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Seven Days
A curated guide to this week in your city
June 12th, 2013
Best game they don’t play in schools anymore? Dodgeball. Who didn’t love pelting that hated jock with a fat rubber ball? Relive the glory days of middle school from 8-11 p.m. at the Arts Factory parking lot Downtown. Read more »
The Fantastic Drunken Voyage
June 12th, 2013
Ever wonder about the science of intoxication? Laurel Pritchard does—a lot. The UNLV assistant professor of psychology studies behavioral neuroscience and psychopharmacology; in other words, how chemicals wreck your brain and body. She provides this blow-by-blow tracker of each drink’s effect on an average-size woman during a hypothetical night in our city’s famed bars. Cheers! Read more »
Found Material
Getting Union Jacked Around
June 12th, 2013
The NFL’s hypocrisy regarding betting continues to amaze. SportingNews.com highlights how the league will play two regular-season games this year at London’s Wembley Stadium, and is considering adding a third, despite sports betting being legal there. Read more »
Downtown
Turning Gold Into ... Gold
Renovations at the Gold Spike ditch the gaming, keep the vibe
June 12th, 2013
If I had a nickel for everyone who asks me what I think the Downtown Project’s ultimate goals are and how they’ll pan out over time, I wouldn’t have to do this for a living. Read more »
The Week
The Books Stop Here
With Stephens Press ceasing publishing, a valuable outlet for local authors disappears
June 12th, 2013
Whoever the next Kurt Divich is—that eighth-grader working on her fantasy fiction set in the Mojave Desert; the stay-at-home-dad polishing his manuscript on 1950s sports stars from Sin City—he or she won’t be discovered by Carolyn Hayes Uber, publisher of Stephens Press. That means he or she may not be discovered at all, at least not in the traditional sense. Read more »
The Sketch Pad
Wild, Cool & Sinning
June 11th, 2013
Hear the riff, man? Feel the beat? It’s all there in Peter Mengert’s creation, a hallucinatory nod to the city’s jazz scene, three cool cats blowing, plunking and singing their hearts out. Read more »
Ask a Native
You Can Leave the Rugrats at Home
Yes, there are family-friendly options here, but it's not an all-ages vacation spot
June 11th, 2013
Should tourists bring the kids to Las Vegas? This question has come at me numerous times, and in various forms, since last week’s “first timer’s itinerary” appeared—an itinerary that notably did not call out any kid-focused activities. Read more »
About Town
How’s Your Emergency Plan?
Run, hide and fight: Practical, if intuitive, advice
June 11th, 2013
A thousand innocent years ago, my elementary school instituted policies to prepare us for emergencies. We had fire drills—everybody had fire drills. We had earthquake—or maybe it was tornado or construction-defect—drills; I recall crawling under my desk for protection, but I wasn’t sure which disaster I was foiling. Read more »
The Deal
The Gambler’s Bar Hall of Fame
June 11th, 2013
It’s Year Two of Seven’s Bar Hall of Fame, which means it’s time to catch up on The Deal’s Bar Hall of Fame for Gamblers. If you’re a player, ambience and drink prices don’t matter much: You don’t pay attention to the surroundings, and you certainly don’t pay for drinks. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
Casino Concentration and the Logic of Empire
Consolidation looks like a bad move for operators, customers
June 11th, 2013
For the Las Vegas casino industry, the past decade has been defined by two things: consolidation and disaster. From 2000 to 2008, Las Vegas Strip casino operators acquired each other until two companies—today they are known as MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment Corporation—controlled nearly two-thirds of the Strip corridor casino market. The following three years is where the disaster, in the form of the recession, comes in. Read more »
