The Local Newsroom
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 »
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 »
Seven Days
A curated guide to this week in your city
May 15th, 2013
Time for another installment of Helldorado Days, Las Vegas’ longest-running civic event. This one’s big: a daily carnival, the Whiskerino beard contest Friday, a parade Saturday and professional rodeo stars doing their thing daily. The fun happens in and around Downtown. Read more »
Found Material
Nevada Has Plastic Priorities
May 15th, 2013
Las Vegas is often chided for its inauthenticity, so is it any surprise that our state’s highest paid public employee is a plastic surgeon? Read more »
Real Estate
Will Any of Those Out-of-Town Buyers Wind Up Living Here?
It might take time, but out-of-towners could be thinking retirement to Vegas
May 15th, 2013
Las Vegas has long been a popular second address for out-of-towners. And with so many out-of-state cash buyers these days, the civic-minded Las Vegan can only hope that some of these investors will want to actually live in these homes someday. Read more »
The End of 'Vegas'
May 15th, 2013
Vegas has crapped out. Based on a fictionalized version of the career of former Clark County Sheriff Ralph Lamb (portrayed by Dennis Quaid), the 1960s-set drama has been canceled by CBS after one season. Read more »
Editor's Note
The Green Hour
May 13th, 2013
At a time when—politically, economically, culturally—so much seems so wrong to so many of us, it’s easy to forget about the environment. It’s the ultimate peace-and-prosperity issue, the thing we think about when everything else isn’t on our mind. Read more »
