Here & Now

The Poets’ Corner offers writers open environment to share works

Outside the tiny auditorium, there’s a coffee urn, plates containing a few pastries and bottles of ice cold water. But, for the poets and guests here for this evening’s edition of The Poets’ Corner, the tastiest morsels to be consumed are the words spilling from the poets’ mouths.

Comedian Doug Stanhope mines uncomfortable topics for provocative material

Comics are supposed to make you forget your troubles, right? But if laughter’s the best medicine, as the cliche goes, Doug Stanhope’s brand of humor is an eye-wateringly bitter brand of it, the comedic equivalent of battery acid and bourbon, poured in any and all open wounds.

In Brief

Exhumation-identification project advances in county

The Clark County coroner’s office is more than halfway through a long-term project to exhume and identify the unknown people who died and were buried here.

Brothel owner gets go-ahead to take over Crystal properties

Look out, Southern Nevada sex trade: Here comes Dennis Hof. The reality television star and outspoken owner of two brothels near Carson City has won permission to expand his bordello empire south into Nye County.

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