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Recent archive additions:

• AFP: Danny Gans dies. (5/1/09)
• NYT: The gambling capital ponders a lottery. (4/25/09)
• AFP: Art in decline in Vegas? (4/19/09)
• NYT: Nevada could be first state to ease an anti-smoking law. (4/19/09)
• NYT: A 96-year-old Clark County school could be closed soon. (4/13/09)
• Newsweek: The Las Vegas Art Museum portends a culture decline for Vegas. (4/6/09)
• NYT: Could America be moving to a road-usage tax? (3/8/09)
• NYT: The Vegas second-home market is crashing! Eek! (3/6/09)
• AFP: Siegfried & Roy return for a benefit. (3/1/09)
• USAT: Examining the phenomenon known as transgender regret. (2/28/09)
• AFP: The Vegas convention biz is worried about Las Vegas' rep. (2/17/09)
• NYT: Oscar v Obama that put the Vegas convention downturn in the spotlight. (2/15/09)
• NYT: The brothels want to be taxed, but Carson City's not into it. (Jan. 24, 2009)
• NYT/AFP: The mob museum becomes a mockery in DC, but it's also kind of an interesting idea. (Jan/Feb 09)
• NYT: America's armpit is suddenly smelling good. (1/2/09)
• AFP: Amid the downturn, Wynn opens Encore. (12/22/08)
• The Advocate: Why the post-Prop 8 activism surge isn't Stonewall 2.0. (12/17/08
• NYT: Avenue Q needs to replace George Bush when Obama does. (12/16)
• NYT: It's 9 to 33 years in the slammer for OJ Simpson. (12/6/08)
• AFP: Hooboy, Vegas is in a heckuva slum, yessiree. (11/21)
• AFP: A Dane wins the WSOP over a Russian player. (11/12)
• NYT: The status of poker, circa 2008. (11/9)
• NYT: Lonnie Hammargren's wacky house makes the Times. (11/3)
• USA Today: Tony Curtis opens up for an exclusive. (10/14)
• NYT: An eco-friendly race ends in Vegas. (10/14)
• NYT: Verdict means there could be 2 Plazas. (10/7)
• NYT: OJ is convicted, his conviction is analyzed and a juror talks. (10/2-10/5)
• NYT: The DA builds a fake OJ crime scene. (9/26/08)
• NYT: Dominick Dunne is here for his last big trial. (9/21/08)
• NYT: An O.J. preview, then opening statements, then an important witness. (9/15-9/17)
• NYT: The rush to grab Palin-related domain names. (9/12/08)
• Newsweek: O.J. Simpson going back to court. (9/5/08)
• AFP: Another O.J. trial preview. (9/5/08)
• Newsweek: A women's focus group watches Sarah Palin's big speech. (9/4/08)
• Washington Post: NV Republicans are struggling. (8/14/08)
• NY Times: Ladies' Nights Are Discriminatory, but are they illegal? (8/13)
• NY Times: Kingman booms on Vegas' excess. (8/10/08)
• NY Times: Hillary supports Obama in Vegas, sorta. (8/8/08)
• NY Times: Political junkies collect really cool stuff. (8/7/08)
• NY Times: The ricin guy cops a plea. (8/5/08)
• USA Today: Is Vegas really going green? (8/4/08)
• Philadelphia Inq: I rip into China in advance of the Olympics. (8/3/08)
• LA Times: Man claims discrimination based on gender. (8/3/08)
• LA Times: Pieces on Christian Audigier, David Spade and Wanda Sykes. (7/08)
• AFP: The finalists for the WSOP 08 is settled. (7/15/08)
• NY Times: Adventurers are searching for Steve Fossett again. (7/15/08)
• NY Times: An odd piece on desegregating a Texas cemetery. (7/5/08)
• LA Times: Damon Wayans is still edgy AND sweet. (7/3/08)
• LA Times: Jay Leno raises money for flood victims. (6/26/08)
• New York Times: The chip collectors are ba-a-a-ck! (6/22/08)
• LA Times: Gay Days & Nights comes to Vegas. (6/19/08)
• USA Today: An Apple will be in every room at Fontainebleau. (6/13/08)
• LA Times: Cinevegas honoree James Caan disses his own film. (6/12/08)
• LA Times: Erykah Badu comes to the House of Blues. (6/4/08)
• LA Times: The World Series of Poker kicks off. (5/28/08)
• LA Times: Chef Kerry Simon is on the unswing with two new places. (5/22/08)
• Newsweek: Podcasting's naming dilemma. (5/26/08)
• USA Today: Kenny Chesney complains about the ACMAs. (5/19/08)
• USA Today: A front-page and a longer look at turning zeroes into 50s. (5/19/08)
• LA Times: LeAnn Rimes is all grown up. (5/14/08)
• Newsweek: A Q-and-A about dating tips (?) with Harry Reid. (5/12/08)
• USA Today: Cher's new show is a hot mess. (5/7/08)
• Washington Post: The governor's marriage is a political mess. (5/6/08)
• NYT: The young moguls of Vegas get a close-up. (5/6/08)
• AFP: Tropicana Entertainment is bankrupt. (5/5/08)
• Newsweek: Vegas takes a hit during this recession. (5/5/08)
• NYT: Mrs. Fossett gets billed and the governor files for divorce. (5/3/08)
• NYT: A long blog piece on how Nevada Dems are protecting Harry Reid. (5/1/08)
• USA Today: Oprah with Cher, Tina and toilets. (4/29/08)
• NYT: A new downtown Vegas is launched. (4/23/08)
• NYT: The R-J is tossed from Harrah's resorts. (4/15/08)
• Wired: Can bloggers and podcasters write-off their lives? (4/14/08)
• NYT: Switzerland considers outlawing the cat fur trade. (4/1/08)
• USA Today: A review of "Winner Takes All" by Christina Binkley. (3/31)
• Poz: A profile of Jack Mackenroth of Project Runway. (April 2008)
• Newsweek: Heidi Fleiss discusses Eliot Spitzer. Wacky. (3/13)
• NYT: Breaking an exclusive on a $40 million public art program at CityCenter. (3/8)
• NYT: A ricin scare grips Vegas, too. (3/1 and 3/3)
• NYT: A Hep-C scare grips Vegas. (2/28/08)
• USAT: First-look coverage of Bette's new Vegas show here and here. (2/19-2/20)
• NYT: Thousands out thousands when a helicopter company collapses. (2/13/08)
• NYT: A long Sunday Styles piece on Vegas paparazzi. (2/3/08)
• NYT/Las Vegas Weekly: Covering the Monte Carlo fire ... from New York? (1/08)
• USAT: An exclusive interview with Sheldon Adelson and an exclusive walk-through of Palazzo. (1/17 and 1/19/08)
• AFP: A report on the casino caucuses from the Wynn Las Vegas. (1/19/08)
• NYT: There's a lawsuit over casino caucuses, then it's tossed. (1/13 and 1/17/08)
• NYT: OJ gets scolded by the judge, then double bail. (1/16/08)
• Newsweek: On the campaign trail in Vegas before the NV caucuses. (1/15/08)
• NYT: Casino Brigadoon appears for a day. (1/9/08)
• NYT: The floods of Fernley rushed in and so did I. (1/7/08)
• NYT: Ladies Nights may become illegal in Vegas?!? (12/12/07)
• NYT: Plaza v Plaza, the court battle. (12/5/07)
• AFP: Steve Wynn profile on Macau and Michelin. (11/24/07)
• London Telegraph: Robert Earl's Planet Hollywood debuts. (11/18/07)
• USA Today: Ellen DeGeneres defends her Iggy thingie. (11/15/07)
• NYT: Coverage of the OJ prelim hearings. (11/8-11/14)
• Newsweek: Where's OJ Simpson staying when he's in Vegas? (11/12/07)
• Wired: Now that it's over, how did the online Fossett search go? (11/6/07)
• USAT: A deaf man's life becomes a major movie. (11/6/07)
• NYT: An execution is stopped because of concerns over cruelty. (10/17/07)
• USAT: Scientists want to start transplanting scalps of dead people?!? (10/8.07)
• NYT: Massive coverage of O.J. and Steve Fossett (SEPT/OCT 2007)
• Wired: Steve Fossett coverage. (SEPT 2007)
• SF Chronicle/Chicago Trib: An amazing Fossett-related tale of missing planes. (9/10/07)
• USA Today: Lynn Johnston is changing "For Better or For Worse." (9/10/07)
• Newsweek: Candidates flocking to, uh, Elko! (8/13/07)
• Chicago Tribune: A casino chips confab in Las Vegas. (8/12/07)
• NYT: Following a shooting and bombing, how safe is Vegas? (8/3/07)
• Newsweek: Billy Bob Thornton is a rock star, too. (8/3/07)
• USA Today: Women who eat their placentas. Yum. (7/19/07)
• Boston Globe: Profiling the Venus-and-Serena of Poker. (7/3/07)
• L.A. Times: The Las Vegas Springs Preserve Opens. (6/15/07)
• New York Magazine: My take on the Bwy-Strip disconnect. (6/10/07)
• NVToday.Com: My night with Liza and Liza. (5/30/07)
• NY Times: An celeb-impersonator convention takes Vegas. (5/29/07)
• Newsweek: Mel Brooks on Hasselhoff, gays, smoking and Frankenstein. (5/27/07)
• Reuters: MGM Mirage gets an offer from Kirk. (5/22/07)
• Various: Rock, Paper, Scissors pieces in the NYT, Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune. (May 2007)
• Newsweek: Behind the Luxor bombing. (5/9/07)
• Conde Nast Traveler: Vegas' HOT LIST entries are linked here (5/1/07)
• Newsweek: BYU loosens rules on gays - a little bit. (4/30/07)
• USA Today: Is "Meet The Robinsons" offensive to adopted families?
• USA Today: Pieces recently on Guatemalan adoptions and men changing their names after marriage. (3/07)
• LV CityLife: My big fat gay wedding essay. (3/15/07)
• NY Times: Stardust is imploded. Plus, see pix here. (3/13/07)
• Reuters: Elizabeth Taylor turns 75 in Vegas. (2/28/07)
• NY Times: World Series of Poker Champ Jamie Gold on his antic, father (2/24/07)
• NY Times: Chinese New Year is one of the biggest thing in Vegas. (2/21/07)
• NY Times: Vegas' animal shelter suffers a disaster. (2/16/07)
• NY Times: The Las Vegas Monorail is in trouble. (2/10/07)
• NY Times: Attempts afoot to stop a mushroom cloud from towering over Vegas. (1/11/07)
• NY Times: Why did this $1 million sculpture collapse? (1/6/07)
• NY Times: A fundamentalist preacher tries to save Vegas on New Year's Eve. (1/2/07)
• NY Times: Folks in Pahrump try to ban foreign flags. (12/18)
• NY Times: Nurses at two Vegas hospitals are locked out. (12/5)
• NY Times: Candidates don't own their domain names. Problem or not? (11/18)
• USAT: Q-and-As with Bill Maher and Roseanne Barr. (11/16-11/17)
• USAT: An overview of The Comedy Festival and a Don Rickles chat. (11/14-11/15)
• Newsweek: Whoopi talks Comic Relief, nose-picking and racism. (11/14/06)
• Newsweek: Barry Manilow sells out on...QVC? (11/13/06)
• NY Times: Nevadans ponder smoking bans. (10/31/06)
• USAT: The new Playboy Club, the Hef Villa and interviews with Hef and Christie. (9/29/06)
• Newsweek: Podcasting is helping circumvent Chinese censorship. (10/7/06)
• NYT: NV controller's widower arrested in her murder. (10/3/06)
• Wired: Coverage of the Portable Media Expo, including pieces on avoiding iPods, Leo LaPorte and whether Apple owns the word 'pod.' (9/29-10/3)
• KNPR: Steve is interviewed re: Macau. (8/29/06)
• NYT: The struggle of Holocaust survivor Dina Gottliebova Babbitt. (8/30/06)
• Newsweek: The exclusive from Macau. (9/4/06)
• USA Today: Why does Bill Austin still has Reagan's ear? (8/10/06)
• Wired: The Venetian wants you to gamble by the pool. (7/26/06)
• New York Times: The strange death of Kathy Augustine. (7/22/06)
• Wired: It's been a full year since the iTunes 4.9 launch? Wow. (6/28/06)
• New York Times: Darren Mack caught in Mexico. (6/23/06)
• Newsweek: Exclusive Olivia Harrison interview on the Beatles show. (6/22/06)
• USA Today: Phantom comes to Vegas in spectacular fashion. (6/19/06)
• USA Today: A profile of Sir George and Giles Martin of Beatles fame. (6/14/06)
• Boston Globe: Healdsburg is the new Napa. (6/11/06)
• Wired: Why is electronics packaging so !@%# hard to open? (5/22/06)
• USA Today: Santa Fe's minimum wage is $9.50 an hour. Wow. (5/10/06)
• NY Times: Covering immigration protests on May Day. (5/1/06)
• Newsweek: The feds are using a cartoon to push Yucca. Weird. (4/24/06)
• Wired: Animated campaign attack ads are all the rage this cycle. (4/21/06)
• Boston Globe: Two Bostonians are in that monastic reality show. (4/11/06)
• Newsweek: Charlie Palmer plans a Vegas hotel-condo. (4/7/06)
• USA Today: A reality show set in a monestary? Yup. (4/5/06)
• Wired: Podcasting could spell trouble for NPR. (4/5/06)
• Reuters: Alka Selzer staged the world's biggest buffet. (3/28/06)
• Newsweek: iTunes doesn't have captions for some weird reason. (2/27/06)
• Newsweek: Q-and-A with Steve Wynn on Avenue Q's demise. (2/16/06)
• USA Today: Parents diving into the podcast world. (2/14/06)
• Wired: Podfaders giving up. (2/7/06)
• USA Today: A piece on a brilliant anthology on adoption. (1/19/06)
• Newsweek: A piece on Vegas' Avenue Q and a Harvey Fierstein Q&A (Jan. 06)
• Newsweek: Heidi Fleiss is back! With studs! (12/12/05)
• Wired: An Expo round-up, plus women podcasters & a wacky drag queen. (Nov. 05)
• Wired: Adam Curry spats with Portable Media Expo folks. (11/8/05)
• Boston Globe: Cancer doc comes to Vegas. Yay. (11/7/05)
• Wired: Podcasters want to be videocasters. Or not. (11/4/05)
• Boston Globe: Jimmy Carter's son may run for Senate in Nevada. (10/23/05)
• Boston Globe: Rating Vegas pools. (10/16/2005)
• Wired: The business of podcasting is blossoming. (9/28/05)
• USA Today: American parents having a rough time with Russian adoptees. (9/15/05)
• Boston Globe: Hurricane Katrina relief workers get Vegas vacations. (9/7/05)
• USA Today: Avenue Q starts a huge Broadway infusion in Vegas. (8/25/05)
• Wired: An exclusive tech tour with Steve Wynn. (8/17/05)
• USA Today: Breaking news on the NFL-Vegas feud. (8/5/05)
• Chicago Trib/Boston Globe: Saving the La Concha motel lobby. (Aug 2005)
• Wired: Podcasting goes mainstream thanks to Apple and iTunes. (7/18/05)
• Chicago Tribune: My take -- and yours -- on Wynn Las Vegas. (7/17/05)
• Boston Globe: An overview and then close-up in the WS of Poker finale. (7/05)
• USA Today: Actress Jennifer Tilly wants to play poker, poker, poker.. (7/6/05)
  Newsweek: Hootie & The Blowfish are playing...the Silverton? (7/4/05)
• Newsweek: Nevada quarters are inaccurate. Sorta. (6/4/05)
• Boston Globe: Two Bostonians in "The Contender" finale. (5/25/05)
• Newsweek: Goodman seeks Oscar Mayor TV! (5/23/05)
• Boston Globe: Is Wynn's "Le Reve" in trouble? (5/15/05)
• Boston Globe: Pelicans returning to North Dakota this year. (5/14/05)
• Boston Globe/SF Chronicle: The most expensive casino ever opens. (4/29/05)
• USA Today: Wanna see dead people? Thousands do. (4/20/05)
• Newsweek: Profiling Harrah's CEO, Gary Loveman. (4/18/05)
• Newsweek: Sumo is coming to Vegas! (4/18/05)
• USA Today: Laptops are a pain in the neck. (4/14/05)
• Newsweek: Honey, they supersized the toilet seat! (4/11/05)
• Newsday: Ex-NYC cops arraigned in Vegas on mob murder charges.(3/27/05)
• CSM: Nevada plunks down money for gambling addiction treatments. (3/22/05)
• LA Times/Chicago Trib: What NOT to do in Vegas. (3/20/05)
• Boston Globe: A DMV break-in could be identity theft...or terrorists? (3/19/05)
• Newsweek: That magazine is talking to me. (3/14/05)
• Boston Globe/SF Chronicle: NV considers a lottery. (3/6/05)
• New York Times: The theater upstages Ka. (3/6/05)
• CSM: Theater-building is Vegas' latest side business. (2/11/05)
• ESPN.Com: A fun look at Super Bowl Sunday in Vegas. (2/8/05)
• Newsweek: Wicked offers an awesome new hearing assistive device. (2/7/05)
• Newsweek: Robin Leach is being archived at UNLV? (1/17/05)
• USA Today: Why adoption's the wrong answer for tsunami orphans. (1/10/05)
• USA Today: The lovely and talented Jen Garner ignores my Afflecktion. (1/10/05)
• Las Vegas Weekly: New Year's brings Jesus freaks to the Strip (1/6/05)
• Christian Science Monitor: Vegas' new act is all Broadway. (12/29/04)
• Globe/Trib/Post: The messy monorail's back up. (12/04)
• Reuters: Manilow is here for a long run and the monorail is finally running! (12/04)
• Boston Globe: The rodeo is coming, the rodeo is coming! (11/30/04)
• Budget Travel: Story on Old Vegas and live online chat with readers. (Nov. 2004)
• Boston Globe: 44 Cuban defectors settle in... Vegas? (11/16/04)
• Boston Globe/Chicago Tribune: NV's first impeachment ever. (11/10/04)
• Newsweek: Aureole in Vegas uses a new HP tablet PC as... a winebook? (11/1/04)
• Boston Globe: Medical malpractice is on the 11-02 ballot. (10/27/04)
• Newsweek: President Bush's false memory of 9-11. (9/20/04)
• USA Today: Swift Boat flap shows memories are tricky, unreliable. (9/13/04)
• Washington Post: Day one and two of flap over LV terror tapes. (8/12 and 8/13/04)
• Boston Globe: Why America believed Vegas would lie about terror. (8/13/04)
• Newsweek: A Vegas mall is trucking in water for its fountains. (8/9/04)
• Chicago Tribune: The Las Vegas monorail opens. (8/8/04)
• Boston Globe/SF Chronicle: It's a banner year for banner ads. (7/27/0)
• The Australian: Vegas coroner posts dead photos online. (7/6/04)
• Washington Post: 30,000 pelicans are missing in North Dakota. (7/4/04)
• USA Today: Looking at the science of torture. (6/28/04)
• Boston Globe: MGM Mirage-Mandalay mega-merger mania. (6/26/04)
• Boston Globe: Fremont Street's fancy new light show. (6/14/04)
• CSM/Newsweek: Considering, then ranking, the world's woes in Copenhagen. (May/June 2004)
• US News & World Report: Scoop on the first American Macanese casino. (5/17/04)
• Boston/SF/Chicago: Only report of gay Chinese convention in Hong Kong. (5/04)
• Newsweek: Gay porn is being repackaged to highlight lack of condoms. (5/10/04)
• Newsweek: Golfers v ranchers in new water war. (5/10/04)
• Budget Travel: Travel story on Beijing and live online chat on China. (May 2004)
• Wired: Fremont Street installs the largest LED display ever. (4/20/04)
• Newsweek: Quick piece on saltwater swimming pools. (4/19/04)
• Boston Globe/Chicago Tribune: Travel piece on Reno. (4/18/04)
• Boston Globe: Breaking the Bellagio blackout. (4/12/04)
• Boston/SF/Chicago: Oy Vegas! Jews flocking to LV. (4/4/04)
• Boston/Chicago: Piece on "What Happens Here Stays Here" slogan. (3/28/04)
• LA Times/Chicago Tribune: Travel piece on Vegas animal acts/exhibits. (3/14/04
• Wired: New Star Trek ride full of bold, cool tech features. (3/5/04)
• C.S. Monitor: Privatized Vegas schools improve. (3/5/04)
• Chicago Tribune: Kerry wins Nevada caucus. (2/15/04)
• Boston/SF/Chicago: Nevada's big year in national politics. (2/13/04)
• C.S. Monitor: How urban redevelopment can cause problems. (2/12/04)
• Reuters: Scoop on possible Beatles show by Cirque in Vegas. (1/28/04)
• Newsweek: Scoop on Monet exhibit in Vegas. (1/26/04)
• Wired: Extensive coverage of the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show. (1/9-10-04)
• USA Today: Following Britney's stunt, a look at quickie Vegas weddings. (1/6/04)
• Newsweek: Jacko's wacko fan defends him in a Q-and-A. (11/20/03)
• Boston Globe/SF Chron: Plastic surgery in China is the new rage. (11/9/03)
• USA Today: Fans praying for Roy's recovery. (10/6/03)
• Boston Globe/Chicago Tribune: Roy attacked by white tiger. (10/5/03)
• Boston Globe/Chicago Tribune: The destruction of a Vegas icon. (10/2/03)
• Reuters: Las Vegas movie company launches. (10/1/03)
• Newsweek: Gambling magazine debuts. (10/6/03)
• Boston Globe/Chicago Tribune: Vegas faces white gang -- maybe. (9/28/03)
• Newsweek: Does Vegas guarantee good TV ratings? (9/29/03)
• Christian Science Monitor: Why seniors are swallowing inheritances. (9/2/03)
• Newsweek: Q-and-A with Father of Atari Nolan Bushnell. (8/18/03)
• Boston Globe/Chicago Tribune: Gay Catholics meet, agonize. (8/10/03)
• Reuters: Las Vegas geniuses sell naked-women hunts. (7/18/03)
• Boston Globe: How the NV chaos threatens Harry Reid. (7/15/03)
• Newsweek: Read about Cirque du Soleil's takeover of Vegas or listen to my radio appearance about the topic. (July 14, 2003)
• The Arizona Republic: The World has Changed - by Zachary Seigleman (9/11/02)
• CNN American Morning: Gay/Lesbian Mentors/Big Brothers. (8/21/02)