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The Front Row

Francis Ford Coppola’s “One from the Heart” Is Exactly What Its Title Says

Critically panned in 1982 and now released in revised form, this Las Vegas tale is a sublimely stylized work that is also highly personal.
Dept. of Popular Culture

Bravo in the Flesh

More than a hundred and sixty reality stars descended on Las Vegas, for BravoCon, where they were pulled apart by their harshest critics, who also happen to be their most diehard fans.
Dispatch

An Elvis Impersonator’s Summer of Extreme-Weather Weddings

Bob McArthur has lived in Las Vegas for only a year and a half, but has worked through the wettest monsoon in decades, a rare tropical storm, and the city’s hottest month ever.
Afterword

The First Magician on the Vegas Strip

Gloria Dea began performing when she was five years old. Even then, she was sassy and self-assured.
Cultural Comment

Fifty Years of “Learning from Las Vegas”

The cool appraisal of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi’s revolutionary book has a lot to inspire the architects of today.
Road Trips

Night Driving

“What if this strange officer who has refused to say why he stopped me shoots me? What if he says I jumped out and pursued him to the back to attack him?”
U.S. Journal

The Afterlife of a Las Vegas Spectacular

Nearly two years after “Le Rêve” went dark, cast members are still grappling with what it means to be a performer without a show.
Afterword

A Showgirl to the End

On weekends, the Fabulous Mrs. Unruh performed in the Buckhorn’s lounge, in Mt. Baldy.
Daily Comment

From Las Vegas to Thousand Oaks, Mass Shootings Go Unchecked

As the unaccounted and enormous social price of the prevalence of gun massacres grows, the majority of Americans want to move toward comprehensive gun control, but no national political path forward can be found.
News Desk

Fault Lines at the National Women’s March, in Las Vegas

Comment Podcast

Limits of Power

Comment Podcast

Disasters Will Happen

News Desk

Stephen Paddock and the World of Video Poker

Benjamin Wallace-Wells

The Las Vegas Shooting and the Search for Meaning

Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, October 3rd

“We will now observe a moment of silencing critics of gun violence.”
Daily Comment

Another Worst Mass Shooting in the United States