Springs Preserve
Community & Culture
Best Cheap Ticket to Paradise
July 26th, 2012
The Springs Preserve is what this town was before we built malls on top of it: a verdant oasis, home to a surprising variety of birds and flowering plants. Read more »
Independence Day Roundup: See you on July 4th! Or the 7th! Whenever?
June 28th, 2012
If you're completely thrown off by the Fourth falling on a Wednesday this year, we don't blame you. This year, the celebration starts early and ends late. Read more »
Art
Big Game Art
By hunting for society’s discards, such as cushion stuffing and gutted upholstery, a sculptor builds a new ecology
November 10th, 2011
Bryan Christiansen: Trophy Hunter seems tailor-made for the Big Springs Gallery at the Springs Preserve, even though it wasn’t. The show, which migrated from the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, addresses what we use and discard, what we value, and what is valuable. Both look at the natural world and how it intersects with human ecology. Read more »
The Latest
Moving the Ichthyosaur
With that specimen and 100,000 others, it hasn’t been easy, but the Nevada State Museum is almost ready to make its transition to the Springs Preserve
September 29th, 2011
David Millman is the director of the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas. His task is to get the museum moved from Lorenzi Park to the Springs Preserve, and get it open by Oct. 28. It’s not simply a matter of boxing up about 100,000 artifacts at the old building and trucking them less than a mile to the new one. There’s a fabrication shop to fabricate, exhibits to build, a gift shop to stock, artifacts to store and a library to organize. Read more »
Scene Stirs
Seven reasons to lift up a glass—of beer!
September 8th, 2011
The countdown continues to Oct. 13, when the Las Vegas World Beer Fest takes up semi-permanent residence behind Bally’s, delighting hop-heads and ale-hunters with more than 500 different beers from 100 world brew masters. 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 »
The Latest
Can the Springs Be Preserved?
Inflated expectations, big debts and the future of the city’s most heralded park
June 23rd, 2011
If the Water District were a for-profit business, somebody in the executive suites would be in a panic. It has about 1,000 employees, $930 million in long-term debt and a shrinking demand for its product. But it’s not a business; it’s a 57-year-old government agency with cash reserves of $119 million. And there will always be demand for what the Water District sells. It will just have to do a better job of balancing revenues and expenses. But one particular expense has brought the Water District in for criticism, a line item that runs down the ledger like a drippy faucet: the Springs Preserve. Read more »
Seven Questions
Jenna Morton
On her green commitment, her ‘veggie car’ and carrying on the communal wine tradition
April 21st, 2011
Jenna Morton’s surname may be widely known because of her husband (Michael, founder of the N9NE Group) and his family (Dad founded Morton’s The Steakhouse; brother Peter the Hard Rock), but she has built her own claim to fame locally with a very different, non-Vegas-nightlife mission: sustainability. Read more »
