The Latest
Wet ‘n’ Wild: Then and Now
How does the new waterpark compare to the original? Writer Jessi Acuña takes a trip down memory lane.
May 25th, 2013
Jose Canseco and the Twitter Cult of Terrible
Even before the sexual assault accusations, the ballplayer's feed was a catalog of bizarre ramblings. And somehow, we couldn't look away.
May 24th, 2013
Back when he was embarrassing the rest of the American League, Jose Canseco always came off like a pro wrestling villain—vain, brash, utterly cartoonish and possibly managed by Paul Bearer. There was the time he dated Madonna (and later wrote she was obsessed with him); the time he had his own 1-900 number; and the time he rammed his wife’s car. Twice. Read more »
Ask a Native
How Did Naked City Lose its Clothes?
May 22nd, 2013
Understanding the intriguing no-man's-land south of Downtown. Plus: Will this be Helldorado's last rodeo in its current location? Read more »
About Town
Splash in the City
As Downtown revives, the venerable Muni Pool is the place to chill
May 22nd, 2013
On a hot May day, I pause mid-lap, resting my forearms on the Las Vegas Municipal Pool’s edge. The big glass doors that form the southern edge of the pool area are open, and a soft breeze wafts through. Only a handful of children have arrived as early as me; their laughter gives my workout a bubbly backdrop. There’s no place in the city as serene, I’m certain. Read more »
Seven Days
A curated guide to this week in your city
May 21st, 2013
Time you learned a bit about one of this city’s most interesting landmarks, the Las Vegas Moulin Rouge, which both opened and closed in 1955. It was central to the civil rights movement in this town, and was owned by the first black woman to hold a Nevada gaming license. Read more »
Real Estate
High-Rises and the Return of Cheap Credit
Get ready for another round of low-down-payment mortgages
May 21st, 2013
Yet another sign the real estate market is on the rebound: Even high-rise condos—the sector most brutally clobbered by the Great Recession—are looking attractive to lenders today. Read more »
Comrade Grumpy's Peeve of the Week
Taxicab Blues
May 21st, 2013
There are times when I have to take a taxicab. And sometimes, just every so often, Steve Wynn is there. Read more »
Seven Questions
Seven Questions for Fox 5 Weatherman Ted Pretty
The TV forecaster on his job’s degree of difficulty, aggravating car-wash owners and the most miserable part of a SoCal vacation
May 21st, 2013
Ted Pretty sees you watching him deliver the weather every morning on KVVU Channel 5, and he knows what you’re thinking: “A lot of people think weather guys are dorks and dolts and very boring guys and nerdy. And they’re right, for the most part.” In Pretty’s defense, he never intended to be a weather guy. His career began as a reporter/photographer at a TV station in Kearney, Nebraska—“a total hellhole”—and he quickly graduated to morning-show features reporter at stations in Pocatello, Idaho, and Champaign, Illinois, before a similar job at Las Vegas’ Fox affiliate brought him to the desert in 1999. Read more »
The Week
Will Reform Outlast the Reformers?
James Guthrie may have been ahead of his time
May 21st, 2013
Washington, D.C., and Nevada have a few things in common: We both like to talk about budgets, we’re both home to dysfunctional representative bodies, we both asked lightning-rod reformers to turn around floundering school systems, and in both cases the reformers left without finishing the job. Read more »
Character Study
The Golden Touch
Bodybuilder brings the gift of bronze with tanning business
May 21st, 2013
During the early days of Las Vegas’ pool-party explosion, Mervat Berry found a void in the scene: LGBT events. So in 2009 she created a gay-specific pool event, Sunkissed, at the Luxor, and later moved the party to Mandalay Bay under a new name, Hydrat. Read more »
