For Jack Sheehan, inspiration to become a writer came from one source — Ken Kesey’s book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” celebrating its 50th birthday this month.
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Jane Ann Morrison
March 23, 1960: Bill Raggio burned down Joe Conforte’s whorehouse.
Numbers can be numbing, but during a recent tour of the soon-to-open Smith Center for the Performing Arts, the ever-exuberant president and CEO, Myron Martin, spilled out two meaningful numbers signifying success — 6,700 and 10,400.
Today, what Harvey Whittemore may have done, and what Las Vegans Ray Norvell, Ramon Desage and Jim Rhodes definitely did do, would be so unnecessary, no crime would be involved.
Thank you, FR.
Museums are personal. What grabs me may not grab you.
Once the hoopla dies down about Tuesday’s opening of the Mob Museum downtown, it will take time to answer the question: If we build it, will they come?
Sherlock Holmes, the fictional character who existed for one purpose, to connect the dots, was by nature a suspicious man, and not a great believer in coincidences. Nor am I.
Gather ’round. A tale of spittle is about to unfold, a tale where passions run deep and accusations pour through the air like, well, like spit.
Hearing an anti-Semitic crack at a special evening GOP caucus for conservative and orthodox Jews and Seventh-day Adventists was like a face slap to Monterey Brookman as she stood to advocate for Mitt Romney. Not everyone heard it Saturday night, but she and I did.
One complaint Clark County commissioners had about former District Attorney David Roger was that he didn’t staff the specialty courts, such as the DUI, drug and mental health courts.
During the period when his replacement was being chosen, retired District Attorney David Roger kept his mouth shut, declining to talk to the news media about all the things being said about him.
Doesn’t that guy sticking a needle in that cat’s butt look familiar?
For more than an hour, seven county commissioners blathered before choosing Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Wolfson as the new district attorney.