Xania Woodman
Senior Editor, Dining, Beverage & Nightlife
Contact: 868-4508 • Email
Originally from New York, Woodman is an impassioned nightlife and beverage writer, editor, and blogger; a proud USBG Nevada member and Cornell Hotelie; and an all-around career carouser, causing a stir in Sin City since 2001. She has written for myriad publications including 944 and the LA Times and appears annually in The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas (Menasha Ridge Press). Woodman has presided over countless mixology competitions as a judge, including Throwdown With Bobby Flay and she approaches each with an open mind, a fresh palate and a ready pen.
Recent Articles
Scene Stirs
Buy the Book: Essential Summer Drink–er, Reading
June 18th, 2013
Liquid Vacation is available on Amazon and FrankiesTikiRoom.com. Or you can pick one up and have it signed by the author at the June 22 launch party at Frankie’s Tiki Room. While you’re at it, here are a few more tomes for your cocktail table and the beverages with which to enjoy them.
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Frankie's Tiki Room Owner Unveils Cocktail Recipes in New Book
June 18th, 2013
P Moss’ third book, Liquid Vacation: 77 Refreshing Tropical Drinks from Frankie’s Tiki Room in Las Vegas (Stephens Press, $30) includes many of the expected tiki trappings: over-the-top garnishes, outlandish colors, flames, cream and hulking wedges of juicy pineapple.
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National Bourbon Daze
June 18th, 2013
Even though National Bourbon Day appears to be championed by a company called PartyExcuses.com (also boosters for National Pasta Day and World Pistachio Day), I’m always down for a refreshing cocktail.
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CraftHaus Is a Go, Italian Beers, and Festival del Sole
June 11th, 2013
Two weeks ago I told you about CraftHaus, Henderson’s proposed brewery and taproom. Owners Wyndee and Dave Forrest turned to Kickstarter in hopes of getting community support ... and it worked!
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How to Make RM Seafood's Inca Dinka Doo Cocktail
June 11th, 2013
RM Seafood lead bartender Nathan Greene recently got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to follow his spirit. That is, he entered the 2013 Encanto Pisco Distiller’s Apprentice Competition and won a trip to Peru, where he got to follow pisco (South American grape spirit) from harvest and distillation to blending and bottling.
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All Mixed Up
Summer’s cocktail mixers get gold stars for playing well with others, as well as on their own
June 11th, 2013
Psst! Your vodka’s looking a little … lonely lately. Gin, too. In fact, your whole cocktail sitch is, well, it’s pretty sad. If you’re still drinking entry-level rum-and-diets and vodka sodas, it’s time to mix things up a little—literally. Today’s cocktail mixers trump ye olde commercial tonic water, flat cola and cranberry juice off the gun. Here are our favorite new entries to the mixer market.
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How to Make XS' Mango Basil Lemonade
June 4th, 2013
The cocktail menu at XS’ weekly poolside soiree, Sunday Nightswim, was almost certainly tailored to appeal to the fairer sex—with so much fruit-flavored spirits and liqueurs, fresh juices and the like. Not your bag, baby? You would do well to remember that in nightclubs, if the ladies are happy, everyone’s happy.
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Move over, Jägerbomb
‘Depth charges’ have never looked (or tasted) so good!
June 4th, 2013
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How to Make the Silverton's Walk Good Punch
May 28th, 2013
Punch has a long and interesting history—long enough that you could drain a bowl of the stuff before I could finish retelling how it started with British sailors in the 1600s.
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Kickstarting CraftHaus: Local Homebrewers Want a Taproom of Their Own
May 28th, 2013
Local homebrewers Wyndee and Dave Forrest are poised to go pro. The UNLV grads launched a Kickstarter campaign May 3 to fund their proposed microbrewery and taproom, CraftHaus.
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