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The mayor joins KNPR's State of Nevada to discuss new development, the city's budget, homelessness and much more.

Through a collaboration with Vegas PBS, Nevada Public Radio brings you selected interviews from their Nevada Week In Person televised series on KNPR's State of Nevada.

Through a collaboration with Vegas PBS, Nevada Public Radio brings you selected interviews from their Nevada Week In Person televised series on KNPR's State of Nevada.

Today on AirTalk, we're bringing you up to date on all the latest information on the LA wildfires. We are joined by a team from KNPR in Nevada to talk about how wildfires might affect housing in L.A., Vegas, and beyond. We will also hear from both KNPR and LAist listeners about how they've been affected by the fires, so call in and share your story. Larry will have insurance experts along with Ricardo Lara, California’s Insurance Commissioner, to give insight on what might be next for the CA insurance market. Today on AirTalk: Catching up with LA wildfires (0:15) How will wildfires affect housing in LA, Vegas, and beyond? (15:53) KNPR and LAist listeners talk impacts of LA fires (31:56) What's next for the CA insurance market? (32:26)

Through a collaboration with Vegas PBS, Nevada Public Radio brings you selected interviews from their Nevada Week In Person televised series on KNPR's State of Nevada.

As you know, this radio station is pretty much all-talk, all hours of the day. But some of you may remember that in the 1980s and 1990s, KNPR was renowned for producing a Monday night jazz program.

Through a collaboration with Vegas PBS, Nevada Public Radio brings you selected interviews from their Nevada Week In Person televised series on KNPR's State of Nevada.

Through a collaboration with Vegas PBS, Nevada Public Radio brings you selected interviews from their Nevada Week In Person televised series on KNPR's State of Nevada.

In today's episode, Mia and Adrienne had the chance to chat with Tim Keim. Tim is an IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist, a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, a designation he earned from the California College of Ayurveda in 2020. Ayurveda also played an important role in his Crohn's cure. To increase his knowledge about herbal medicine, he took a two-year Professional Herbalism program from the International Integrative Educational Institute taught by founder K P Khalsa, former president of the American Herbalist Guild. In addition to yoga, Tim worked in the radio, television and voice-over industries for 30 years, including 21 years for NPR affiliates KNPR and WUNC. In 2001 Tim was awarded the New York Festival's World Gold Medal for Best Short documentary for his oral history coverage of the MGM Fire in Las Vegas in 1980.Click here to purchase Tim's book, The Dynamic DozenClick here to visit Tim's siteFollow Tim on LinkedInSend us a Text Message.Wanna be on the show? Click here to fill out our guest info form or drop us a email at yogachanged@gmail.comFollow us on TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@yogachangedFollow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/yogachanged/For more, go to https://howyogachangedmylife.comThe theme music for this episode, “Cenote Angelita”, was written and produced by Mar Abajo Rio AKA MAR Yoga Music. Dive deeper into this and other original yoga-inspired compositions by visiting bio.site/mcrworks. For the latest updates on upcoming events featuring his live music for yoga and meditation, be sure to follow @maryogamusic on Instagram.

Through a collaboration with Vegas PBS, Nevada Public Radio brings you selected interviews from their Nevada Week In Person televised series on KNPR's State of Nevada.

The metro Las Vegas area continues to be a popular destination for folks looking to leave Southern California. According to an analysis from the online real estate brokerage Redfin at the end of 2023, Vegas is the number two spot that folks using their services are looking to move -- and the majority of people looking to do so are coming from L.A. In 2020, according to Nevada DMV data reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal, 43 percent of out-of-state drivers licenses surrendered when obtaining a Nevada license were from California. So, why are so many people leaving the Golden State for the Silver State? Reasons vary depending on who you ask, but for many, it comes back to the cost of living -- home prices in California are rising and taxes are high compared to other states, while Nevada does not levy an income tax and it simply costs less to buy a house. The median price of a home in Nevada as of November 2023, according to Redfin, was $435,000. In California, Redfin says the median price was $793,700. This morning on AirTalk, we're partnering with fellow NPR member station KNPR in Las Vegas for a joint broadcast looking at the population pipeline between Southern California and Southern Nevada, and we want to hear from you! If you've recently moved between the two regions, what prompted you to relocate? What do you like and/or dislike about your new home? Join our live conversation by calling us at 866-893-5722 or by emailing us at atcomments@laist.com.

Why is Nevada such an attractive alternative to Southern California, and what kind of impact has the influx of new residents had on Las Vegas and surrounding communities?

Heidi Kyser joined Desert Companion, the premier city magazine that celebrates the pursuits, passions, and aspirations of Southern Nevadans, as a staff writer in January 2014. In 2018, she was promoted to senior writer and producer, working for both DC and State of Nevada. She produced KNPR's first podcast, the Regional Murrow Award-winning Native Nevada, in 2020. The following year, she returned her focus full-time to Desert Companion, becoming Deputy Editor, and became interim editor, replacing Andrew Kiraly, in July 2022. In her 20 years as a print and on-air journalist, Heidi's done it all, from news writing for a weekly business publication, to producing multimedia stories for an alternative weekly, winning a handful of Eddie, Maggie, and Nevada Press Association awards along the way. When she's not camping, hiking, riding her bike, or doing some other outdoor activity with her husband Peter, Heidi is most likely to be found on a yoga mat, being spotted by her 90-pound American Bulldog Buster. During episode 510 on how to make healthcare work better for all, Heidi discusses her experiences reporting on healthcare for Desert Companion. Plus, she shares how a diagnosis of Valley Fever, a fungal infection that can attack a person's nervous system, their most vital organs, and lead to cerebral meningitis (and, in extreme cases, death) “brought home the healthcare system shortcomings [she's] reported on for years.” More specifically, Heidi shares: Key changes in the healthcare system that could help medical providers AND patients How her personal experiences navigating her own healthcare motivated her reporting with Desert Companion Why self-advocacy is a vital patient competency Her hopes for how healthcare will evolve by 2033 Resources Mentioned in This Episode:   Learn more about Heidi Kyser and her work at Desert Companion Read 5 Big Ideas for Better Healthcare in Desert Companion Learn more about Desert Companion Connect with Heidi on Twitter Please leave a review and subscribe to Moxielicious® via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, or Spotify so you never miss an episode!

The Commercial Center debacle is the (erm) gift that just keeps giving: To celebrate the renaming of the adjacent Karen Ave. to Liberace Ave., the County helped organize a festival that ballooned to a party with 10,000 ticket holders when it was announced that legendary DJ Deadmau5 would be headlining. But the local artists who've worked to rebuild this“blighted” center weren't exactly pleased with how the party turned out — and when Commissioner Tick Segerblom accidentally hit reply-all, calling the tenants “ungrateful miscreants,” the response reached a fever pitch. Today on our Friday news roundup, co-host Dayvid Figler, newsletter editor Scott Dickensheets, and special guest Kim Foster talk about Commish Tick's apology on KNPR yesterday, the future of Commercial Center, and other fun stuff in the news: The arrival of Punk Rock Bowling, one of Las Vegas' longest-running music festivals, and a whole neighborhood in Henderson whose streets are named after Pokémon. If you could choose the street names in a new development, what would YOU name them after? Let us know by tagging us on social media (we're @CityCastVegas on Twitter and Instagram) or leaving us a text or a voicemail at 702-514-0719. Did you love hearing from our brilliant newsletter editor, Scott Dickensheets? Get some more of that Dickensheetsian wit in our morning newsletter here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're a KNPR supporter, you've probably noticed some changes in the last year.

About our guest ... Dr. Michael Green is an associate professor at UNLV andteaches history courses on nineteenth-century America and on Nevada and LasVegas, for the history department and the Honors College. He earned his B.A.and M.A. at UNLV and his Ph.D. at Columbia University.He has written and published a couple books on the Civil War era. Dr. Green isnow working on writing a history of the Great Basin in the twentieth century forthe University of Arizona Press and a history of organized crime in the twentiethcentury for Rowman & Littlefield. He also is editing A Companion to AbrahamLincoln as part of the Wiley-Blackwell series of historiography volumes.He edits the Wilbur S. Shepperson Series on Nevada History for the University ofNevada Press and is a member of the editorial board for the press. He is amember of the board of directors for The Mob Museum. He is the director ofPreserve Nevada and serves as executive director of the Pacific Coast Branch ofthe American Historical Association.Green is also active in writing and speaking in the community. He writes"Nevada Yesterdays" for Nevada Humanities and KNPR, and a column for thequarterly R-J Sunday magazine.

It's Friday (hooray!) which means that we're getting into this week's news: Today, Sonja, Dayvid, and Scott dig into the tough topic of the Chinatown shooting victim's lawsuit (and why he's going after a bail nonprofit), and the Red Rock fee hikes and who gets priced out of the outdoors. Plus, we take a look back at the notable Las Vegans who've passed on this year, and what they meant to our city. Find out more about Blairfest events here, and check out KNPR's feature on this musical tribute festival. And don't forget to send us your New Year's resolutions for the city! Give us a call or text at 702-514-0719 and let us know what's on your mind! Want more Vegas news for the holiday season and beyond? Make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter at lasvegas.citycast.fm/newsletter!  We're also on social media! Follow us @CityCastVegas on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you love good food, Chinatown is THE happening neighborhood in Las Vegas right now, says Lorraine Blanco Moss. Lorraine is not only a producer at KNPR and host of the podcast Exit Spring Mountain, she's also a professional chef who's cooked in high-end kitchens on the Strip — so you're going to want all of her insider knowledge on where to eat and what to order in Chinatown. Today, Vogue gets all the deets on where industry folks hang out, how to spot good dim sum, and why you shouldn't always trust the Yelp reviews. Where do you love to eat in Chinatown? Got any parking tips for us? Leave us a voicemail at 702-514-0719, or hit us up on Twitter @CityCastVegas. Bring the party to your inbox every morning at 6am: Make sure to sign up for our daily newsletter at lasvegas.citycast.fm/newsletter! And last but not least, here's the list of Chinatown restaurants that Lorraine mentioned in today's episode. We created a handy Google Map with all the restaurants for you, too! Edo Gastro Tapas & Wine Phở Kim Long J Karaoke Sushi House Goyemon Orchids Garden Xiao Long Dumplings Partage Sparrow & Wolf Half Bird Take It Easy Roasters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While it may manifest itself in different ways, there’s no denying that our planet faces a climate emergency of epic proportions, and we’re all living through it. For us in the West, there are a lot of similar themes -- drought, rising temperatures, increased risk of wildfire, air pollution, rising sea level, just to name a few. President Biden has made it a centerpiece of his new administration by reinstating a number of the environmental regulations that his predecessor rolled back, re-entering the U.S. into the global Paris Climate Accord and by rolling out a plan to address climate change that includes investing in renewable energy and re-entering global discussions on addressing the climate emergency.  Today on “AirTalk” from 11 a.m. to noon PT, KPCC’s Larry Mantle hosts an hour long, regional call-in show with NPR affiliates from California, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado to find out what “Living Through The Climate Emergency” means to the people who live in the American West and the reporters who cover them. Join the conversation by calling us at 866.893.5722 or tweet @AirTalk. Guests: Jacob Margolis, science reporter for KPCC/LAist in Pasadena, CA; he tweets @JacobMargolis Erik Anderson, environment reporter at KPBS, the NPR affiliate in San Diego, CA; he tweets @KPBSErik Ezra David Romero, climate reporter KQED, the NPR affiliate in San Francisco; he tweets @ezraromero Miguel Otárola, climate and environment reporter for Colorado Public Radio, in Denver, CO; he tweets @motarola123 Heidi Kyser, staff writer and producer for KNPR, the NPR member station in Las Vegas, and for Desert Companion, a magazine covering local issues and current events in Southern Nevada; she tweets @HeidiKyser

Kim Brophey, CDBC, CPDT-KA, FDM, is an applied ethologist and owner of The Dog Door Behavior Center in downtown Asheville, NC. Kim's 20-year commitment to Family Dog Mediation™ has been recognized internationally, nationally and locally, awarded the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT) Outstanding Trainer of the Year in 2009 and the Best Dog Trainer of WNC seven years in a row. Kim Brophey's work has been featured in: Psychology Today, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Pet MD, The Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI Central) Resource Library, HGTV Magazine, WLOS, The Asheville Citizen Times, The Family Dog podcast, Writers Voices podcast, Canine Conversations podcast, The Bitey End of the Dog podcast, Hair of the Dog podcast, Family Paws, Oh My Dog blog, NPR's All Things Considered and Here & Now, Steve Dale's Pet World and numerous other radio shows (BPR, WAMC, KPR, KAXE, Radio Pet Lady, Animal Radio, WCCO, WRKF, KNPR, KYMN, KMA) . She is a member of the International Society for Applied Ethology and the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT), a certified member and past board member of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC), a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) and past board member of the Asheville Humane Society. 2020 has proven to be one of the most critical professional years for Kim's work so far, as the leading expert in dog aggression, Mike Shikashio, secured Kim's participation in the popular Aggression in Dogs Master Course, Aggression in Dogs Conference (2020) and Bitey End of the Dog podcast. Website http://www.dogdoorcanineservices.com/ Applied Ethology & Family Dog Mediation Course - ONLINE in 2021!!!!! Online course preregistration. Wolf Park Applied Ethology & Family Dog Mediation Professional Certificate Course - The L.E.G.S.® of the 21st Century Dog" with Kim Brophey – Aug 04-08, 2021 TED talk - The Problem with Treating a Dog Like a Pet Book: Meet Your Dog (Amazon) If you like the show, please Subscribe, Rate, Review, and Share with other Dog Lovers! If you want to work with Susan, you can find her at www.doggydojopodcast.com/work-with-susan/ The music was written by Mac Light, find him at www.maclightsongwriter.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

I caught the KNPR interview of Amy Tarkanian. Someone please check on her.

Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump by a little under 1 percent in Nevada, with around 12,000 votes separating the candidates. Joe Shoenmann is the News Director for KNPR and speaks to Corin Dann from Nevada.

On today's episode of Mass Liberation radio, we are joined by Samantha Kutner, a research fellow at the Khalifa Ihler institute. Her research has been published in the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism Studies in the Hauge, Georgetown University's Journal of International Affairs, and referenced in Rolling Stone, Truth or Fiction, KNPR, Miami New Times, The Daily Beast, and Nation of Change. She works as an independent consultant as a trusted source of information, insight, and intel on emerging far-right threats. To learn more about her work visit proudboyswhisperer.com and follow her on Twitter: @ashkenaz89. We were also joined by Callum Ingram, Assistant Professor in the Political Science department at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). His research and teaching focus on the ethics of social and revolutionary movements, democratic theory, American political thought and environmental politics. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, "Dissent in a World of Structural Oppression."

This week Justin Favela calls Nevada Public Radio to chat with artist and designer Brent Holmes. After hearing Brent talk about the arts during this pandemic on KNPR's State of Nevada, Justin wanted to continue the conversation and get into how artists are responding to their new reality in isolation. Listen in as Brent shares his early memories of the Las Vegas strip, talks about his relationship with the desert, his thoughts on what we are going through at this moment and much, much more.  Show Notes: KNPR's State of Nevada Anthony Bondi Pandemic Drawings - Barrick Museum of Art Radar Adriana Chavez Heidi Rider Karla Lagunas Nevada Humanities Brent's Website Instagram - @bread_n_circus   The Art People Podcast is edited and produced by Justin Favela (@favyfav). Production assistance from Mindy Hale and music by Mike McDonald.  Follow us on social media @artpeoplepod and visit artpeoplepod.com for more episodes.

Enjoy part two of ITT's first live show of 2020 from Las Vegas, NV! Maria and Julio travel to Horn Theater at the College of Southern Nevada to discuss the POC vote. In the second part of this conversation, Bethany Khan, Director of Communications & Digital Strategy of Culinary Workers Union Local 226, joins the stage (along with Astrid Silva, Director of Dream Big Nevada and Ruben Navarrette Jr., Nationally Syndicated Columnist from Part 1) to discuss labor rights and the role of workers' unions in the upcoming Nevada caucus. Wondering about that mariachi band Bethany mentioned? Check out the exclusive performance we dropped on our feed as an ITT Bonus!ITT Staff Picks:Why Nevada's Culinary Union has issues with Bernie Sanders, from Vox.Check out Desert Companions series on rural health in Nevada, via KNPR.This opinion piece on why the Culinary Union is causing a diversion, via Nevada Current.Thanks to the Guinn Center who made this live show possible. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

(6-19-19) Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) told KNPR, the National Public Radio affiliate in Las Vegas, he wishes lawmakers would hold public hearings into what the military knows about UFOs. “They would be surprised how the American public would accept it,” Reid said on air.

Heather Lang Cassera—a poet, critic, literary editor, and educator—holds an MFA in Poetry with a Certificate in Literary Translation. In 2017 she was named Las Vegas' Best Local Writer or Poet by the readers of KNPR’s Desert Companion. Her poems have been published by or are forthcoming with The Normal School, North American Review, Pleiades, South Dakota Review, and other literary journals, and have been on exhibit in the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery. Heather curated Legs of Tumbleweeds, Wings of Lace, an anthology of literature by Nevada women, funded by the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts. She serves as World Literature Editor for The Literary Review, Faculty Adviser for 300 Days of Sun, and Co-Publisher for Tolsun Books. At Nevada State College, Heather teaches Composition, Professional Writing, World Literature, and more https://www.heatherlangwrites.com/ music: thelittlecomptonband.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/0j4U4PTrtqBEoRYVXIgtiU

It's time to talk Vegas! No, really, it's right there in the name of the show. So much to talk about, too. We were on KNPR, so you're going to hear some of that interview. Then, we delve into tons of Las Vegas and a listicle of the week (learn more about dice security measures than you ever wanted to know). We chat with an actual woman, and Genaro of Carlos'n Charlie's fame. It's a rolicking good time, if that's a thing.

In this episode of the podcast Reetin, Aroah, and PXAbstration talk about FedEx, Samsung, Amazon, Valve, and Mad Catz. Fedex Loves Flash: http://www.techspot.com/news/68656-fedex-offer-you-5-install-enable-flash.html Samsung Selling Galaxy Note 7: http://gizmodo.com/for-some-reason-samsung-might-sell-refurbished-version-1793676401 Amazon Fresh: http://www.techspot.com/news/68707-amazon-announces-amazonfresh-pickup-drive-grocery-service-delivers.html Valve Ripping off Artists: http://compete.kotaku.com/dota-2-skin-creators-say-valve-is-ripping-them-off-1793889486 Mad Catz Dead: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-31-peripherals-maker-mad-catz-files-for-bankruptcy Donate to KNPR: http://www.knpr.org/support Follow on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/reetin Follow on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/reetin Buy Stuff From Green Man Gaming: https://t.co/fhL17TWpi4 Subscribe on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/reetin Follow on Beam: https://beam.pro/Reetin https://play.google.com/music/m/I6jatgkdbr7mbmgkilzbwbo5li4?t=Reetin_Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reetin-podcast/id991683896?mt=2 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topgolf, a fun new venue at MGM Grand, has won our heart, so here we devote a full episode to exploring this amazing new attraction. We walk all four floors of Topgolf with Director of Marketing Dennis Lafontaine, including the five bars, two pools, live performance spaces and 108 hitting bays. We also share our KNPR interview about the just-announced new music venue from Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Madison Square Garden Co. Thanks for listening!

Steve Friess' exit interview on KNPR on 8/10/11 as he prepares to leave for a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan.

The economy might seem mired in recession in Southern Nevada but elsewhere the sick economy is creating a boom - the gold-mining counties have little or no unemployment, construction work for those who want it and the good times are rolling. This counter-cyclical boom is the other side of the bubble that burst in 2008. Steve Friess has been up in Eureka County to experience first hand what is happening with the healthiest part of our state economy.

TRIVIA: Go to VegasHappensHere.Com and TheStripPodcast.Com, look at the trivia photo and tell us, what Vegas couple got married at that hotel. If you know, e-mail TheStripPodcast@aol.com or call 702-997-3300 by Dec. 17. If we draw your correct answer, you pick from the prize list at TheStripPodcast.Com. Twyla Tharp has been that unusual New York dance figure who has long dabbled in popular culture, largely a result of being exposed as a kid to lots of movie musicals while working at her parents' drive-in theater in California. She studied dance with such legends as Martha Graham, then formed her own dance company in the mid-1960s and by 1973 was having the Joffrey Ballet do numbers to Beach Boys music. She choreographed several Hollywood films including the dancing horse scene from “Hair,” and in 2001 her Billy Joel-scored production “Movin' Out” became a Broadway smash. As you're about to hear, Tharp, a Tony winner and Kennedy Center Honoree, has long been friends with Steve Wynn and has long been enthralled by Frank Sinatra music, so she's excited to bring “Sinatra Dance With Me” to the Wynn Las Vegas was easy. It opened last weekend to an A-minus grade from Mike Weatherford and with blogger David McKee both liking it and wondering if it's too artsy for Vegas audiences.Tharp, however, believes Strip tourists will understand the show better than show-goers in New York.In Banter: A NYC adventure, a Cosmo adventure, a KNPR adventure, a Vdara adventure and more.Twitter: @TheStripPodcastBlog: VegasHappensHere.ComVoicemail: 702-997-3300Email: TheStripPodcast@aol.comVoicemail: 702-997-3300

After designing several of the most beautiful hotels in Las Vegas if not the world, what does Roger Thomas do for, no pun intended, an encore? Well, for one thing, this weekend the world's most famous movie stars will lounge in a green room of his design before appearing on stage at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood for the 82nd annual Academy Awards show. Does this star turn mean that Steve Wynn's gay alter ego is launching a new phase of his career? Maybe, but he's still got his hands full with projects for Wynn Resorts as varied as an luxury resort in Macau, a new beach club at Encore Las Vegas and a non-hotel casino in Philadelphia. Thomas discusses the Oscars, the Wynns, CityCenter and a whole lot more.Plus, Liberace's home is in foreclosure, Miles recounts his Carson City trek, Steve chats about the Grand Canyon Skywalk, some good and bad news on CityCenter.Email: TheStripPodcast@aol.comVoicemail: 702-997-3300Web: TheStripPodcast.ComBlog: VegasHappensHere.ComTwitter: @TheStripPodcast

[This episode first aired February 14, 2009.]Martha and Grant share a couple of favorite online sources for reading about language: Michael Quinion's World Wide Words newsletter and Arnold Zwicky's blog . Be sure to check out Zwicky's post, 'Dialect dangerous to cats' for a look at The Lion Cut If you're a Texan, you may be familiar with the phrases 'raise the window down' and 'help your plate.' If not, you'll find translations here.What's lurve got to do with it? A caller is puzzled by a greeting card with the phrase 'crazy cosmic lurve god.' Linguistics fans will fan themselves as Grant explains the roots of this expression with linguistic terms like the 'intrusive R' and epenthesis .Quiz Guy Greg Pliska has a puzzle called 'Weight Loss Program.' The object is to guess a pair of words from his clues. Remove a unit of weight from the first word in the pair, and you'll get the second word. Example: 'A Palm Beach County resort town whose name is Spanish for 'mouth of the rat,' and 'A timely benefit or blessing.' The answer weighs in at 2,000 pounds.If the 'subjunctive mood' were to disappear from English, would our language be the poorer for it? The hosts have strongly different opinions about it.Ever notice when people start to answer to a question with the words, ''Yeah, no'â'? Linguists have been studying this seemingly contradictory phrase for years. It may look like oxymoron, but it's not.'Ennead,' anyone? If you need a word for 'a group of nine things,' that one will do the trick.In this week's installment of 'Slang This!,' a member of the National Puzzlers League tries to separate the real slang terms from the fake ones. Try this one: If you have chutzpah, might you also be said to 'have the stitches' to get things done, or 'have the brass' to get things done? Here's another: Which of the following is a slang term for 'daybreak'? 'Rancid butter's melt'? Or 'sparrow's fart'?The cleverly named 'Buy n Large' corporation in the movie Wall-E has a caller wondering why we say use the phrase 'by and large' to mean 'generally speaking.' It has its origins on the high seas.Does the word 'swarthy' mean 'hairy'? A man has a running dispute with his wife the English teacher, who insists it does. Is she right?Cleave, dust, and screen are all 'words that can mean the opposite of themselves.' You can cleave to a belief, meaning to 'adhere closely,' but you can also separate things by cleaving them. Words that mean the opposite of themselves go by many different names, including 'contranyms,' 'contronyms,' 'auto-antonyms,' and 'Janus words.' Lists of such words:http://people.csail.mit.edu/seth/misc/selfantonyms.htmlhttp://polysemania.blogspot.com/2007/03/janus-words.htmlhttp://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/4264Martha talks about 'enantiodromia,' which is 'the process by which something becomes its opposite,' particularly when an individual or community adopts beliefs antithetical to beliefs they held earlier.--Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Site: http://waywordradio.org.Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio

Special coverage of the May 22, 2009 opening of the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem. For Steve's NYT piece and KNPR appearance as well as lots of photos, search "sands" at VegasHappensHere.Com. Web: TheStripPodcast.Com E-mail: TheStripPodcast@aol.com Voicemail: 206-424-4737

On May 12th, 2009, the NTSB began a three-day public hearing about its ongoing investigation into the fatal February 2009 crash of a Continental Connection airliner in Buffalo, NY. Among the issues that came up were the possible roles of crew fatigue and crew training in the accident. During the last day of the hearing, noted aviation consultant Mike Boyd and I sat down with host Dave Berns of the "State of Nevada" program on KNPR radio in Las Vegas.

Steve appears on KNPR to rap with host Dave Berns and R-J columnist Doug Elfman on May 15, 2009. Email: TheStripPodcast@aol.com Web: TheStripPodcast.com Blog: VegasHappensHere.Com Voicemail: 206-424-4737

Steve appeared with the R-J's Doug Elfman for an hour on KNPR's State of Nevada with host Dave Berns. Fun, wide-ranging discussion.

Steve appeared on KNPR's State of Nevada on March 19 to chat about all things Vegas entertainment and business. Fun stuff.

In this episode of 'Along the Way with David Bert' we find ourselves in Ely Nevada on the 4th of July. This is the epitome of a small town celebration, but make no mistake... everyone is welcome. (this episode was originally broadcast on KNPR, Nevada Public Radio)

This is a clip form KNPR's State of Nevada hosted by Dave Berns in which James called during a discussion of economic problems this morning to report that half the employees at Top of the World restaurant at Stratosphere were told  they're going part-time indefinitely.  

Hear the attached mock KNPR book review of Brook D. Simpson's America's Civil War scripted and produced by Kristin Palen as part of this grant module.

Audio Introduction to the ModuleThis podcast was developed as part of an elementary-level Clark County School District Teaching American History Grant. The three-year grant will fund six modules per year with each module focusing on a different era of American history and a different pedagogical theme. This podcast focuses on the the Civil War and Reconstruction and Digital Storytelling. Participants in the grant are third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers in Clark County (the greater Las Vegas area), Nevada. Teaching scholars include Drs. Michael Green and Deanna Beachley of the College of Southern Nevada and Dr. Christy Keeler of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. As part of this five week module, teachers meet on campus on two occasions and the remainder of their work is completed online. The posts appearing hare also available via the iTunes podcast: “Civil War and Digital Storytelling” (http://feeds.feedburner.com/CivilWarAndDigitalStorytelling).During this module, teacher participants will complete three projects:Teachers will use the R-A-F-T (Role-Audience-Format-Topic) strategy, video iPods, and digital voice recorders to record a book review of Brooks Simpson's America's Civil War. The review will be a simulated KNPR broadcast.Teachers will develop their own R-A-F-T strategy projects relating to the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. They may work alone, collaboratively with other teachers, or they may submit work their students develop as part of a classroom unit on the Civil War era. The final project must included edited audio features such as the inclusion of music and voice modulation.Teachers must review and evaluate digital stories created and posted by their colleagues. The evaluations must attend to content as well as digital storytelling elements.