Joe Downtown

Lead Photo Joe Downtown: 36 Downtown developments you should know about

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Feb 27, 2013 (1:22 p.m.)

It’s been just over two years since Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh announced the movement of his headquarters from Henderson to Downtown. In that time, Downtown has changed—greatly in some areas, more slowly in others—and growth and interest in Downtown business has outpaced predictions made before the Zappos declaration in late 2010.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: The call of Downtown persuades successful professionals to uproot their careers

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Feb 20, 2013 (4:36 p.m.)

For Michael Downs, former vice president of operations at Bellagio, Downtown Las Vegas used to barely register on his day-to-day radar. Yet downtown is his new work home. He’s shed the suit and tie for, on most days, jeans and a hoodie as the new executive vice president of operations for Downtown Project. Like Downs, others are drastically changing their lives to become part of the Downtown community.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Ecomom and the stresses of entrepreneurship

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Feb 13, 2013 (3:34 p.m.)

Matthias Galica flew to Las Vegas for an answer. He hoped being in the same city, in the same coffeeshops, seeing the same people that Jody Sherman saw would provide some solace, resolve the question that had dogged him for more than a week.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: City’s four-day week has some Downtowners frustrated

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Feb 6, 2013 (1:32 p.m.)

"Thursday is the new Friday," according to one Downtown businesswoman.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Las Vegas becoming less a phase and more a home for many

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Jan 30, 2013 (4 p.m.)

Most Las Vegans came from somewhere else, but feeling ownership of Las Vegas is on the rise.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: ‘Sorceress’ Sarah Nisperos and the origin of Tony Hsieh’s Downtown dream

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Jan 23, 2013 (3:07 p.m.)

Get to know the person who steered the Zappos CEO to Downtown Vegas.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: Strange messages, a mysterious sender and mental health Downtown

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Jan 16, 2013 (2:03 p.m.)

Joe meets the man who's been leaving him odd messages at the Beat.

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Lead Photo Joe Downtown: New-to-downtown doctor sets out to demystify medicine

Joe Schoenmann | Sat, Jan 12, 2013 (2 a.m.)

There may be no one better suited to configure a new way to practice medicine in Las Vegas than Zubin Damania, a Stanford-trained doctor who last year uprooted from the Bay Area and moved his family to Las Vegas. Joining an army of people lured downtown to try something new, Damania is dead serious about medicine — and he embodies a streak of witty silliness displayed on his website.

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Lead Photo Can housing keep up with the Zappos Downtown move?

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Jan 9, 2013 (3:51 p.m.)

Later this year, 1,500 Zappos employees move into their new headquarters, boosting the number of people living Downtown. Trouble is, affordable living in relatively crime-free areas there is hard to find.

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Lead Photo State of change: East Fremont is a little street with a big future

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Dec 26, 2012 (noon)

In nine months, 1,400 Zappos employees will start working Downtown. That's just the beginning. Hsieh has talked openly about all the plans he’s been working on for a year or more and how many of those will be unleashed in the next few months. People will see new businesses everywhere. Suddenly.

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Lead Photo Blood trails, cyber babes and Tech Cocktails in Downtown Vegas

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Dec 19, 2012 (3:46 p.m.)

Finding the intersection of Internet businesses past, present and future.

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Lead Photo Prostitutes, anthrax and ‘real’ bars: 12 years of Downtown living

Joe Schoenmann | Wed, Dec 12, 2012 (6:42 p.m.)

In his debut, Joe Schoenmann recalls highlights from living Downtown.

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Lead Photo Our Downtown columnist offers friendly advice for the area as he prepares to move on

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Nov 28, 2012 (4:35 p.m.)

A last installment of Sun columnist J. Patrick Coolican's Neon Eden column.

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Lead Photo The battle for the Huntridge is waged in frustration and misunderstanding

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Nov 21, 2012 (midnight)

Will the wrecking ball arrive after all is said and done?

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Lead Photo Does Las Vegas need its own Mayor Daley?

J. Patrick Coolican | Tue, Nov 13, 2012 (11:12 p.m.)

Chicago's turnaround mayor is in Las Vegas this week for a Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

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‘Priscilla’ and 500 drag queen costumes bus across the desert for nine-week …
The journey on Interstate 15 across the desert from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for the “Priscilla” musical touring company is as incredible an undertaking as the Australian outback drag-queen scripted adventure itself. The big, glitzy, colorful theatrical production complete with an on-stage cutaway bus takes nine trucks to transport …
Strip Scribbles: MGM to open its walls on the Strip so tourists …
The front façade from the famous gold lion to the north end by M&M’s World is coming down.
Criss Angel survives ‘the most dangerous and frightening thing I’ve ever done …
For 10 nail-biting minutes, several thousand people stood in total silence and watched magician Criss Angel inch his way, blindfolded, across two steel beams swaying 50 feet in the air. The “Mindfreak” star, who is shooting a new series of one-hour specials for Spike TV, was in full view of …

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Cocktail of the Week Jun 12, 2013
by Sabrina Chapman

The Lion’s Tail cocktail at Embers is a spicy classic reimagined for summer

Refreshing, peppery and adventurous; those are the words that instantly come to mind upon first sip of the Lion’s Tail ($9) at Embers Grille & Spirits. This vintage cocktail, which ...
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