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  • The Twitter feed of Sen. John Ensign

    CityBlog

    SenatorEnsign2 Sorry, everyone. I didn’t mean to “retweet” that Holly Madison post. I was licking her profile picture and accidentally clicked the mouse. * SenatorEnsign2 HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYNE QUICK QUESTION– DOES THE RIM SALT FRM FOUR CHILI’S EL PRESIDENTE MARGARITTAS COUNT AS DINNER??/? * SenatorEnsign2 We were nice enough to give blacks “Good Times” [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:11pm EST
    by Andrew Kiraly
  • Stay The Course, Harry

    CityBlog

    126852 With health care reform set for a battle on the Senate floor, a few organizations are making sure their voices are heard before the final vote is cast. On Nov. 19 at the West Charleston Boulevard Planned Parenthood offices, four women sat in an office reading over scripts. Their goal: [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:29pm EST
    by Aziz Bawany
  • Let them eat … art?

    CityBlog

    Art might feed the soul, but it’s also surprisingly good at filling empty bellies — which explains why the folks at Three Square will invade the Las Vegas Arts District tonight. Lunch Trays for Home Days, a Three Square fund-raiser to help feed the 143,000 local school children at risk of [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00pm EST
    by Jason Whited
  • TV time

    Various Things & Stuff

    Number of comments: 1
    Eliza Dushku: Once again a victim of shortsighted, tasteless network executives. Well, those bastards have done it again: Fox has canceled Eliza Dushku’s cult favorite Dollhouse. Sure, they say they’ll air the remaining episodes that have already been ordered, but after that, the show goes away. Why, Fox? Why? We feel [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:14am EST
    by Steve Sebelius
  • Building Nevada one pauper at a time

    CityBlog

    Number of comments: 1
    Nevadans are hurting as never before, thanks in large part to a state tax structure built on wishes and dreams Poor and middle class Nevadans pay more than five times the amount of state and local taxes as do the state’s top earners, say analysts with the D.C.-based Institute on Taxation [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:34am EST
    by Jason Whited
  • We are all Wayne Newton

    CityBlog

    Beware when looking into the Wayner, for the Wayner also looks into you. Reader Unhappy Las Vegan writes in response to our, shall we say, highly critical Wayne Newton review: Scathing, derogatory review on Mr. Las Vegas, Wayne Newton, Mr. McKee. You surely are an acid tongued little man – however, Wayne [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:12am EST
    by Andrew Kiraly
  • Nevada cops arrest record numbers of us for pot possession

    CityBlog

    Number of comments: 1
    Say what you want about his cause, but Dave Schwartz knows how to rock the press conference. As Nevada manager for the Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s largest such organization dedicated to the reform of cannabis laws, Schwartz has repeatedly used the power of the “presser” to inject new sanity into [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:54pm EST
    by Jason Whited
  • The Twitter feed of Sen. John Ensign

    CityBlog

    SenatorEnsign2 Finished Palin’s book. Spoiler: She confirms the rumor she wears high heels to distract photographers from her freakish T. Rex claw hands. SenatorEnsign2 Tip: With the help of TiVo and your DVR, you can turn that 30-second Victoria’s Secret TV ad into an hour-long “sinfomercial.” SenatorEnsign2 Ever ask yourself why people [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by Andrew Kiraly
  • Heavenly host: Vatican holds international extraterrestrial life conference

    CityBlog

    Number of comments: 2
    Emperor Palpatine, still playing dumb about life in other galaxies, far, far away This week, the hilariously hedgy Vatican makes public its own pontification regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life. ”The questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration” for their ”many [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 3:01pm EST
    by Dave Surratt
  • A ray of sunlight

    CityBlog

    Number of comments: 1
    Nevada’s burgeoning green economy needs a green workforce. People to install solar panels, conduct energy audits and build power lines. And there just happen to be a lot of unemployed people looking for that kind of work. Enter Solar Forces. The non-profit trade association is offering two 20-hour training courses this fall to [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:03am EST
    by Amy Kingsley
  • Caught in the middle

    CityBlog

    Number of comments: 1
    Rep. Dina Titus received a warm welcome when she returned to Las Vegas on Sunday – hot on the heels of her vote to support health care reform. According to this piece in Slate, her supporters greeted her at the airport with homemade “Thank You” signs. Titus is one of 20 [...]
    Posted: November 10, 2009, 3:40pm EST
    by Amy Kingsley
  • Opting in to democracy

    Various Things & Stuff

    Is vox populi always vox Dei? U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian is going to start circulating an initiative that would allow Nevada voters to decide whether to opt-out of the public option in the health-care bill that’s slowly forming on Capitol Hill. It hasn’t been entirely clear how the opt-out [...]
    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:10am EST
    by Steve Sebelius
  • Help needed for homeless helpers

    CityBlog

    Project Homeless Connect, the annual gathering of services for the homeless, is in desperate need of help. Last year, the event offered services such as legal aid, medical checkups and haircuts to approximately 3,400 people. This year, they expect to see between 4,000 and 4,500, according to Larry Lovelett, spokesman [...]
    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:42pm EST
    by Amy Kingsley
  • Drunk event tonight

    CityBlog

    a panel from Ivan Brunetti's comic in Drunk Whoops! An article in this week’s paper includes the wrong information for the book signing party and art opening for Drunk: A Comic About Bar Stories. The event is happening tonight at Frankie’s Tiki Room, which is on Charleston Boulevard near UMC. You [...]
    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:55pm EST
    by Amy Kingsley
  • The power of nonviolence

    CityBlog

    Amos Sawyer, former president of Liberia Here in the United States, we haven’t heard much about the power of nonviolent resistance, at least not since various social movements here used it to such great effect in the 1960s and 1970s. All that changes tonight when UNLV welcomes former Liberian president Amos Sawyer, [...]
    Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:15am EST
    by Jason Whited
  • Leslie to run for Senate

    Inside Nevada Politics

    After a couple months of being indecisive about running for office again, Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie says she will make a bid for the Senate seat being vacated by state Sen. Bernice Mathews, D-Reno.

    Rumblings that Leslie would indeed enter the race has already pushed out Republican boxer Joey Gilbert, [...]
    Posted: November 02, 2009, 8:54am EST
    by Anjeanette
  • WTF is this?

    Various Things & Stuff

    Number of comments: 3
    Can anybody tell us what in the hell this is all about? You know, we can’t help thinking that KTNV Channel 13 might need some help. And we know just the guy: Nina Radetich’s boyfriend Jack Finn. Dealing with media is, like, his favorite thing to do. Seriously, he’d do it [...]
    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:18am EST
    by Steve Sebelius
  • Set your TiVo!

    Various Things & Stuff

    Number of comments: 1
    We'd let Dexter's sister Deb arrest us! We know how it goes people. You’re all set to watch the third season of Dexter, and it’s just getting to the good part, when the Netflix DVD craps out because the last person who rented it used it as a Frisbee/coaster/screwdriver, and' [...]
    Posted: October 30, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
    by Steve Sebelius

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