The Local Newsroom
The Last Natural
Before He Went National
How baseball phenom Bryce Harper once struck out seven times in two days, doubted himself for 24 hours and never, ever looked back
May 17th, 2012
The last preseason practice of Bryce Harper’s amateur life started on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, with a meeting of all the College of Southern Nevada coaches and players in center field at Morse Stadium on CSN’s Henderson campus. Coach Tim Chambers told the Coyotes: “You all know that guy’s the shit,” he said. “He’s why we have that new scoreboard. Why we have those new seats. Why we have that new parking lot. Protect him. Watch out for him. If we have no jealousies, we’ll be fine.” Read more »
Real Estate
Treasure or Stolen Juhl?
May 10th, 2012
The happy story will come in time—the one in which 300 more rental units come to downtown, bringing critical mass, businesses and more to the area. But a hill of condo deposits stands in the way. Read more »
Luxury
Farewell to a Paradise for Power Brokers
May 10th, 2012
On May 18, the Stirling Club at Turnberry Place will close. Since it opened on Paradise Road in 1998, the club was more than just a place for the condo complex’s residents to relax: It was also a home away from home for the city’s power elite. Accessible to the Strip, but not part of any casino, it was the ideal spot for executives and deal-makers to dine discreetly after work. Read more »
Attractions
Splashdown Comes in 2013
May 10th, 2012
From floating lazily on a raft to hurtling down steep slides to a splash landing, the magic of Wet ’n Wild—once the nation’s seventh most popular water park—shaped the summer memories of a Las Vegas generation. Then the water was drained in 2004 to make room for an apparently invisible megaresort, and rec centers have had to suffice ever since. By 2013, though, the good times could be back in two new parks. Read more »
About Town
A Party by Any Other Name
The Libertarians gathered in Las Vegas—and sounded a lot like Republicans
May 10th, 2012
From May 3-6, hundreds of Libertarians from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas, a good-enough symbolic home of the mind-your-own-business streak, to select their presidential candidate and wear T-shirts that said, “Happy, Free, Alive” and “Socially tolerant, fiscally conservative.” At least one man wore a powdered wig. Another wore hot pants and a halter top—because he could! Read more »
The Deal
A short guide to daylife
May 10th, 2012
It’s been half a decade since Las Vegas pools began turning into nightclubs. Or day clubs, rather. There have been some false starts (remember the stripper pool at the Rio?), but all in all, daylife has made it over the hump. But how important is it really that DJ-this is playing here and Resident-that is playing there? Well, sure it’s important—but none of it means much unless you know your pools first. Most of the questions I get about pools fall into three categories: Which ones are topless, which ones have blackjack, and which ones can I get into if I’m not a hotel guest? Read more »
Green Felt Journal
With Oseland Aboard, SLS Could Be a Winner
May 10th, 2012
Wynn alum Rob Oseland just might be the right man to lead the transformation of the Sahara into SLS Las Vegas. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
Renovating the Grand
May 3rd, 2012
If you’ve been to the MGM Grand in the past few months—or even checked its website—you probably noticed that they’re renovating the place. And that might not seem like such a big deal—casinos evolve all the time—but in this case, owner MGM Resorts International and contractor Thor Construction are making history. Read more »
Economy
Statistics Can Be Taxing
Is Nevada a good home for small businesses? Depends on how you look at the numbers.
May 3rd, 2012
Location Matters, a recent study from the Tax Foundation, has a love-hate relationship with Nevada. The conservative anti-tax group sees the state as a great place for retail businesses, which enjoy a total tax burden about 40 percent below the national average. That’s good enough for third place among the 50 states. Read more »
Character Study
The Justice
April 26th, 2012
After eight hours quizzing high school students on their knowledge of the Constitution, you’d think a man wouldn’t want to sit down with a reporter and talk about it more. But to Justice Michael Douglas, 64, Nevada’s first black Supreme Court Justice, any opportunity to talk about what matters most to him—the Constitution, justice, race and equality—is a chance to share what he’s observed from his side of the bench in the last three decades. Read more »
