Abowitz has written a goodly number of articles about the smut biz over the years.

from www.mediabistro.com – Richard Abowitz, a Las Vegas Weekly reporter, one-time LA Times blogger and current contributor to The Daily Beast, has accepted a job with Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Weekly. Judging by this October 5 piece for the Equality State publication, he’s in for some major pop culture shock:

A few hours after I accepted a job in Wyoming, I was on the Las Vegas Strip having a steak dinner at Planet Hollywood with two porn stars. “I can’t imagine you outside Vegas,” said one porn star. “I can’t imagine Vegas without you,” said the other.

“I had a life before Vegas,” I said. “I guess,” one of them said, doubtfully.

Despite receiving a text during that same dinner from a journalistic colleague who recently made a similar move to New Mexico and begrudgingly admitted that “Vegas is a [reporter] hospice now,” Abowitz still doesn’t sound entirely convinced.

Of all the subsequent communiques that came in to Abowitz from friends or colleagues, our favorite is the one from a poet he once profiled. This fellow man of letters warned that the only brand of coffee in Jackson is “awful” and to somehow figure out how to provide his own.

from www.lvrj.com – With journalism jobs in Las Vegas going the way of construction work, Richard Abowitz has landed at the Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Weekly. Abowitz is known during his dozen years here for his music reviews for Rolling Stone, a daily blog for the Los Angeles Times and his fondness for porn star Aurora Snow . An art critic friend, who also had to migrate elsewhere, told Abowitz, “In the long run it’s a good move. Vegas is a hospice now.” …