In The News: University Libraries

Vegas Seven

What’s the story of Downtown’s Coach Room, where White Castle is building a new restaurant?

Las Vegas Review Journal

Neon signs lighting up the night as bright as day. The heat. Dust accumulating in the corners of half-finished swimming pools in abandoned developments at the edge of the city.

Las Vegas Sun

Strip resorts of the future will probably look quite different. The casino floor, for one thing, will most likely be smaller. But Las Vegas and its huge integrated resorts should continue to succeed, if only because they are so good at listening to their customers.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The Video Vault is usually a place to set the facts straight about people, places, and incidents in Southern Nevada's past. But our area is also the subject of a lot of fiction. It's the subject of a new exhibit at UNLV's Lied Library.

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Norges Rodriguez worked as a telecom engineer and journalist in his native Cuba. But the day I meet him, he’s leaning over a bed at a workforce training academy in Las Vegas, learning how to tuck corners and stuff pillowcases with the kind of precision that passes muster in the guest rooms at Las Vegas’ sparkling casino resorts.

DTLV

The idea of high fashion on Fremont Street might seem unlikely in the era of souvenir T-shirts and SlotZilla, but Downtown’s most famous road was once home to a variety of department stores and specialty clothing boutiques. None were more exclusive than Fanny’s Dress Shop. For several generations, stylish denizens bought their wardrobes exclusively at Fanny’s under the watchful eye of Fanny Soss, and in later years her son Maury. From prom dresses and cocktail attire to wedding gowns and even furs suitable for an evening out in one of the Strip’s showrooms, Fanny’s dressed the ladies of Las Vegas.

Vegas Seven

Some people say the great Las Vegas novel has yet to be written. But Writers Imagine Las Vegas: Our City in Fiction, the new exhibit that recently debuted at UNLV’s Lied Library with a reading by local author Laura McBride, may just prove them wrong.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Yvette Williams was 19 when the landmark TV miniseries “Roots” aired over eight nights in January 1977.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Yvette Williams was 19 when the landmark TV miniseries “Roots” aired over eight nights in January 1977.

NJ.com

The small plane shot over Newark Airport, the roar of its powerful engine echoing over the vast airfield as it swept low before pulling around in a tight power turn.

Las Vegas Review Journal

No more 80-hour work weeks. Saying goodbye to years of commuting from Los Angeles to New York.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The word unique gets tossed around without much attention toward its meaning. It doesn’t mean merely rare or unusual. It means singular. In Nevada, Michael Frazier is unique.