My work as a Producer, Editor, Videographer and Animator.
Reporter Corey Kilgannon, Marcus Yam and myself chased calls over a police scanner for around 16hrs straight. What we found wasn’t what we expected.
Willie Chapman has 10 children in 3 states and he’s 40 years old. Professional boxing matches are still his main source of income and also the only way he can pay child support to see his kids. Because of his age and losing record, Nevada may not license him to fight anymore. Willie also shows signs of dementia, most likely caused from continued brain trauma caused by boxing.
Willie Chapman has 10 children in 3 states and he’s 40 years old. Professional boxing matches are still his main source of income and also the only way he can pay child support to see his kids. Because of his age and losing record, Nevada may not license him to fight anymore. Willie also shows signs of dementia, most likely caused from continued brain trauma caused by boxing.
Bounce is a raunchy, local hip-hop style that developed in the 1990s but is only now escaping its hometown with the help of some unlikely stars.
This year’s festival featured approx. 47,000 people from Las Vegas, the U.S. and the world, who all traveled to an ancient lakebed, known as “the playa” in the Northern Nevada Black Rock desert to build a temporary, all-encompassing community defined more by its spirit, art, and gifting than the normal constraints of daily life.
There is plenty of partying during the daytime hours of the six-day radical self-expressive event known as Burning Man — held annually in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. But the pulse picks up even more when the sun goes down on the barren playa, as nearly 50,000 burners really start to play.
The New Frontier was imploded Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007. The 65-year-old casino, the second property built on the famous Las Vegas Strip, was the venue where Elvis Presley made his Las Vegas debut in 1956. It also housed entertainers like Siegfried and Roy, and Wayne Newton; was once owned by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes; and featured one of the longest union strikes in U.S. history.
A growing number of coal-burning power plants around the nation have moved to reduce their air emissions, many of them are creating another problem: water pollution.
Julie Banderas Bidwell and Andrew Sansone met on the set of Fox News, where he would bring dates to watch a show being taped. Four and half years and several breakups later, they’re ready to wed.
Five miles south of Boulder City, right off US-95, you’ll find a dry lake bed. On Independence Day, the dry lake bed fills with campers, trucks, cars, families and fireworks. Lots of fireworks.
Tired of being chased by the cops for skating in unauthorized areas, some skateboarders and rollerbladers mounted a youth-led initiative to build a skate park in Athens. After securing funding from the Tony Hawk Foundation among other sources, the Athens Skate Park, an 18,000 square foot park, was built. Today, skating is alive and well in Athens County.
Athens soul is restless. Its stories lie beneath the bricks, waiting to be exposed. Precariously balanced on the tip of cosmopolitan Appalachia, its uninhibited subcultures test the bounds of predictability.
Longtime Las Vegas jazz musician Jimmy Mulidore reflects on the city’s rhythm and blues hey days, but also how corporate casinos, an ever-increasing amount of entertainment options, and lack of local support has stripped the Strip of one its greatest genres.