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Trail Blazing
Talking hits, prank calls from Bruce Hornsby and taking careers to a “Higher” level with DJ/producer and EDC performer Just Blaze
June 19th, 2013
There are two kinds of Just Blaze fans: pre-“Higher” and post-“Higher.” The super producer’s monster out-of-nowhere collaboration with Light resident DJ Baauer cannonballed Justin Smith (a.k.a. Just Blaze) into the electronic music scene in January. He uploaded “Higher” to Soundcloud at 4:30 a.m. and within 48 hours he had more than 300,000 listens. Read more »
The Sketch Pad
A Superhero for the Festival Set
June 19th, 2013
Las Vegas is fueled by the myth of perpetual celebration, and there are few weekends of the year when the myth feels more true than when the Electric Daisy Carnival comes to town. Nico Holmes-Gull’s crowned Vegas superheroine speaks to the spirit of the big festival of music, dance and light, which takes over the Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 21-23. Read more »
Seven Days
A curated guide to this week in your city
June 19th, 2013
If you want to nerd out this weekend, get a room at the South Point. Today through Saturday you’ll be in the company of casino memorabilia collectors for the 21st annual Casino Collectibles Convention. Read more »
Three Questions: Gun Control
June 19th, 2013
On June 13, Governor Brian Sandoval vetoed Senate Bill 221, Nevada’s version of the law requiring universal background checks for firearm purchase and closing the so-called gun-show loophole. Senator Justin Jones, D-Las Vegas, included language from the gun lobby’s issue du jour—barring the criminal mentally ill from legal possession—but it wasn’t enough to override libertarian angst about infringement of Second Amendment rights. Gun control advocate Teresa Crawford, a 64-year-old registered nurse, is already moving on. Read more »
Will We Drink the Snake Valley Dry?
Residents of Baker, Nevada, worried about SNWA's plans
June 19th, 2013
Alarm clocks went off early on June 15, in Baker, Nevada, some 300 miles north of Las Vegas near the Utah border. By 7 a.m., moms were setting up breakfast at the community center, where visitors to the Snake Valley Festival could get French toast, a side of meat and a drink for $8. Dads and kids were decorating cars, trucks and trikes for the parade down Baker Avenue. Jewelry makers and book collectors were arranging tables around Baker Hall, and Great Basin Water Network volunteers were pricing silent auction donations in the hall, anticipating crowds that would gather and spend money, all going to the network. Read more »
The Deal
The Rio Corner
June 18th, 2013
The World Series of Poker is at its halfway point, with most of the premier events scheduled over the next couple of weeks. The One Drop High Rollers tourney, with a buy-in of $111,111, runs on June 26; the $50,000 “Poker Players Championship” begins June 30; the Little One for One Drop with a $1,111 buy-in and unlimited rebuys runs on July 3, and the Main Event starts on July 6. Read more »
Politics
Seven Things We Learned From the Legislature
From power struggles to actual beneficial legislation, a closer look at this past session
June 18th, 2013
As we recover from our roller-coaster biennial Legislature, with its usual slow start, its quick, harrowing finish and the vetoes (a dismay to some, a relief to others) that follow, here are seven important take-homes. Consider them your Carson City souvenirs. Read more »
Ask a Native
Vegas Movies Shot in Vegas: Imagine That
Signing of Nevada Film Tax Incentive Bill could help jump-start film industry here
June 18th, 2013
Viva Las Vegas said we were a glamorous party town. Casino told the world we are a city where money speaks loudest. The Hangover trilogy screams out that Las Vegas is the modern-day equivalent of Rome burning, so get your Colosseum tickets now! All of which are true, depending on who’s telling. Read more »
About Town
Tribal Rituals of Carson City
June 18th, 2013
I recently made it through the harrowing selection process called “campaigning,” earning me the opportunity to research an understudied people: the Nevada Legislature. Read more »
Seven Questions
Seven Questions for Pasquale Rotella, EDC Founder
The founder of Electric Daisy Carnival on being a fan, keeping the party safe and minor injuries sustained while break dancing
June 18th, 2013
Pasquale Rotella is many things: Most famously, the 38-year-old is the founder of Insomniac, the company that stages the Electric Daisy Carnival. He also happens to be the fiance of Holly Madison and the father of a newborn daughter, Rainbow Aurora. But Rotella is, above all, a fan. He truly loves electronic dance music—the sounds, the scene, the communal exuberance—and that lifelong fandom drives him to make each EDC bigger, better and bouncier than the one before. Read more »
