The quest to open a coffeehouse in the Arts District
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 6 months 3 weeks agoTamarisk Wood was your typical Vegas arts kid. She went to the Las Vegas Academy. She saw bands play at Cafe Espresso Roma and Cafe Copioh, the two popular caffeine-fix hangouts across from UNLV...
Atomic Liquors new open date: New Year's Eve
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 6 months 4 weeks agoAtomic Liquors, holder of Las Vegas' oldest liquor license, is still on track to re-open by the end of the year. The bar, which has been shuttered since January 2011, was purchased earlier this...
So long, farewell, etc.
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 7 months 1 day agoSo, here it is -- my last dispatch for Las Vegas CityLife, and I'm writing it from an empty desk. It's weird, since I'm perpetually disorganized and usually have three notebooks and a stack of...
Soul-killing jobs? Las Vegas has 'em
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 7 months 2 days agoThe website CNNMoney just released the results of a survey that asked a variety of workers how they felt about the morality of their occupation. The pollster, Payscale.com, asked 32,000 employees...
No bars at The Smith Center? (The cell-phone kind, we mean.)
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 7 months 3 days ago
Where are you?
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 7 months 3 days agoHint: Mix this guy with the name of the street he's on, and you get his drink.
Exclusive online hint: It's not a brown egg.
Give up? It's the coffee bean character that sits atop The...
Technology to the rescue
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 7 months 1 week agoLast week I wrote about super-PACs, which are collectively spending an ungodly amount of money to influence the election in swing states like ours. Here in Nevada, we've heard it all, from all...
Reid Gardner in words and pictures
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 7 months 1 week agoA few weeks ago, CityLife published a cover story calling for the closure of the coal-fired Reid Gardner Generating Station in Moapa. Tomorrow, some of the groups that have been fighting that...
Commentary: Mr. President, unleash your inner Smokin' Joe
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 7 months 1 week agoAs this lull after the first presidential debate lengthens into the prep time for the second, occasional CityLife contributor Quentin R. Bufogle can contain himself no longer:
Abraham...
Get downtown
This #%&*! Town Comments Permalink 7 months 1 week agoPromoters of this Saturday's Rediscover Downtown event are expecting a bigger crowd than they initially anticipated, and that's not a good thing, according to the two daily newspapers. Between 7,...
