Volume IX

Devoid’s spooooky season issue is here! Dive into the weird, wild, and wonderful of Las Vegas, with profiles on Priestess Pamela, Fawn Douglas of NUWU Art + Activism, original writing from Dr. Jarret Keene and Jennifer Battisti, chilling lore from the city’s deadliest motels by Lissa Townsend Rodgers, and plenty more surprises lurking inside!

The lineup:

• Motels of Doom: And Their Exorcism-by-Wrecking Ball

  By Lissa Townsend Rodgers

• OBITUARIES: Las Vegas Cultural Icons We’ve Loved and Lost
  By James Birmingham

• Death Comp
  By Jennifer Battisti

• Weaving Embers: Community Brighter Than Neon

  By Heather Lang-Cassera | Photos by Tyler Boshard

• From Babcia’s Rose Bushes, Magic Blooms: Priestess Pamela Talks Ancestral Enchantment and Modern Mysticism
  By Victoria Koelkebeck | Photos by Tyler Boshard

• Jacob’s Monster’s

  By Jarret Keene

• Las Vegas Theatre History: Act Three: The Blossom
  By Paul Atreides

• Tales of What Might Have Been: The Forgotten Tenants of Fremont Street’s Abandoned Motels 
  By Juan Tangarife