Issue: December 14, 2006
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Turning point?
Local activists hope the Iraq Study Group’s report is the way out of a hated war.
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Gibbons goes AWOL
Rep. James Gibbons has missed every voted in the House since the election.
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New Nevada wilderness
Congress has approved another half million acres for wilderness designation in Nevada.
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Sanitary Potemkin
Reno officials have to do something for Reno residents—like their job.
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The son also falls
Let’s move the drug dealers out of downtown.
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Letters for December 14, 2006
Love, hate, or indifference—readers express their opinions—sometimes about each other.
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What Would Jesus Buy?
Malls schmalls. Here are some online organizations that could use your dollars to help those who need them most.
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A bit of give and take
Right Hook takes on the abortion debate with a regular reader.
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Golddiggers rule the roost
Newmont Mining Corp. was freed last week from its responsibilities to the Clean Water Act and to Nevada’s H2O aficionados. Might be time to demand accountability from our elected officials.
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Hearing voices
If any certainties can be said about Latino art after seeing the exhibit Voces Latinas at the Nevada Museum of Art, it’s that there is not one unified voice among Latino artists.
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Airing dirty laundry
Dirty Laundry’s lingerie is designed, made and marketed by three women all under the age of 25.
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McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue 21
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is one literary journal with enough consistent talent from artists and writers to be worth following.
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The Areas of My Expertise
The Areas of My Expertise is an “almanac” of half-truths, outright lies and only one fact: author John Hodgman is hilarious.
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To the bloody end
With Apocalypto and his The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson seems to be making an attempt at starting his own subgenre, Historical Horror Bloody Blowouts.
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The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family’s Last Days of Wonder holds one brilliant epiphany after another.
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Sonny Rollins
At age 76, Sonny Rollins proves he’s still a colossus to be reckoned with on Sonny, Please, his first album in five years.
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Emotive emerger
E.J. Maldonado is an emotive acoustic singer-songwriter whose playing field is the human heart.
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Treasured island
Now three generations deep, Galletti’s Coney Island Bar is a historic landmark in Sparks and one of the oldest restaurants in Northern Nevada.
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