Since fall is officially here, consider this a fall festival kick off. Gus is appearing at a few festivals in addition to his Las Vegas gig. By the way, if you go to his Web site, you’ll see his handy work. He started out a few years ago at the Indiana State Fair and his business keeps growing.

If you do see Gus, he may give you some pumpkin seeds so you can grow your own monsters at home. The photo is from last year’s zoo event. Gus’s daughter helps him from time to time.

Best Sports Books in Vegas

by Neil Woodburn on

Although I’m a big fan of sports, I rarely bet on any. First off, it’s very confusing. You’ve got spreads and points and over unders and all sorts of things like that. I just want to bet on the team I think is going to win; but apparently there is much more to it that that.

Fortunately, just in time for (American) football season, the Los Angeles Times has printed a how-to guide for idiots like myself. A True Spectator Sport, by Marc Cooper, runs through some of the basics that one should take into consideration while at a Vegas sports book, as well as recommending a couple of good reads to help out.

It doesn’t go into too much detail, but Cooper, most importantly, includes a sidebar article summing up the best sports books in Vegas. This, folks, is where you can sit down and watch 30 screens of every imaginable sport with a few hundred of your closest sports-fan friends. And if this isn’t cool enough, waitresses will swing by and serve you free beer even if you’re not betting (they just assume you are).

Can life get any better than this for sports fans? I don’t think so.

Little Known Las Vegas Haunt: Cathedral Canyon

by Justin Glow on

Cathedral Canyon is a “small natural canyon which has been transformed into a rambling grotto of icons, statues, and text panels,” notes the Center for Land Use Interpretation — an on-line database of “unusual and exemplary sites” in the United States.

Roland Wiley, a Las Vegas lawyer, purchased 15,800 acres in the desert and called it Hidden Hills Ranch. For the next thirty years, Mr. Wiley would drive out from Las Vegas and work on Cathedral Canyon, which has a variety of sketchy theme park-like items with religious, social, and political undertones. “No nation or race can prosper,” reads the sign posted to a fence, “until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the soil…. as in writing the poem.” (This is almost a Booker T. Washington quote.) Many bizarre sculptures and statues exist throughout the “park,” including what looks to be a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge (above).

Cathedral Canyon is open to the public. It’s located 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, and 15 miles southeast of Pahrump, Nevada. For exact directions on how to get there, check out this site.

Apparently it’s best to visit at night. Creepy.