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This Blog Is On Hiatus 13 Sep 2011 | 03:43 pm
Part of the stipulation of my fellowship is a requirement that I stop working and focus on my academics, my long-term projects and my life among the other fellows. I know others don't understand that,...
R.I.P. Aces Smith-Friess 13 Sep 2011 | 12:48 pm
Two nights ago, the littlest, newest and spunkiest member of our gang, Aces, slipped out of the backyard through a gap in the fence and was hit by a car. Even as I write this, it doesn't seem quite re...
Leftover Funnies Before I Shut Up 11 Sep 2011 | 09:37 am
OK, so I've got to stop blogging, as I'll explain in the next and final post. But before I go, allow me to empty my files of odd, interesting and weird stuff. Like, for instance, I don't recall if...
Stuff I Found Cleaning Out My Vegas Office 11 Sep 2011 | 03:30 am
As you may have read in my acclaimed love-letter essay to Las Vegas and my life there in Las Vegas Weekly, I spent my final days in Nevada packing up a house and office stuffed to the gills with histo...
The Show is UP: The Finale 10 Sep 2011 | 12:08 pm
We're having some sort of problem with iTunes and our final -- and several recent special -- episodes of "The Strip" have not been making it into the RSS feed. We're working on fixing that right now, ...
THE FINAL STRIP PODCAST IS MONDAY AT 8 PM ET 5 Sep 2011 | 10:52 am
Hoo boy... This is really it! We are really, really here, and if you don't believe us, here's a shot of the dogs in their new abode to prove it. It's time to be a fellow and improve ourselves. We'll ...
The Road Trip, Part IV 5 Sep 2011 | 10:36 am
We concluded our big road trip from Vegas to Ann Arbor, Mich., by waking up amid the Springfield cornfields. Again, there's a Flickr slideshow player at the end of this post or you can watch it here. ...
Road Trip, Part III 3 Sep 2011 | 02:41 pm
OK, so I'm a little behind here, but that, above, was me on the steps of the Kansas Capitol on Topeka on Tuesday. This is where, in the summer of 1993, my fascination with statehouses began. As an int...
The Road Trip, Part II 30 Aug 2011 | 05:25 pm
After the big party Hunter and I attended in Sun Valley on Saturday, Hunter flew back to Vegas on Sunday from Salt Lake City to check out -- and be summarily unimpressed -- with the reopened Plaza. Ch...
The Road Trip, Part I 29 Aug 2011 | 01:38 am
I made my tearful farewells on Friday morning, then picked up RateVegas.Com's Hunter Hillegas at McCarran for the first leg of my road trip to Ann Arbor. We drove north from Vegas on U.S. 93 through P...
