Geoff Carter
Senior Editor
Story Archive
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A&ELas Vegas’ Punk Rock Museum is a warehouse of songs and stories
Thursday, April 6, 2023 Guided tours will be conducted by the musicians who helped shape its accumulated history, including L7’s Jennifer Finch, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz and Fishbone’s Angelo Moore.
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FeaturesHow might artificial intelligence enhance Las Vegas’ hospitality machine?
Thursday, April 6, 2023 “Don’t let science fiction influence what you believe about advanced technology.”
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A&EDepeche Mode's March 30 show at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena was pure joy
Friday, March 31, 2023 If the 40-plus-year-old band is aging out of this job, no one’s said it to their performance.
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A&EProducers of Las Vegas hit 'Absinthe' bring a 'DiscoShow' to the Linq Hotel
Friday, March 31, 2023 Spiegelworld's 'DiscoShow,' opening at the Linq Hotel in the summer of 2024, will encourage guests to boogie down with the performers in a fully immersive homage to 1970s glitz.
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A&EWhat inspires Troy Heard, artistic director for Las Vegas’ Majestic Repertory Theatre?
Thursday, March 30, 2023 “‘Sweeney Todd.’ I was a weird little kid who was obsessed with horror movies and haunted houses, and all of a sudden there was a slasher film onstage. That was a very powerful experience.”
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NoiseMeow Meow’s classic-yet-subversive cabaret show hits Las Vegas
Thursday, March 23, 2023 She sings, she tells stories, she banters with the audience. And when she sings, the room goes still and rapt.
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A&EWinston Fisher, CEO of Las Vegas’ attraction mecca Area15, invites you to jump down the rabbit hole
Thursday, March 2, 2023 “When you look at some of our experiences, they have the capability to be more successful here than they would be in some other location. People are coming here with a mindset.”
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A&EDowntown Las Vegas’ new Beverly Theater arrives as an art house cinema lover’s dream
Thursday, March 2, 2023 Music fans will delight in the offbeat performers and genres that will be booked into the auditorium and enjoy a pristine sound mix.
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A&ETouring immersive art show Transfix to debut at Resorts World Las Vegas
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 Comprised of 50 large-scale art pieces installed throughout a 200,000 square-foot multi-level venue, Transfix will invite visitors on a journey through psychedelic tunnels and past kinetic sculptures, fire-breathing artworks and hypnotic video installations.
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A&EVic’s brings classic Vegas vibes to the here and now
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 The stylish, 8,560-square-foot jazz club and Italian restaurant opened this month adjacent to the Smith Center in Symphony Park.
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TasteDistinct flavors make Yukon Pizza’s brick-and-mortar something special
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 The price is right, too: A 14-inch pie ranges from $11 to $22, depending on what and how many goodies you get on there.
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NewsThe City of Las Vegas creates a civic gathering place
Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023 A festival geek could look at the placement of the stages in the rendering and easily imagine multiple bands playing alternating sets.
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Fine ArtHealth for Life quadruples its commitment to the Arts District with four colorful murals
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023 The pieces are in markedly different styles, but they share a similar palette, which makes those four walls feel like all of a piece.
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A&EThe Culinary Union’s Bethany Khan fights tirelessly for Nevada’s workers
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 “I’m really productive when others are sleeping,” she says.
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A&EEverything we know about Las Vegas’ Punk Rock Museum, set to open March 10
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023 It will display iconic punk rarities including show flyers, handwritten setlists, items of clothing items, stage props and storied instruments you’ll actually be able to play.
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A&ELas Vegas gets a new FM station devoted to EDM
Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023 Acid 87.7 FM, a 24-hour dance music station that appeared on Vegas’ dial in late 2022, plays a mix of artists that aspires to go deeper than the club headliners and large-type festival names.
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A&EUniversal is bringing a year-round horror attraction to Vegas' Area15
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 The horror experience, whose official name and opening date have yet to be announced, will be the anchor tenant of a 20-acre expansion of Area15.
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A&ESpiegelworld, producer of Vegas hit 'Absinthe,' has bought a California town
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023 The circus company says it bought the former mining town with the intention of making it its base of operations, a sheltered place "where Spiegelworld artists and performers will retreat to dream, create and undertake unfettered artistic experimentation."
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A&ETenacious D talks Las Vegas, NYE performing and leaf blowers
Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022 “We were supposed to go on a four-day fast where we ate nothing, just water. We broke that rule almost immediately. We just started f*ckin’ snack attacking.”
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NewsUNLV’s Shoah Survivors Project wins prestigious award
Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022 The London Indie Short Festival recognized the film, which depicts the stories of four Las Vegas-based Holocaust survivors, with its Best Documentary Short award.
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A&EWatching all six Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil shows in five nights
Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022 Six 90-minute TV shows make for a proper “season,” so, I realized, Cirque du Soleil could be binged, too.
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A&EGallerist Stefania Bortolami’s ‘Artist/City’ puts great art in an unlikely Las Vegas venue
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022 The series brings works by Koichi Sato, Susumu Kamijo and Jonas Wood to the cavernous former Greyhound bus station that’s now part of Downtown’s Plaza Hotel and Casino.
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TasteSorry, Not Sorry Creamery stakes its claim for best ice cream in Las Vegas
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022 I’ve tried at least 15 flavors, and loved just as many.
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A&ELas Vegas Artist Brian C. Gibson has much to say, and he’s discovering multiple ways to express it
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 His ‘Boytoy Summer’ art residency runs through the end of November at the Inside Style space in the Arts District.
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A&EWynn Las Vegas has an audacious new ‘Awakening’ in its theater
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022 A wholesale reimagining of the former ‘Le Rêve’ space includes seats wired for individual 3D sound and a one-of-a-kind stage that’s essentially a gigantic glass LED screen.
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FeaturesHide and seek: Touring Las Vegas’ coolest secret spaces
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022 We’ll tell you where to find them, what you might expect to discover once you’re inside and how to gain entrance through those secret doors.
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A&EPhantogram returns to Las Vegas, and to the light
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 In the eight years since the duo’s first Vegas appearance, they have accumulated a legit selection of show-stopping hits, killer tracks that should lay Brooklyn Bowl flat.
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FeaturesLast-minute Halloween costume advice from a Las Vegas expert
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 I don’t necessarily think running around town and grabbing a bunch of stuff from Halloween superstores is the best idea.
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A&EScary movies: Las Vegas notables weigh in on their favorite Halloween season cinema
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 “Freddy’s line, ‘No running in the halls, Nancy,’ still gives me chills to this day.”
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A&EWith new ownership and the same great pizza, the Hard Hat Lounge aims to become Las Vegas’ local fave
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 Robby Cunningham and Frank Sidoris are now running have done the beloved Industrial Road haunt.
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FeaturesYou’ve never seen a museum like the Office of Collecting and Design (in Las Vegas or anywhere else)
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 In our era of impermanent, unlovable junk, there’s something life-affirming to these drawers full of engraved spoons, rubber stamps and spools of thread. And admission is free; that’s nice, too.
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Fine ArtLeon Keer’s “Crypto Casino” mural brings a new dimension to Downtown Las Vegas
Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022 It kinda sticks out. That’s the point.
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NoiseSt. Vincent gives Vegas a night of surprises and joy at the Pearl
Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 Virtually the whole of St. Vincent’s set is composed of surprises and out-of-body moments. Her voice is clear and strong, her movements strong and compelling and her interactions with the crowd are effortlessly friendly. It looks like magic, but it’s really just backbreaking hard work, and Annie Clark does it.
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A&EThe Weekly interview: St. Vincent talks Malcolm Gladwell, Iggy Pop and the Las Vegas residency she didn’t know she wanted
Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 “[Performing] is a funny skill that you can only get better at by doing it in front of people. I guess it’s kind of like sex, right?”
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A&ELas Vegas isn’t a city for pedestrians, but we could make it one
Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 Pedestrian deaths in Southern Nevada are up 33% over last year. So far this year, 36 pedestrians have been struck and killed by drivers.
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A&ELegendary Las Vegas dive and tiki bar DJ Professor Rex Dart knows how to captain a party
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 “I never know what I’m gonna play from night to night. I’ll bring my surf box, my blues box, my exotica box, my lounge box, and then I take the best tracks and try to make a cohesive story.”
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A&EThe Crystal Method’s Scott Kirkland talks Las Vegas and the legacy of their debut album
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022 25 years ago, a pair of Las Vegans dropped their debut album during an epochal year for electronic music, a year when more than one important techno act made their mark. And the Crystal Method more than held their own.
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A&ENearly a decade in, Life Is Beautiful has made an indelible cultural impact on Las Vegas
Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022 The walls of Fremont, freshly painted with murals for LIB’s first year and for every festival since, remain vibrant and alive.
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TasteLas Vegas food truck 303 in the Cut goes big and bold
Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022 Try anything with the house-made sauces—the 303, roasted garlic aioli, 303 ranch and, especially, the green chile.
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Concert ReviewsKendrick Lamar's Las Vegas visit was a revelation
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 Kendrick Lamar's current tour pretty much confirms what we've suspected about the gifted rapper for 10 years now: He is a generational talent, one whose music and image will far outlive him.
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ArtLife is Beautiful 2022 brings fresh art to the streets of Downtown Vegas
Friday, Sept. 9, 2022 Once again, Life is Beautiful is presenting a robust visual arts program alongside its music, culinary and comedy offerings, and once again, it promises to leave a prettier Downtown Las Vegas in its wake.
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A&E‘Rick and Morty’ portals onto Fremont Street in Las Vegas
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022 “What city in the world is more receptive to a spectacle?” she asks, just as a tourist tries to make off with some of the set pieces and is chased away by security.
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FeaturesIt’s been 20 years since First Friday began transforming Downtown Las Vegas
Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022 “I was like, ‘There’s 2 million people in Portland, and there’s almost 2 million people in Vegas; we’re already doing something like this, and there’s no reason it can’t happen.’”
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FeaturesTwo very different high schools take up residence on a shared Downtown Las Vegas campus
Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022 This month saw the opening of a sprawling, modern campus at Maryland Parkway and Oakey Boulevard, one that houses two specialty schools: Central Technical Training Academy and Global Community High School.
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A&ELandscape contractor Melissa Gonzalez turns Las Vegas Valley yards into ‘sacred spaces’
Thursday, July 28, 2022 "Nature journaling allows me to connect with myself, to de-stress.”
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A&EIconic Vegas! Las Vegas News Bureau opens a vault on 75 years of photo history
Thursday, July 21, 2022 Liberace, atomic testing, The Beatles and beyond.
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A&EMaluma, Prince Royce and more headline Rumbazo, a big Latin party coming to Vegas in September
Thursday, July 14, 2022 This two-day, star-studded bash, celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, is a welcome and long-overdue entry Vegas’ annual music festival calendar.
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A&EExploring New Orleans Square, the unexpected cultural hot spot of Commercial Center
Thursday, July 14, 2022 Multiple art galleries and performance spaces, a 1990s-style coffeehouse and a 1970s-inspired bar are just the beginning.
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A&ETake the stairs at the Cosmopolitan to discover Stephen Powers’ striking murals
Thursday, July 14, 2022 Also known as ESPO, the artist’s freehand creations offer messages of affirmation and twisty wordplay.
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FeaturesTouring Las Vegas’ many Elvis-related locations
Thursday, June 30, 2022 If you want to walk in his footsteps today, take a right turn off the Strip onto Elvis Presley Boulevard and head for the Westgate.
