Bob Whitby
Senior Writer
Contact: 868-4521 • Email
The veteran journalist has been working for newspapers since age 11 when he got his first job as a delivery executive for the San Jose Mercury News in Saratoga, Calif. He has put in stints writing for and editing papers in Texas, Wisconsin and Florida, most recently as editor of Orlando Weekly. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, and once snuck into Cuba to chronicle the recovery of a stolen boat.
Recent Articles
Seven Days
A curated guide to this week in your city
August 23rd, 2012
Once a month, undiscovered artists working in fields from photography to fashion come together to show off their creative efforts for you, John Q. Public.
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Seven Days
A curated tour of this week in your city
August 16th, 2012
This is the inaugural run for Las Vegas Animegacon, so if you dig twee, weirdly sexual cartoons—and the people who make them—get out and support.
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Seven Days
A curated tour of this week in your city
August 9th, 2012
Capts. Kirk, Sisko, Janeway and Archer are in our midst—and if you have to ask who they are, don’t go near the Rio this weekend because the place will be crawling with Trekkies gathered for the Official Star Trek Convention. The captains go onstage Sunday, but there’s geekery aplenty all weekend long.
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Seven Days
The best of the next two weeks in your city.
July 26th, 2012
Sunday, Aug. 5: Why is it that professional soccer never seems to catch on in this country? Promoters try this and that, but in the end it’s the other kind of football that flips our national switch. Maybe the World Football Challenge can push soccer into the Vegas mainstream as Spain’s Real Madrid and Mexico’s Santos Laguna take the pitch at Sam Boyd Stadium. 8 p.m., $71-$256, UNLVTickets.com.
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Seven Days
A curated tour of this week in your city
July 19th, 2012
Tuesday, July 24: Photographer Steve Diet Goedde is offering an “intimate look at his girlfriend”—ahem—in his new show titled, appropriately enough, New Works. Goedde is well known for his fetish photography. He had us at “intimate.” Through Aug. 26 at Sin City Gallery, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., SinCityGallery.com.
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Seven Days
A curated tour of this week in your city
July 12th, 2012
Tuesday, July 17: Fancy yourself a photographer? Then dust off the Hasselblad and hit Henderson’s network of trails in search of the perfect shot to enter in the city’s Trails Day Photo Contest. There are several categories, and you’ve got until Aug. 25 to get something good. Winners’ work will be shown at the Southern Nevada Trails Day festivities in October. Visit CityofHenderson.com for an entry form.
Read More »Better Living Through Atomic Explosives!
Fifty years ago we made a very big hole in the Nevada desert and considered it a blow for progress. Inside the Plowshare program, which promised broader canals, bigger bays and the world’s most efficient fracking operation.
July 5th, 2012
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Seven Days
A curated tour of this week in your city
July 5th, 2012
Wednesday, July 11: To paraphrase an old Saturday Night Live skit, Michael Jackson is still dead. But he’s not forgotten, particularly in this town. Local portrait artist Alex Krasky is displaying his collection of portraits he’s painted of the King of Pop through Aug. 20 at the Historic Fifth Street School Mayor’s Gallery, and a reception with Krasky is set for 6-8 p.m. LasVegasNevada.gov.
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Seven Days
A curated tour of this week in your city
June 7th, 2012
Sunday, June 10: We’ve noticed that you’re a little indecisive lately, unsure what to do with your life, where to find peace. Trust us, it shows. May we suggest a free seminar by a Yale graduate, monk, author and all-around centered dude Devamrita Swami? He’ll be talking about “winning over the shadow self” from 6-8 p.m. at the Govinda Center of Vedic India. 7181 Dean Martin Drive, GovindasCenter.com.
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Brain Power for a Better Home
UNLV’s Solar Decathlon team is building a house that will leave you with energy to burn
May 31st, 2012
It’s 2 p.m. on a Friday, and about 20 students are gathered around large work tables in the Building Technologies Lab in UNLV’s School of Architecture, poring over technical drawings and 3-D models of a small house. The wall behind them is plastered with colorful scale drawings, elevations and cutaways showing the innards of the structure, but the students’ focus is on the table in front of them.
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