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Electric Daisy Economics
June 7th, 2012
Generally speaking, if you want to bring an event to Las Vegas, the town is happy to oblige, provided you do three things: 1. Fill rooms with people who … 2. Open their wallets and … 3. Don’t disturb the other paying guests. Read more »
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A Season Unbound
It’s summertime. Do you know where your books are?
May 31st, 2012
There are two types of summer reading: The kind that makes you smarter. And the kind that makes you dumber. Read more »
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Killing Time
With techno-efficiency like this, who needs inefficiency?
May 24th, 2012
The other day, I read a column in the UK’s Daily Mail about how Twitter is not only ruining the nuanced beauty of the English language, but also—along with technological devices of all kinds—taking us away from actually participating in the present, allowing us too many diversions from in-the-moment interactions with people, or with nature, or with our own whole paragraphs of thought. I read that column on my cellphone, while waiting in my car for the drive-up ATM. There were no cars in line for the human tellers; their lanes were open and empty. But I waited. Read more »
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Here’s One Trip Worth Taking
May 24th, 2012
VegasTripping.com isn’t a marketing mouthpiece. It’s not trying to sell you anything. And that might be why it’s become an Internet sensation. Read more »
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Moving Mountains, Building a City
How a Vegas pioneer helped shape the Valley’s soul
May 17th, 2012
We’ve all heard the stereotype: Las Vegas is nothing more than a transient city, a plastic place where no one puts down roots, neighbors remain strangers, and the only civic duty is every man for himself. It’s not true, of course, and it never has been. But with the constant media flow of Vegas “mythology”—often delivered by our very own marketing gurus—sometimes we have to remind ourselves that we are a real community, built by people willing to devote their lives to an improbable dream. The recent death of Stuart Mason, a builder of the real Las Vegas, is occasion for such a reminder. Read more »
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With Oseland Aboard, SLS Could Be a Winner
May 10th, 2012
Wynn alum Rob Oseland just might be the right man to lead the transformation of the Sahara into SLS Las Vegas. Read more »
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Working Warriors
For Nevada's Guard and Reserve members, serving the nation is only half the battle
May 3rd, 2012
Gary Sallee drops into a chair across from me in the otherwise empty Nevada Department of Transportation training room and, in his soft Kentucky drawl, tells me a little about his journey as a U.S. Air Force Reservist. Read more »
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Cig Tossers
May 3rd, 2012
Ah, spring. Fresh, clean air. Crisp sunny mornings. Flowers blooming everywhere. There’s nothing like a morning walk this time of year to make you appreciate the corpse-like bouquet of a cigarette, abandoned and still burning on the sidewalk, flicked out of a car by someone who thinks that whole crying-Indian-anti-littering campaign in the 1970s doesn’t apply to them. Read more »
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Renovating the Grand
May 3rd, 2012
If you’ve been to the MGM Grand in the past few months—or even checked its website—you probably noticed that they’re renovating the place. And that might not seem like such a big deal—casinos evolve all the time—but in this case, owner MGM Resorts International and contractor Thor Construction are making history. Read more »
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Tape-Measure Receipts
April 26th, 2012
Paperless is the future, right? So why is my grocery-store receipt long enough to be toilet paper for a small nation? It’s not that I bought so many items we need a ledger capable of parsing the federal deficit—I’ve got two bags of groceries and three bags of receipts. Read more »
