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Stopping power, love, roasted pig

A day of fear, freedom and protest at the gun show and the gay rally

Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

When a Weekly reporter hits a gun show and a gay-rights rally in a single day it’s like a lesson in American history unfolding in front of her: fear and war, fear and love.

How Green is our Valley?

A little bit less these days, to save water

Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008

Green is such a loaded word now. Do you mean green good, like ecologically sound and sustainable? Or green bad, like rolling hills of lush turf watered by sprinklers that suck from Lake Mead?

Perception and panic!

The word ‘bankruptcy’ may be as scary as actual bankruptcy for Vegas

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008

There’s no need to be talking about the possibility of bankruptcies on the Strip—this city is a brand: “Vegas.” What else should the vice president of public affairs at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority say?

They said WHAT?

Looking back at the bad, the horrible and the pleasant in local campaigns

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008

If Dina Titus and Jon Porter never run against each other again it will be a pleasant hereafter.

Sarah smiles in Henderson—in a sea of American absurdism

Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

If you don’t think about it at all, it makes perfect sense. One minute you’re eating Kettle Korn outside the Henderson Pavilion, waiting for Sarah Palin with a couple of racist suburbanites (“Those people don’t vote anyway,” says one).

Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark

Edited by Paul Bogard. University of Nevada Press, $21.95

Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

Darkness is so many things: It’s where the imagination is free, it’s where mysteries hide, where dreams rule, it’s what allows us to see the stars.

‘The human condition may end in discord’

Searching for values in a universe without meaning

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

Having tried the Bush Administration, credit-card kiting, Wall Street, war, vitriolic campaigning, God, art, aliens, naked pool parties, construction projects, bankruptcy, lap dances, alcohol, prescription pills, sleeping excessively or not at all and TV—lots and lots of TV—and still come up empty, we’re sitting in UNLV’s Barrick Museum auditorium on a Thursday night to hear from a philosopher.

Divine intervention (and nuts!)

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

“Don’t you want someone smarter than me to be president?” the Divine Miss M asked a crowd at Krave Monday evening.

Giving the gift of art

Collectors select LVAM for donation of 50 new works

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

Very fine works on paper. Smaller sculptures. Prints. Fifty such works by notable contemporary artists were gifted to the Las Vegas Art Museum this week.

Free groceries, empty stores, waiting in line

Along Maryland Parkway, scenes from the recession

Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008

It’s a rice-and-beans season—or, as The Colbert Report summarizes it, there’s a “clusterfuck at the poor house.”