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May almanac: On these days in our city’s history …
News Comments May 08, 2013 6:21pmMay 1, 1997: The newspaper reports on “the many coming-out parties around the Las Vegas Valley,” as Ellen DeGeneres announces she is a lesbian on her sitcom, Ellen.May 2, 1930: The Pair-O-Dice Casino...
There’s no satisfaction for fans who can’t get tickets to The Rolling Stones
News Comments Updated: May 09, 2013 1:26pmThe first time the Rolling Stones played the West Coast, in 1965, tickets went for $3.50. A few years later, the Stones played the Oakland Coliseum, and then as now, ticket prices were on a sliding...
Five questions about worker safety and Nevada’s OSHA woes
News Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 6:17pmNEVADA AND LAS VEGAS have had a long and not particularly positive history with worker accidents, including death. Last month a worker on a road project in Northwest Las Vegas was crushed and killed...
Thursday night on Las Vegas Boulevard: Scenes from a walk
News Comments May 01, 2013 7:22pmT’S JUST ANOTHER weeknight in Las Vegas, which still makes it crazier than New Year’s Eve in 99 percent of the rest of America. You can watch it swish past from your car windows or you can get slow...
The ragedy of PTSD: It afflicts vets and others, but help is available
News Comments Updated: May 08, 2013 5:19pmTRAUMA CAN COME from so many sources. It can be delivered by a physical or sexual assault; from a relative or a stranger; it can arrive with the shriek and crash of a vehicle collision. It can arrive...
The death penalty isn’t a hot issue, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important
News Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 6:56pmNancy Hart could give you many reasons why she is against the death penalty. It costs too much. It’s inhumane. It brings up the question of constitutionality. Its use seems arbitrary. As the...
A good defense: Sequester cuts threaten the federal public defender’s office
News Comments Updated: May 01, 2013 6:56pmFifty years ago, on March 18, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of all people, regardless of their economic status, to a legal defense in a criminal proceeding.The landmark Gideon v....
Luz change: A small church with a big downtown impact gets a makeover
News Comments Apr 24, 2013 6:15pmThose who know me would probably agree that I am not a particularly religious man. While I am not a stranger to religious services of various flavors, I am more likely to cite Carl Sagan than the...
Q&A with Mina Kahn, designer and dominatrix
News Comments Updated: Apr 25, 2013 5:58pmMINA KAHN is a designer and dominatrix who brought Las Vegas’ first-ever flash mob fashion show to the Strip. After finding some success last year, participating in fashion and art shows at The...
A new report confirms what we should already know: The Colorado River is in deep trouble
News Comments Updated: Apr 18, 2013 5:09pmLongtime Las Vegans collect lists. Terrible, horrible lists of ways in which Las Vegas and Nevada are the worst or nearly the worst in every terrible, horrible, dangerous or sad way. Bottom of every...
