Southern Nevada’s earliest Mexican and American traders, explorers, adventurers, and settlers encountered nomadic bands of Natives who called themselves Tudinu, or Desert People, and have come to be known as Paiute. The Paiute comprise three closely related indigenous people of the Great Basin (northern) and Mojave (southern) Nevada deserts; the Southern Paiute are also native […]
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Grateful Vegas—The Dead Change Everything
Though it liked to call itself the Entertainment Capital of the World, when it came to concerts by touring acts, Las Vegas was decades behind cities like San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, and Miami. In fact, as late as the mid-1980s, Vegas had all of two venues for concerts: the […]
Greater Vegas — Basque
Of all the quality, quantity, and variety of food that Las Vegas offers its 40-plus-million visitors and two million residents, one type of cuisine isn’t available and never has been: Basque. For Basque restaurants, you need to go out into Greater Vegas. The Basque people, who inhabit the Pyrenees between Spain and France, are the […]
Greater Vegas–Wheel of Fortune
Life is change, the sages tell us. Heraclitus of Ephesus was a Greek philosopher remembered for his “Doctrine of Change,” in which “everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.” For a couple thousand years, Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance and luck, has been represented as holding a wheel, symbolizing the incalculably transitory nature of […]
Greater Vegas—Space and Time
When I introduced Greater Vegas in my first blog, I explained that the idea was to extend Las Vegas out to state lines Nevada shares with California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and Oregon, at the same time that Nevada infiltrated the seemingly self-contained and autonomous Las Vegas city-state. However, Greater Vegas exists as much in vertical […]
What Do Restaurant Critics Do?
[Editor’s Note: The sixth edition — and third incarnation — of Eating Las Vegas is in production. The 2018 version of our restaurant guide is down to two authors: John Curtas and Anthony Curtis. John was in the original ELV author trio with Al Mancini and Max Jacobson, the book took its name from his website, […]
Greater Vegas—George Whittell and the Thunderbi...
George Whittell Jr. was born in San Francisco in 1881 into one of the wealthiest families in California. When George was 40 in 1921, he inherited $29 million. A gambler to his core, he invested it in the stock market and for the next eight years, he watched it nearly double. But also seeing his edge […]
Greater Vegas—East Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is the crown jewel of western Nevada. High in the northern Sierra, 91 miles around, with its cutthroat trout, black bears, pristine beaches, and dense pine and fir forest, the lake is about as far from Las Vegas, figuratively, if not exactly geographically, as it’s possible to be and still be in the […]
Greater Vegas—How I Met Anthony Curtis
Anthony Curtis and I have been joined at the hip, editorially speaking, for 25 years. In all modesty, one reason that Huntington Press and the Las Vegas Advisor have survived, while most gambling periodicals and every single gambling book publishing company have not, is due to the enduring alliance between two dedicated Las Vegas content […]
Local Corner—7 Sinful Subs
Local Corner—7 Sinful Subs 4632 S. Maryland Pkwy., 702-998-2555 Las Vegas is lousy with sub shops: Jersey Mike’s, Jimmy John’s, Firehouse, Port of Subs, and of course, Subway, just to name a few. They’re fairly interchangeable. Then there’s the gold standard, Capriotti’s (LVA 4/11), which is anything but. So when a new place shows up […]
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