Take an ordinary novel, add a dash of sex, an utterance of blasphemy, a spell of supernatural weirdness and a sprinkling of salty language and what do you get? A book that someone somewhere will argue shouldn’t be found anywhere near a library shelf.
Like many young girls, Cristina “Kina” McAllister loved science when she was a kid. And, also like many science-loving young girls, McAllister drifted away from science during her middle school and high school years.
Casa de Shenandoah? More like Casa de Wow. And for anybody who’s driven past the gates of Wayne Newton’s estate near the corner of Sunset and Pecos roads and wondered what lay behind, finding out firsthand now is possible.
Robyn Carr is a best-selling romance novelist, but don’t think of her books as romances. Think of them as stories about people who just happen to, after a few unexpected and often nasty twists and turns, live happily ever after. Mostly.
They seem mournful, like ships’ whistles sometimes can be, but it’s probably not fair to blame the whistles for that.
Las Vegas playwright Ernest Hemmings’ latest work explores the way in which the online world and social media can create the illusion of community to sometimes dangerous and tragic ends. The factual foundation of the play is the murder of Las Vegas police officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck on June 8, 2014.
