Won’t someone please think of the dancers? (Photo by Ray Alamo | SpyOnVegas.com)

Puff’s (1030 E. Flamingo Road) scheduled Dec. 16 hearing with the Liquor and Gaming Board didn’t make it onto the docket. The free-standing club tucked behind the Target plaza on Flamingo Road won’t be on the agenda until the next hearing, which will be Jan. 20. Until then, the venue will remain closed.

By Jason Scavone

It would’ve been a shame to lose all this. (Photos by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

Despite rumors that Puff (1030 E. Flamingo Road) was shutting down, co-owner Karan Hoss said that’s not the case. The standalone lounge was involved in a mix-up with a liquor license hearing, and expects to sort it out at the next Liquor and Gaming hearing on Dec. 16. If all goes well, Hoss said, they should reopen that weekend. Once they get approval, Hoss said, they hope to plan a blowout — but aren’t moving forward with any plans until it’s official.

By Jason Scavone

More fake parts than the Terminator. (Via myspace.com/angeliquemorgan)

Plastic surgery disaster Angelique Morgan, the skankariffic disgust-o-bot we all came to know, love, and then become abjectly horrified by on Rock of Love 2, will be signing autographs tonight at Puff (1030 E. Flamingo Road) during a performance by local rockers Slyther at 8 p.m.

Slyther will be joined by The Rapist, Gypsy Dreamer, Greedy Gretchen and Zeusophobia. Wait, is that Therapist, or The Rapist?

By Jason Scavone

NOTE: Actual drink does not glow. But more foodstuff should.

Puff (1030 E. Flamingo Road) was keenly aware right off the bat that the best way to combat the dryness of mouth that comes with a furious night of hookah smoking was with copious amounts of alcohol.

Well, it’s usually our go-to solution to problems, too.

The nightclub/lounge/restaurant/hookah joint’s Delicious kicks up the citrus with Absolut Mandarin and peach schnapps shaken together with pineapple juice and a splash of orange juice. The twist comes when a generous portion of Chambord is submarined into the bottom of the drink after the pineapple portion is poured into a cocktail glass. A tiki-drink throwback orange boat is used as garnish, resting on the edge of the glass. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Slowly I turned, step by step. Kai-agara falls!

Face it: The vodka/Red Bull staple is worn out. It’s boring; it doesn’t taste great; and wasting good, expensive vodka like Grey Goose on something so overwhelming as Red Bull is just dumb. The only really good thing to come out of the whole trend is that it served as a springboard to Puff’s Kai-agara.

It’s an innocent enough recipe. As bartender Anna — an admitted Kai-agara enthusiast — mixed Kai lychee-infused rice vodka and Rockstar guava with a splash of cranberry and a lime wedge on the rocks in a highball glass, it looked like it was just going to be another sweet, fruity mixed drink. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

FACT: Go-go dancers will be employed at every bar, club and office park by 2018. (Photos by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

The first thing you notice when you get to Puff is – well, not much. The place is hard to find. It’s nestled between a shopping plaza and UNLV campus, making it tough to spot from the road until you hear the reggae music. Or at least it was reggae music when the bulletproof FiascoMobile arrived. We got a good bargain at the Pope John Paul II estate sale.

For 36 hours starting Friday night, Puff-a-palooza marked the opening of the hookah bar/ultralounge in a whirlwind circus of the best kind. The kind without clowns and elephant crap. With a tent outside for the aforementioned reggae act – a band that impossibly slowed the tempo of Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me” – among others in the plethora of bands, DJs and other novelty acts on hand for the opening, the packed party was anything but minimalist.

Inside, an antechamber with a hot tub stocked with bikini-clad girls wearing bandoliers filled with shots gave way to the main room containing the bar. Flanking the walls were curtained side-rooms done in blues and purples with low furniture set in place to get down to the serious business of hookah smoking. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

Puff’s famed Lamborghini hookah jets Italian leather seat-flavored tobacco at 600 horsepower.

The caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland would be proud. The hookah bar gets the ultra-lounge treatment with the opening of Puff tonight (1030 E. Flamingo Road) with 36 straight hours of Puffapalooza. We’re pretty sure our neighbor’s college dorm was referred to as “puffapalooza” for a couple of weekends, but this is completely different.

The event will feature two stages with 36 bands (not all at the same time – that’d get crowded) and three DJ areas each hour. Burlesque dancers, pole dancers, go-go dancers, breakdancers and quite possibly Elton John and Tina Turner doing “Tiny Dancer” and “Private Dancer,” respectively, will be part of the party. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone