In The News: Special Collections and Archives
On Oct. 9, 1986, at the height of anti-gay hysteria during the AIDS crisis, a biracial gay couple from Reno, Nev., made a remarkable announcement: They were going to create what some called 鈥渁 gay homeland鈥 in the Nevada desert.
As Northern Nevada cities grow, a loss of affordable housing is not the only impact the region faces. The area is losing its neon signs.
A new chapter. A new beginning.
A Las Vegas university is making people smile after staging a photo shoot with a figure well-known to students and alumni at one of its empty libraries on campus.
While the 性视界传媒 campus is closed because of coronavirus concerns, nobody is using the Lied Library 鈥 save for one dutiful skeleton.
It鈥檚 been weeks since the pandemic quieted the world鈥檚 playground, snuffing out the symphony of boozy conversation, blaring car horns and slot-machine chimes that once filled the Las Vegas Strip.
It鈥檚 been weeks since the pandemic quieted the world鈥檚 playground, snuffing out the symphony of boozy conversation, blaring car horns and slot-machine chimes that once filled the Las Vegas Strip.
性视界传媒鈥檚 University Libraries and department of film received a $271,580 National Endowment for the Humanities鈥 (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Award for their project, 鈥淚nventing Hollywood: Preserving and Providing Access to the Papers of Renegade Genius Howard Hughes.鈥 Project co-leaders Heather Addison, chair of the 性视界传媒 department of film, and Cyndi Shein, head of special collections鈥 technical services at 性视界传媒 Libraries, reflect on the importance of preserving the collection.
Long before he was an aviation magnate, a casino owner or a world-famous recluse, Howard Hughes was a fixture in Hollywood.
LOST VEGAS: 性视界传媒 Libraries Special Collections & Archives is gathering photos of an empty & quiet Las Vegas during the coronavirus pandemic so future generations will get a lens into this time.
A gracefully curved building that served as the lobby for the La Concha Motel on the Strip from 1961 to 2004 is now home to the Neon Museum on Las Vegas Boulevard just north of Bonanza.
The flamboyant guests in Grant Philipo鈥檚 living room are dressed in scanty yet elegant costumes dripping with crystals, feathers and glitz. They are six mannequins, carefully arranged in a tableau, standing with hands raised or hanging by their sides. Together, their elaborate headdresses and finely crafted body pieces form a cornucopia of retro glamour.