City Cast Las Vegas
🫣 The gross way a vulture keeps its cool
August 21, 2023
Greetings! I gather most of us weathered the weather with few dire problems? Unless, like (🎧) recent podcast guest Mt. Charleston Mountain Man, you live up the hill, where it’s been flooding. Good luck to those folks.
What's CITY Talking About?
💰 Let’s All Pay for the Lobby
Nevada’s Legislature is like a biannual Brigadoon for lobbyists — a magical realm of free-floating money that materializes every two years. And this year, the state’s local governments and agencies spent a record-breaking amount of (taxpayer-supplied) moolah hiring lobbyists: nearly $4.7 million. [Nevada Independent]
🏎️ Start Your Detours!
Most of us who aren’t attending the F1 race or working in the vicinity come Nov. 16-18 will surely avoid the area. So this rundown of the race’s schedule and street-closing plans is more for entertainment purposes only. [Review-Journal]
📚 Yokel Knowledge
Out in that bastion of free-thinking, Pahrump, the library board is considering whether to shelve children’s books that deal with such topics as race, gender, and sexuality in the adult section. Why? Someone wrote a complaining email. [Nevada Independent]
🧑🎓 Expanding University
Once it was Nevada State College. But recently, under campus president DeRionne Pollard — the first out Black woman to run a higher-ed campus in the state — it became Nevada State University. What does that mean for the school and its students? [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
What To Do
🍺 Belgian Beer Week | Today-Sunday | Bar hours
Hey, hop-heads, celebrate euro suds of Belgium with five days of a “massive” selection of that country’s beers. [Silver Stamp Saloon, Arts District; no cover]
💬 ‘Ending the Silence’ | Wednesday | 5 p.m.
In this workshop conducted by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, learn warning signs of mental illness, and how to have necessary conversations. [Clark County Library; free]
🥳 ‘Neon Cabaret’ | Thursday | 8-11:30 p.m.
This “immersive” “vaudevillian spectacle” combines disco, drag, freak-show acts, karaoke, and more. [The Mint Tavern, Sahara and Las Vegas Boulevard; $15-$50]
Today on City Cast
What a Name Change Means for Nevada State
Nevada State College became Nevada State University on July 1. What does that switch mean? President DeRionne Pollard joins co-host Vogue Robinson to explain how it will affect students and the community, and what's next for the newly minted university.
Plus: Learn more about Pollard in this extensive profile. [RJ Magazine]
Congrats to the in-ya-face Vegas punk trio Pure Sport — go on, blow a few circuits with this music video — for winning a place on the Life is Beautiful stage. No wonder the City Cast pod team (🎧) touted the band a couple weeks ago.
☕ Scott Dickensheets
Thanks to Layla Muhammad and Sonja Cho Swanson for the edits!
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