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Last Men Standing
April 14th, 2011
Three of those four races were decided in the primaries, leaving only the Ward 4 City Council position to be settled in the June 7 general election, with former Henderson Police Chief Michael Mayberry and Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Sam Bateman vying for the seat vacated by Steve Kirk, who is being forced out by term limits. Read more »
The Latest National
Citizen Beck
Temperatures rise at Mercury Radio Arts as bumped Fox pundit takes his war to the Web’s wilderness
April 14th, 2011
When Glenn Beck announced he would be leaving Fox News last week, he fixed his maniacal gaze on the camera, which was still for once, and delivered a cryptic promise. “We will find each other,” he said. “I will continue to tell the story, and I’m going to be showing you other ways for us to connect. Read more »
The Latest Thought
What Is Freedom?
In the age of ideological budget hawks, a defense of social democracy
April 14th, 2011
When the guillotines were still hovering over UNLV earlier this spring and it was unknown on which departments they would fall, I spoke with a nervous student of mine who is into the third year of her degree in communications. She was worried that her department would be one of those to be extinguished and that she wouldn’t have accumulated all the credits she would need by the July, 2012 cut-off date for closing departments. “I’m already $30,000 in debt,” she said. “That’s a big investment, along with the three years." Read more »
Seven Questions
Teller
The silent half of the intellectual magic duo talks about talking, the magic of his magic, and his No. 1 cause
April 14th, 2011
When you first hear Teller’s voice, it is a bit unnerving. Not because he has a deep, measured tone and is super articulate. It’s simply because you never hear it. He has, after all, made a career of being the short, silent half of magic duo Penn & Teller. While Penn Jillette is boisterous, Teller is mysterious, with communication that revolves around miming or being the consummate guinea pig. Read more »
Comrade Grumpy’s Peeve of the Week
Sunday Reruns
April 14th, 2011
There are certain things in life one simply must return to—I’ve got a 15-year revisitation cycle for Dostoyevsky, five years for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a month or so for Grandma’s beet soup. Henderson’s own Greenspun Media Group has now brought the principle of eternal return to the local news business and tightened the cycle of return to mere days. Read more »
The Deal
The price isn’t right
April 14th, 2011
How much does it cost to see a Las Vegas show? I did the calculation last week, marking the 20th year in a row that the Las Vegas Advisor has determined the city’s average show-ticket price. Back in 1992, the average was $27.05. Since then it’s been a continual (prices retreated slightly in three of those 20 years) march upward to a lofty 2011 average of $76.46. That’s brutal. Read more »
UNLV Basketball
The Once & Future Rebels
With the departure of Lon Kruger, the legend of Tark reasserts itself
April 7th, 2011
On March 15, 2004, Lon Kruger walked amiably into the rubble and promised to make it right again. It was a fool’s errand, and Kruger very nearly pulled it off. Now that he is gone, whisked away on April Fool’s Day by the University of Oklahoma and its deep war chest while the Nevada Legislature slowly starves UNLV, one is wonder-struck that he endured for seven years, a deceptively wily Kansan among the fast-talking hucksters of the Vegas boom and bust. Read more »
Entrepreneurs
The Booze Is Cookin’
April 7th, 2011
As George Rácz’s first batch of vodka poured from one of his two 170-gallon artisan pot stills into a vat during its second round of distillation on April 1, the Las Vegas Distillery founder brushed off a comment that he was making history. “I don’t know about that,” he said. “But I’m very happy.” Read more »
The Latest
Caught in the Crossfire
The ‘Dotty’s model’ has the county rewriting the gaming tavern rulebook. Meanwhile, it’s shut down tavern development.
April 7th, 2011
The debate over the “Dotty’s model” of a gaming tavern—an establishment with no kitchen, no beer on tap and an emphasis on slot machines—has divided the gaming community. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
What Happens in Vegas Goes in The Vegas Box
April 7th, 2011
Although gaming revenues continue to sag, nongaming spending in Las Vegas is showing a slight rebound. Numbers recently released by the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority show upticks in expenditures on food and drink, transportation, shopping and entertainment for 2010. The proprietors of The Vegas Box, a start-up geared toward frequent Vegas visitors, are hoping that now might be the time to start a business that capitalizes on people’s love for Vegas—and convenience. Read more »
