Living Las Vegas

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Top Vegas Hotels: Bellagio, Luxor, Rio

Roads from the Ashes: An Odyssey in Real Life on the Virtual Frontier, by Megan Edwards

Sipping for Scholarship: UNLVino Wine Tasting & Auction

I live in Las Vegas. Such a statement might seem superfluous, given the large banner that appears on every page of this Web site. I repeat it only to point out where I do not live. I do not live in Vegas. What a difference a “Las” makes.
Las Vegas is a multi-faceted boomtown of a [...]

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Where the Books Are: Las Vegas Libraries

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 illiterate gambling addicts possibly have [...]

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Jury Duty in Sin City

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…

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Logandale Run: The Clark County Fair

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 [...]

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Sailing on the Sand: Kite Buggying on Ivanpah Dry 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 why people from as far away as New Zealand and Argentina make [...]

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