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First Fridays is always jammin' as we all know, but those of us who are true downtowners like our community and culture served up daily! This is one of those opportunities for people who live and breathe a better city ...
The luxury hotel market hasn't recovered enough for a boutique hotel designed by celebrity chef Charlie Palmer to be built at downtown's 61-acre Symphony Park. That was the news that Richard H. Kaufman, one of the hotel...
Themes dominate the bar scene in Las Vegas with everything from the high-tech features at Eyecandy to wasting away again at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville to girls dancing on the bar at Coyote Ugly. Tourists go on a Tour de Force...
The idea was not sketched on a cocktail napkin, exactly. It was a wax paper wrapper for a Subway sandwich, which Jay Bloom used as his first easel for what is, today, the $25 million, 26,000-square-foot Mob Experience at the Tropicana...
If one group of deep-pocketed investors has its way, downtown Las Vegas will soon be home to three shiny new stadiums that could accommodate sports ranging from baseball to basketball to hockey. The cost? A mere $1.575 billion.
It might seem as though the Las Vegas mayoral candidates, particularly the front-runners, sound eerily similar. All tout job creation as their top priority. All pledge to continue to redevelop downtown. All promise to work with banks...
The appropriate response to the maddening sick-leave abuse carried out by Clark County firefighters is not better oversight. The county needs to reduce the number of sick days firefighters receive, if not eliminate the benefit.
When a major event comes to town, organizers fret over counterfeit tickets, bogus media passes and other popular tricks used to sneak into attendance without paying hefty ticket prices.
I make no qualms about it, I am a major fan of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. As I look outside my windows I see "The Smith" rise like a phoenix out of the ashes of what was Las Vegas's historic railroad yards. In...
Carly Simon's hit "Anticipation" could easily serve as the theme song of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, now a year out from the March 10, 2012, opening with the Broadway musical hit "Wicked." Until...
