Are you ready for this? This is The Sin City Siren’s ninth birthday! That’s right. The Sin City Siren started on May 6, 2007 – a month before the first iPhones went on sale and the same summer that J.K. Rowling released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It was also the same year that…
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…
Saw this amazing display of powerful, talented black women at the newsstand a few days ago. Representation matters!
Unless you’ve been living in a far-flung locale off the grid, it would be hard to miss the hullabaloo about the Veronica Mars movie, which debuted in limited release and video-on-demand on March 14. Whether you’re on Team Reboot or Team I-DON’T-CARE-PLEASE-SHUT-UP-ALREADY, there is no denying that the record-breaking fan-funding that breathed life back into…
Now that the last issue of Las Vegas CityLife has rolled off the press and the eulogies are coming in from all directions, I suppose it’s natural to wonder aloud about journalism-type things. I’ll leave the big questions — why does this keep happening? — to bigger minds. No, I’m focused a bit more narrowly.…
While it was no surprise, the news this week that Las Vegas CityLife is ending still touched a deep nerve in our community. The self-described “gritty” alternative weekly newspaper was always a bit of an underdog in its 21-year run, especially in a city that celebrates glitter over substance and g-strings over bootstraps. I have…
It’s been quite a year on The Sin City Siren. Here’s the first post, of two, featuring the top 10 SCS posts of 2013. Enjoy, and catch numbers 5-10 tomorrow! 1. When anti-choice terrorists tried to silence an assemblywoman, #fierceflores was born: It’s not surprising that one of the biggest stories of a surprisingly controversy-packed…
The Sin City Siren is looking for one (or more) interns! If you want to learn about journalism, online media and communication, with a dash of grassroots organizing and media relations, The Sin City Siren internship is for you! About SCS: The six-year-old Sin City Siren is a nationally syndicated blog created by award-winning journalist…
As we count down the final days of 2013, the inevitable year-in-review stories start popping up. Two recent ones caught my eye, as much for what they said as for what they left out. In RH Reality Check’s Top Pro-Choice Heroes of 2013, we are treated to a diverse round-up of “sheroes” who put it…
*Rage-ahol: Rage that is so potent, it is like alcohol in your veins. I was not going to write about the black Santa thing. It’s stupid. It’s a trumped-up controversy that is the TV version of click-bait. I mean, do we really care what Megyn Kelly thinks about “historical figures” like Santa and Jesus? Well…
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