The Latest
Sports
Keeping Their Heads in the Game
April 12th, 2012
As a member of UNLV’s training staff since 1984 and director of athletic training since 1999, Kyle Wilson has seen enough to know that “killing the head” is serious business—and that prevention and quick diagnosis of concussions are among the most important issues in sports medicine today. Wilson and his staff now perform cognitive and balance tests on UNLV’s nearly 500 student-athletes before each team’s season so that if one of them suffers a head injury, trainers can determine the severity of it. Read more »
Vegas Tech
Tracky: the Tie That Binds
April 12th, 2012
You have to admire the chutzpah of local startup Tracky. Most startups try to reach new markets by creating unique products, but Tracky, created by Las Vegas entrepreneurs David and Jennifer Gosse, instead tackles a highly competitive market head-on by creating another site for managing shared projects. Read more »
Community
Phast Cars!
April 12th, 2012
Some people organize car shows because they dig cars, and some do it for the recognition. Frank Miranda, the eponymous owner of Phat Phrank’s Mexican restaurant, is putting one together to increase the peace. Read more »
Politics
Teen Wisdom
April 12th, 2012
Ward 6 City Councilman Steve Ross is looking to put a different spin on the notion of the youth council. Ross serves on the Las Vegas City Council’s School-Safety Action Committee, which has members from the police and fire departments, teachers, and parks and recreation employees. The committee discusses graffiti, drugs, education and crime. Read more »
The Deal
Downtown, down Sunset and presidential pizza
April 12th, 2012
Things continue to change for the better downtown, with the latest improvement being the switch from Fitzgeralds to The D. With the name change will come lots of upgrades, and already in place is the cool Longbar on the first floor. Read more »
Social
When a television through a window just isn’t subtle enough
April 12th, 2012
We don’t know exactly what happened March 28 at Little Buddha in the Palms—maybe a busboy started taking Hanoi Rocks jabs—but Vince Neil wasn’t happy. So, he took to Twitter to slam the staff there. Then, after five days of relative calm, the Mötley Crüe frontman renewed his attack on the Palms, urging his followers not to go there. Read more »
Ask a Native
Was it ever safe to ride a bike in this town?
April 12th, 2012
Recent developments, including an east-west road-bound trail system, and more off-roadway recreational multi-use trail systems are bringing bicycling back. And downtown Las Vegas is riding the wave, particularly by making bike commuting easier via bus bike racks and bike storage and repair at the Downtown Transportation Center. Read more »
Seven Days
A curated tour of this week in your city
April 12th, 2012
Hey, your federal income taxes are due on Tuesday, April 17. You got an extra two days because the 15th was a Sunday and yesterday was some kind of holiday in the District of Columbia, but now time’s up. Read more »
Found Material
Reliving an Enterprising Concept
(GaryGoddard.com)
April 12th, 2012
We’ve never been big fans of the Fremont Street Experience. So learning that downtown Las Vegas could have instead become home to a full-scale USS Enterprise makes us want to set our phasers to kill. Read more »
Seven Questions
Mike Tyson
The former heavyweight champ on his new life, his old life and his ‘raw and naked’ one-man show
April 5th, 2012
Time was that a one-on-one interview with Mike Tyson was as comforting as a one-on-one encounter with a lion in its den. You didn’t know exactly when things would end badly, just that they ultimately would. On this day, though, the once self-proclaimed “baddest man on the planet” is as tame as a house cat as he holds court on the 28th floor of the MGM Grand. Read more »
