Geoff Carter
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A&E
Artist Shan Michael Evans throws humanity a block party with ‘Saints and Poets Maybe’
Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 Known best for his murals and street art, Evans conceived this Nevada Humanities Arts District gallery exhibit as an introduction to his work.
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Features
It’s time to put down that phone and pick up a proper camera
Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 Venerable west Valley camera shop B&C occasionally offers a “Photography 101” course.
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Features
Primed for photography: explore these rich local neighborhoods and sites
Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 The great photojournalist Dorothea Lange once said: “To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting.”
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Taste
Winnie & Ethel’s diner owners Aaron Lee and Mallory Gott serve up the brunches and roll with the punches
Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024 Their personal touches make the experience uniquely memorable, from Lee’s lovingly realized diner staples to Gott’s mismatched, thrifting-score coffee cups.
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Features
The Las Vegas Playlist: Outsider Edition
Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024 Before the ascension of homespun superstars, it fell on outsiders to write and perform songs about Las Vegas that could reach the ears of an international audience.
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Features
Compact city: For Las Vegas to grow sanely and sustainably, we need to build inward
Thursday, July 25, 2024 If this metro is to survive its growing pains, our piecemeal town must become a more realistic, more compact city. The key is urban infill.
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Nightlife
Shrunken heads bring star power to Chinatown’s Golden Tiki
Thursday, July 11, 2024 Shrunken heads bring star power to Chinatown’s Golden Tiki
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Features
Remembering the Mirage volcano and the romance it brought to the Strip
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 The Mirage volcano — and the heavily landscaped, three-acre water feature that surrounds it — would have turned 35 years old on Nov. 22 of this year ...
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Features
The Fabulous Sin City Roller Derby keeps on jamming
Thursday, June 20, 2024 Among the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s founding leagues was Las Vegas’ own roller derby, which played its first season in 2005.
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Features
Disgusted by LGBTQ hate? Become an active ally
Thursday, June 13, 2024 The 2021 passing of Nevada SB148 through the state Legislature requires law enforcement agencies to submit monthly records of hate crimes.
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A&E
Interactive visual spectacular ‘Particle Ink’ reinvents itself at Luxor
Thursday, June 13, 2024 “Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms” can be experienced at Luxor nightly except Tuesdays, and its “Wanderlust” version runs daily, all week long.
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News
New broadband internet options from Google and others will transform the Las Vegas Valley
Thursday, June 13, 2024 In August 2022, GFiber announced plans to expand into Nevada, and recently reached agreements with Clark County and the City of Las Vegas to begin building out service in Southern Nevada.
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A&E
Champion pizzaiolo and Yukon Pizza owner Alex White is really cooking
Thursday, June 6, 2024 White won first place in the Non-Traditional Pizza category during the 40th annual International Pizza Expo.
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News
Bob Dylan’s music tells a story of determination in ‘Girl from the North Country’ at the Smith Center
Thursday, May 30, 2024 Playing at Reynolds Hall June 4-9, “Girl from the North Country” tells a Depression-era story of resilience set in Bob Dylan’s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota.
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Features
Go to theaters this summer for the blockbusters, but stay for the unexpected
Thursday, May 23, 2024 Movies belong in theaters, And Las Vegas has some terrific ones—state-of-the-art “luxury” multiplexes, an independent arthouse cinema and one of America’s relative few remaining drive-ins.
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A&E
‘Piecing It Together’ host David Rosen takes his podcast from the studio to the multiplex
Thursday, May 9, 2024 Rosen has begun recording live episodes of “Piecing It Together” immediately after screenings at Maya Cinemas and other Valley theaters.
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A&E
Artist Gear Duran’s new Downtown mural embodies Nevada’s frontier spirit
Thursday, May 2, 2024 The mural recreates an encounter with a wild mustang in our Nevada wilderness using a palette of vivid, electric city colors.
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Features
How the experiential Area15 complex could become a new kind of Las Vegas theme park
Thursday, May 2, 2024 Area15 has subverted and transformed Vegas’ take on themed attractions—and it’s becoming one of our rare cultural exports.
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Noise
Mariah Carey’s new residency is a retrospective, a biography and a gift to fans
Thursday, April 25, 2024 The first five songs of Mariah Carey’s show at Park MGM come off like a fireworks display.
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A&E
Kynd gummies offer bright new tastes to defeat your troubles
Thursday, April 18, 2024 Ayr Wellness, a cannabis retailer with several Valley locations, is tackling any confusion head-on with its new gluten-free edibles that tell you, right up front, how they’re intended to be used.
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Nightlife
Thrive’s new Smoke and Mirrors cannabis lounge sets the standard
Thursday, April 11, 2024 Locals can comfortably light up or drink up at Smoke and Mirrors, recently opened inside Thrive Cannabis Marketplace on Sammy Davis Jr. Drive.
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Taste
Junior’s brings more than its famous cheesecake to Resorts World
Thursday, April 11, 2024 The Brooklyn-born Junior’s has a truly winning way with the classic dessert, and the rest of the menu is rich with the kind of deli and diner staples that are worth a trip to the Strip.
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Taste
Whataburger is shaking up the Las Vegas Strip
Thursday, April 4, 2024 The Texas chain’s Dr Pepper shake is a simple pleasure but it satisfies in a rare way, hitting the sweet spot between fast food shake and ice cream float.
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A&E
Radiant City: Las Vegas’ skyline is getting an LED makeover
Thursday, April 4, 2024 Applying color and light to Vegas’ resort towers is not a new idea, but LED lighting hardware like the Rio’s offers endless changeability.
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News
Closing for good on April 2, Tropicana Las Vegas leaves behind a legacy of showmanship and reinvention
Thursday, March 28, 2024 The historic Tropicana hotel and casino will shutter to make way for a new baseball stadium and resort. The storied hotel-casino closes its doors April 2, just two days shy of its 67th birthday. Over the next year, the land the Tropicana now occupies will be ...
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Noise
Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas celebrates 10 years as a live music mecca
Thursday, March 28, 2024 Since opening at the Linq Promenade in March 2014, Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas has been a destination for some of the best and most under-appreciated names in music.
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Features
Las Vegas chef James Trees doubles down on his beloved hometown with a new Esther’s Kitchen
Thursday, March 21, 2024 Trees knew that Las Vegans were ready for the kind of dining he knew in LA—neighborhood spots with relaxed vibes and ingredients from family-run ranches and farms.
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A&E
Miniature artist Susan Canaday Henry delights in the details
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 Canaday Henry is a regular at miniature trade shows, including the International Market of Miniature Artisans (imomalv.com) this weekend at Palace Station.
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Taste
UnCommons has an Italian hit with Amari
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 An airy space with a wood-and-metal interior and a broad patio overlooking the courtyard, Amari checks so many boxes that it’s tough to say what its biggest draw is.
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Features
Don’t skip the weird and wonderful Mystic Falls Park at Sam’s Town
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 Generations of locals have taken out-of-town friends to Mystic Falls, and families have added the show to their holiday traditions.
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A&E
Nevada Shakespeare Festival’s Matthew Morgan and his collaborators serve up the Bard one shot at a time
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 Morgan has appeared in Strip shows including “Absinthe,” but maybe you’ve seen him in the the ongoing “Shotspeare.”
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News
Too many empty buildings in Downtown Las Vegas are ready to burn. What can we do to protect them?
Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 The vulnerability of these buildings is a constant concern for property owners and residents who live next door to all this historic kindling.
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Politics
You may be frustrated by the system, but that doesn’t mean it’s stopped working—unless you give up
Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024 This year, your informed and conscientious vote could be the epochal act that pushes us away from autocracy and saves people you’ve never met.
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Taste
Winnie & Ethel’s Downtown Diner serves up comfort and nostalgia all day
Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 The Huntridge Center restaurant was born out of “The Great Las Vegas Coffee Shop Giveaway.”
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A&E
Downtown Las Vegas dog-themed tiki bar Stray Pirate is your new best friend
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023 Let the canine pirate puns commence, and enjoy a tasty cocktail, too.
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Features
Five things we noticed on our hard-hat tour of Fontainebleau
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023 The BleauLive Theater has a capacity just under 4,ooo and a big floor suitable for GA shows or boxing matches.
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Taste
Silver State-based Frey Ranch farms and distills spirits that are perfect for giving, and keeping
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023 The flagship, 90-proof, sustainably farmed straight bourbon whiskey tastes as natural and unaffected as the place it was born.
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A&E
Pens N’ rosins: Camp’s latest disposables are the vapes you’ve waited for
Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 The Vegas-based brand is available through The Source and other dispensaries.
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A&E
John Waters brings his special kind of Christmas show to Las Vegas
Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 “I’m jealous because Elvira has a slot machine with their name on it. I want one where you always lose.”
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A&E
‘Mystère’ forever: Cirque du Soleil’s Vegas original celebrates 30 years of thrills, laughs and wonder
Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 “They really made something that Vegas hadn’t seen before, something very unique, very magical, mysterious and kind of bizarre. It hits so many emotions.”
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A&E
A new Neon Museum piece illuminates our Valley’s history
Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians funded the restoration of this 2001 Palms neon sign.
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A&E
The Beverly Theater’s Kip Kelly wants to introduce you to your next favorite thing
Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023 The young theater’s chief experience officer is eager to take on even more ambitious programming challenges.
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News
Las Vegas needs to rethink its parking lots and garages before they take over the city
Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 “You can’t have a city of a certain size where everybody feels entitled to drive their air-conditioned vehicle to their air conditioned destination.”
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A&E
Smart, sexy Dita Von Teese burlesque show at Horseshoe Las Vegas captivates
Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 The curtain rises, the stage blazes with light and there they are: some two dozen performers, strutting in Pete Menefee and Bob Mackie-designed costumes of feathers and Swarovski crystal.
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Features
With new book ‘The Meth Lunches,’ Kim Foster lends Las Vegas an empathetic ear
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 Foster’s prose is pure dynamite. Her dialogue sticks and moves, and her narrative voice is relatable and modest.
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A&E
Is Las Vegas haunted? Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans investigates
Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 “Wherever you have death, wherever you have energy, wherever you have people’s emotions, you know you’re going to have a residual haunting.”
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Features
Go Southwest: Exploring the dining, activities and vibes of the Las Vegas Valley’s newest corner
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023 It took a while for the western Valley to crowd in around the 215, but today, southwest Las Vegas is booming.
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A&E
U2's residency at Las Vegas' new Sphere unites technology and showmanship
Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023 U2’s show at Las Vegas’ new Sphere, an 18,000-seat venue dominated by a concave, 16K-resolution screen, isn’t so much a game-changer for U2 as it is a leveling-up.
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Features
How fake frontier towns, an erupting volcano and other Las Vegas attractions paved the way for Sphere
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 It’s hard not to look at an immense ball with a fully programmable LED skin and not wonder, just how did this happen?
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A&E
Our favorite Life Is Beautiful sets—ever!
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 When crowds descend on Fremont East this weekend, they’ll encounter a living museum of great street art from festivals past—and some fun new surprises.