🛍️ Local gift guide!

❌ Evictions Picking Up Pace

Since COVID-era tenant protections ended in June, landlords have gone on an eviction bender: Eviction filings are a whopping 62% higher than before the pandemic. The Las Vegas Justice Court evicted 3,045 people in August alone. [Nevada Current]

• Related: Legal services advocates brace for a “tsunami” of evictions. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🚨 Killer Was on House Arrest

Police say the gunman in Monday’s gruesome murder-suicide incident — which saw two children and an adult killed before the shooter allegedly took his own life — was on house arrest on child sex-crime charges. [KLAS]

• Also: Forensic psychologists speculate about UNLV shooter Anthony Polito. [KTNV]

✈️ Will I Have to Frisk Myself?

Starting next month, the TSA will pilot a “self screening” process for travelers boarding planes at Reid International. For some reason, the agency suddenly cares about “novel, innovative solutions” to improve efficiency and the passenger experience. [KSNV]

🎤 Springsteen and Now Wu-Tang Clan — In This Economy?

Another huge name joins the roster of stars coming to town next year, in this case for a residency beginning in early February: legendary hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. Tickets go on sale Friday. [KLAS]

Let’s devote today’s Chatter section to some gift guidance for those of you who still have unchecked boxes on your holiday shopping list, based on our (🎧) recent podcast episode:

Buying for Teens

📚 Personalized book recs from The Writer’s Block

⚓ Surprisingly affordable faux tattoos from Tat Bar

👟 Hot new footwear from Solection

🛼 Death Drop Roller Skate Shop on Decatur

Experiences, Not Things

🔨 Have fun smashing stuff with a gift card to The Wreck Room

✨ Digital immersive art at the Arte Museum on the Strip

🎨 Our friend Vogue Robinson will host a Poetry and Pouring event Dec. 28

For Your Foodie Friends

🫘 Mothership and Makers & Finders sell their own coffee beans available in store and online

📖 New books by our co-host Sarah Lohman and regular contributor Kim Foster

Last-Minute Gifts

🛍️ Check out Sunday’s Market in the Alley in the Arts District

💐🌵 Can’t go wrong with flowers from Gaia Flowers or succulents from Cactus Joe’s

How to Be a Better-Than-Average Tourist

Some 38 million visitors sluice through this burg every year, posing the question: What does it take to be a good tourist? Co-hosts Sarah Lohman and Dayvid Figler put that question to artist Justin Favela, who’s seen it from both sides — as a lifelong resident of this town, and as a frequent traveler himself.