Geoff Carter

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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.

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.

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.

Kendrick 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.

Life 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.

‘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.

It’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.’”

Two 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.

Landscape 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.”

Iconic 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.

Maluma, 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.

Exploring 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.

Take 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.

Don’t know your Elvis from your elbow? Start here

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Music, movies, podcasts and more.

Touring 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.

Red Dwarf specializes in Detroit-style pizza and tiki-inspired cocktails

Thursday, June 23, 2022

The place makes hours seem like minutes and encourages you to meet the bartenders and begin describing the place as “my local.”

Atomic Liquors celebrates its 70th year in Las Vegas

Thursday, June 16, 2022

The Downtown bar will mark the occasion June 17-19 with drink specials throughout the weekend, culminating in a Sunday-night spaghetti dinner.

Downtown Vegas' Majestic Repertory Theatre unveils its 2022-23 'slate' of shows

Thursday, June 2, 2022

The Arts District-based theater company is staging several topical shows that speak to this desperate, dispiriting cultural moment with a smile.

Touring the Las Vegas Valley’s ever-changing collection of street murals

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Work by local and international artists cover Downtown’s Fremont East and Arts District corridors, and new murals are joining older works in Henderson’s Water Street district.

Downtown Requiem: ‘Happy at Any Cost’ is a sad, harrowing account of Tony Hsieh’s final days

Thursday, May 26, 2022

I had to push myself to read through those final pages, for reasons beyond the obvious.

Might Las Vegas’ DIY indie fest Neon Reverb return?

Thursday, May 19, 2022

The multivenue Downtown gathering hasn’t been held since n 2018, but its stakeholders vow that it’ll be back, at a time to be determined.

A multiverse of radness: Our 2022 summer movie guide

Thursday, May 12, 2022

What to expect from ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Jurassic World: Domination,’ ‘Thor: Love and Thunder,’ ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ and many more.

Going off-script with A Public Fit Theater Company co-founder Ann Marie Pereth

Thursday, May 5, 2022

“Theater is about conversation. If you do it really well, people will lean in, because it’s happening in real time right in front of you.”

Shan Michael Evans’ colorful Freed’s Downtown Las Vegas mural is a treat for the eyes

Thursday, April 28, 2022

“I wanted people. … [And] the cakes, looking like hats, are their thoughts and desires visualized.”

Pop top art: Valley craft brewers get creative with their cans

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Tenaya Creek cans, designed by artist Kendrick Kidd, sport a deep blue band at the top that represents the desert sky, and a deep brown band at the bottom standing in for the desert floor.

Orville Peck and Yola are making country music without borders

Thursday, April 21, 2022

The up-and-coming artists play the House of Blues within days of each other.

Las Vegas-adjacent variety festival Ignite returns with new motivation

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The Sandy Valley Ranch festival, running April 22-24, aims to be a family-friendly celebration of Vegas' circus community.

Interactive show ‘Particle Ink: Speed of Dark’ redraws reality in a Downtown Las Vegas warehouse

Thursday, April 14, 2022

The creative team includes alumni of Cirque du Soleil and New York’s acclaimed interactive theater production ‘Sleep No More,’ working in concert with secretive, Vegas-based visual art collective The Light Poets and a dozen or so other performers.

Las Vegas drive-thru dispensaries bring convenience and customer service

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Downtown’s NuWu Cannabis Marketplace, owing to its location on tribal land, introduced a drive-thru in summer 2020.

Catch these Coachella-bound acts on Las Vegas stages this month

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Flume, Black Coffee, Buzzy Lee, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and more.

Five Thoughts: 'Letterkenny Live' at the Chelsea in Las Vegas, April 2

Thursday, April 7, 2022

A cult hit Canadian comedy series came to the Cosmopolitan for an extended Vegas visit, and the city responded with a Texas-sized 10-4.

Cheapshot brings cabaret shenanigans and good old-fashioned boogie to Downtown Las Vegas

Thursday, March 31, 2022

But Cheapshot, a collaboration between Saunders and Ryan Doherty’s Corner Bar group, is specifically built to be the kind of variety cabaret space the British-born Saunders has become accustomed to performing and producing shows in around the world. To a degree, the bawdiness is baked-in.

Las Vegas cannabis dispensary-adjacent Trece has something tasty for almost any craving

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Don’t sleep on the Southern classics, which include chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits and a Cajun spice-rubbed half rotisserie chicken, plated with creamy garlic mashed potatoes.

Changing course: Andrea Lipomi, getting her foot in the healthcare door

Thursday, March 24, 2022

“My mom went back to school for her master’s degree in library science when she was in her 60s, and I’m in my late 40s going for my master’s degree.”

Circus performer and registered nurse Stephanie Castellone performs a life-saving act with BurlyCares

Thursday, March 24, 2022

“We make it a point to advocate for people--to get them what they need, and ultimately keep them at their house, because nobody wants to be in and out of the hospital.”

Changing course: Carey Cowart, going full viking

Thursday, March 24, 2022

He’s hopeful his fellow healthcare workers—and their families and friends—will come to his campground to shed their work-related stresses.

The neighborhood surrounding the Smith Center is becoming the live/work epicenter of a new Las Vegas

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Two luxury apartment blocks have opened in the past year, and their developers understood the assignment: They’re contributing a vital component to what is functionally a second Vegas Downtown.

BMI's Wave In Festival brings art, literature and music to Las Vegas this May

Monday, March 7, 2022

Author Roxane Gay, musician May Khoi and more feature in this "roving celebration" of the arts and cultural awareness.

The Haas Brothers unleash a fantasy-steeped menagerie in Downtown Las Vegas

Thursday, March 3, 2022

‘Haas Vegas,’ with its menagerie of beasts made largely from cast bronze, synthetic fur, porcelain and electric components, is less a gallery show than a rescue team, providing humor, wit and genuine wonder at a time when we sorely need it.

Smith Center's latest Broadway Series will bring "Hadestown" and the return of "Hamilton" to Las Vegas

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

This year's edition of the Smith Center's popular stage series features Broadway hits like "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Moulin Rouge: The Musical," "Hadestown," "Jagged Little Pill," "Hamilton" and more.

Gamer’s Paradise: Find unlimited fun at these Las Vegas arcades

Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022

Emporium at Area15, the Pinball Hall of Fame and more.

Yu-Or-Mi Sushi Bar serves inventive dishes in Downtown Las Vegas’ Arts District

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022

Try the chef’s nigiri platter for a sampler of tuna belly, sweet shrimp, king salmon and snapper, or swing big for the chef’s sashimi platter and let Chef V knock your socks off with an 18-piece seasonal assortment.

Fest at your own pace: The virtual world suits Boulder City’s Dam Short Film Festival well

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022

“People told us they watched programs they never would have stayed for [in person], like the music videos or the underground program.”

Versatile Las Vegas actress Annette Houlihan Verdolino on the local theater scene

Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022

She’s hilarious, helium-voiced burlesque emcee Blanche DeBris, and she even appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s original Magic Mike film.

Every week, Las Vegas improv comedy troupe Bleach starts fresh

Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022

“I very firmly believe that if we’re having fun, the audience is going to have fun.”

Despite COVID setbacks, the RTC is building a 21st-century mass-transit network for Las Vegas

Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022

With the promise of funds from the bipartisan federal infrastructure bill, the agency is looking to build on its strengths while modernizing its fleet.

These Las Vegas performers traded the stage for viral video—and they’re in no hurry to go back

Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022

The @wesandalison channel now has more than 68,000 followers, and countless more viewers encounter the stories when they go viral.

Dozens of millennial emo and pop-punk acts to play Las Vegas’ When We Were Young festival

Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022

My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Bring Me the Horizon, A Day to Remember, Avril Lavigne, Bright Eyes, Jimmy Eat World and many more will play the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on October 22 and 23.

Touring Las Vegas’ Instagram-ready locations

Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022

If you’d like to Instagram Las Vegas in a way that truly captures its eccentricity, individuality and beauty, start with these spots.

Freed’s latest dessert shop adds a tasty accent to Downtown Las Vegas’ Arts District

Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022

These cakes, cookies, cupcakes, brownies and rugelach are without peer, and this bright, cozy store is packed with them.