Geoff Carter
Senior Writer
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Geoff Carter has been writing about Las Vegas since 1994, when he joined the staff of Scope, the alternative magazine that would later become the Las Vegas Weekly. He wrote for virtually every publication with “Vegas” in its name—including Vegas.com, the Las Vegas Sun and the self-published Geoff Carter Lives in Las Vegas and is Awesome —until 2002, when he took a ten-year “weekend” trip to Seattle. He returned to Vegas in May 2012 to become one of Vegas Seven’s senior writers and to be the editor of DTLV, the authoritative, yet mellifluous voice of downtown Las Vegas. His work has also appeared on MSN.com, in Time Out’s 1000 Songs to Change Your Life and in the Seattle Times. And he won an award once, but he gave it to his dad.
Recent Articles
EDC 2012
The Prohibited List
June 7th, 2012
Our ace investigative nightlife reporter, Jason Scavone, obtained a copy of this year’s list of banned items and habits before its official release:
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Notable Men With Lacquered Hair
June 7th, 2012
The atmosphere must have been electric. Such iconic American figures, standing in the same room, breathing the same air—but hey, let’s forget the meeting of Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon for a moment.
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Site to See
Bespoke, James Bespoke
(TheSuitsOfJamesBond.com)
June 7th, 2012
Ah, summertime, when a young man’s fancy turns lightly to rappelling through the false crater opening of a madman’s dormant volcano fortress while firing a Walther PPK.
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Tour Buzz
June 7th, 2012
The Hard Rock Hotel is serious about stealing back some of that evening traffic from the Cosmopolitan’s pool area.
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If You Map It …
June 7th, 2012
The next time you’re in the Arts District, be sure to wander up Antique Alley.
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Dining
Downtown, the Sunny Side Is Up
May 31st, 2012
Breakfast is coming to Fremont East. In September, local chef Natalie Young—a veteran of the Eiffel Tower Restaurant at Paris Las Vegas, Mr. Lucky’s at the Hard Rock Hotel and several prominent others—will open Eat, a café serving breakfasts and lunches of made-from-scratch American comfort food “with a bit of classic French technique,” Young says.
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Tour Buzz
May 31st, 2012
Sure, I’ve belted out “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Galveston” at many a karaoke night, but I’ve never before taken Glen Campbell to heart. Now the Country Music Hall of Famer is on a tour that comes to LVH on June 1-2 ($63-$74), and I’m wondering if I’ve undervalued him.
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Unpacking Containerville
May 24th, 2012
Walking through the Fremont East entertainment district is pleasant up to a point. That point is located precisely at the southeast corner of Seventh and Fremont streets, where a trash-strewn asphalt lot provides empirical proof of just how far downtown Las Vegas has yet to go before we can even begin to call this neighborhood “gentrified.”
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Tour Buzz
May 24th, 2012
The reviews for Van Halen’s current tour, which erupts into the MGM Grand on May 27 ($36-$163) are, ah, mixed. And it shouldn’t be too surprising that 57-year-old frontman David Lee Roth, the man who puts the “HUH!” in “hubris,” is taking most of the punches.
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