Geoff Carter
Senior Writer
Contact: Email
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
Space Oddities
(YouWillNotGoToSpaceToday.tumblr.com)
November 29th, 2012
With all the current interest in the Curiosity rover, the promise of new Star Wars movies and the looming end of the Long Count calendar, it’s only natural that our fancies should turn, once again, to outer space.
Read More »
Tour Buzz
November 29th, 2012
I was going to click my tongue disapprovingly over the high cost of tickets for ZZ Top’s Dec. 5 and Dec. 7 shows at the House of Blues; they range from $89.50 to $180, and don’t even include a free mustache ride. Then I remembered “La Grange,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Tube Snake Boogie,” “Tush,” “Legs” …
Read More »
All He Wants For Christmas
Downtown tastemaker Geoff Carter open-sources his wish list
November 22nd, 2012
I’m tough to shop for. I’m not particularly ostentatious, but I like well-made things as opposed to cheap knockoffs. I live in cheap jeans and T-shirts, but I’ll pay tall money for good shoes and sunglasses. I hold Disneyland and classy smut in separate but equal regard. For these reasons, I’ve given you a holiday gift list—and if you know anyone like me, I hope you’ll crib from it. And maybe throw some love back my way.
Read More »
Black 5:02
Smart holiday shoppers know when to jump the gravy boat and charge, charge, charge
November 22nd, 2012
The Black Friday model is badly flawed. By waiting until Friday morning to call upon our lesser angels and summon us shopping, it fails to capitalize on the Thanksgiving-dinner carbohydrate boost and sugar rush. It can be argued that in the moments before food coma sets in, the human body is fueled for any challenge this world can bring to it. The carbs give you the strength and stamina to bust doors—and the sugar makes you crazy enough to do it. (And if you’ve had a digestif or three, so much the better: The alcohol will increase your pain threshold. Science.)
Read More »
All The Right Movies
(YouTube.com/watch?v=U0x9HtYgVqA)
November 15th, 2012
I don’t often feature YouTube videos in this space, but this one is currently making the rounds and I love it too much not to slip it under your doormat. Jonathan Keogh has assembled a supercut featuring all of the films listed in the Internet Movie Database’s top 250—along with 53 more highly regarded movies, because why not—in a briskly paced 2-minute, 30-second montage.
Read More »
Tour Buzz
November 15th, 2012
THE WIZ: It’s hard to say how many parties that rapper Wiz Khalifa, who plays the Thomas & Mack Center on Nov. 15 ($32.50-$45.50), has lit a fire under with his anthems “Say Yeah” and “Black and Yellow.”
Read More »
Building Appreciation
(Archidose.Blogspot.com)
November 8th, 2012
Truthfully, you should stop reading this right now and go see Amy Lee Finchem at COLAB at Art Square. She can explain the importance of architecture and landscape architecture better than I ever could.
Read More »
Tour Buzz
November 8th, 2012
I’ve seen few bands in my lifetime that are as fun to watch as the English Beat. The pop/ska band, scheduled to play the Hard Rock Café on the Strip on Nov. 9 ($22), has a number of truly great songs in their repertoire, songs that you’ll recognize from the jukeboxes in your favorite bars—including the jittery “Mirror in the Bathroom,” the menacing “Twist and Crawl,” and “I Confess,” perhaps the happiest song ever written about the fight that ends a relationship.
Read More »
The Return of the Café Kid
Tamarisk Wood is trying to fund her startup coffeehouse the old-fashioned way: by putting out the tip jar
November 1st, 2012
Tamarisk Wood and I are Las Vegas café kids. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, we frequented the same now-defunct Valley coffeehouses—Café Espresso Roma and Café Copioh, and my beloved Enigma Garden Café, formerly downtown at Fourth and Hoover. We didn’t really know each other then, but we knew the places, and we knew the crowds that frequented them.
Read More »