T.R. Witcher
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Health
‘Scared and vulnerable’
Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 For Sabin Orr, having a stroke at age 33 was only the beginning of a nightmarish slog through the health-care system.
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Economy
Lodging complaints
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 Arts district leaders and a local businessman are battling over one Downtown motel.
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Culture
Flavor of Chinatown
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods chronicles Chinese communities in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu and … Las Vegas?
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As We See It
Painting the town
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 A crusade to fight graffiti becomes a city-wide arts group.
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Fine Art
Objects telling stories
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 Explore the endless possibilities of synthesizing graphic design and text.
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Stratosphere
Stupak’s true legacy
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 The Stratosphere helped create, and continues to complement, Naked City.
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Art
Economy be damned! Downtown gets a new gallery
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 Place Gallery opened last week and the new space suggests that the local arts scene here is starting to turn around.
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As We See It
Downtown vs. the 'burbs: Murder rates surprisingly similar
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 A look at Metro’s year-to-date homicide stats reveals that, when it comes to murder rates, there’s little separating Downtown from Summerlin?
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Environment
What’s in a green name?
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 An environmentally friendly casino has to be a contradiction in terms. Giant buildings that welcome and encourage the extravagant, wasteful behavior of thousands of guests at the same time hardly seem like a recipe for saving Mother Earth.
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A&E
A growing problem with no solution
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 In a state with an alarming suicide rate, murder-suicides appear to be increasing as well.
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LV Weekly
Now what?
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 Parolees looking for a second chance are finding it more difficult than ever.
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As We See It
You can't get away
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 I live near the far southwest corner of the Valley. We are, one likes to think, just about beyond the reach of graffiti and crime. But not quite.
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Nevada
The joke's on us
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 It was a joke. Right? When Harry Reid, during a Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week, told a Review-Journal ad man, “I hope you go out of business.”
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Budget
Money and justice
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 Can Nevada bridge the gap between tight budgets and effective counsel for the poor?
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History
Full-court press
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, tucked inside an average building on the UNLV campus, is the kind of place that can be hard to find even if you’re among the small percentage of Las Vegans who have been there before.
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Local Music
Creating his own structure
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 Classical mixed with hip-hop? Well, that’s something you don’t hear about every day, and that’s exactly the appeal for young Las Vegas violinist Anthony Williams, intent on taking the rigorous technique of his classical training and spreading it across the freer forms of jazz and hip-hop.
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A&E
New Pecking order
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 After 13 years of hell-raising as executive director of the Las Vegas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Gary Peck is finally calling it quits, in what the ACLU calls an amicable parting.
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Politics
A healthy debate
Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 Judging by the fired-up crowd at an informal town-hall meeting at Stoney’s Rockin’ Country Friday evening, hosted by conservative KDWN 720-AM, supporters of Barack Obama’s health-care reform agenda have their work cut out for them.
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Stage
Signs of frustration
Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 Deciding to save Elton John’s Red Piano signs was the easy part. Now what?
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LV Weekly
Call it ‘American art’
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 Even as the black arts community in Las Vegas struggles to establish itself, many artists bristle at the term.
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LV Weekly
Master (pint-sized) builder
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 The artist Frank James is precise. Very precise. Set your watch by him precise. In his living room there are three tables; and on these tables are scale models, each about the size of a footlocker, that James assembled by hand: a church, a house and the Tabernacle of Moses. The church alone took him 8,985 hours to make.
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A&E
A Fuller life
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 A few weeks ago, Dolores Fuller, the so-called “Queen of the B Movies,” suffered a stroke, and she’s been in pain ever since. But last weekend, the 86-year-old actress donned a sequined gold sweater at the Montara Meadows Retirement Community on East Tropicana and retained an astounding amount of her formidable presence.
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As We See It
Cash for dealers?
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 The federal program to jump-start the auto industry still carries many question marks.
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City Hall
Up and down
Thursday, July 30, 2009 Dreams of downtown revitalization die hard in this town. While cranes and crews dot the landscape at the center of town, the vibe Downtown gives us is the same as always—a sort of holding pattern, forever awaiting better days when a seamless urban whole at last rises up beyond its disparate pieces.
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Transportation
‘It’s noisy, it’s terrible’
Thursday, July 23, 2009 When it comes to reopening F Street, the historic center of black Las Vegas, the $70 million price tag is only part of the story.
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A&E
Superhero status
Thursday, July 23, 2009 Comic Oasis has most everything a comic-book customer might want—killer selection, a laid-back atmosphere and a friendly staff. Now, the shop has something else to crow about—a nomination as the best comic book store in the world.
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Architecture
Design at the crossroads
Thursday, July 16, 2009 Despite its reputation, Las Vegas is, visually speaking, a surpassingly orderly place. The Strip anchors the city’s fantasy side, and the low-slung subdivisions and shopping centers hold down the rest.
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Transportation
One station to rule them all
Thursday, July 16, 2009 With all the fuss about the proposed $4 billion DesertXpress high-speed train traveling only as far as Victorville, no one has given much attention to where the train would stop at the other end—Las Vegas.
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Art
Vision quest
Thursday, July 16, 2009 Komkrit Thusanapanont’s ethereal, light-infused landscape photography of the American Southwest proves that the most spectacular thing about Las Vegas is not the Strip but the majestic Wilson Cliffs in Red Rock Canyon.
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Environment
Musseling in
Thursday, July 16, 2009 Native to the Ukraine, quagga mussels turned up in North America in the Great Lakes in 1989, and then eventually hitched a ride by boat to Lake Mead. Apparently, they really like it here.
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As We See It
Our own Darwin Award nominee?
Thursday, July 9, 2009 A North Las Vegas fire captain is indicted for torching his own ride.
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Clark County
Interview Issue: Virginia Valentine
Thursday, July 2, 2009 The Clark County manager began her career as an engineer, explains the intricacies of county versus state and how the two work together, plus child-welfare integration issues.
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Nevada
Don’t Check In
Thursday, July 2, 2009 As Nevada’s national political profile rises, it finds itself on the front lines of a growing number of issues. The latest is the Employee Free Choice Act, a law being debated in Congress that would make it easier for employees to unionize by bypassing secret-ballot voting in favor of simply signing an authorization card.
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Tourism
The Super-Abridged Quasi-Michelin Guide
Thursday, July 2, 2009 With news that the Michelin Guide has decided not to publish 2010 guides to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, citing the bad economy, we’ve decided to pitch in.
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Economy
Interview Issue: Keith Schwer
Thursday, July 2, 2009 Is the Director of UNLV's Center for Business and Economic Research the "Prince of Gloomy News"? Or is that just the role of the economist?
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Health Care
Interview Issue: Lawrence Sands
Thursday, July 2, 2009 Chief health officer of the Southern Nevada Health District dispels common misconceptions, adressing the swine flu outbreak and the quality of health care in Las Vegas.
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Death Becomes Him: At long last, the King of Pop makes his comeback
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 This is not the real story. This is our story. In our story, there comes a day when Michael Jackson realizes he will never outdo himself. And in our story, he doesn't fight it.
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As We See It
What’s up with What’s On?
Thursday, June 25, 2009 Usually when newspapers or magazines are struggling financially, they look to cut back on costs. They may curtail their freelance budgets. Local entertainment magazine What’s On seems to have another strategy—not paying its freelancers.
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Yucca Mountain
The Travel Issue: It is this much space that gets us into trouble
Thursday, June 25, 2009 To search for Yucca Mountain one first needs a map. Wait. That’s second. The real first step is to call up the Department of Energy for some information on how to get there. Where is it, exactly? And what does it look like?
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Art
Learning From Las Vegas, 2.0
Thursday, June 25, 2009 The authors of the famous architectural book revisit Sin City.
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Government
Victorville Rising
Thursday, June 18, 2009 With news that Sen. Harry Reid has thrown his support behind the $4 billion DesertXpress high-speed train from Las Vegas to Victorville, residents of Victorville are feeling mighty good about themselves.
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Religion
Some local Muslims reflect on Obama’s Cairo Speech
Thursday, June 18, 2009 President Obama’s June 4 speech in Cairo was widely hailed as a new start for the troubled relationship between the West and the Muslim world.
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CineVegas 2009
Bronson
Monday, June 15, 2009 Bronson tells the story of petty thief Michael Peterson, sentenced to prison in 1974, who changed his name to Charles Bronson and over the next three decades gained notoriety as Britain’s most violent prisoner.
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CineVegas 2009
Asylum Seekers
Sunday, June 14, 2009 Asylum Seekers begins with a promising premise: Six social misfits seek to opt out of society by competing against each other for one spot in an asylum.
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CineVegas 2009
Stingray Sam
Saturday, June 13, 2009 Stingray Sam follows the titular character, a two-bit cowboy lounge singer on the planet Mars, and his buddy, the Quasar Kid, as they rocket across the galaxy trying to save a kidnapped girl.
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Taxes
Crash course
Thursday, June 11, 2009 What’s up with all the officer-involved accidents lately? And who’s paying the bill?
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Politics
Wary Harry
Thursday, June 4, 2009 Reid’s numbers may be down, but can any Republicans beat him?
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Politics
Empathy ratings
Thursday, June 4, 2009 In choosing Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, President Obama said he was looking for a judge with empathy. Let’s apply our Empathy Meter to see how some of the city’s biggest names fare.
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Barack Obama
The Gods must be crazy
Thursday, May 28, 2009 Barack Obama must be something like the Hindu god Shiva.
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Environment
Mining opposition
Thursday, May 28, 2009 In tough times, you’d think the proposed development of a new mine on the outskirts of town might be a plus. Yet, the “outskirts of town” have been swallowed by the city. Which is why residents of Henderson are fighting a proposed mine near I-15 at Sloan.