The Local Newsroom
Three Questions: Ice Age Predators
April 3rd, 2013
UNLV geologist Josh Bonde was surveying the Upper Las Vegas Wash last June when he and his team of undergrad assistants noticed a bone sticking out of the side of a hill. He knew immediately that it was from some sort of dog, and an independent examination recently confirmed it was the foot bone of a 10,000-15,000-year-old dire wolf. Read more »
Excuse Them While They Clear Their Throats
What has the Legislature done so far?
April 3rd, 2013
The 2013 Nevada Legislature has been something like that period of time at The Smith Center between the bartenders pouring your beer into a sippy cup and the orchestra making warm-up sounds from the pit. In fact, you might say our lawmakers have continued gargling salt water and doing scales behind the velvet curtains well into the first act. Read more »
Kitchen Boot Camp
Southeast Career Technical Academy teaches teens the finer points of hospitality
March 19th, 2013
My wife and I watched as dining-room staff in crisp white shirts and black bow ties handled the lunch crowd with meshed precision. Our food arrived quickly: chicken piccata moist and bright, and jasmine rice subtly flavored. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
With Resorts World, Macau Comes to Vegas
March 19th, 2013
When Resorts World Las Vegas rises from the abandoned husk of Echelon Place on the north Strip, it will be very different from what Echelon would have been. And the differences tell us a lot about where Las Vegas has gone in the six years since the property’s 2007 groundbreaking. Read more »
Politics
Staying True in North Las Vegas
March 14th, 2013
North Las Vegas has a problem. Isaac Barron is running for its Ward 1 City Council seat because he thinks he has a solution. “I’ve heard people say we need to re-brand North Las Vegas,” he says. “I’m not sure what they mean. We are not Green Valley or Henderson, or Boulder City or Las Vegas. There’s no negative connotation to that. We want people to be able to raise their families here, have a good home and a good job, good parks and schools. I just want to see my city prosper. I can’t change what has been done in the past, but I can help with the future.” Read more »
About Town
Dawn of the Master Plan
More than 40 years ago, Spring Valley set the tone for Las Vegas’ future
March 7th, 2013
From Hank Greenspun to Jim Rhodes, Las Vegas developers have always had a gift for looking at raw desert and seeing visions of suburban paradise. Such was the case for the Pardee brothers—Doug, Hoyt and George—who in 1969 started Southern Nevada’s master-planned community craze. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
Keeping a Season Ahead
March 7th, 2013
The original boutique hotel-within-a-hotel on the Strip, the Four Seasons, is generating some buzz of its own with a two-phase renovation that’s just started its second half. Sharing the Mandalay Bay complex with the Delano Las Vegas, it’s got something the other boutique projects don’t: a history in town. Read more »
Seven Questions
Seven Questions for Patti Novak
The matchmaker on being a straight shooter with clients, her own dating mistakes and why love at first sight is a fallacy
February 28th, 2013
It's not that her clients can't get dates, says professional matchmaker Patti Novak. It's that their time is limited. Or they're sick of the bar scene. Or they want a little more privacy and safety than online dating affords. And then there are clients with broken "pickers"; they seem to match themselves with the same—wrong—type of mate over and over. Novak was a natural-born picker. Especially for others. Read more »
Price of Safety
February 21st, 2013
People enjoy parodying the National Rifle Association’s mantra: Guns don’t kill people; bullets/rappers/Chuck Norris do(es). The NRA itself has provided the latest update: Guns don’t kill people; the mentally ill do. Read more »
