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Geoff Carter

Senior Editor

Experts in paleoanthropology believe that Geoff Carter began his career in journalism sometime in the early Grunge period, when he joined the staff of Scope Magazine, the monthly alternative magazine that evolved into Las Vegas Weekly. Since then, it’s been nothing but hot rocks, big hits and fazed cookies: working staff gigs at the Las Vegas Sun, the Seattle Times and Vegas Seven; getting his freelance kicks at MSN, Time Out and Entrepreneur. He enjoys traveling, photography, Disneyland, fancy drinks and talking to you. His return to the Weekly staff was prophesied.

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Transfix brings playa-inspired interactive art to Resort World Las Vegas
Thursday, June 1, 2023
It aims to introduce the world to a new kind of art exhibition, one previously locked to festivals.
Five reasons to check out McGill, Nevada's Schellraiser Music Festival
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Happening June 1-3 a few hours north of Vegas, homegrown music festival Schellraiser boasts a smartly-curated lineup that includes Blond Redhead, Asleep at the Wheel, Blitzen Trapper, The Joy Formidable and Dinosaur Jr.
Need EDC wear? Drop in
Thursday, May 18, 2023
”We sell out on body suits; we sell out on women’s face masks; we sell out on gloves, LED gloves. We have a major gloving community out here in Vegas.”
This Maverick is EDC Las Vegas’ top flier
Thursday, May 18, 2023
The traffic snarls leading to and from the Speedway during EDC weekend are legendary. Not so through the air.
Lost Spirits’ submarine-themed dining experience is a voyage worth taking
Thursday, May 18, 2023
The master and commander of your 16-course meal, chef Taylor Persh pulls a couple of Nemo-like surprises, which resolve happily and deliciously.
Summer Movie Guide: These films are meant to be seen in theaters
Thursday, May 4, 2023
‘Guardians’ 3 ‘Fast X,’ ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,’ Barbie,’ ‘Past Lives,’ ‘Asteroid City,’ ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘The Boogeyman’ and many, many more.
The Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum showcases an unparalleled Las Vegas talent
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Not only does it feature a broad-ranging variety of her works, spanning decades of restless creative endeavor, it’s situated directly adjacent to the studio where she conceived and created many of them.
Meet Rose Signor, co-owner of the Silver Stamp beer bar and a literal Las Vegas tastemaker
Thursday, April 27, 2023
“I think the beer scene is wonderful right now; it’s strong. And I think it’s only gonna get better. There’s a lot of talent in this town.”
Vegas’ visually diverse dispensaries are redefining the retail experience
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Drawing from the best practices of presentation, they’re low-pressure, smartly arranged spaces with vibes that range from zenlike to dazzling.
Rolling Numbers: Las Vegas’ cannabis consumption, expressed in facts and figures
Thursday, April 20, 2023
How many Strat towers could you build with sold prerolls?
Snipt brings the Rat Pack tradition to Las Vegas’ rising, new Downtown
Thursday, April 13, 2023
"I hope that residents, locals and tourists smile when they see Sammy, Dean and Frank overlooking DTLV."
Las 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.
How might artificial intelligence enhance Las Vegas’ hospitality machine?
Thursday, April 6, 2023
“Don’t let science fiction influence what you believe about advanced technology.”
Depeche 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.
Producers 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.
What 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.”
Meow 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.
Downtown 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.
Winston 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.”
Touring 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.
Vic’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.
Distinct 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.
The 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.
Health 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.
The 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.
Everything 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.
Las ​​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.
Universal 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.
Spiegelworld, 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."
Tenacious 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.”
UNLV’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.
Watching 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.
Gallerist 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.
Sorry, 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.
Las 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.
Wynn 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.
Hide 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.
Last-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.
Phantogram 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.
Scary 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.”
With 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.
You’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.
Leon 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.
St. 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.
Las 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.
The 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?”
Legendary 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.”
The 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.
Nearly 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.
Las 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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