Community & Culture
Community & Culture
Expert Opinion: Best ideas Vegas should adopt
July 28th, 2011
He is interim director of UNLV’s Downtown Design Center and coordinator of the hospitality design concentration at the UNLV School of Architecture. And he’s an expert on the relationship between architecture and music—the rhythms of space. We asked him to pick the best ideas from the outside world that Las Vegas should borrow: Read more »
Community & Culture
Best Sports Franchise
July 28th, 2011
The Las Vegas Locomotives are the two-time defending United Football League champions and, well, they’re our only professional football team. Read more »
Community & Culture
Best Juxtaposition of Old and New Vegas
July 28th, 2011
From the serene balcony at the Springs Café by Wolfgang Puck, you can enjoy the best view in the city. In front of you are the grounds of the Springs Preserve, a vision of an ancient desert oasis older than the hills. Read more »
Community & Culture
Best Quote
July 28th, 2011
“Detroit is gritty, Vegas is glitzy. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and what happens in Detroit ... Well, who cares? And yet there are striking parallels.” – Howard Gold, MSN MarketWatch. Read more »
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Best Glimmer of Hope
July 28th, 2011
It’s nice to have a very rich guy show up and take an interest in revitalizing downtown. Whether we love or secretly wonder about Zappos culture, it sends a little shiver of hope down our collective spines to see the online retailer’s front man, Tony Hsieh, hanging out at the Downtown Cocktail Room talking up redevelopment. Read more »
Community & Culture
Best New Legislation
July 28th, 2011
We know. You’re probably thumb-typing “Nanny State” right now as you drive down the road. And we feel your pain: not texting while driving a half-ton hunk of steel at 70 mph will probably impede your work productivity, to say nothing of decimating your social life. Read more »
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Best Sports Innovation
July 28th, 2011
The Cosmopolitan is reviving a tired old Vegas idea that we’d long given up on: making boxing cool again. Read more »
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Best Survey That, Mercifully, Didn’t Threaten Our Fragile Hopes of Economic Recovery
July 28th, 2011
In July, Yahoo Finance ranked the 15 Worst Housing Markets for the next five years, and guess who was merrily absent? Us. Read more »
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Best Nonprofit Effort
July 28th, 2011
Family Promise works with local churches, synagogues and mosques to make a place for a homeless family to sleep and get meals. Families do not have to be religious, nor will they be preached to—they just have to be serious about getting back on their feet. Read more »
Community & Culture
Best Mass Transit (Seriously!)
July 28th, 2011
For your $5, you can ride the Las Vegas Monorail from the Sahara to the MGM in about 15 minutes. Take that, stuck-in-traffic-on-the-Strip drivers! Read more »
