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
Metric
House Of Blues, Oct. 7
October 11th, 2012
For the sake of this review, we’re going to pretend that Metric has no antecedents. Blondie, Missing Persons, Kim Wilde, Romeo Void and Altered Images never existed.
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Tour Buzz
October 11th, 2012
“Come back, come back, Madonna … We still need you,” cries an old Italian man at the end of the video for “Open Your Heart.” I love that bit because the old man’s scripted outburst speaks to a larger cultural truth.
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Tour Buzz
October 4th, 2012
We continue this special New Wave Revival edition of Tour Buzz with The xx. To my thinking, New Wave was born when the first-wave punks finally copped to their previously secret love of ABBA … and The xx, scheduled to perform poolside at the Cosmopolitan on Oct. 10 ($37), seems so thoroughly enamored of that cultural moment that it’s tempting to connect them directly to New Order, Gang of Four and the like—but as contemporaries, not as copyists.
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All Up In Your Facebook
(Facecrooks.com)
October 4th, 2012
I appreciate you taking time away from your Facebook feed to read these words. Trust me, if I could, I’d be there myself right now—continually refreshing the page, looking for those reposted George Takei articles that give meaning to my daily life.
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Animal Collective
House of Blues, Sept. 25
October 4th, 2012
This wasn’t a show. It was a UFO sighting.
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The Living Gallery
How one Las Vegas couple built its life around art—literally
October 4th, 2012
Michael and Karan Feder have an art gallery in Las Vegas. And you’ve got to see it to truly appreciate it. The floors are sustainable bamboo and treated concrete. The second-story loft affords a view of virtually the entire space. And it’s suffused in natural light, which all but emanates from the walls. It’s kind of a perfect gallery space, really—architecturally striking and smartly functional. It could have been airlifted from Los Angeles.
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Flip Frig Frack
(FuckingHomePage.com)
September 27th, 2012
A long time ago, in a Las Vegas far, far away from this one, James “Ask a Native” Reza and I sat in a conference room with the editor of the Las Vegas Weekly and defended the word “fuck,” which at that point would only appear in the magazine as an “F” with three asterisks—if it appeared at all.
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Tour Buzz
September 27th, 2012
When Marilyn Manson performed “Rock Is Dead” in ’99, he probably didn’t suspect that he’d someday be part of a package show that kind of proved his point.
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Cogitating Colab
September 27th, 2012
How to explain COLAB Las Vegas? It’s in the Art Square complex, but COLAB isn’t strictly a gallery. There are architectural renderings on the walls, but COLAB doesn’t build. And founder/director Amy Lee Finchem is an educator, but COLAB isn’t a classroom. So, what‘s the idea?
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Collective Appeal
Animal Collective divides to conquer
September 20th, 2012
Good news for completists: When Animal Collective plays the House of Blues on Sept. 25, the experimental rockers will be at their full compliment of four members. “I think the last time we played there, it was just three of us,” says Geologist (born Brian Weitz), remembering the band’s first Las Vegas appearance in 2009. “But you’re getting all four of us this time.”
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