Living Las Vegas

Real Life in the Shadow of the Strip

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Sin City Fast Track: The New Las Vegas Monorail

We’ve been waiting for years, and now at last the Las Vegas Monorail is actually carrying passengers. I decided to wait a few more days after the grand opening to take my own maiden voyage. If there were kinks, I figured, they might have been camouflaged on the days the press was snooping around. I [...]

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Book Review: How to Win Millions Playing Slot Machines!

How to Win Millions Playing Slot Machines! …Or Lose Trying
by Frank Legato

Here’s a title to baffle if I ever saw one, even though it starts out clearly enough. “How to Win Millions Playing Slot Machines” sounds like the subject line of a spammy email message. But then there’s the “…Or Lose Trying.” What’s that supposed to mean? I’m actually supposed to be tempted to plunk down money for a book that promises… absolutely nothing? …

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Ten Reasons I Love Living in Las Vegas

The tough thing about this topic is limiting myself to only ten. But here goes, in no particular order: 1. Banking with Elvis. I was so tickled the first time I waited in line at the ATM behind an Elvis impersonator. Now I’m much more used to seeing colorful characters and local celebrities, but it’s still fun to see Penn Jillette working on his laptop at Starbucks…

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Watching All the Girls Go By

Gentlemen’s Clubs. I know they’re full of naked ladies, but the name suggests that fully-clothed ladies might not be welcome. That’s why, until last Thursday night, I’d never darkened the door of one of the establishments that are proliferating so quickly all over the Las Vegas Valley.
Last week, while I was attending a conference here [...]

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Ten Miles (and Ten Light Years) Away

Is this really Las Vegas? People are picnicking on a huge green lawn shaded by oak trees and cottonwoods. There’s a cool breeze, even though it’s almost the Fourth of July. The sandstone ranch house looks like a movie set, and the red rock mountains look like New Mexico. Well, it isn’t really Las Vegas, at least not yet. Las Vegas is creeping closer, but one ridgeline still separates the burgeoning metropolis from Spring Mountain Ranch…

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Living in Las Vegas -- what's it really like? Ten local writers share news & views from Southern Nevada.