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
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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AD IT UP
(Vintage-Ads.Livejournal.com)
September 20th, 2012
This is why Don Draper drinks. It’s not because he’s living a lie; it’s not because he pushes away the people who try to get close to him; and it’s not even because of Pete Campbell, that sniveling little turd.
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Adam Ant
Hard Rock Café On The Strip, Sept. 14
September 20th, 2012
When I saw Adam Ant at the Aladdin in ’92, I thought he was washed up. At the time the ’80s pop star was touring behind Manners & Physique, an album of clumsy R&B far removed from the punky glam with Burundi-style drumming that made his name. Here was the king of the New Romantic subgenre, jumping on Prince’s train several years after it had left the station.
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Where the Shops Have No Name
September 13th, 2012
The Downtown Project has big plans for the former 7-Eleven space at the southeast corner of Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard. If you tour the Downtown Project offices, you can even get a close look at them: The architectural drawings of the espresso bar, international newsstand (swoon!) and TED-talk-ready theater (i.e., a venue for clever, nominally intellectual presentations) that will move into the space by summer 2013 are hanging in plain view.
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Tony Hsieh’s Really Big Shoe
Dreams of the legendary 23rd Floor of the Ogden
September 13th, 2012
I would write up my visit to the 23rd Floor, but I would leave out every detail that might make you want to go up there and take away my Fernet-powered boat and smoking-hot actress wife and simply tell you that Tony Hsieh has a great vision and we must support it at all costs.
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Site to See
Bust-A-Gut Historical
(HarkAVagrant.com)
September 13th, 2012
Whenever my life seems indistinguishable from shit, I pay a visit to Kate Beaton’s website, Hark! A Vagrant. I wouldn’t say the Canadian comic artist has a surefire way of cheering me up—many times, our encounters result in a draw—but her nuanced, simply-drawn cartoons, strongly reminiscent of the work of Jules Feiffer, do remind me that my forebears had it worse than I did.
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Tour Buzz
September 13th, 2012
My job becomes easy this time of year because great concerts happen almost daily. This week alone brings shows by singing/songwriting sylph Fiona Apple (Sept. 15, The Joint) and English New Wave icon Adam Ant (Sept. 14, the Hard Rock Café on the Strip).
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Tour Buzz
September 6th, 2012
THE SONG THAT NEVER ENDS: I’m coming at Gotye with reservations. Firstly, I can’t look at his name without seeing “Goatse.” (If you don’t know what that is, do yourself a favor and never, ever Google it.)
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Site to See
Eff Yeah Rocket Science
(WTFnasa.com)
September 6th, 2012
A little while back it landed a staggeringly advanced robot on another planet, captivated the notoriously fickle Internet and brought back the Mohawk haircut—but being a fast-forward culture that forgets things almost as quickly as they happen, it’s only natural that we should ask, “What the fuck has NASA done to make your life awesome?”
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Tour Buzz
August 30th, 2012
It’s a funny thought, but as of this year Ziggy Marley has been recording and touring for a longer period of time than his legendary father Bob Marley—some 33 years to his father’s 19 years of music.
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