WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

One occupational hazard of being a county commissioner in Las Vegas is occasionally having to ask uncomfortably explicit questions.

For Steve Sisolak, that moment came Wednesday, during a steamy zoning conversation -- there's a phrase you don't see every day -- about a proposed swimming pool at a valley strip club.

"Would it be an adult-use if both participants were fully clothed during the lap dance?" Sisolak asked.

The answer to his question was no, by the way. Sisolak seemed relieved when the discussion was over.

KRISTI JOURDAN

Don't bother telling Tim Wakefield, the field manager for Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, that he shares his name with Tim Wakefield the starting pitcher for Boston.

He already knows this. Of course he does.

So when a reporter tried to make a lame joke about it, Tim Wakefield -- the Red Rock one, not the Red Sox one -- quickly answered with a joke of his own.

"Well, he's a knuckle-baller and I'm a knucklehead," Tim Wakefield said.

HENRY BREAN

The View is a neighborhood publication of the Review-Journal, but that doesn't mean its stories don't get national play.

All it takes is a little Rick Springfield.

In an interview with the 1980s pop star in Tuesday's Sunrise/Whitney View, he was asked about a new song by Jonathan Coulton called "Je Suis Rick Springfield."

It's about a guy who may or may not be Rick Springfield at a bar in France trying to impress two French girls by telling them he's Rick Springfield and explaining who Rick Springfield is.

Also, the song is in French.

Springfield said he heard it and called it "bizarre, but funny."

Then he said something that didn't make the article: "There's some weird (expletive) on YouTube."

Within a few hours of the story going online, Coulton's Twitter feed already included a link to the View story and a hardy discussion between Coulton and his fans about it.

God bless you, Internet.

F. ANDREW TAYLOR