Here is the link to last Friday’s State Of Nevada program, featuring the all-seeing-and-all-knowing-uber-prescient-master-of-the-airwaves ELV (& Max Jacobson) on News 88.9 FM KNPR – Nevada Public Radio.
Stick around til the end of the show and you’ll hear to me ‘n Max tip toe our way around the proper pronunciation of fuh-kim-long, so as not to offend the FCC censors…or Flo Rogers.
This Friday morning, September 25, 2009…a date which will live in infamy…. begins what ELV and Slapsy Maxy Jacobson hope will be a long and fruitful run on News 88.9 FM KNPR’s State Of Nevada.
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“The critic, if he is to justify his existence, should endeavor to discipline his personal prejudices and cranks…and compose his differences with as many of his fellows as possible, in the common pursuit of true judgment.” – T.S. Eliot
“A good critic is one who tells of his own soul’s adventures among the masterpieces.” – Anatole France
“The duty of a critic is to educate, not pander to the lowest common denominator.” – ELV
We at ELV haven’t had a whole lot of respect for GMG ever since they canned us over eight years ago (as the first restaurant critic for both Las Vegas Weekly and Las Vegas Life magazines) for being “too critical.” (Translation: we value advertising more than integrity, and our publisher doesn’t want to take any heat for whatever some pesky critic has to say.)
Now we’ve just heard that a new round of layoffs has claimed uber-food writer Max Jacobson, leaving Las Vegas with a serious hole in the knowledgeable foodie department.
Continue reading “This Just In: Greenspun Media Group Lays Off Veteran Food Writer”