T.R. Witcher
A (near) native of Chicagoland, associate editor T.R. Witcher is a veteran of alternative weeklies in Denver and Kansas City. He also was formerly associate editor at Las Vegas Life. In 2006, he received his MA from the University of Chicago. He is interested in writing about the ways we shape cities and the ways they shape us. If he’s not writing about Vegas’ urban landscape, he is likely to be roaming town photographing it.
Todd's favorite book is Watership Down.
Call T.R. at 702-990-7717.
Recent Stories (view all stories)
- The 1 percent solution
- In a state with so much sun, why are Nevada’s solar standards so dim?
- Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
- Nevada is lucky enough to have a renewable energy standard that mandates that 20 percent of our energy must be met by renewables by 2015. Nevada is seeking only about 1 percent of its total energy from solar power. One percent. In a state where the sun shines so often a rainy day is cause for celebration.
- Literary Las Vegas
- Writer Charles Bock, on bringing a sense of place to Sin City
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
- The Vegas Valley Book Festival, which wrapped up last week, can be understood as the community’s attempt to find a place for itself on the high-culture map.
- What’s past is prologue
- Is the time right for wasteful Las Vegas to embrace New Urbanism?
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
- With a floundering economy and a post-election feeling that the country may be ready for a more sustainable society, the planning and design philosophy known as New Urbanism, which aims to combat the excesses of suburban sprawl, may be poised to enter the American mainstream.
- List. Bond list.
- Bond expert (and spy-in-training) T.R. Witcher takes you through the ouevre—with some rankings thrown in
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
- In honor of this week's new Bond flick Quantum of Solace, T.R. Witcher takes a frighteningly detailed look at the legendary successes and massive failures of the Bond franchise - 22 movies deep, and counting.
- Breakneck Bond
- Quantum of Solace is exciting but sometimes too frenetic
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
- There are those who like James Bond frothy, and those who like him dark. After many decades of mostly froth, the Daniel Craig era has returned Bond to something close to his literary roots—a tough professional—but even author Ian Fleming’s Bond was never this pissed off.
- The Bond Awards
- The Bests and The Worsts
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
- Gleaned from 22 movies of guns, girls and "Bond, James Bond," T.R. Witcher gives awards to the best of the best and a few of the worst.
- Okay, so now what?
- It’s time to find out what change really looks like
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008
- If 2000 felt vaguely hopeful—pre-9/11, budget surplus—and 2004 at least had the housing boom to take our minds off the unsettling feeling that Iraq might not go as easily as we’d hoped, the aftermath of 2008 is just chockablock with trouble.
- Tapped out
- Why is our water on Walmart shelves in Oakland?
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008
- Water from Lake Mead turned up in a surprising place: several Walmart stores in the Bay Area.
- Kind of Blu
- James Barela’s eclectic jazz group tries to find its way in Las Vegas
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008
- Trumpeter James Barela was looking for material that he could “play a thousand times, a million times, and it still feels as fresh as the first time I played it.”
- Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008
- It’s that smile, those lusty teeth, somehow coy and seductive, warm and haughty. It’s a lush “I don’t give a damn” smile.
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