AltWeeklies Wire
Reality Show Fame and a Ride "So Pimpy, It's Disgusting"new

If you’ve ever wondered what happens to a guy who travels with his family in a Christian singing group as a child, grows up to host a local Saturday night horror program as a vampire Elvis (using an Eastern European accent learned from his immigrant grandparents), and turns his lifelong love of cars and motorcycles into a successful business, then you might tune into History Channel’s Counting Cars (Tuesdays, 10 p.m.), which starts filming its second season this fall.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Kristen Peterson |
09-25-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cars, History Channel
Politics on Social Medianew

Do we know too much about our friends? Facebook, politics and the messiness of online debates.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Erin Ryan |
09-11-2012 |
Tech
100,000 Bacteria Live On Your Phonenew

But don't worry, we couldn't survive without them.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Erin Ryan |
07-16-2012 |
Science
Boosting Your NCAA Bracketnew

5 sports writer-approved tips for a successful tourney run.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Case Keefer |
03-12-2012 |
Sports
The Revolution Will Be Homeschoolednew

Inside the active, social, surprising world of Las Vegas 'edupunks.'
Las Vegas Weekly |
Erin Ryan |
10-24-2011 |
Education
Tags: Homeschooling, Edupunks
What Happens in Vegasnew

A look back at the advertising magic of "What Happens Here, Stays Here."
Las Vegas Weekly |
John Katsilometes |
09-29-2011 |
Media
Las Vegas' Classic Neon Art Form is Dyingnew

Neon in Las Vegas has come to a near standstill. It's a dying art, many of its relics laid to rest in the Neon Museum's Boneyard while high-tech LED screens bombard tourists meandering the circuitry of an all-encompassing computerized blitz.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Kristen Peterson |
04-08-2011 |
Art
Education Under Siegenew

A first-hand account from a UNLV professor.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Lynn Comella and Ph.D. |
02-24-2011 |
Education
Tags: UNLV
Citizen of Nowherenew

Torn between two countries, Jessica just wants an education.
Las Vegas Weekly |
April Corbin |
12-29-2010 |
Immigration
Going Beyond the Bedroomnew

Sex research is alive and going well, even if the actual sex isn’t.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Lynn Comella |
11-18-2010 |
Sex
Does It Really Matter Who Nevada Chooses?new

For roughly two decades, since Nevada’s modern era began with the opening of the Mirage, Nevada was like a rich kid in a shiny new sports car, tipping back a bottle of Jack Daniels. Now the trust fund, also known as the construction boom, has run out.
Las Vegas Weekly |
J. Patrick Coolican |
11-01-2010 |
Elections
Meet Nina Hartley, Porn Pioneernew

Nina Hartley’s adult film career has been long, distinguished and trailblazing -- and it’s far from over.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Lynn Comella |
10-12-2010 |
Performance
Dress For Excessnew

Halloween costumes are serious business.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Rick Lax |
09-03-2010 |
Shopping
Tags: Halloween
The Striking Similarities Between Zombies and Tea Partiersnew

Probing the intersection of anti-government paranoids and pop culture’s favorite symbol of doom, zombies
Las Vegas Weekly |
Mark Dery |
04-22-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Tea Party
Two Iranian Refugees Seek a New Life in Las Vegasnew

Mokhtar Hossein and Jamshid Afshar are both survivors. Both men lost their fathers to the Khomeini regime that ruled Iran from 1979 to 1989. A firing squad shot Hossein’s father, an Air Force colonel. After the regime put Afshar’s father, an Army sergeant, in jail for two years, he was finally released: a psychologically battered alcoholic. Both also fought as teenagers in the Iraq-Iran war. And now they are both refugees.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Timothy Pratt |
04-08-2010 |
Immigration