Stacy J. Willis
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SexualityHistory, betrayal, progress and Dennis McBride
Thursday, April 29, 2010 The Boulder City historian has struggled with identity and betrayal on the way to today.
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NevadaIs Nevada playing it safe?
Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 If a girl wants to smoke a little weed and hook up with a tax-paying brothel professional before marrying her lesbian lover, shouldn't she be able to do that in Nevada?
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SportsA sorta-super Sunday
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 The Saints have this never-been-to-the-Bowl, post-Katrina rally thing going, and the Colts are rocking a should’ve-been-undefeated season. Lucky for us, Vegas has home-team bars for both.
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PoliticsDespite 12 years of service, gay state senator David Parks still faces many hurdles in Nevada
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 The state’s first openly gay lawmaker, State Sen. David Parks, is an even-keeled, buttoned-up legislator who’s now changing his focus to the Clark County Commission.
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EconomyThe State of Economic Diversification: Money talks—which is why it’s so quiet
Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 Things suck, economically. But that's not all.
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ReligionAnd on your left, polygamy
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 Tours of the nearby fundamentalist stronghold were perhaps inevitable. So we took it.
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Crime10 days, eight murders
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 By the time the photo of murder victim Contance Wiesner popped up on reporters’ screens—noon on January 11—eight people had been murdered in Vegas this year.
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TechnologyHeated discussion on nuclear history
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010 We are this close to Armageddon!
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As We See ItHats off to NDOT?
Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009 The Nevada Department of Transportation finished work on the I-15 ... early?
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As We See ItHoping a $4.2 million ‘Wrong’ is right
Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 Federal money has agencies scrambling to figure out ways to prevent homelessness.
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The StripA death draws attention to homeless panhandling on the Strip
Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 A few months ago, the corner of the Strip and Flamingo turned into the scene of a beating, and ultimately a murder.
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As We See ItIt’s the pits
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 A mine proposed less than three miles from Anthem is drawing fire from residents and politicians alike.
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As We See ItWelcome to beautiful Henderson, er, Rochester?
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 Welcome to “Rochester” Nevada, located in Henderson... at least that's what Google Maps says. Stacy J. Willis reports on the textures of life there.
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FeaturesIn praise of libraries
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 The best thing about a library is that when the world breaks into pandemonium you can hide in the stacks.
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PoliticsLas Vegas appears to only be growing in intolerance
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 Hello, rising wave of intolerance, I haven’t seen you in a while. I was tempted to believe that momentarily we had dispatched with the villainization of gay people; because, yawn.
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As We See ItThere's a battle over the hump in Pahrump
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 Pahrump—a town known for legal brothels and guns—is battling over the city’s image.
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FeaturesWhat’s wrong with a few fake dead children?
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 One Pahrump couple puts their fascination with death to good use—making custom coffins
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FeaturesDeath’s answer man
Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 The spokesman for the Valley’s largest mortuary talks about cremation, neckties and his first embalming experience.
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Dining
Fresh, yes; easy, we’ll see
Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009 Notes on Alice Waters, local growing and the slow-food movement.
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FeaturesCan Anybody Be Trusted?
Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 How the story of Tire Works, Nina Radetich and the state of Nevada adds up to a farce about integrity.
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CultureTattoo U.: LV Ink offers hopeful artists a chance to start needling
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 Lemons, pig ears and then human flesh - the journey of aspiring tattoo artists.
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As We See ItA love note on the passing of another payphone
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 Stacy J. Willis responds to news that the Las Vegas City Council might remove the pay phone at Las Vegas Boulevard and Oakey because it attracts “unsavory characters" (Review-Journal).
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EntertainmentFree parking, anyone? Monopoly World Championship rolls into Vegas
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 The Monopoly World Championships are coming to Las Vegas. Get your thimbles and wheelbarrows ready!
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DiningA hearty discount at Origin India ... but at what price?
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 One writer's ethical dilemma over Yelping in exchange for discounted chicken tandoori.
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As We See ItOne night, two stories: Slices of life from September 23
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 An uncomfortable speech at the Fifth Street School Wednesday night or writer Stephen Elliott, barefoot and wearing a gray T-shirt, at a backyard literary event. You pick who had the better night.
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EntertainmentEight things that would’ve been even funnier had I been stoned at Atlas Theatre’s production of "Reefer Madness"
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009 Adorable, drooling pit bulls are less adorable when they're not on the leash and we're not stoned.
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Entertainment30-second chinchilla review
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 Is the fighting chinchilla our new “yo quiero” chihuahua? Our AFLAC duck? And what the hell does it have to do with Vegas?
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A&EStripper Poles R Us
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 Get your tween up on that stripper pole, preferably with grandma and a chunky boy clutching a bucket of Diet Pepsi in the other hand. The pole belongs to us! The people!
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Crime‘The good I can do outweighs the bad that can happen’
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 She’s a sweet little old lady, and her existence among the darkest lives in Vegas—daily with the homeless, criminal, mentally ill, lost, screwed-up, prostituting, pimping, addicted, hurting, violent people—is an alarming and exciting thing. It can’t be this simple: Nice Episcopalian housewife and mother of three spends her life holding the hands of the criminal and destitute because Jesus showed up and told her to.
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SportsIn this corner, Floyd Mayweather …
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 Showmanship and boxing have always been united, but with Floyd Mayweather Jr. the nature of the show shifts, and at some point, objectively, the boxer is less boxer than multitasking reality star.
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Health CareWhere's the passion?
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 A health-care forum yields little drama, while a workshop on the domestic partnership law proves—too pragmatic.
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As We See ItFacebook
Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 Local MugShots is giving Las Vegans a one-stop shop for all the city’s bad guys.
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EntertainmentCatchy and Caribbean
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 There’s something super summery about Caribbean flavor in August. So imagine our delight to find that Las Vegas’ Super Summer Theatre is producing Once on This Island.
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HousingHome in Vegas
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 Vegas has always been a peculiar place to call home. Upon deciding to move here, people often get a queer look from friends and family—Vegas? To live?
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ArtGiraffe at a bus stop
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 This moment is brought to you by Clark County Parks and Recreation, Friends of Winchester Park Public Art Committee and the Regional Transportation Commission...
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As We See ItYou gotta see this: the Hoover Dam Bypass
Thursday, July 30, 2009 If you haven’t driven over the hoover Dam lately—and by driven we mean inched along at a torturously slow, environmentally damaging pace in traffic backed up to Vancouver—now’s the time to disregard all that, pile in the station wagon and add to the havoc.
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John EnsignKeeping the faith
Thursday, July 30, 2009 To know more about Ensign the man, it helps to take a look at the company he keeps.
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A&ELove This Website!
Thursday, July 30, 2009 Turning any media into print online seems a little off-kilter, but sometimes you just want to read a story.
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CrimeNever-ending stories
Thursday, July 23, 2009 Four missing people over 30 years, four lives with no closure. Police think a Las Vegas businessman may be involved. But with no bodies ever found, will we ever know what happened?
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Environment400 feet of NIMBY?
Thursday, July 23, 2009 Or is there something essential about Searchlight’s anti-wind-farm sentiment?
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ArtDo your Girl Thing
Thursday, July 23, 2009 Political feminism? The elegantly feminine? Back-stabbing mean-girl themes? A dozen local artists are taking on the challenge interpreting “It’s a Girl Thing” in a new exhibit at Reed Whipple Cultural Center.
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Government
Hush, Mr. Hampton
Thursday, July 16, 2009 Oy. It’s a given that John Ensign is unethical and should get gone. Right now, it’s poor, poor pitiful Doug Hampton who’s annoying the hell out of us.
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GovernmentCapital stooges
Thursday, July 16, 2009 On a breezy day, Gov. Jim Gibbons stood on a grassy lakeside and announced, using sports metaphors and rambling vagaries, his resignation. For the good of Nevada. He wore a sharp red jacket, black skirt and heels; hair in a neat barrette.
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Social
In the age of miracles
Thursday, July 16, 2009 It seems that trash is calf-high here in the homeless corridor on Main, jammed between tents and makeshift encampments. You find yourself wishing for a broad-scale miracle, because practical solutions seem elusive.
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Foreclosures'It’s easy to have an idea; it’s harder to implement it'
Thursday, July 9, 2009 The road to foreclosure hell is paved with ‘good faith.’
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EntertainmentGuess who’s back in town?
Thursday, July 9, 2009 It’s a match made in female-stereotype heaven almost 40 years ago: Charo and Vegas. The boobs, the big blond hair, the campy flirty cuchi-cuchi whatever—Charo was Vegas before Holly got her first implant.
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CultureInterview Issue: Candice Nichols
Thursday, July 2, 2009 The Center's director helped pass the domestic-partnership bill passed at the Legislature this year, the gay community and why today's Jesus Camp kids are now indifferent to homosexual youth.
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MusicRed, white and green!
Thursday, July 2, 2009 Isn’t it time we gave up those noisy, environmentally unfriendly fireworks, anyway?
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DiningDunk this!
Thursday, July 2, 2009 The idea of Dunkin’ Donuts’ new Dunkin’ Run website was, I thought, to order your doughnuts online and have them waiting for you at the drive-through. Sounds deliciously over-convenient.
