They drink from the same water supply as regular Las Vegans. They attend schools administered by the same district. So it’s unlikely the folks who live inside the boundaries of the landlocked city of North Las Vegas — the “mean/scag ghetto” north of town that Hunter Thompson famously called “Nevada’s answer to East St. Louis […]
In the early Woody Allen comedy “Bananas,” our hapless hero helps a bearded revolutionary curiously reminiscent of Fidel Castro fight his way to victory in a revolution against his banana republic’s ruthless dictator. The triumphant freedom fighter strides out onto the palace balcony to accept the adulation of the cheering crowd, declares himself dictator for […]
It’s a head-on clash between two ways of looking at the law — between Las Vegas the bootstrap desert town with the can-do-attitude, and The New Vegas … a suburban community where zoning is everywhere, and whatever you do, you’d better have your permits. Dan Paripovich, who served with the Sixth Special Forces Group from […]