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Dark Days, Bright Nights is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist Bubba Sparxxx from Georgia. It was released on October 9, 2001 via Interscope Records.
Oct 20, 2020 · A journalist and social worker shares stories of how a group of flood channel–dwelling homeless people found their way back to society.
- Matthew O’Brien
Oct 27, 2020 · 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?
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Dark Days, Bright Nights: Surviving the Las Vegas Storm Drains: O'Brien, Matthew: 9781949481426: Books - Amazon.ca
- Half Pint at Home
- A Place to Hide
- Exploring The Abyss
- 'An Escape'
- Half Pint's Fall
- 'Tell Me There's No God'
- 'I Don’T Think I Have Another Recovery in Me'
If you didn’t know her, you'd never guess where Brower had been by looking around her tidy, one-bedroom apartment. On the 61-year-old former Nebraskan's refrigerator are photos of her late mom and dad, cards from loved ones, a shopping list with one item on it. Butter. On the counter is her last nub of butter, well-used kitchen utensils and a Georg...
The flood channel story begins in 1985. A series of crippling floods swept through Las Vegas and pushed the legislature to launch the Clark County Regional Flood Control District. How would they fight future flooding? Storm drains. Lots of them, big and small, all across the arid Las Vegas Valley. The channels are now an intricate web stretching fr...
O’Brien's path to the tunnels started with a newspaper story he read about Timmy “T.J.” Weber, an accused rapist and double-murderer who evaded police for three weeks before his capture. A paragraph at the end explained how Weber used the drains to stay out of sight. The detail haunted O'Brien. “What secrets did the storm drains keep?” he wrote." “...
Thirty-five of the thirty-six people O’Brien interviewed for “Dark Days, Bright Nights” were addicted to drugs, alcohol or both while living in the drains. "Fourteen to meth, 12 crack, 10 alcohol, and six heroin," he wrote in the book. But the damage had been done long before those addictions took hold. The characters in "Dark Days, Bright Nights" ...
In 1989, four years after the birth of the flood channels, Brower was a respected special education teacher in Texas. But as her career ascended, she descended into addiction. “Five years later it was, ‘You might want to leave the state,’” she said. Her drug and alcohol use destroyed her career. For two decades, she drifted. “I went to Las Vegas,” ...
When O’Brien published “Beneath The Neon,” television cameras started showing up to get a glimpse of the underground. “Evidently they did a special on TV, and my parents were sitting at home and saw me in the background and flew to Vegas,” Brower said. “They came down with a private detective." The investigator found her, but Half Pint wasn’t ready...
Brower can’t sleep with her bedroom door closed. A closed door takes her to the tunnels, where the underground men who took her teeth and fingernails remain in her mind. Her fight against the darkness of addiction is a daily endeavor. She goes to meetings and therapy. She builds models from "Star Trek" and "Star Wars." She meditates. In recent year...
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In a nutshell, Bright Nights focuses on playability and balance, under the direction of Coolthulhu, one of DDA's previous developers. In my opinion it is by far much less clunky and tedious to play. BN is a fork of dda from one year ago that aims to be more arcade and less simulation.
Cataclysm: Bright Nights is an open source fork of Cataclysm (and Dark Days Ahead); a post-apocalyptic survival rogue-like that tests players to eke a supplies to survive against an onslaught of undead, eldritch abominations and more.
