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Ladies first: Female rappers, Las Vegas and breaking through

Ms. Undastood, Lady L.U.S.T. hope to empower female emcees

Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009

Ms. Undastood and Lady L.U.S.T. hope to empower female emcees.

Hack the Mack

The Middle East Project

Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

Hack the Mack starts strong, but as the CD proceeds, there’s less spitfire, and Hack’s retreat to tired and ultimately unadventurous topics (guns, girls and ganja) seems to sap his energy.

Skydro

Success Stories

Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

Daydream-inspiring, but in a generally good way, Success Stories is unlike anything you’ve ever heard from Vegas hip-hop. For starters, the 20-song CD is overwhelmingly positive.

Rideout

Ride Wit Me: The Prequel

Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

Cut from the North Las Vegas thug-hustle cloth, Rideout is, perhaps, one of Northtown’s more able lyricists.

Getting bigger

Vegas’ B does music his way, and fans are eating it up

Thursday, July 30, 2009

At 6-foot-7, 330 pounds, Vegas-by-way-of-California artist Big B is unquestionably the biggest (and perhaps only) rapper/punker/white-trash guru/Carey Hart flunky in the music industry. And he’s hungry.

Jay-Z

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Watching Fabolous and Ciara lumber through uninspiring sets before Jay-Z took the stage Friday meant that the night’s success rested on Jay-Z’s capable shoulders.

Muslims speak out

Local leaders want it known that ignorance is the greatest danger voters face

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

For nearly 20 months, U.S. Muslims have watched Barack Obama fumble as he tries to debunk rumors that he’s a closet Muslim.

Hey, everyone, important community issues being discussed here!

Um, everyone ... anyone ... ?

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

School over, dozens of students filed past the solitary sign-holder pointing visitors to the Greenspun Junior High auditorium for the first of several community forums on education sponsored by state Senate Democrats.

A debate to remember (and forget)

Two takes on the first mano a mano between McCain and Obama

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

n hit the jackpot. Minutes into Friday evening’s presidential debate-viewing party at Sierra Gold at Jones and the I-215, someone won $20. Two center-bar televisions cut away from Barack Obama’s meandering economic prescription for the recession, and up popped glowing graphics and the word jackpot in red uppercase letter

Electile dysfunction

Clark County may have new voting machines, but it faces more scrutiny from poll-watchers than ever

Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

Florida in 2000 gave us hanging chads and butterfly ballots. Ohio in 2004 set precedents for voter intimidation and massive disenfranchisement (350,000 missing or purged names).