If American novelist E.L. Doctorow turned heads among the literary community with his Welcome to Hard Times debut in 1960, he left them spinning with 1971's The Book of Daniel. Based on the famous criminal trials and executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for nuclear espionage, his breakout opus found broad critical acclaim and a National Book Award nomination (he'd win that one 15 years later ... Full Story »
If you cherish the Gutenbergian development of the printed word, an art exhibit devoted to the thoughtful mutilation of books might be tough to stomach, even an exhibit as diverse and challenging as Altered States: Artists Re-imagine the Book, at Reed Whipple Cultural Center (821 Las Vegas Blvd. North, 229-1012) through Jan. 2. Full Story »
Things that start in bars often end badly. Every drinker has a story about a near-death hangover, a night in the holding cell or a morning after he regrets. Full Story »
We're all familiar with that timeworn image of the solitary writer fretting and fussing over the keyboard as he struggles to finish a novel. Now imagine the stress if the writer had to finish a novel written by six other writers. That was the task facing Vu Tran as he penned the seventh and final chapter of Restless City, a collaborative serial novel sponsored by the Vegas Valley Book Festival. Full Story »
Readers and novice writers often ask the same question: Where do your stories come from? What they're actually asking is where do we, meaning themselves, find stories. The question has no simple answer. Some writers get to stories cerebrally. Others write formulaic fiction. And some discover stories through a more or less organic process. Full Story »
Three days after she gets back from Russia with Natalya, her adopted daughter, Tania knows that she's made a mistake. It's 10 in the morning and they're walking through the new New York New York casino, Tania pointing out how the faux Statue of Liberty out front is actually half the scale of the real statue, how when Tania's ancestral family first came to America, they actually came right past ... Full Story »
All events are free and open to the public, with most taking place at the historic Fifth Street School downtown. Full Story »
With little fanfare and even less money, activists mixed the power of community with a dash of medical star power to make Southern Nevada's first transgender health fair a surprising success. Full Story »
If some enterprising activists have their way, pot will be Sin City's next growth industry. Full Story »
You can't blame Gina Quaranto for beaming with a little pride as she shows off her new gallery, Place, on Main Street just north of Charleston Boulevard. After all, she helped strip out the carpet, repair and stain the concrete floor and paint the walls -- not to mention corral the artists and organize October's inaugural show. It took a lot of proverbial blood, sweat and tears. Full Story »
Monday, Nov. 2 Gibbons appeared on a right-wing radio show in Las Vegas late last month, casting doubt on the well-established 1981 attempt to wire Harry Reid's car to explode. (At the time, now-U.S. Sen. Reid had just finished up a mob-fighting tenure as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board.) Gibbons said on the show that he'd heard the so-called bomb was really a telephone book in a ... Full Story »
If American novelist E.L. Doctorow turned heads among the literary community with his Welcome to Hard Times debut in 1960, he left them spinning with 1971's The Book of Daniel. Based on the famous criminal trials and executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for nuclear espionage, his breakout opus found broad critical acclaim and a National Book Award nomination (he'd win that one 15 years later ... Full Story »
If you cherish the Gutenbergian development of the printed word, an art exhibit devoted to the thoughtful mutilation of books might be tough to stomach, even an exhibit as diverse and challenging as Altered States: Artists Re-imagine the Book, at Reed Whipple Cultural Center (821 Las Vegas Blvd. North, 229-1012) through Jan. 2. Full Story »
Readers and novice writers often ask the same question: Where do your stories come from? What they're actually asking is where do we, meaning themselves, find stories. The question has no simple answer. Some writers get to stories cerebrally. Others write formulaic fiction. And some discover stories through a more or less organic process. Full Story »
Three days after she gets back from Russia with Natalya, her adopted daughter, Tania knows that she's made a mistake. It's 10 in the morning and they're walking through the new New York New York casino, Tania pointing out how the faux Statue of Liberty out front is actually half the scale of the real statue, how when Tania's ancestral family first came to America, they actually came right past ... Full Story »
All events are free and open to the public, with most taking place at the historic Fifth Street School downtown. Full Story »
With little fanfare and even less money, activists mixed the power of community with a dash of medical star power to make Southern Nevada's first transgender health fair a surprising success. Full Story »
If some enterprising activists have their way, pot will be Sin City's next growth industry. Full Story »
You can't blame Gina Quaranto for beaming with a little pride as she shows off her new gallery, Place, on Main Street just north of Charleston Boulevard. After all, she helped strip out the carpet, repair and stain the concrete floor and paint the walls -- not to mention corral the artists and organize October's inaugural show. It took a lot of proverbial blood, sweat and tears. Full Story »
Monday, Nov. 2 Gibbons appeared on a right-wing radio show in Las Vegas late last month, casting doubt on the well-established 1981 attempt to wire Harry Reid's car to explode. (At the time, now-U.S. Sen. Reid had just finished up a mob-fighting tenure as chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board.) Gibbons said on the show that he'd heard the so-called bomb was really a telephone book in a ... Full Story »
If American novelist E.L. Doctorow turned heads among the literary community with his Welcome to Hard Times debut in 1960, he left them spinning with 1971's The Book of Daniel. Based on the famous criminal trials and executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for nuclear espionage, his breakout opus found broad critical acclaim and a National Book Award nomination (he'd win that one 15 years later ... Full Story »
If you cherish the Gutenbergian development of the printed word, an art exhibit devoted to the thoughtful mutilation of books might be tough to stomach, even an exhibit as diverse and challenging as Altered States: Artists Re-imagine the Book, at Reed Whipple Cultural Center (821 Las Vegas Blvd. North, 229-1012) through Jan. 2. Full Story »
Readers and novice writers often ask the same question: Where do your stories come from? What they're actually asking is where do we, meaning themselves, find stories. The question has no simple answer. Some writers get to stories cerebrally. Others write formulaic fiction. And some discover stories through a more or less organic process. Full Story »
Three days after she gets back from Russia with Natalya, her adopted daughter, Tania knows that she's made a mistake. It's 10 in the morning and they're walking through the new New York New York casino, Tania pointing out how the faux Statue of Liberty out front is actually half the scale of the real statue, how when Tania's ancestral family first came to America, they actually came right past ... Full Story »
All events are free and open to the public, with most taking place at the historic Fifth Street School downtown. Full Story »
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