Greg Blake Miller
Managing Editor
Contact: 868-4514 • Email
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
Carolina Blues
A young Tar Heel star, a shocking upset and the power of Rebel desire
November 27th, 2011
P.J. Hairston, a 6-foot-5 freshman shooting guard from Greensboro, N.C., once scored 52 points in a high-school basketball game, and from that point on it was pretty much inevitable that he would end up someplace like Chapel Hill, playing college ball for a team that is not supposed to lose. It’s a storybook existence, so long as you don’t mind being the dragon.
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The Vegas Odds
November 24th, 2011
Welcome to the Vegas Seven Race, Sports, Politics and Culture Book, where we’ve posted fresh odds for your civic reality one year from today. UNLV basketball coach Dave Rice appears courtside in a shirt that is not white. 1,000-1.
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What Happens in the Suburbs
November 3rd, 2011
I am pleased to announce that Tony Hsieh and the owners of downtown’s Golden Gate have joined forces to buy my home. The bottom floor will be transformed into a youth-oriented “block-party zone." The second floor of my home, which is currently nonexistent, will be designed with an “old Vegas boudoir” theme.
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Of Cool Air and Fire
October 20th, 2011
The Indy cars were just 11 laps into the 200-lap race when the weekend shattered. On a track that racer Danica Patrick had earlier described as “friggin fast,” a single swerve turned into a 15-car, 220-mph crash. In an instant, Dan Wheldon’s black-and-white No. 77 open-wheel racer was airborne and in flames. Wheldon was flown to University Medical Center. His death was announced at 2:20 p.m. He was a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner with blue eyes and a ready smile and a sense of proportion about the meaning of glory and fame.
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Dave Rice Will Not Be Stopped
Yes, he’s a nice guy. But make no mistake about it: UNLV’s new head coach is a Rebel.
October 20th, 2011
The good things that may come in the months and years ahead will be traced back to pace. The first victory of the era, the first blowout of a “traditional power,” the first Dave Rice conference title won on Tarkanian Court, the first NCAA bid, the first banner in the rafters. It will all have begun with pace, on this mid-September day in the North Gym at old McDermott Hall, where giants once roamed and Dave Rice walked among them.
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Yes, We’ll Make It
October 6th, 2011
This is where we drop the statistics, and the hammers and nails, for that matter, and put our fine Valley to the eyeball test: Are we building? And what are we building?
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Andre Agassi
The tennis legend talks about what it’s like to play on the Champions Tour, how he could beat Rafael Nadal and why he never left Las Vegas
October 6th, 2011
“Who is the greatest athlete ever to come out of our city—tennis legend Andre Agassi or baseball immortal Greg Maddux?” But while Maddux is putting in plenty of time tearing up the golf course, Agassi’s still feeding his competitive jones through the sport that made him famous. As a mainstay of the Champions Series, he’ll be battling it out all fall with former superstars ranging from his boyhood hero, Jimmy Connors, to longtime rival Pete Sampras.
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Look, Officer: No Hands!
Seven steps to a hands-free future
September 29th, 2011
Starting Oct. 1, the cops will warn you that you’ll just have to stop thumb-typing and calling out for pizza while doing 20 in the fast lane. In January, they’ll start taking your money. We propose the following seven steps to a hands-free future.
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The Endurance of Names
September 15th, 2011
Sept. 11, 2011, was a day of names. Names of the 9/11 dead had been inscribed on fountains at Ground Zero, benches at the Pentagon and stone slabs in Shanksville, Pa. Michael Arad’s Ground Zero memorial had even ensured that the names of those who were connected in life were inscribed close to one another in death. The names become not only carriers of lost being, but nodes within networks of friendship and love.
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Welcome to The Parq: A Dream Sequence
August 25th, 2011
A superteam of local developers and dignitaries has announced plans for a major new Clark County retail, residential and recreational development, dubbed The Parq. The walkable exurban district, featuring quaint "hamlets," a village green, galleries, glass-blowing workshops, trumpet manufacturing, a small liberal arts college, Abercrombie & Fitch and the world's fastest roller coaster, will break ground at the foot of Elephant Rock in Valley of Fire State Park this October.
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