west x @westxjuhl.bsky.social “The poet stands in awe of life and the philosopher penetrates it and I do both”
- John Rechy
journalist, organizer & advocate
they/them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
📍Las Vegas
Marie Valencia @mysticherbsshop.bsky.social Queer-Chicana full-time Artist,Fortune Teller and Muse in Vegas 🔮🎨🌈🇲🇽
Graham @mynameisgraham.bsky.social Music junky, wrasslin’ nerd, purveyor of puns. Ladies Night sign guy and husband to AEW 💋KISS💋 sign girl.
Matthew Couper @matthew-couper.bsky.social Artist, USA. www.mattcouper.com
Jen Land @jenkris.bsky.social senior director of strategic communications | champion of cheese
@fletch-f-fletch.bsky.social @fletch-f-fletch.bsky.social 
Kerry Dunn @kerryanndunn.bsky.social Avid reader. Janeite. Vinyl enthusiast. Bird nerd. Vegas native.
Billyocracy @billyocracy.bsky.social LA-based baker, hiker, politico, urbanist. 
@justinrandall.bsky.social @justinrandall.bsky.social 
Burnt Reynolds @spaciousbuttcheeks.bsky.social Get depressed with the best!
Richard May 🏳️🌈🎮🌿 @ralistelvanni.bsky.social A level 40 Gay Guy living in Vegas! Husband 👨❤️👨 Dog dad to three pups 🐶🐶🐶 Gaymer 🎮🏳️🌈 Bookworm 📖 Vegan 🌱
Starting cancer treatment, every little bit helps! 💕
Venmo: @Richard-Lee-May
@maria-phelan.bsky.social @maria-phelan.bsky.social 
GC Records @gcrecords.com Limited edition entertainment since 1999.
https://www.gcrecords.com
Casey Harrison @casey-harrison.bsky.social Journalist based in Las Vegas. Not related to the pawn shop guys.
Jerry Misko @miskoart.bsky.social Painter in Las Vegas
@jaimzromero.bsky.social @jaimzromero.bsky.social 
Todd Martens @toddmartens.bsky.social Columnist for LA Times | I cover video games, immersive entertainment & theme parks. | I take a lot bad pics of Disneyland | I also like cats | Todd.martens@latimes.com
@lesliekindawrites.bsky.social @lesliekindawrites.bsky.social My name is Leslie. Sometimes I write things. Vegas-bred, Chicago-living.
@brianavenetta.bsky.social @brianavenetta.bsky.social 
Evan DeSimone @mediaevan.bsky.social Media Writer/Complainer
Previously: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
Currently: https://mediahappyhour.substack.com/
Neon Reverb @neonreverb.bsky.social #Downtown #LasVegas ‘s original #MusicFestival! Connecting the local and (inter)national music scenes from 2008-13, 2016-18, and maybe again soon?... Currently trying to spotlight local music and culture.
http://www.neonreverb.com
Tick Segerblom @tsegerblom.bsky.social Clark County Commissioner
Commissioner Tick Segerblom @commishtick.bsky.social Official account for Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom | X/Instagram: @CommishTick | RTs and likes ≠ endorsements | 🔗: https://linktr.ee/tsegerblom
@3kingvisions @3kingvisions.bsky.social I’m a librarian, storyteller, and I love giving back to my community!! LEADERS OF THE NEW COOL!
James Woodbridge @jawoodbridge.bsky.social Prof. of @UNLVPhilosophy.bsky.social at @UNLV.edu. @FSAP-UNLV.bsky.social member. Companion to Piper! @NeonReverb.bsky.social #MusicFest co-founder. #DTLV resident.
[RIP Baxter 10/2/10 - 3/9/26
RIP Rufus 1/15/09 - 10/24/24]
https://jwood.faculty.unlv.edu
Lance L Smith @lancesmithart.bsky.social Lance L. Smith (They/Them🏳️⚧️) is a Joan Mitchell Fellowship nominated multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, teacher, based in Las Vegas, NV.
Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
John Katsilometes @johnnykats.bsky.social Daily columnist •Multimedia journalist • LVRJ • Chronicler • Scenester• Groover
Shelbie Swartz @shelbieswartz.bsky.social mom | nevadan | probably online
Mathilda Miller, MPPA @mathildamiller.bsky.social Kānaka Maoli
Public Affairs Director, NVAN
Amber Falgout @falgoutamber.bsky.social 
tabitha_mueller @tabithamueller.bsky.social capital bureau chief and government accountability reporter for The Nevada Independent |
Middlebury College alum | tabitha@thenvindy.com | dms open | she/her
Anjeanette Damon @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social News gatherer, mountain climber, coffee drinker. Southwest reporter at ProPublica. Send tips! Signal: 775-303-8857.
Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social Law prof in Las Vegas | Bagel expert, with a sub-specialty in pickles | UNLV Immigration Clinic Director | Private chef to my kids | Mets fan | Speaking for myself only | https://www.michaelgkagan.com | https://behindtheborder.substack.com
Patrick Donnelly @bitterwaterblue.bsky.social Coming to you from a remote outpost on the edge of Death Valley. Great Basin director, Center for Biological Diversity & CBD Action Fund. Groundwater and endemic species. "Reviled for Refusal to Stick to Decorum."
http://linktr.ee/bitterwaterblue
@DanaGentryLV @danagentrylv.bsky.social Dana Resnick Gentry. Native Las Vegan. Senior Reporter for NevadaCurrent.com. Mom, grandma, and cat lady. Tips? Dana@nevadacurrent.com
The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com Your State. Your News. Your Voice. | We are a nonprofit news outlet reporting on Nevada politics, policy and people since 2017 | ideas@thenvindy.com
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Nevada Public Radio (KNPR) @knpr.org We are NPR for Nevada.
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✍️ Desert Companion magazine
🔗 knpr.org + desertcompanion.com
Howard Stutz @howardstutz.thenvindy.com Senior reporter for The Nevada Independent covering the casino gaming industry, tourism, sports business and cannabis in Nevada. howard@thenvindy.com
Kim Foster @kiminthewest.bsky.social Social scientist. James Beard Award-winning author. Book: The Meth Lunches (St. Martin's Press.) Newsletter: KimFoster.substack.com. Las Vegas, Nevada. 
Matt Leland Giles @mattlelandgiles.bsky.social 
Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social PhD student @ UC Berkeley | Writer and researcher focused on groundwater policy and how communities relate to water | Working on a book about water in the Great Basin (Island Press) | invisiblewaters.substack.com 🏔🏜
Joshua Chévere Cohen @joshuacheverecohen.bsky.social MA in Literary Studies student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Research focuses include Keats, Shelley, Romanticism, Romantic temporality and craft. Also: fencer, abstract guitarist, semi-retired mime, cat lover, chronically injured.
Sondra Cosgrove @sondracosgrove.bsky.social Long-time Las Vegan
History Professor College of Southern Nevada
Executive Director Vote Nevada
Civics Queen (yes there is a crown)
https://vote-nevada-blog.org/
Wendy Colborne @wendycolborne.bsky.social Union communicator. Hillsdale College grad (where I learned my forever enemies). Pan. Joyful partner of @DavidColborne. Trans rights are human rights. Nazi punks fuck off.
Athar Haseebullah, Esq. @atharesq.bsky.social Pronounced Uh-tar | Executive Director of ACLU of Nevada| HU/HUSL ❤️💙 | Personal Page | Opinions are Mine and Likes are not Endorsements
Sarah O’Connell EAT MORE ART @eatmoreart.bsky.social Woman Mother Wife. Director Producer Professor. Citizen Artist Entrepreneur.
Artistic Director, The Asylum Theatre. Creative Producer, Axislights Inc. Founder Eat More Art Vegas.
Laura @lauragalore.bsky.social Oof.
Camalot Todd @camalottodd.bsky.social comms & creative consultant @camalot.co |writer | once called the female Paul Rudd | if you let them shenan once they’ll shenanigan | 🏳️🌈|♥️K.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/camalottodd
Nevada Current @nevadacurrent.com A nonprofit online source of political and policy news and commentary. We cover how policies, institutions and systems make life harder for Nevadans than it needs to be, and we explore what it takes to fix them. https://nevadacurrent.com
David Colborne @davidcolborne.bsky.social Opinion columnist for The Nevada Independent. Your home is where your cat lives. @wendycolborne.bsky.social wife guy. Manages IT people on the side (full time).
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Piecing It Together Podcast / David Rosen @piecingpod.bsky.social I'm David Rosen. I make music. I host the Piecing It Together Podcast. I produce the Awesome Movie Year Podcast. I love my pets. And pizza. And my bear... Piecingpod.com & Bydavidrosen.com 🧩
Barb Brents @bgbrents.bsky.social UNLV Soc Prof | #SexWork research | Co-auth 'Paying for Sex', 'State of Sex' (NV brothels), 'Voicing Consent', co-ed 'Sex Work Today' | Advocate for #evidence-based policy, so read those & more dammit! | Contribute - swaidvegas.org thecupcakegirls.org
Shahab @shahabzargari.net Hi! I make stuff others enjoy consuming. VIEWS ARE MY OWN.
Bio site!: https://bio.site/shahab
Our films: www.thinkspeak.org
Our label: @gcrecords.com
Cameron Why Obscura @cameron-obscura.bsky.social "Enticing...but not vulgar." - Fluff LeCoque
🗿🍹🌈 #Masc4MaiTais™ he/him/his
Geoff Schumacher @geoffschumacher.bsky.social Writer, editor, museum professional in Las Vegas
Mike Weatherford @driveinmike.bsky.social Freelance journalist long of Vegas, nowadays mostly shilling the amazing comic-book project Drive-in Kings of 1977
John Hay @johnhay.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNLV
https://professorhay.com
Jimmy Boegle @jboegle.bsky.social Publisher of the Coachella Valley Independent and Reno News & Review. Dodger fan. Occasional curmudgeon. He/him.
Sam Morris @sampix.bsky.social Husband, father, director of photography at the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Hugh Jackson @jhughjackson.bsky.social Editor, https://nevadacurrent.com/
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Kris Vagner @krisvagner.bsky.social Managing Editor of Reno News & Review
https://renonr.com
Editor/Publisher of Double Scoop, Nevada'a visual arts publication
https://doublescoop.art
Cat herder to the stars
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Heidi @heidisky.bsky.social I was off the grid when you messaged. What's up?
Michael (MJ) Lyle @mjlyle.bsky.social Journalist at NevadaCurrent.com, part of the statesnewsroom.com network.
I report on homelessness, housing, criminal justice, and state and local government. A queer, Black writer trying to make the world better. (he/him)
Josh Bell @signalbleed.bsky.social Freelance writer and film/TV critic at KTNV, Tom's Guide, Crooked Marquee, The Inlander, Inverse, Desert Companion, Awesome Movie Year, and more. For hire: signalbleed@gmail.com
April Corbin Girnus @aprilcore.bsky.social 📰 deputy editor @nevadacurrent.com 🔍 covering nevada state politics, policy, labor, economy, education & more 🎰 based in las vegas ✏️ write me: april@nevadacurrent.com
OyVegas @oyvegas.bsky.social Host of lasvegas.citycast.fm. Subscribe to our free newsletter and listen to the daily, 22 min podcast for fresh and unique Las Vegas discussions. The guests are great.
Geoff Carter @mostlywrite.bsky.social Longtime, award-yeeting Las Vegas Weekly journalist with a small yet exceedingly supportive following. Boricua, but my Spanish is terrible.
https://lasvegasweekly.com/staff/geoff-carter/
Tod Goldberg @todgoldberg.bsky.social Crooks. Gangsters. Rabbis. Burned spies. Noir holidays.
todgoldberg.com