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You Know What’s Scary?
October 27th, 2011
What’s scary is the future of the Harmon. What’s scary is the future of North Las Vegas. What’s scary is the possibility that the latter might have no more future than the former. Read more »
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Of Cool Air and Fire
October 20th, 2011
The Indy cars were just 11 laps into the 200-lap race when the weekend shattered. On a track that racer Danica Patrick had earlier described as “friggin fast,” a single swerve turned into a 15-car, 220-mph crash. In an instant, Dan Wheldon’s black-and-white No. 77 open-wheel racer was airborne and in flames. Wheldon was flown to University Medical Center. His death was announced at 2:20 p.m. He was a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner with blue eyes and a ready smile and a sense of proportion about the meaning of glory and fame. Read more »
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Homeland Insecurity
October 13th, 2011
The “mobs” sprouted in cities across the country, including Las Vegas, where several hundred protesters gathered Oct. 6 and marched up and down the Strip, disproving the notion that Las Vegas is too preoccupied with yardlong beers, Celine Dion and “girls who want to meet you” for political activism to flourish. Read more »
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Yes, We’ll Make It
October 6th, 2011
This is where we drop the statistics, and the hammers and nails, for that matter, and put our fine Valley to the eyeball test: Are we building? And what are we building? Read more »
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Look, Officer: No Hands!
Seven steps to a hands-free future
September 29th, 2011
Starting Oct. 1, the cops will warn you that you’ll just have to stop thumb-typing and calling out for pizza while doing 20 in the fast lane. In January, they’ll start taking your money. We propose the following seven steps to a hands-free future. Read more »
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Art, Jobs and Hope
September 22nd, 2011
On a beautiful night last week on UNLV’s campus, a poet read from his collection We Are Starved in the Greenspun Hall Auditorium. It was moving. We laughed at the brutal honesty of it. And then we sank back into our seats to listen to more unbearably austere poems that tinkered with the theme of hunger. Hunger for love, hunger for death, hunger for an explanation. Read more »
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The Endurance of Names
September 15th, 2011
Sept. 11, 2011, was a day of names. Names of the 9/11 dead had been inscribed on fountains at Ground Zero, benches at the Pentagon and stone slabs in Shanksville, Pa. Michael Arad’s Ground Zero memorial had even ensured that the names of those who were connected in life were inscribed close to one another in death. The names become not only carriers of lost being, but nodes within networks of friendship and love. Read more »
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Union Yes!
September 1st, 2011
Labor Day signals the end of summer, a transitional time when kids return to school, temperatures (hopefully) begin to cool and football reasserts itself as the modern national pastime. Once upon a time, it also meant a celebration of the American worker. But these days it seems the only time we hear much about labor is on SportsCenter. Read more »
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Welcome to The Parq: A Dream Sequence
August 25th, 2011
A superteam of local developers and dignitaries has announced plans for a major new Clark County retail, residential and recreational development, dubbed The Parq. The walkable exurban district, featuring quaint "hamlets," a village green, galleries, glass-blowing workshops, trumpet manufacturing, a small liberal arts college, Abercrombie & Fitch and the world's fastest roller coaster, will break ground at the foot of Elephant Rock in Valley of Fire State Park this October. Read more »
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The Beginning
August 18th, 2011
What if the impending implosion of the Harmon is not simply the erasure of a very expensive mistake, but an exorcism? In the movies, after all, when you destroy the evil wizard’s horcrux, or whatever, the dark spell rises from the land and a golden age begins. Read more »
