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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Airstreams the next boutique hotel for downtown?
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 What if you could rent out a sleek Airstream recreational vehicle for the night as a hotel room? The idea to put an Airstream park in downtown Las Vegas is being one kicked around by the Downtown Project.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Got a business idea but no funding? Try this
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 Any given day downtown on East Fremont Street will find people gazing at vacant lots or price-guessing as they point toward decrepit buildings. The air of new and potential business is a constant buzz, especially at The Beat coffeehouse, where it seems daily that deals are literally being made or ideas are landing for the first time.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Writer laying groundwork for book on redevelopment effort
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 Get used to seeing Tim Pratt at Zappos and Downtown Project gatherings over the next several months.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Demolition to begin on former 7-Eleven
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 Demolition of some of the interior of the massive building that occupies almost a half-acre on Fremont Street and Las Vegas Boulevard will begin Wednesday.
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Food
Joe Downtown: Pizzeria to open Dec. 26 on East Fremont
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 Radio City Pizzeria is about to become the next new pizza joint to open downtown.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: 'The Simpsons' take on cool hip with downtown crowd
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 Shaved heads, untucked Oxfords and fedoras – trademarks of the hipster – were satirized Sunday night on “The Simpsons” and laughed about Tuesday morning in downtown Las Vegas.
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Business
Insert Coins becomes latest Las Vegas business export
Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 Las Vegas is used to the importation of expensive facsimiles of other cultures to the Strip. We have the New York-New York, Paris and Venetian casinos. Don’t forget the Rio and the Orleans. Taking Las Vegas’ interesting local culture to other cities, however, is a fairly rare concept.
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Coroner
When and how will the coroner's inquest issue be resolved?
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 The Nevada Supreme Court recently called into question one part of the process.
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Features
Vomiting volumes in the cockpit of an F-15 fighter jet
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 It was clearly my most memorable moment in my three or so years at Las Vegas Weekly: I blacked out. I came to right away. But my body wasn’t having it. It decided to vomit out whatever it was that made me black out. And vomit, and vomit. I must’ve thrown up 20 times.