Vegas Moment
Vegas Moment
Wayne on wheels
October 25th, 2012
The last time Lil Wayne went skateboarding in Vegas, it was at 1 Oak when the club built a makeshift ramp for him. Apparently it was time to take it al fresco when he recently shot a video downtown. Read more »
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Illuminated Descent
October 18th, 2012
Sky and technology offered complementary splendors on the morning of Oct. 15, and this YESCO worker had a front-rope seat. The sign at Harmon Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard—the world’s largest full-motion LED screen—passed diagnostic muster. Read more »
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The Downtown Aquarium
October 11th, 2012
Of all the impressive neon-hued characters among the 4,000 participants of Vegas Seven’s inaugural GlowRun, perhaps none made a bigger impression than the Balloon People. This festooned bunch drifted elegantly—if a little squeakily—like aquatic creatures through the sea of humanity that was Fremont East the evening of Oct. 7. Read more »
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Elevate Your Game
October 4th, 2012
Spring comes early in youth baseball—or, rather, it never really goes away. And plenty of kids wouldn’t have it any other way, especially the 110 members of the freshly minted LV Rebels baseball club. Read more »
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Monument games
September 27th, 2012
The Stratosphere knows how to do iconic. In fact, to the untrained eye, it exists first as an icon, second as an amusement park and a distant third as a place to lose your money and sleep off your losses. So it was fitting that a sports competition that looked like a slick architectural installation came to the hotel-casino Sept. 19-23. Read more »
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Do I approve this message?
September 20th, 2012
For this girl, President Barack Obama’s speech to 8,000 supporters Sept. 12 at Cashman Center may have been such a moment. When the crowd chanted “Four more years,” she chimed in, four fingers raised. Then she got back to wondering what all the shouting was about. Read more »
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Raftin’ Rebels
September 13th, 2012
UNLV students emerged bleary-eyed from class on Sept. 11 to find their cars in worse shape than their football team. Torrential rains had soaked the Valley and sent the airwaves crackling with flood warnings. It was the sort of day that rewarded patience and preparedness. These two Rebels, afloat in the Thomas & Mack Center parking lot, had plenty of both. Read more »
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Got Socks?
September 6th, 2012
Is it us, or is there something chilling in the vision of hundreds of disembodied shrink-wrapped sneakers pointed our way, an army of phantom Jordans ready to walk right over us into a future where shoes become a pure fetish item, with no more need of pesky feet? Read more »
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Head in the Clouds
August 30th, 2012
One recent tapestry-sky DAY, intrepid freelance photographer Elizabeth Wolynski wandered the north end of the Strip in search of inspiration. Block after block she walked without meeting a living soul, until this fortuitous encounter with the owner of Alex Presley’s Unique Boutique. Read more »
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She’s So Vine
August 23rd, 2012
Sometimes nature-watching in Las Vegas is a two-way street, as this camera-wielding pedestrian discovered during a recent trip to the Shoppes at the Palazzo. Read more »
