Big News! We Win!
LasVegasWeekly.com’s “No-BS News” wins top award!
We’re thrilled to announce that LasVegasWeekly.com’s “No-BS News” has won the inaugural Stephen Glass Award for Excellence in Journalism. While we are not at liberty to divulge who came up with the award, judged us as the winner, or any other details of the competition, we can tell you that it’s an honor to win an award named for a guy who made such a huge impact on the world of journalism. And in doing so we reaffirm our commitment to work as hard as Oprah’s makeup artist to maintain the standards that Mr. Glass set.
Local
Where does the NYT get off ragging on our Gov?
Sometimes, we in the LasVegasWeekly.com No-BS News Department have to take our close friends at “The New York Times” to task. This is one of those times. Splashed all over the home page of nytimes.com is a story that totally disses our very own Gov. Jim Gibbons. Permit us, if we may, to answer each of the charges leveled against the gov by the NYT, one by one. Here goes. So what, if Jim “announced a plan to turn coal into jet fuel to raise money (problematic, as Nevada has no coal to speak of)”? So what if he “proposed paying for a $3.8 billion shortfall in highway construction money by selling water rights under state highways (it turns out the state did not actually own the rights)”? So what if he “told a local editorial board he could not pronounce the name of his energy adviser because she was “Indian” — she is Turkish — and vetoed a bill that would stop budget-busting tax breaks for builders of “green” buildings before issuing an executive order to end them anyway (with the exception of four companies)”? So what if, when, “faced with a collapsing public education system and extensive state infrastructure needs, Mr. Gibbons at one point threatened to veto the $7 billion two-year state budget and shut down government largely over his desire for a security center in Carson City — an idea that law enforcement officials dislike — and his plan to save small businesses two hundredths of a percent on their taxes”? And so what if “Mr. Gibbons is the subject of an FBI inquiry into whether he failed to report gifts from a military contractor while serving in Congress”? We hope our rebuttals help the NYT to see that sloppy journalism and unsubstantiated “facts” won’t ever get by us. We salute you, Gov. Gibbons, and say “keep up the good work.” We’ve got your back, buddy!
Showbiz
It’s time for a cage match!
While wimpy pubs like the “National Inquirer” and “US Magazine” dance around the subject of who’s the baddest girl in the entertainment industry (the former even has a poll on their Web site so they can totally gut out and let the readers decide!), at LasVegasWeekly.com we don’t believe in dodging bullets -- we catch ’em in our teeth! While Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears both flirt with rehab, self-destruction and insanity, we feel it’s time to settle the issue of baddest-spoiled-white-girl. Hence, at our own expense -- and after a little rummaging and begging -- we are offering to build a cage in the parking lot out back of our offices right here in gorgeous, broiling Las Vegas, where the two blonde knucklehead-ettes can party til they drop. We’ll supply all the booze, buzz clippers and megaphones they need to prove who really is the greatest embarrassment to American womanhood. So there you have it “ladies.” Let’s get ready to ruuuuuummmble!!!
[Note: We’d like to thank Joe’s Liquor Barn and the vagrant who gave up his chicken-wire home to make this event possible.]