| ROAD WARRIOR: Monorail extension going nowhere fast
Construction of an overpass over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at Craig Road, near Interstate 15, is under way. The Nevada Department of Transportation expects the $34 million project to be completed in 2009.
Motorists should watch for lane reductions and work zones.
The right lane on U.S. Highway 95, between Ann Road and Lake Mead Boulevard, may be closed for work from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, the Transportation Department said.
The Las Vegas Public Works Department said road improvements on Fairfield Avenue, between Sahara and Cleveland avenues, and Cincinnati Avenue, between Las Vegas Boulevard and Tam Drive, should be finished on Friday, several weeks later than anticipated. The city had expected the work to be done by Dec.
Bigger, Louder, More Frogs
Things did not delay in turning curious when the first beats of the drumroll began for Thomas Pynchon's forthcoming book. Last month, lit-bloggers and news-writers reported that Penguin Press would issue the author's sixth novel in December. This whetted the palates of those hard-core fans who have spent the years since 1997's Mason & Dixon speculating that Pynchon was at work on a doozy about lady mathematicians of the old school and also, uhm, Mothra. Last week, Amazon.com put up a page that listed Untitled Thomas Pynchon at a svelte 992 pages and bore a description purportedly written by the master himself. In fact, it purported quite well indeed and also rather charmingly, promising an archetypal Pynchonian buffet of settings, characters, and old tricks ("Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs.
Notebook: Jackets can't finish job; home win streak halted
The Coyotes twice rallied from one-goal deficits, outworking the home team in the third period and taking advantages of key mistakes. The loss snapped the Jackets' franchise record six-game winning streak in Nationwide Arena and stopped the momentum they built by going into the break on a 6-2 roll. A crowd of 15,127 fans saw the Coyotes score all three goals of the third period and move into a virtual tie with the Blue Jackets and Colorado Avalanche for eighth place in the Western Conference. "Phoenix was better than we were today, they were quicker on pucks," Hitchcock said. "We had some bursts, but we had too many players below the bar. We weren't as sharp as we needed to be. We were light with the puck and (played) loose." The Jackets couldn't have scripted a better start.
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