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Below are blogs of interest to the Nevada Public Radio community.
Desert Companion Daily
Feb 3, 2012 12:00 PDT
In anticipation of caucusocalypse, the New York Times' Timothy Egan diagnoses the Vegas economy. His take: residents succumbed to the condition that reigns on the Strip -- gambling fever.
What happened was, one ethos infected the other, and that became the wrong model. In allowing...
Gold Plated Door
Jun 28, 2011 3:10 PDT
That did not take long. The Electric Daisy Carnival music festival this weekend has been bootlegged and is available now on Pirate Bay via a massive BitTorrent. This is the same site that LULZ Security used to post allegedly hacked information from a variety of corporate and government networks....
Las Vegas Arts and Culture
Jun 28, 2011 3:10 PDT
Well here it is, the First Friday lineup thanks to Ryan Reason from the World Famous Arts Factory in Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas... I may just start dubbing this post the Reason Report... Here is just a small sampling of what is happening this First Friday in February. I added a few more items too....
Eating Las Vegas
Feb 4, 2012 12:58 PDT
When ELV lies around his humble abode thinking of things he loathes, many things come to mind, including:
- cupcakes,
- country music,
- the Dutch,
- the novels of Jane Austen,
- men who wear shorts in public, and
- reality TV.
But most of all, he thinks about how much he hates sandwich shops....
Bob's Blog
Mar 27, 2011 4:59 PDT
Values and Political Structures: 030111
There are social incentives as well as economic incentives for non-metro lifestyles. Smaller communities offer greater opportunities for establishing social relationships with neighbors and local business owners. Smaller communities require greater personal...
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