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I spent this past Saturday night downtown at Work In Progress for the National Day of Civic Hacking. This was the Vegas version of a national event that combined programmers, hackers, designers, and just all-around geeks, and challenged them to create tools and apps from public data. The datasets at the disposal of the participants consisted [...]
Las Vegas has the fastest growing population of veterans in the country. Veteran in the Valley is a series focusing on the strange transition from soldier to civilian in Las Vegas and the veterans that call this city home. Recently I’ve talked to some friends that I served with in Iraq. It’s been brought to [...]
The 2000 movie Billy Elliot has been made a Broadway musical, and while I'd never seen the film, the production that came through The Smith Center last week was one of the best I've seen there. We had the pleasure of being Brian Paco Alvarez's and Zappo's guests for this stunning production, though it was [...]
This year’s Viva Ska Vegas festival was decidedly riding the Third Wave more than skank fests of the past. Viva Ska Vegas was hosted by Tazy Phyllipz, creator of So Cal radio show The Ska Parade. Be Like Max represented the local Ska set, but noticeably absent were The Remedies who played a show elsewhere [...]
Las Vegas has the fastest growing population of veterans in the country. Veteran in the Valley is a series focusing on the strange transition from soldier to civilian in Las Vegas and the veterans that call this city home. We knew we were going to be deployed to Iraq long before we actually left. [...]
The InNEVation Center hosted Startup Weekend Las Vegas, May 3-5. The nearly 120 attendees split into 12 teams to concept, design, code, and pitch an idea to a panel of judges over a weekend. The first night started with pitch exercises, aimed to get everyone into the spirit of collaboration. Out of those gazillion, 12 teams [...]
Here's a quick roundup of gallery offerings in the Arts District this month. Above: detail from "Cottontail" by Charley Harper @ Trifecta Trifecta Gallery American Modernist Charley Harper (1922 – 2007) Design in the desert consists of 4 rare originals from the estate of Charley Harper, signed artist-proof screenprints from the highly collectable sold out [...]
Las Vegas has the fastest growing population of veterans in the country. Veteran in the Valley is a series focusing on the strange transition from soldier to civilian in Las Vegas and the veterans that call this city home. March of 2002. Ft. Lewis, WA. I was finally done with training, and in the "real" [...]
"So … This is radio." Saturday night's "Reinventing Radio" at the Smith Center began with a near pitch black room. Host Ira Glass paced around the stage, faintly illuminated by the glow of an iPad–"I tried to convince the staff here to have the entire show in darkness." Eliminating the visual allows us to tune-in [...]














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