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Downtown
Rebuilding Bridger
December 6th, 2012
Longtime Las Vegans may remember paying (or disputing) parking tickets at the now-abandoned Bridger Building, one of a handful of high-rises downtown with marble tile and turquoise-blue façades. It may not seem like much of a monument—someone on SkyScraper.org even called it a “shameful monstrosity”—but to a band of influential locals on a recent Friday evening, it became a symbol of the city’s potential for sustainable preservation. Read more »
About Town
Merry Christmas: Fremont East Is Done
Now on to the real business of building downtown
November 29th, 2012
Downtown is bigger than the Arts District, bigger than Fremont East—and we need to keep that in mind as we celebrate every new gallery and every new bar that opens in those neighborhoods. We’re trying to build a city center here—a real one, not a city-themed casino and retail complex. Read more »
The Deal
47 Under $40
November 29th, 2012
Who says room rates are going up? Lots of surveys I’ve seen lately do, but I’ve got evidence to the contrary. Every year at this time we conduct our own rate survey at LasVegasAdvisor.com. It’s a serious study that encompasses every hotel-casino in town (95 this year), and we check lots of sources. Read more »
Hunger
Making the (Food) Desert Bloom
November 22nd, 2012
Some of the best minds in the food business gathered recently at the Springs Preserve to discuss a problem most citizens don’t even know we have: food security. It was the first step in the formation of the Vegas Valley Community Food Council. Read more »
Success Stories
These kids can play
November 22nd, 2012
Boulder City High School student Avalon Frantz was recently named one of 12 national finalists for the 2012 Wendy’s High School Heisman Award, which honors students who excel in academics, athletics and community service. The senior, who competes in volleyball and track for the Eagles, could become the second straight Southern Nevadan to win the award, following The Meadows’ Garrett Gosse, who is a freshman quarterback at Princeton after winning the male honor last year. Read more »
The Deal
Christmas in November
November 22nd, 2012
It’s a well-known and reliable rule of thumb that the holiday season is prime time for bargain hunters in Las Vegas. Every year, beginning right around now, casinos, restaurants, bars and other businesses begin unveiling their promotions. It’s early, and the juiciest of the gambling and drinking deals (last year Todd English P.U.B. ran the “12 Beers of Christmas”) haven’t been announced, so I can’t give you the specifics in these categories. However, several of the traditional free holiday events have already declared and are opening this month. Christmas isn’t just for December anymore. Read more »
Green Felt Journal
The New Road Starts Here
November 22nd, 2012
The best symbol of the slow-but-significant change taking place in Las Vegas isn’t on the 23rd floor of the Ogden on Sixth Street, or even in the SuperNAPs at Switch’s Data Center on South Decatur Boulevard. It’s in an unassuming warehouse in the shadow of Panorama Towers on West Harmon Avenue. That’s where Ultimate Gaming, a subsidiary of Fertitta Interactive, is setting up its new headquarters. Read more »
A Rebel Remembered
November 15th, 2012
The scene at the Thomas & Mack Center for the UNLV basketball team’s season opener Nov. 12 seemed a flashback from 20 years ago: carloads of Rebel supporters navigating the parking lot in search of a vacant space, fans outside the arena trying desperately to find a ticket to the nearly sold-out game, the stands packed with red-clad zealots cheering for their nationally ranked team. And Bob Blum would have loved every bit of it. Blum was the godfather of Nevada broadcasters, calling more than 3,500 sporting events in a 70-year career that ended in July when he died at the age of 91. Read more »
The Latest Thought
The Las Vegan’s Guide to Unexpected Giving
This holiday season, make sure your altruism’s built to last
November 15th, 2012
The reputedly jolly season, with its Dickensian inspiration, is a great time to get your good-neighbor juices flowing. The key is to keep it going after that—because practicing philanthropy on an average Wednesday in January, when there are kids to drop off and bills to pay and Modern Family to watch? That’s hard. Read more »
Politics
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
November 15th, 2012
Clark County voted Democratic, but it didn’t really think Democratic. “Clark County faces a rough road ahead as taxpayers refuse to pay for educational infrastructure,” says Dahn Shaulis, a sociologist who earned his Ph.D. at UNLV. “This has been a long-term trend, as anti-intellectual Southern Nevadans choose to invest more in the symptoms (jails, prisons and police) than in the causes (inequality, gambling, a regressive tax structure and a poorly funded educational system).” Read more »
