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Timothy O'Grady

May 04, 2010
Author Timothy O'Grady left the United States shortly after he graduated from college in the 1970s. He moved to Europe and never moved back.
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Food Talk

Feb 23, 2010
Max Jacobson and John Curtas visit with Mitchell Davis, Vice President of the James Beard Foundation, about the foundation, its awards, and the art of food writing. Cities like Las Vegas tend not to fare very well when James Beard Awards are handed out, Davis has some ideas about why this is (hint: it has something to do with New York.
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Rugby Tournament

Feb 15, 2010
The biggest international sporting event of the year is being held in Las Vegas this weekend. It's the 2010 USA Rugby Sevens Tournament at Sam Boyd Stadium.
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First Friday

Feb 15, 2010
It's time again for the downtown arts festival. This time we meet Enrique Nevarez whose work is a little political and a little comic.
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Walking Away: the Moral Ground

Feb 12, 2010
The giant wave of foreclosures and huge drop in real estate values have left many homeowners in Las Vegas dishing out monthly mortgage payments that are meaningless in investment terms. It's money they may never recover.
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NOMO

Feb 10, 2010
The six piece future-jazz, afrobeat ensemble NOMO brings their driving danceable music to the Aruba Hotel Showroom, Saturday February 6. We talk with NOMO leader, multi-instrumentalist (and van driver) Elliot Bergman about the band's creation process.
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The Water Authority and the Supreme Court

Feb 08, 2010
The Southern Nevada Water Authority recently lost a major decision in the Nevada Supreme Court when the court invalidated all the claims the authority had made on rural water dating back more than two decades. We recently spoke with the attorney who won the case for the rural Nevadans.
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Timothy O'Grady

Feb 05, 2010
Author Timothy O'Grady left the United States in 1973 and he's lived in Europe pretty much ever since. He recently returned to travel across the country and reconnect with the United States.
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The Congo Connection

Feb 03, 2010
A Nevada company has been accused of bringing rare metals from mines in some of the most troubled areas of the world - the Congo. We talk with an official of ENOUGH - the project to end genocide and crimes against humanity - about the importation of rare minerals for use in everyday electronics.
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Water Rights

Feb 02, 2010
The Nevada Supreme Court has killed the applications lodged more than 20 years ago by the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Valley Water District. The claims were to water in rural Nevada but now the authority may have to back and start the whole application process again.
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Danny Gans

Feb 02, 2010
Shortly before he died, Las Vegas impressionist Danny Gans completed an autobiography. We talk with his children Amy and Andrew Gans about their life with their father and how they've dealt with his untimely passing.
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The Las Vegas Economy

Feb 01, 2010
It's pretty bad. But how bad. We talk with Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis to find out why Las Vegas continues to bump along the bottom of the chart and what can be done to improve things.
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The Future of Las Vegas

Jan 27, 2010
So what went right and what went wrong in the Las Vegas Valley during the boom decade? That's the business of the Urban Land Institute and six local planners give us their take on what was good and bad in land use during the recent runaway real estate market. They also tell us what we can expect and what we should hope happens over the next decade.
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Thom Reilly

Jan 26, 2010
Former Clark County Manager Thom Reilly joins us to talk about the challenges local governments are facing in the recession. We discuss how the cost of wages, benefits and union contracts are affecting services on the county and city level and how local governments are tackling these problems as tax revenues continue to decline.
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Nevada Yesterdays

Jan 26, 2010
The "Elvis" connection in Las Vegas is legendary. Senator Richard Bryan tells us how it all started.
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Icahn's Fountainbleau Bid

Jan 26, 2010
We hear about the latest developments with the Fountainbleau and Carl Icahn's bid to buy that property at bottom of the barrel prices. Many of the gleaming strip properties were once old hotels bought for a song.
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Food Talk

Jan 22, 2010

Our two favorites writers, Max Jacobson and John Curtas join us. They talk about Max's Vietnam trip, the top five pizza places and give us another round of Eat It or Beat It.

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Othello

Jan 21, 2010
The Insurgo Theater Company has mounted a new production of Shakespeare's Othello in its new space on East Karen Avenue. It's an unusual venue for a classic play but then Insurgo is not the typical theater company.
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Gutshot Straight

Jan 20, 2010
It's a strange relationship. Novelist Lou Berney has put two lead characters together in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas, It's Your Year

Jan 15, 2010
The year just past has been a rough one in the Vegas valley, but commentator Andrew Kiraly wants you to think ahead. Andrew Kiraly makes occasional motivational speeches in his new capacity as editor of Nevada Public Radio's Desert Companion - now available at a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf near you, and online.
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State of the City

Jan 14, 2010
Revenues are way down and the city is negotiating with public safety and clerical unions for salary cuts. The unions are fighting the cuts while the city signs on to build a new privately-financed city hall.
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CES

Jan 12, 2010
So the next big thing is three-dimensional television. Hmmm.
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Big Friendly Corporation

Jan 11, 2010
Veteran Las Vegas band Big Friendly Corporation is enjoying a great 2010. The group was named one of the top ten acts to follow by the Las Vegas Sun and they're launching a new CD with an appearance at the Aruba Showroom tonight.
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Dario Herrera

Jan 07, 2010
Operation G-Sting began almost by accident. The FBI was tapping phones at Crazy Horse Two for a tax investigation.
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The Street Where We Live

Jan 05, 2010
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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