Home 2019

Yearly Archives: 2019

Smoking in the LGBTQ community is nearly 70 percent higher, women are more likely...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD may not roll easily off your tongue, but it is the third leading cause of death in the...

As We See It: Nevada grows on the backs of low income wage earners

For this month’s column, I’m going to plagiarize much of it from Hugh Jackson, editor of the Nevada Current. This is an online, daily...

Kitty Litter: Calling all heifers, learn the song!

Calling all heifers to the new year. I’m not going to mention names but you know who you are. I’m calling your asses out...

Make life a journey, not a guilt trip

By JAMES MALTESE Special to the Las Vegas Spectrum Life is a Journey, not a Guilt Trip! That was the slogan from my former LGBTQ Christian...

Top ten OUT and abOUT travel destinations

MAY be I will? April Showers have brought May flowers. Did you get to Palm Springs via the high desert or Joshua Tree? Even...

Coping with eating disorders

By Bri Hayes Weight. Weight loss. How many times a day do you think about it? If you’re confident and comfortable in your body, perhaps...

Q&A: Talking with Michele Rothstein, owner of Balloons With a Twist, on being a...

Michele Rothstein owns Ballons With a Twist. She has lived in Las Vegas for 25 years and has been a longtime LGBTQ ally. Spectrum...

Second annual Vegas Women’s Fest was a hit; musical guests Patti Powers, Riyah B.,...

Hundreds of women (and men!) turned out for the second annual Vegas Women’s Fest held at The Center last month. Kicking off the event...

Kitty Litter: Garage celebrates 8; QuadZ parties at 5

Hello March, were did you go…? April showers brings May fl owers! Have you seen the super bloom in the California desert? Looks like...

The Rock Report: April Fools! From the Merry Prankster

The old time celebrities who were foolish enough to think of themselves as invincible, are now like faded fools, in our new found world...