Clark County Library on Flamingo Road Lots of people write about Las Vegas, but that doesn’t mean people think of it as a literary kind of place. In fact, when I’ve mentioned how nice the public libraries are in Clark County to people elsewhere, they look at me with suspicion. How could a city full of [...] Continue reading »

The summons arrived in the mail, and a month or so later, I was on my way to the Clark County Courthouse. Armed with a long novel and lunch money, I braced myself for a day in a waiting room... Continue reading »

Everybody knows that if you want to see pigs in Las Vegas, you head for a buffet line. If its chicks, take in “Crazy Girls,” and for other birdies, hit the links. This is Vegas, baby. The closest we get to cattle calls is when Southwest Airlines loads a plane at McCarran Airport. It would be [...] Continue reading »

Propelled by a ram-air inflated foil,a kite buggier sails across Ivanpah Lake Last week, kite buggiers from around the globe gathered near Primm for the tenth annual Spring Break Buggy Blast. Without knowing much more than the fact that a kite buggy is a wind-propelled wheeled vehicle, I headed off the asphalt to find out [...] Continue reading »