it seemed to have a lot more typos and be of a more awkward writing style than I expected. Is the LV weekly not very good?

I think it's a pretty good piece, but to answer your question -- which shouldn't necessarily reflect on the quality of a particular story -- the Weekly is seen by some as more of a vehicle for nightclub ads than hard-hitting journalism. That characterization is somewhat unfair, since I've seem some quality journalistic stories in the Weekly. City Life, the other alt-weekly in town, is much more of a news rag.

I can't blame alt-weeklies for running nightclub and porno ads. "Real" newspapers wish they had access to that revenue.

I enjoyed the article, typos notwithstanding, but I did think it was very narrowly focused.

Thanks for reading my story on the brothel. I am sorry about the typos. My bad. I turned the draft in to the editors late and far longer than assigned and we were going through a transition in the editorial staff at the time. Anyway, I take full blame for it; if you were to pick up Weekly now, you would find it gets much better copyedit. Yrs., Richard