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The Killer Las Vegas iPhone Appnew
Vegas Mate kicks other Vegas travel guides' butts.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
09-04-2009 |
Tech
Comparing Jay Bybee's Torture Memos & 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'new

For Bybee as much as for Thompson, reality must be mitigated, banished or defeated. Thompson uses drugs, and Bybee plays with the law until it goes blind.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
05-14-2009 |
Commentary
Years Before Sammy Davis, Josephine Baker Was Desegregating Vegas Casinosnew
It seems almost like a fairy tale in which a lone black woman—before the civil rights movement, before the integrated Rat Pack appeared on the Strip, even before the Voting Rights Act—stood against the powers that were in Vegas in 1952 and won.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
02-19-2009 |
Race & Class
Perhaps It's Time for the Gov't to Sell What It Doesn't Really Neednew

Real people who have bills and not enough money might put their useless stuff up for sale on eBay. Of course, for government the math does not work that way. In government you either raise taxes or cut programs. But imagine if that were not so.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
02-12-2009 |
Economy
Tags: economic issues
The Web Made it Easy to ID Las Vegans Supporting Proposition 8new
One thing the Nevada blacklist containing the names of people and companies who gave money to support Proposition 8 in California makes clear is that anyone can now learn about whatever public causes you choose to support in your private life.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
01-08-2009 |
Tech
The XXXChurch Brings its Mission of Fighting Porn Addiction to Vegasnew
The XXXChurch ministers to people addicted to porn, largely by attending porn conventions and handing out literature.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
11-10-2008 |
Religion
Vegas Won't Host a Political Convention Any Time Soonnew

Las Vegas has all the conveniences a political convention requires, for sure, but it also has other conveniences that deter the DNC or RNC from setting up here, like strip clubs, poker tables and nearby brothels.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
09-05-2008 |
Commentary
Picasso Triumphantnew
The latest volume of the painter's biography is another masterpiece.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Richard Abowitz |
01-25-2008 |
Nonfiction