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- Frustration is spelled C-o-l-l-i-n-s at meeting
Unless you enjoy deducing the meaning of a zoning-ordinance amendment or watching lobbyists prostrate themselves before elected officials to obtain development waivers, government meetings aren’t all that interesting. But one moment of levity and one of pure frustration made last week’s Clark County Commission meeting worth watching. - Nevada’s newbies in D.C. won’t wield clout
As they look toward the 2012 election, Nevadans don’t yet know who half the candidates for national offices will be or what districts they will run in or, for many voters, which districts they’ll cast ballots in. But one thing is certain: However things turn out on Election Day, Nevada’s clout in Washington will take a serious hit. - 6 dead, at least 20 wounded in 3 separate U.S. shootings
A day after a gunman disguised as a police officer killed at least 85 campers at a youth retreat in Norway, police report three shootings in the U.S. in which six people died and at least 20 were wounded. - Harry Reid says debt ceiling negotiations ‘rocky’
The quartet of congressional leaders who huddled with President Barack Obama to talk debt frameworks Saturday morning hunkered down to hash out details of a deal Saturday evening and apparently achieved…nothing. - United Airlines flight lands safely after in-flight emergency
A United Airlines flight en route to Los Angeles from New York made an emergency landing at McCarran International Airport Saturday after the pilot reported an in-flight emergency, a McCarran official said. - Debt crisis: Deal sought in Washington to head off stock plunge
Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to show enough progress to head off a plunge in stock prices when Asian markets open ahead of the U.S. workweek.
- Cee-Lo promises a Vegas show — as a hip-hop Liberace
Move over, Celine. Watch out, Cher. Cee-Lo is coming to town. - Downtown drama: A collection of quotes from the Arts District annual meeting
Carolyn Goodman gets motherly. - Ronnie Vannucci and Big Talk’s first outing is low-key fun
The Killers drummer sang for friends and grandma Betty in Las Vegas. - Holding out for more heroes
This summer Thor, Green Lantern and Captain America made it to the big screen. Weekly film editor Josh Bell gives his picks for who he’d like to see next. - ‘Captain America’ exhibits modest charm amid standard superheroics
Does the tease flick for next summer’s The Avengers follow the Marvel superhero formula? Find out here. - Three Vegas chefs named for ‘Top Chef: Just Desserts’
The pastry-focused competition starts August 24.
- Final Friday?
In June 2009, First Friday co-founder Cindy Funkhouser had to cancel the fences and security permits protecting the street festival part of the monthly celebration because her organization couldn’t afford them. - ‘There is a lot of power in this position’
Newly elected Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Coffin is no worse for the wear. Despite a bruising campaign — Coffin and his erstwhile opponent, Adriana Martinez, slogged through one of the toughest city races in local memory — the 68-year-old man from Ward 3 looks rested and sounds ready for his new gig. - You are what you eat
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Seven Days, a Vermont alt-weekly. - "This is home"
1. ROAD TO NOWHERE Kenneth Gorch, the discharged U.S. marshall, tells me that Charleston Boulevard doesn’t end, that it’s all developed, one subdivision unfurling after the other, and that then you hit Nellis Air Force Base. Kenneth is also on foot, and he is long gone. We part ways at Eastern and Charleston. I don’t have a map with me. Charleston unwinds ahead: foreshortened developments, people streaming into church services, traffic, birdsong. I’ve been on this stretch for what feels like hours. I check my watch. It really has been hours. - Mystery pill
In the video, Pastor Glories Powell marches up the aisle of the small, storefront church and points to the congregation. Soft light frames a stone wall behind her and vases full of fronds and flowers. - Briefs: Pizza deception, HOA syndrome and fire on Mount Charleston
HUMBLE PIE Hard Rock hotel recently launched an in-room delivery pizza place called Slice of Paradise. The pie shop is actually room service, but is, for reasons unknown, presenting itself as an independent pizza joint. Strangest of all, the “delivery guys” are room-service employees who, under their usual blue button-ups, now wear red Slice of Paradise T-shirts, which they don for deliveries. CityLife called to investigate.
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