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<p>Hugh Jackson</p>

Hugh Jackson: How not to get things done

Jun 12, 2013 4:49pm
I DID NOT GO to the 2013 session of the Nevada Legislature, didn’t even parachute in for a day or...
<p>THINKSTOCK</p>

Sarah Jane Woodall: Undercover grubbers

Jun 12, 2013 4:47pm
Picture a plate of succulent scallops, glistening on a bed of mouth-watering braised...
<p>MARTIN S. FUENTES/LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL</p>

Chris Ainsworth: Crowd-sourcing a resurrection

Jun 12, 2013 4:43pm
Joey Vanas (of First Friday), Michael Corthwaite (Downtown Cocktail Room), Rehan Coudhry...
<p>George Knapp</p>

George Knapp: Drink up, the water’s fine

Jun 12, 2013 4:40pm
WHEN I READ in the paper the other day about mysterious foamy gunk floating around in a...

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Savage Love, March 21

Mar 20, 2013 5:45pm
DEAR READERS: I’m off this week. To tide all of your hot and/or kinky and/or sore asses over, here’s a column I wrote 15 years ago. Some newer readers might’ve missed this column when it originally...
<p>Sarah Jane in Wonder Valley</p>

Columnist Sarah Jane Woodall: Big fun in Wonder Valley

Updated: Mar 21, 2013 4:58pm
Vegas is a lone outpost of civilization surrounded by desert. At first glance, the Mojave is empty wasteland … but if you explore, you’ll find it’s actually full of amazing hidden gems.A couple weeks...
<p>State Sen. Michael Roberson, R-Henderson, center, speaks during a meeting of the Legislative Commission at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building in Las Vegas on Thursday, Mar. 29, 2012. (Jessica Ebelhar/Las Vegas Review-Journal)</p>

Columnist Hugh Jackson: While Kihuen and legislative Dems dithered, Republican Michael Roberson co-opted their big issue

Updated: Mar 27, 2013 5:42pm
Nevada’s Legislature had 40 days to either enact or reject the business tax that teachers have qualified to put on the ballot in 2014. That deadline came and went last week, and underscoring why...
<p>George Knapp</p>

Columnist George Knapp: complaints by Boulder City police chief shake up sleepy town’s power elite

Updated: Mar 21, 2013 11:59am
For seven years, Boulder City police chief Thomas Finn has done a pretty good job of maintaining the peace in his green, clean, and mostly quiet community. But kiss the peace goodbye. Finn has just...
<p>Dylan Bathurst at SXSW</p>

Columnist Chris Ainsworth: Vegas tech goes big at SXSW

Updated: Mar 21, 2013 4:47pm
South by Southwest is a film, interactive and music festival held annually in Austin, Texas. Last week, in an effort led by Gabe Shepherd (who will also help build the inaugural SXSW V2V conference...
<p>Chip Mosher</p>

Chip Mosher: Sayonara, Dwight Jones

Mar 13, 2013 9:10pm
“Did ya hear the superintendent is leaving?” a teacher asked.“Yeah, does it make any difference?” her colleague responded.“Not really,” the teacher said.Thus departs another education reformist...
George Knapp

George Knapp: Cabbies deserve a fair deal, in spite of themselves

Mar 13, 2013 9:03pm
Displaying all the charm and grace for which they are so widely known, Las Vegas cab drivers have started their own unofficial media campaign in support of the driver strike against Yellow-Checker-...

Savage Love, March 14

Mar 13, 2013 8:58pm
I’M AN ACTOR in New York City. A lot of people think actors are whores, but last week I almost became one. I responded to a casting call for a film project called Sniff. The ad — on Playbill’s...
<p>Proposed phases for downtown wi-fi</p>

Chris Ainsworth: Free wi-fi for downtown

Updated: Mar 13, 2013 8:31pm
This summer, downtown Las Vegas will join Denver, El Paso, Houston and dozens of other municipalities that have installed free wi-fi service in their city centers in an attempt to foster their...

George Knapp: The curse of Tony Cornero

Mar 07, 2013 12:06pm
If there is such a thing as a cursed patch of land, the acreage underneath the soon-to-be-built mega project known as Resorts World Las Vegas would qualify. The announcement this week that a...