Archive for the 'About Town' Category

BUT HE COULD PLAY A GUITAR JUST LIKE RINGIN’ A BELL

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Caught the Sept. 25 Fab show at the Cannery on Craig Road, North Las Vegas. Pat Woodward’s The Fab has been going strong in this town for 14 years, through thick and thin. (I actually caught them one night more than a decade ago playing to a bunch of head-bangers at Mad Dogs & Englishmen. […]

‘Only interested in turning our country into communists’

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Dozens of times a day now, we at the Review-Journal receive e-mailed letters very similar to the following, which arrived at the newspaper on Sept. 16, signed by one Mary White of Russell Road, Las Vegas: “I am disappointed in the media and the RJ for not reporting on all the undercover journal reporting done […]

Won’t you do your part to Save the Hummingbird?

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Our hummingbird has returned. She’s a black-chinned, I believe, not the world’s most colorful model. But she has a distinctive habit of hovering down to look us right in the face, one at a time, as we sit out in the back yard to watch the sunset. “Checking in,” we call it. Perhaps she, too, […]

‘Oh, did we cite you under the health regulations?’

Sunday, June 11th, 2000

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 […]