Griffin
The Latest Thought
How Cool Comes of Age
Fremont East has planted the seeds of something special. How can we keep it growing?
March 17th, 2011
Pull up a chair inside the lively but not too-crowded Beat coffeehouse if you want to enjoy what the city and a handful of brave entrepreneurs have crafted in turning East Fremont Street into downtown’s entertainment district. Read more »
DJ Profile
Of Records and Breaking
DJ Aurajin’s downtempo downtown
November 18th, 2010
“There I was with this rambunctious rapper, and I was like, ‘I really hope I don’t fuck up. I don’t want Busta Rhymes bitch-slapping me with his mike.’” One of downtown Vegas’ most familiar faces, the wise-yet-humble DJ of 17 years and avid vinyl collector, Aurajin, laughed about the time he DJ’d for Rhymes in a suite at the Palms. Read more »
Neighborhood Epicurean
Our New Frontier
Fremont East is finally living up to the hype
November 4th, 2010
It’s easy to overindulge on East Fremont Street. Despite a naysayers’ reputation that the area is more talk and less reality, the nascent Fremont East entertainment district—the three blocks between Las Vegas Boulevard and Eighth Street—has evolved into a small but effective collection of unique bars and the closest thing Las Vegas has to a proper pub crawl. In fact, forget pub crawl; with art, poetry, live music, food and independent shops, Fremont East is becoming a bona fide culture crawl. Read more »
