Greg Blake Miller

Managing Editor

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Miller has helped lead Vegas Seven’s editorial team since 2010, during which time the magazine has received more than 40 state and regional honors. Named Nevada’s Outstanding Journalist for 2011, he is interested in both Las Vegas’ grand myths and its quiet spaces. “Sometimes our city’s indefensible,” he says, “but in the end it’s unsinkable. There’s strength in our sense of difference here—that chip on the shoulder keeps us fighting.”

Las Vegas is Miller’s hometown, but his career has taken him to Seattle, Los Angeles and Moscow, Russia, where he was a staff writer for the Moscow Times. He has also taught journalism, communication studies, literature and writing at the University of Oregon and UNLV.

Miller holds a doctorate in international communication from the University of Oregon, and has spoken at national and international communication conferences, often focusing on the unexpected connections between nostalgia, media and social progress. He sees these connections both in his work on Russian cinema and in his closer-to-home writing on the history of UNLV basketball. A Rebel fan since childhood, he admits the one thing that can pull him away from a good Russian movie is an even better UNLV basketball game.

Recent Articles

Editor's Note

The Green Hour

At a time when—politically, economically, culturally—so much seems so wrong to so many of us, it’s easy to forget about the environment. It’s the ultimate peace-and-prosperity issue, the thing we think about when everything else isn’t on our mind.

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Editor's Note

A Tale of Two Rickeys

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The Rise, Fall and Reboot of UNLVNow

It was hard not to be taken aback by the suddenness with which Majestic Realty was jettisoned from the UNLVNow project so that the university could work more closely with the major Strip hotel-casino operators.

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At the Ballpark, Live for Today

The beautiful uselessness of baseball in the present tense

To invoke the romance of baseball, in the fashion of George Will or Ken Burns, is hopelessly unfashionable. This I will not blame on sabermetrics—the applied science of baseball statistics that Michael Lewis’ 2004 book Moneyball cast as the brainy yin to the blockheaded yang of baseball traditionalism. As any baseball fan knows, the numbers are an indispensable part of the romance.

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Sports

The Point of it All

There was a time when UNLV could have been called Point Guard U. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the men’s basketball team was consistently blessed with great floor generals, from Robert Smith to Greg Anthony. The team’s style attracted expert distributors who loved pace, ran the fast break expertly and were at ease in half-court sets.

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Editor's Note

Nostalgic Innovation

As I read Geoff Carter’s roundup of the growing Las Vegas tech community, I was struck by the quiet nostalgia lurking behind so many of the Businesses of Tomorrow.

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Editor's Note

The Year of Now

No city wants to be compared to a compost heap, but it’s a fitting—and hopeful—metaphor for Las Vegas as it enters 2013. We’ve had a malodorous five-year experience as the core of a shriveled world economy, but something strange happened along the way: The seeds of Downtown culture—planted long before Tony Hsieh came along but fortified by his largesse—took root and green shoots appeared on Fremont Street and in Symphony Park.

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Editor's Note

Persistence of Vision

These are the years of bottle service and vacant paparazzi smiles and the thrum of recycled music transmogrified by preening men in booths. The glamour of it all is palpable, the beauty of what happens here and goes away instantly. The commercials had it all wrong, right? Nothing stays here.

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Revolution Square

I was being watched. I could feel it in the way a foreigner feels things in a foreign land, in a dreamlike way, with more unconsciousness than consciousness, a knowing much more akin to not knowing. Not knowing is the most beautiful and terrifying thing about being far from home.

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Vegas Seven Wins 21 State Awards

The annual Nevada Press Association Convention came to The D on Fremont Street on Sept. 21-22, and it proved to be a fruitful weekend for Vegas Seven. The magazine won 21 awards, bringing its total in less than three years of publication to 43 statewide awards (to go with 11 nominations for the prestigious regional Maggie Awards).

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