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Amid the memes, food shots and political name-calling, can Facebook actually be a venue for ideas? A philosophical musing.
News Comments Mar 13, 2013 9:06pmFOR MANY PEOPLE who are regular users of Facebook, the social network is a convenient way to stay engaged with an extended community online. As a marketing and networking tool, it can be as useful to...
BIY — Burn it yourself
On the scene Comments Mar 13, 2013 8:56pmTHERE ARE DRUMS, fire dancers, revelers. A tiny effigy sits at the center of it all. Eight p.m. is showtime. Everyone is gathered ’round, waiting. A rogue firework bursts from its canister and pops....
A weekend without tech, or Is this heaven or hell?
News Comments Updated: Mar 14, 2013 2:24pmThere are six technological devices on my dresser, seven if you count the pair of speakers as two — those, a TV, blu-ray player, modem, router and a hand-held radio I carry between my bedroom and...
What’s a media maverick to do in an age of online innovation? If you’re Paul Carr and NSFWCORP, the obvious answer is … print?
News Comments Updated: Mar 20, 2013 4:15pmEvery bee in the media hive is sweating the future of journalism, but it’s safe to say that very few of them think print is a solution. Paul Carr, boss of the Vegas-based media startup NSFWCorp —...
— Running from office: Turmoil engulfs UNLV’s undergraduate student government
News Comments Updated: Mar 20, 2013 4:14pmIt’s an acrimonious political drama featuring charges of corruption, cronyism and misdeeds; liberals versus conservatives; a lawsuit; and the impeachment of a constitutional officer. In terms of...
March Almanac: On these days in our city’s history …
News Comments Updated: Mar 07, 2013 12:47pmMarch 1, 1991: Of the total convict population in Nevada’s prisons, 131 inmates have tested positive for the AIDS virus.March 2, 2002: A government study concludes that about 15,000 people have died...
Sending an angel: Toshia Shaw is saving troubled girls one at a time
News Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 8:32pmThe girls are not bad girls.They are unruly, yes, defiant at times, yes, but not bad. If there’s anything bad about them, it’s where they’ve come from. Often they are missing mothers, fathers,...
With vaccine programs losing funds, sequester cuts favor disease
News Comments Mar 07, 2013 12:05pmIn 1674 an English doctor, Thomas Willis, described what we now call whooping cough, a disease chiefly afflicting children and infants and characterized by the distinctive “whooping” of its victims...
Troubled pols fell from grace long before Brooks, Bonaventura
News Comments Updated: Mar 13, 2013 8:24pmIt’s too bad lemmings don’t really leap into the ocean at regular intervals.The myth of lemmings’ mass suicide would be a good metaphor for the self-destructive urges of the elected leadership of...
The Doral Academy is an example of how to create an ‘arts-integration’ charter school in a lot of not particularly easy steps
News Comments Updated: Mar 07, 2013 1:12amWhoever heard of something rising from the ashes of a phoenix? That’s what’s taking place just off the 215 Beltway on the far west side of town. Doral Academy of Nevada charter school is moving into...
