Desert Air
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Desert Air is the best of Desert Companion magazine for your ears — arts and culture coverage, thoughtful commentary, and creative nonfiction. This podcast provides a space for interviews and storytelling unlike any other, connecting Southern Nevadans with each other and their home.
It’s brought to you by the talented folks at Nevada Public Radio: Christopher Alvarez, sound design; Rachel Christiansen, editor; Anne Davis, host; Briana Joseph, narration; Heidi Kyser, managing editor. Our theme music is by Blue Dot sessions.
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John Locher
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AP
Las Vegas ranks among the top cities for restaurant closures, Nevada State expands direct admissions, and Nevada faces deeper Colorado River cuts.
Ryan Vellinga
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Nevada Public Radio
Saretta Morgan is the Black Mountain Institute’s very first Kluge Fellow. She’s the author of two poetry chapbooks and a poetry book, titled Alt-Nature, published by Coffee House Press in early 2024
Ones to Watch 2024
More conversations, interviews and narrations
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Copper is essential to modern technology. But Smith Valley residents worry about a mine’s effect on their water -
Vegas-based tech observer Ed Zitron on the empty hype of AI, clueless tech lords, and what he thinks of Las Vegas -
The Vegas-based architecture professor on how he works with, not against, AI design -
Ten years after Yunior Lopez founded it, the Young Artists Orchestra of Las Vegas continues to be a launchpad for aspiring musicians -
Two Vegas music-lovers riff on their favorite local love songs
