I’m very pleased that the contentious New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun is finally complete and out of the way – at least the substantive bulk of it; there has been talk of a fourth and final segment when we are ready to pull up stakes and leave Las Vegas for Los Angeles but I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The New Homeless’
The Myth of the Starving Artist
Posted: November 28, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste Colore, Sunday Literary SupplementTags: creative sector, Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell, Great Recession, Las Vegas Sun, Los Angeles, Otis Report, Rodger Jacobs, The New Homeless, writers, writing
If you are a frequent reader of this blog and my work elsewhere, chances are pretty good that you are personally acquainted with someone who makes their living in the creative sector: writers, painters, commercial and graphic artists, actors, dancers, musicians of all stripe, architects, sculptors; in short, anyone who earns a living from [...]
Journaliste Sombre
Posted: November 26, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste ColoreTags: homeless, Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Sun, Rodger Jacobs, The Great Recession, The New Homeless
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” ~~~ Abraham Lincoln “The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.” ~~~ Herbert Samuel SECOND UPDATE BELOW: 11/27/10, 7:47 PM The right turn of a phrase, short and succinct, can convey more than a thousand [...]
Updates Forthcoming …
Posted: November 16, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas SunTags: Inspector Maigret, Katie Euphrat, Las Vegas Sun, Rodger Jacobs, The New Homeless
I have been putting the finishing touches on the third and final installment of my New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun and on Wednesday I meet again with Katie Euphrat, video documentarian for the newspaper (who now has a web presence here), for one more segment to accompany my article. I shall return [...]
The New Fascism
Posted: October 26, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Breakdown on Paradise Road, Las Vegas Sun, Pop MattersTags: Charlie Sheen, fascism, Head Stomping and the Road to Fascism, Joe Miller, Journal of Modern History, Las Vegas Sun, moveon.org, Pop Matters, Rand Paul, Rob Horning, Robert Paxton, Sara Robinson, The New Homeless
“This is the sign we were waiting for—the one that tells us that yes, kids: we are there now. America’s conservative elites have openly thrown in with the country’s legions of discontented far right thugs. They have explicitly deputized them and empowered them to act as their enforcement arm on America’s streets, sanctioning the physical [...]
