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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Speaker to give glimpse into future of 'cloud robotics'
Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 A Berkeley professor/inventor’s talk about “cloud robotics” – a way to make robots more aware – is likely to stimulate the minds of some and confuse others Friday at Downtown Project’s construction zone trailer .
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Bipartisan crowd celebrates congresswoman's swearing-in
Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 A gathering of some 50 people at The Beat coffee shop downtown was almost a throwback to the days when Republicans and Democrats acted civilly toward each other.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Speakeasy revealed, sort of
Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 Some happenings downtown are hidden from the eye because they aren’t ready to be unveiled. Others are hidden on purpose, because it makes them more fun.
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Joe Downtown
Downtown Joe: Parade of pedestrians adds color to East Fremont Street
Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012 Much of life’s rich pageant strolls up and down East Fremont Street each day, hunched over and alone, giddily holding hands, staggering drunk or walking with the ramrod stiff spine of the self-satisfied. At least that’s how the people-watchers size them up. Who are they really?
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Joe Downtown
TicketCake settles into downtown, is broker for New Year's Eve extravaganza
Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 One largely unseen element of the Fremont Street Experience's New Year's Eve party is different this year. A relatively new company called TicketCake is handling ticket sales to the event. TicketCake is a downtown-based business, having moved here earlier this year from Utah after winning funding from Vegas Tech Fund.
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Joe Downtown
State of change: East Fremont is a little street with a big future
Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012 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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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Step aside Elvis, veteran pens song to be the new 'Viva Las Vegas'
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 Armed with a letter of encouragement from Mayor Carolyn Goodman, Steven M. Rutherford arrived with his own Las Vegas song, one he says is more up-to-date and ready to become as iconic as Elvis’ “Viva Las Vegas.”
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Joe Downtown
Blood trails, cyber babes and Tech Cocktails in Downtown Vegas
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 Finding the intersection of Internet businesses past, present and future.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Code for America fellows to bring engineering expertise to downtown
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 First, Zappos and its CEO Tony Hsieh pledged $1.5 million to Teach for America, which will bring hundreds of new college graduates to Las Vegas to teach in economically disadvantaged schools in Las Vegas. Venture for America then received a $1 million pledge. Now comes Code for America.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Bike-share program almost ready to hit the streets
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 A few bikes with back-end solar panels are on the street now. but only as tryouts. During the first week of January, a bike-share program targeting Zappos employees who work downtown will be formally unveiled.
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Architecture
Joe Downtown: PBS architecture show to explore story behind Ruvo clinic
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 A PBS film crew packed and unpacked its gear Tuesday morning on East Fremont Street, interviewing a Downtown Project employee in preparation for a new show to air in late spring.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: County records show Downtown Project, Hsieh buying up properties
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 You can’t swing a dead laptop without hitting someone downtown talking about “Downtown Project” and the Oz-like dreams of more and more development the project is expected to bring to East Fremont and surrounding areas.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Coming changes 'exciting' to Zappos chief
Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 While being interviewed in front of an audience in the double-wide trailer that doubles as a speakers bureau at at Seventh and Fremont streets, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said to expect an explosion of development along Fremont Street in the next year.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: Czech's trek dampened by dose of reality
Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 A Czech Republic exchange student asked anyone who would listen Friday morning about his desire to walk from Fremont Street to Sunrise Mountain. “Vat’s zee best way to get there?” asked Stepan Kucera, on break from a Louisiana university where he spent the semester studying history. Overseas, the 27-year-old is a journalist for the daily newspaper, Právo.
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Joe Downtown
Joe Downtown: 'Unicorn' fills in for llama at Hsieh birthday bash
Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 Apparently imported from North Korea, a unicorn was spotted Wednesday night in downtown Las Vegas in, of all places, a bar. Friends of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh were stunned to see the magical beast inside the Downtown Cocktail Room, where dozens of revelers were helping celebrate Hsieh’s 39th birthday.
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Joe Downtown
Prostitutes, anthrax and 'real' bars: 12 years of Downtown living
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 In his debut, Joe Schoenmann recalls highlights from living Downtown.
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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: 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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Breaking News
Shipping Container Park OK'd for Fremont Street
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 A shipping container park at Fremont and Seventh streets, the idea of Downtown Project and Zappos owner Tony Hsieh, won approval Wednesday from the Las Vegas City Council and is expected to open in 2013.
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Business
More details coming into focus for proposed UNLV stadium
Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 Cost and location plans for a domed, 60,000-seat “mega-event” stadium on the UNLV campus are coming into sharper focus two months before a review by the university system’s Board of Regents.
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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.