It's not always easy to determine who's running the show at Nevada's largest university these days. Certainly some of UNLV's approximately 28,000 students are a little confused. "I know I write my tuition checks to them," says senior David Ahern, 25, of the Board of Regents, the statewide body elected to oversee Nevada's higher education [...]
The room beamed with good intentions and positive thinking. So many ideas and innovations. You just had to believe. On Aug. 27, inside the Dialogue Center at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, the much-hyped $250 million beacon of alternative energy possibility, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid told the small group of concerned citizens and green business [...]
Because it's unseasonably cold and powerful winds kick up dust and debris on this late April morning, the students at Canyon Springs High School don't linger as they head to their next class, or the cafeteria. Instead, small groups come together, long enough to gossip, tag the kid who dissed them earlier in the day, [...]
"Getting pretty wild around here," Sidney said. "Young knuckleheads," Jude said. -- from Jervey Tervalon's Living for the City (1998) Today, Joshua Villas is downright boring. A few dudes stand on a second-story balcony of an orange-colored building. Another pair stand near a violet-colored one. A kid drops two trash bags in a Dumpster and [...]
They were laughing, and back-slapping, and eating, and drinking, and watching as souped-up cars, their chrome rims gleaming in the sunlight, cruised down the streets, providing a stark, colorful contrast to the otherwise drab neighborhood. It was May 28, 2006, and about 200 people -- white, black, Hispanic -- had gathered at this annual Westside [...]
When I get pulled over by the police one afternoon while driving down the most notorious stretch of road in Las Vegas with Eric "Picc" Jackson, the man who worked for the devil for 20 years, I know I have nothing to fear. If this had been anytime before March 8, 2001, man, forget it. [...]
Presumably, the person who sent letters to 11 gay-friendly bars in the tight-knit Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill threatening to poison patrons with ricin wanted to scare everyone into staying home. It didn’t work. If anything, it proved a boon to business in harsh economic times. Word spread among bar owners, bartenders, promoters, DJs, and [...]