Neal Williams, local business owner
Richard Cherchio, neighborhood activist
Chris Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, Brookings Inst
Lisa Morris, Deputy Dir of Neighborhood Svcs, City of LV
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He's been amusing Americans since the 1960s with his stand-up routines,
television shows and innumerable guest appearances on the talk show circuit. He's coming to Treasure Island this Saturday for one performance.
Broadway singer and dancer Rick Faugno is about to launch his one-man show, "Songs My Idols Sang (And Danced)" this Sunday at the Southpoint Hotel and Casino. This weekend's show is already sold out but Faugno gives us a preview in a special music edition of the show, taped in Studio One.
He's produced the Batman movies that have taken the Gotham City crimefighter
from a buffoon to a hero. No more Zap! Pow! Bam! And he's wanted to do that
since he was in the 7th grade.
Sandy Hackett has created a new show about the glory days of Las Vegas at the Sahara. The show is playing at the Sahara and the cast joins us in the studio to talk about the new show and the old memories.
Artist and writer Er Tai Gao spoke out briefly in 1957 about the meaning of
art and found himself damned as a rightist in Mao Zedong's China. He was
sent for political re-education.
David Hopkins is an Irish singer-songwriter who now lives in Las Vegas. He
toured with rock legends The Who as their keyboardist for 2001's acclaimed
"Quadrophenia" tour, and is a friend and contemporary of Damien Rice.
The health care reform legislation is still struggling to get out of the
Senate. Will it die in committee or die of compromise? Journalist Jonathan
Cohn, author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care
Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price, joins us to give us his take on why reform is needed.
Most of know that sake is a rice wine but there are varietals that suit some foods better than others. Las Vegas' only sake sommelier, Yuji Matsumoto brings his sample case and some glasses into the studio for us to try the Japanese wine.
They just can't wait to be king. The four middle-schoolers who play "Young
Simba" and "Young Nala" at the Las Vegas production of "The Lion King" join
Las Vegas Sun entertainment writer John Katsilometes to talk about how they
got into show business, their fledgling careers and what they do when
they're not on stage.
This weekend marks the return of the Neon Reverb Festival on East Fremont
Street and at other venues in town. We talk with the organizers - James Woodbridge, Thirry Harlin and Jason Aragon.
This Las Vegas band describes itself as "a world-beat experimental pop band
that formed in the winter of 2006 as a collective where different musicians
from many genres can come together to create music not found anywhere else."
So they came to the studio to show us what that means.
Clark County School District Chief Walt Rulffes joins us to talk about the
host of issues facing educators and schools in Southern Nevada. We talk
about the empowerment schools program, federal aid that will require a
change in state law so that test scores can be used to assess teacher
quality, raises for classroom teachers, school construction and pending
budget cuts.
They just can't wait to be king. The four middle-schoolers who play "Young
Simba" and "Young Nala" at the Las Vegas production of "The Lion King" join
Las Vegas Sun entertainment writer John Katsilometes to talk about how they
got into show business, their fledgling careers and what they do when
they're not on stage.
A new report from the Brookings Institution shows that people are moving to
new homes within the United States at the slowest rate since World War II.
The recent migration slowdown was the surprising, but in retrospect
inevitable, by-product of an unprecedented run-up in both housing values and
housing-related debt, say researchers.
Since the late 1990s, Mike Kelley has been managing editor of the Las Vegas
Sun. He's seen it through its last days as a separate newspaper and he was
present at the creation of the current Review-Journal insert.
David Hopkins is an Irish singer-songwriter who now lives in Las Vegas. He
toured with rock legends The Who as their keyboardist for 2001's acclaimed
"Quadrophenia" tour, and is a friend and contemporary of Damien Rice.