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  • Guns

    Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

    When a Weekly reporter hits a gun show and a gay-rights rally in a single day it’s like a lesson in American history unfolding in front of her: fear and war, fear and love.

  • Environment

    Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008

    Green is such a loaded word now. Do you mean green good, like ecologically sound and sustainable? Or green bad, like rolling hills of lush turf watered by sprinklers that suck from Lake Mead?

  • Politics

    Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008

    If Dina Titus and Jon Porter never run against each other again it will be a pleasant hereafter.

  • Casino

    Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008

    There’s no need to be talking about the possibility of bankruptcies on the Strip—this city is a brand: “Vegas.” What else should the vice president of public affairs at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority say?

  • Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008

    On an otherwise glorious election night: California, Arizona and Florida passed constitutional amendments against gay marriage. How's that for a night of civil rights history?

  • Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008

    The sun is setting and the doorbell rings. "We voted," I say. No time for chitchat, there's only a couple of hours left.

  • Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008

    What else is America, if not ballot casting and media overkill? That sums it up. And it's a nutshell kind of day. By the end of it, we should have the future of the American experiment worked out.

  • 2008 Presidential Election

    Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

    If you don’t think about it at all, it makes perfect sense. One minute you’re eating Kettle Korn outside the Henderson Pavilion, waiting for Sarah Palin with a couple of racist suburbanites (“Those people don’t vote anyway,” says one).

  • Literature

    Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

    Darkness is so many things: It’s where the imagination is free, it’s where mysteries hide, where dreams rule, it’s what allows us to see the stars.

  • A&E

    Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

    “Don’t you want someone smarter than me to be president?” the Divine Miss M asked a crowd at Krave Monday evening.

  • Intersection

    Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

    Having tried the Bush Administration, credit-card kiting, Wall Street, war, vitriolic campaigning, God, art, aliens, naked pool parties, construction projects, bankruptcy, lap dances, alcohol, prescription pills, sleeping excessively or not at all and TV—lots and lots of TV—and still come up empty, we’re sitting in UNLV’s Barrick Museum auditorium on a Thursday night to hear from a philosopher.

  • Art

    Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

    Very fine works on paper. Smaller sculptures. Prints. Fifty such works by notable contemporary artists were gifted to the Las Vegas Art Museum this week.

  • Economy

    Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008

    It’s a rice-and-beans season—or, as The Colbert Report summarizes it, there’s a “clusterfuck at the poor house.”

  • Baseball

    Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

    Such a lackluster reception for the new union! Between two such fine cities! When it was announced, begrudgingly, that the Las Vegas 51s would be paired with the Toronto Blue Jays as their Triple-A baseball team, officials on both sides shrugged.

  • Religion

    Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

    Mark your calendars. In February of 2009, religious people who dare explore the (missing) link between science and God will participate in a worldwide event: Evolution Weekend.

  • Art

    Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

    When poet Rosa Mendoza took the mic, the place went wild. It was time to build bridges, connect the community, express feelings. The kind of thing Vegas has needed forever, the story goes.

  • Nevada

    Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008

    Congressman Jon Porter’s ad on his energy policies starts off with the bespectacled candidate for re-election standing in front of long rows of solar panels at Nevada Solar One: “Solar energy: inexpensive, and safe for the environment. And best of all, there’s plenty of it. I’m Jon Porter, and we need a balanced approach to solve our energy crisis. That’s why I helped build the world’s third-largest solar facility right here in Nevada.”

  • Features

    Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

    It’s not about you or me, thank God, and keep that in mind. It’s not about the cost of staying alive or the dashing Mr. Manilow or spiders with fangs.

  • Health

    Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008

    So many things could come to mind when someone is about to stick a needle into your face to purposefully partially paralyze you. Among them, thanks to this year’s Endoscopy Center syringe-sharing fiasco, should be this: Is this qualified medical professional exercising prudent single-patient-use procedures?

  • Intersection

    Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008

    A familiar Nevada voice reaches out from a TV ad and grabs you by the throat: “People ask me why, after 30 years in Las Vegas, I still have an accent,” says Sen. Dina Titus in a thick Georgia drawl.

  • Literature

    Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008

    Maybe there’s something unseemly about admiring, first and foremost, the colorful prose in a book whose subject matter is 9/11.

  • Intersection

    Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008

    The scene: A new eco-adventure attraction, Bootleg Canyon Flightlines. Cable strung over hills in Boulder City. Foolish reporter in a harness, preparing to fly down a vertical drop of 1,000 feet at 40 mph, without a helmet.

  • Issues

    Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008

    This whole planes-falling-out-of-the-sky thing turns out to be about a benevolent God, you know. Driving toward the scene of the second airplane accident last week, I have the instinctive reaction to duck when a twin-engine buzzes in over me toward that airport, that airport—God!

  • Intersection

    Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008

    I am not a Trekkie or a Star Wars buff, and this is an important disclaimer, because I don’t totally get it. But I love the memorabilia—it speaks to the consumer in anybody, the toy-lover.

  • Intersection

    Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

    The speed at which traffic buzzes by these three acres of grass and shade is mesmerizing. Huntridge Circle Park is an island between north- and southbound traffic on Maryland Parkway, just south of Charleston—a problem spot lingering in the middle of the city’s rapid growth. Reports of area break-ins are up, and nearby shop-owners complain that homeless people have been routinely defecating on their properties.

  • Politics

    Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

    We’ve innocently come to revel in our hatred of the U.S. president, and the Vegas sun is trying to kill us. The 28-ton blue bus with an enormous George Bush face on the side is parked off of Sunset Road, but the doors to its promising insides—“exhibits on how disastrous Bush/Conservative policies are”—aren’t open yet.

  • LV Weekly

    Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

    Judge Halverson, 50, is back for this fifth day of a judicial disciplinary hearing meant to determine whether she is fit to keep her judgeship, from which she was suspended more than a year ago after accusations from court insiders that she fell asleep on the bench, that she made her bailiff rub her feet, that she spoke to the jury against court rules.

  • Government

    Thursday, July 31, 2008

    When she’s finished reading the storybook aloud, she tells the squirming kids, “I’m Catherine, and I’m your attorney general.” They blink, mostly, and wait.

  • Dining

    Thursday, July 24, 2008

    What really hurts in a near-depression/recession/national tragedy is when cherished neighborhood coffeehouses are affected. Upon hearing the death knell for five—five—of my favorite local Starbucks, I set out to enjoy them all one last time before they close on July 27, and to chronicle them here, so that they’re etched in history.

  • Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

    Thursday, July 24, 2008

    All of these things kept coming back to him: the 3-year-old girl’s crushed eye socket, the mask-like face of a woman who had been run over by a truck, her brain laying several feet away on the curb, the dead babies, the sodomized kids, the suicides.

  • Tuesday, June 10, 2008