Since last November, I've actually been getting to like Monday mornings. Well, actually it's only Monday morning's Review-Journal I've been enjoying, because I know that's when the Living section will be featuring a story by Corey Levitan... Continue reading »

The road between Death Valley Junction and Furnace Creek is open again! This may not sound like headline news, but if you are (a) someone who lives in Death Valley or (b) someone (like me) who loves Death Valley, this is far more important than the opening of a new casino. Continue reading »

It may be a little hard to explain why a 10-year-old cheese sandwich with a bite out of it would sell for $28,000. Okay, it does have a face on it, and it does look like a woman, but still. $28,000 is enough to buy a fairly nice new car, and no official mouthpiece of the Pope is confirming the claim that the face is the Virgin Mary's. Continue reading »

It's been years since I first heard about how you can pick your own fruit at the Gilcrease Orchard, but somehow I never made my way up to the northwest corner of Las Vegas to experience it firsthand until yesterday. Continue reading »

The idea of powering a car with electricity is nothing new. As far back as the mid-nineteenth century, inventors were motorizing carriages with batteries. Even back when the word “smog” had yet to be coined, the advantage of electricity over petroleum-based fuels was obvious. Electric cars were cleaner, quieter, and a lot easier to start [...] Continue reading »

New meaning for “eye in the sky;” Steve Wynn observesthe Golden Nugget from the Fremont Street canopy I’ve never known Fremont Street without its “Experience.” The canopy has shaded three blocks of Fremont for nearly ten years, and I’ve lived here less than five. “Oh, it was different before,” old-timers have told me. “Grittier, dustier. We miss [...] Continue reading »

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 »

I can’t forget the first time I opened a Las Vegas Review Journal and caught sight of the guy with the eye patch. “NORM!” the above-the-fold headline shouted. Too silly, I told myself as I scanned the short paragraphs crammed with names in bold-faced type. Why should I care whether Don Rickles ate lunch with [...] Continue reading »

The 301 waits for passengers atthe Southside Transit Terminal Everybody knows that Las Vegas is a city built for cars. Whether you’re driving your own, zipping around in a rental, peering out from the back of a cab, or relaxing in the bowels of a limo, the automobile has been the Vegas way to move for [...] Continue reading »