Beneath the Neon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beneath the Neon write by Matthew O'Brien. This book was released on 2007-03-07. Beneath the Neon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.
Dark Days, Bright Nights
Dark Days, Bright Nights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Days, Bright Nights write by Matthew O'Brien. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Dark Days, Bright Nights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A vivid and enlightening oral account of homelessness in the Las Vegas storm drains and the hard work of re-entering mainstream society. Are you aware that hundreds of people live underground in the flood channels of Las Vegas? Few people were until Matthew O'Brien grabbed a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton for protection and explored the storm-drain system in depth. This research resulted in his landmark book Beneath the Neon. Now the drains have been covered by CNN, Fox News, NPR, Dr. Phil, the New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and many other media outlets. They have even found their way on to popular TV shows, including CSI, Criminal Minds, and into mainstream movies. But the fact that several of these drug- and gambling-addicted tunnel dwellers have clawed their way out of the drains and turned around their lives has received far less attention. Dark Days, Bright Nights shares their harrowing stories and provides a unique perspective on one of America's most fascinating cities. It also paints a larger picture of homelessness and recovery in America. These stories are the happy (though not Hollywood) ending to the infamous tunnel tale. The narrative is complemented by bios and stark, black-and-white images of the survivors, putting a scarred, knowing face to the unblinkingly honest accounts.
My Week at the Blue Angel
My Week at the Blue Angel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Week at the Blue Angel write by Matthew O'Brien. This book was released on 2011-03. My Week at the Blue Angel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A savage journey into the heart of Hunter S. Thompson's Las Vegas with the Good Doctor as tour guide. A Lord-of-the-Rings-like adventure in the city's underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont Street. The stories in My Week at the Blue Angel aren't about Steve Wynn, Cirque du Soleil, or how to play poker, and they aren't set in Caesars Palace, XS Nightclub, or a 2,000-seat showroom. They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless, and they're set under Caesars Palace and in trailer parks and weekly motels. In this creative nonfiction collection, Matthew O'Brien--author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas--and veteran photographer Bill Hughes show a side of the city rarely seen. A side beyond the neon lights, themed facades, and motel-room doors. A side beyond the barbwire fences, No Trespassing signs, and midnight shadows.
The Mole People
The Mole People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mole People write by Jennifer Toth. This book was released on 1995-10-01. The Mole People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City.
Neon Metropolis
Neon Metropolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Neon Metropolis write by Hal Rothman. This book was released on 2015-10-15. Neon Metropolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Praise for the Previous Edition (0 415 92612 2): ...lively and provocative...this book will teach you something startling on nearly every page... --The New York Times Book Review Like the Emerald City, Las Vegas glitters brightly in the vast Nevada desert, a haven for refugees from ordinary America. A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to mirror its success and huge, respectable corporations like Coca-Cola invest in a piece of the pie, the very traits that have ostracized Las Vegas in the past -- hedonism, money worship, and permissiveness -- have today made it America's fastest growing urban center. From the gambling-driven, mob-run Sin City of the 1940s to the corporatization of the Strip as a respectable family entertainment center after the 1970s, Las Vegas has shown incredible economic resilience and adaptability. The first full account of America's new dream capital, Neon Metropolis brilliantly shows how Las Vegas gambled on the post-industrial service economy well before the rest of the country knew it was coming, and won.
