Scott Dickensheets
Scott Dickensheets is a Las Vegas writer and editor whose trenchant observations about local culture have graced the pages of publications nationwide. He's currently serving as Newsletter Editor for City Cast Las Vegas, and is Desert Companion's 2024 Writer in Residence. You can follow him at @DickensheetsLV.
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These notes, letters, and found objects tell distinctly Nevadan stories... some sad, some funny, some just kinda weird.
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A few years ago, I found $40 on the floor of a sandwich shop in Henderson. My first thought, of course, was Free sandwich!
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A new book takes a deep look at the acclaimed, iconic — and cantankerous — Nevada artist.
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Expand you mind with these readings, culture and lectures.
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Started as a prank event on Facebook, “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” had more than 2 million people signed on to attend the September 20 gathering (now festival) near the secret military base and rumored site of alien technology.
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A poet, two very different artists, a videomaker, and a rapper: five emerging talents energizing the valley’s cultural life.
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You will find something to appeal to your asthetic tastes with these art exhibits.
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Two new books of local interest place you at a crossroads. In one direction, Nevada poet Shaun T. Griffin beckons
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He calls them “non-spaces.” With their swooping planes, vivid colors, and layered densities, the subjects of Valentin Yordanov’s paintings stop just short of cohering into recognizable urban locations
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It’ll be an uphill trek if you want to get an eyeful of Nevada’s summer wildflowers — but they’re worth it.