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- Who ya’ gonna call?
- Whether you want to help the homeless, save the environment or to sidewalk and shove, you can depend on these proven activists to deliver
- Thursday, June 19, 2008
- Whether you want to help the homeless, save the environment or to sidewalk and shove, you can depend on these proven activists to deliver
- The heavenly hitter
- Glen Lerner addresses controversy, why he’s hated by the media—and his personal relationship with God
- Thursday, June 12, 2008
- Lerner’s in the makeup chair, readying for his next commercial, whose campy script calls for Lerner to narrowly escape an oncoming car. Lerner is the self-professed Heavy Hitter of personal-injury lawyers—“Many of our clients have received settlements of over One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00)!” his website screams. He’s practiced law in town for nearly 20 years, the last 10 of which he’s spent building a reputation as an ambulance-chasing, do-gooding, make-the-bad-guy-pay attorney, even if that superhero persona exists first and foremost in his own mind.
- Bun B
- II Trill
- Thursday, June 12, 2008
- With II Trill, the follow up to 2005’s semi-solid Trill, Bun B (Bernard Freeman) might finally get credit for helping power the South’s rise in the rap game.
- From TV to Vegas
- Two more cooking-show vets talk shop
- Thursday, June 5, 2008
- Kitchen competitions have taken cable and Las Vegas by storm. Hell's Kitchen winner (3rd season) Rock Harper and Iron Chef America competitor Akira Back spill the secrets of their prime-time moments doing battle at the cutting board.
- I want to be a star
- How much have chef shows increased enrollment in local culinary schools?
- Thursday, June 5, 2008
- You’d think watching Gordon Ramsay curse out lowly waffle-flippers on Hell’s Kitchen would be enough to deter anyone from a career in the kitchen. Not so. Enrollment in culinary schools throughout the country is on the rise, powered, industry observers say, by the rising popularity of reality-television cooking shows such as Bravo’s Top Chef, Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen and the Food Network’s Next Food Network Star.
- Throw the Black Book at 'em
- A peek at who is being banned from Nevada casinos-and how and why
- Thursday, May 29, 2008
- The names are Scorsese flick-worthy: Francis “Lefty” Rosenthal; Dominic Anthony Spinale; Joseph Vincent Cusumano. Their crimes, the stuff of wise-guy legend: Louis Tom Dragna led organized crime in Southern California; Buffalo mobster Stephen Anthony Cino racked up a laundry list of charges, from robbery to extortion. Their bravado, incomparable: Fred Anthony Pascente was a Chicago detective busted for mail fraud and linked to the Chicago mob; Timothy John Childs once listed “slot cheat” as his occupation on a loan application.
- The little (soon-to-be-big) college that could
- Nevada State College overcame rocky beginnings to defy the odds
- Thursday, May 22, 2008
- Nevada State College has room to grow and it hopes to do just that.
- Correcting an Institution
- Why releasing low-level, nonviolent inmates is safer than keeping them incarcerated
- Wednesday, May 21, 2008
- Instead of making us safer, mandatory minimum sentencing and “three-strikes” laws helped make the United States the world’s foremost jailer of its own people.
- Do you feel a draft?
- Play for UNLV. Go to the pros. It happens more than you think
- Thursday, May 8, 2008
- Let’s face it: UNLV will probably never reach Trojan (USC) heights in football, win as many NCAA hoops titles as UCLA (11), or fashion a college baseball dynasty like Louisiana State University. The best we can hope for is another national hoops crown in the near future. No pressure, Lon Kruger, no pressure.
- On pins and Needles
- A tiny burg wants to become part of Nevada. But are they really Nevada-worthy?
- Thursday, May 8, 2008
- The “What’s New” section of the Needles, California, website contains not one but two—count ’em, two—press releases.
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