In the now-famous movie Hangover, a group of guys venture to Vegas and after a night of debauchery and mayhem, they wake up to find a tiger in their room. Well, the Chicago Blackhawks spent three days in Las Vegas before their game on Tuesday night and though they didn’t find a tiger in their […]
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Knights on Ice—No Worries
Outplayed? Outshot? Forced to play your third-string goalie? No need to worry! We’re the Vegas Golden Knights. I’m not sure how the VGK do it. This team just knows how. Do what? Win, that’s what! It’s almost like the rope-a-dope made famous by Muhammad Ali—he just leaned back on the ropes and let his opponent […]
Halloween in Vegas
It’s still a week until Halloween and many venues are already well into their ghostly celebrations. Here are some highlights of haunted happenings around the valley: Haunted Houses & Attractions Fright Dome – Circus Circus – 19-22, 26-31 – $37.95-$149.95 – 7 p.m.- midnight Freakling Bros. Trilogy of Terror – 4245 South Grand Canyon Dr. – Oct. 18-22, 25-28 […]
Las Vegas Story Slam
Anyone familiar with The Moth will understand the Las Vegas Story Slam immediately. Story Slam is a monthly meeting of people from all walks of life. Some get up to tell a story. The rules are, the story must be true, it must have happened to the person telling it, there are no notes or […]
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, […]
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