Frankie’s Tiki Room, on Charleston in Las Vegas:
3 weeks ago a person with close ties to the tiki community was in Frankie’s Tiki Room asking a lot of questions about our exterior pink neon signs. He told staff that he liked our neon signs and wanted one just like them. He said he had a friend who worked professionally with neon and hoped his friend could help him obtain a neon sign just like the ones outside Frankie’s. He went so far as to go outside and closely inspect our pink neon … 2 days later the neon sign “TIKI ROOM” on the east side of the building was stolen. According to our sign company it had been professionally cut and removed.
If you should see our neon or hear about it, please call Las Vegas Metro Police immediately. The police incident number is: LLV 111011002572.
This has to be one of the weirder crimes I’ve ever seen. Who steals live neon off a building?
You know that photo of the Statue of Liberty on new stamps? Yeah, it's our crappy fake one.
It points out that the photo used on the stamp shows a rectangular patch on the crown that is present on the 14-year-old statue at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, but not on the 305ft (93m) copper statue in New York.
In addition, the facial features on the Las Vegas replica are more sharply defined than on the original.
My friend Chris Bauder recently received the chance to exhibit in the Nevada Arts Council’s space in the Nevada Legislative Building and a small controversy has apparently erupted because of it, midway through the session. Witness this stellar piece of journalism from KUNR/KNPB’s SessionAccess covering the charges:
While no one wanted to be mentioned by name, at least a couple of workers in the building are not happy with it. You decide. Controversial? No?
It’s a good thing there isn’t any kind of crisis going on in Nevada or anything to distract them from this important and not at all hilarious-to-the-point-of-being-a-plotline-on-a-comedy-show-the-week-before controversy.
(via Sean Russell)
So, this happened.
I believe that UNLV now has the record for the most master plans commissioned in the shortest amount of time of any university in the country. As if that very illogical notion weren’t enough, I continue to be amazed at how a school without the financing to complete one master plan has gotten the gall to add another master plan on top of it. For those of you who don’t feel like going through the proposals together, between this new UNLV Now plan and the ever-stalled Midtown UNLV, they envision the replacement of nearly the whole campus to get their proposals completed; I never imagined that someone would come up with a way to make a thing as large, firmly-planted, and finished as an entire half-century old university campus disposable, but that seems to be the point we’ve reached.
But, putting aside the absurdities involved (and the overuse of italics they illicit), this plan alone seems decent in some ways, or at least the only halfway-decent one of the two. This plan calls for building a stadium on the plot of land where Bubba sits in all its resplendent, decommissioned-airplane-hanger glory, and to turn the deadened university housing corridor & parking lots into a place someone might actually want to go to by choice. Plus, it sounds as if Thomas and Mack is to get a new roof, which sounds like a good idea; university roofers have been talking amongst themselves about its significant wear for a while.
All this also puts aside the latest downtown stadium proposal that would solve the problem this one does for much cheaper: $1 per year, the developers say. Given the choice between an option that costs lots of money and one that doesn’t (but probably still won’t be built), they’re certain to go for the latter.
A $2,500 reward is being offered to anyone who provides information leading to the conviction of those responsible for recent graffiti on three ancient rock art panels in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Officials said the art panels — varying in size from 3-by-6 feet to 8-by-9 feet — were completely covered with maroon spray paint.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Sharron Angle: Sometimes dictators have good ideas
See, she did let some of her positions be known before the election! Those around her just kept those positions silent until they didn’t have to deal with her any more.
I don’t often get a chance to say this, but I’m proud of you, Nevada. Good job, all.
Nevada's GOP urges Hispanics not to vote
I liked this better when it was a joke on 30 Rock.
…[S]uddenly, the lawyer became so uncomfortably hot that he leaped up to move. He tried to put on his flip-flop sandals but, inexplicably, they were too hot to touch. So he ran barefoot to the shade.
“I was effectively being cooked,” Pintas said. “I started running as fast as I could without looking like a lunatic.”
Then he smelled an odor, and realized it was coming from his head, where a bit of hair had been scorched.
Yesterday, the iconic tower from the Moulin Rouge was pulled down—literally, pulled down. I can’t say I understand why watching the structure sway before collapsing into itself seems so heartbreaking; maybe watching the last vestige of one of the most important structures of mid-century Las Vegas fight back a little against its own demise, in spite of its futility, is representative of how the Moulin Rouge has been since the beginning.
(via LeavingLV)
‘The old building was not built to handle all of that wiring,’ she said. It was built in 1989, she said.
The lab has 25 computers but could house up to 30 in the future, Kingsley said.
Foresight is not our strong suit, as New Gibson Library branch manager Candace Kingsley demonstrates.
(from the Las Vegas Sun, which also really likes the word “said” today)
We have the pioneers — people who moved here for the opportunity, and hope it will create a better life for your family. Whether you moved here five generations ago or five weeks ago, you’re seeking something better, and want to make it better for our children. Then there are the people who are here for the short-term payoff. They don’t want to pay for the infrastructure needed to create long-term sustainability and opportunity for those who come after us.
The jobless rate in Nevada stood at 14 percent in May, according to numbers released this morning. The state’s unemployment rate was the highest in the nation…. Michigan’s unemployment rate fell from 14 percent to 13.6 percent last month.
