It was much easier for me to roll my eyes at Sheldon Adelson’s antics when his use of the dark side relegated him to a kind of ineffectual evil lord, not unlike The Emperor. I felt a kind of insulation from his political machinations when it was reserved mostly for using his billions to back…
It was only a matter of time until things were going to go sideways at the Las Vegas Review Journal* campus. A stranger-than-fiction mystery buyer drama that got headlines from around the nation (and revealed billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson as the new owner) earned intrepid RJ reporters the esteemed Ancil Payne Award for Ethics…
Downtown is stupid. There, I said it. Over the course of living in the Las Vegas Valley for 17 years, I have had an occasion to work downtown a handful of times. It has never, in any of those years, been fun or easy to work downtown. I know. I know. I’m a defacto Las…
Happy Women’s History Month! If you haven’t seen it, yet, there’s still time to pick up the latest copy of Vegas Seven, in which I have three stories that celebrate badass local feminists! Its the unofficial Women’s History Month issue, by yours truly! First, check out my profile of Cristina Hernandez, the director of the…
I guess by now it should come as no surprise that Nevada ranks dead last in education. We’ve been at the bottom of the Education Week Quality Counts report since 2010 and not much better before that. That’s the Battle Born State: The nation’s toxic waste dumping ground With one of the nation’s highest suicide…
A look back at, well, my looks since the start of The Sin City Siren in 2007, for your Throwback Thursday enjoyment. But more importantly, a thank you to everyone who supports The Sin City Siren. Whether you just found me or you’ve been reading SCS since day one, my work wouldn’t be successful without…
Because Santa hat. I hope you are having a lovely holiday season. And if not, I’ll be back here with fresh outrage any minute now.
Even as Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, I keep looking at the calendar and wondering where 2013 has gone. It’s been a banner year for The Sin City Siren and I hope it’s been one for you as well. Indeed, it is because of you that The Siren has any success at all, and so…
My beautiful, amazing, fierce Sirens: I’ve been sitting here staring at my computer for at least 10 minutes. I have no idea how to begin to say all the things I want to say right now. But here goes … After six and a half years, it’s time for me to move on to the…
UNLV’s Jean Nidetch Women’s Center has a lot of great programming this month for domestic violence awareness month — including the annual Take Back the Night event on Oct. 23! Here’s the flier:
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