Geoff Carter
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Senior Writer
Here are five things you should know about Senior Writer Geoff Carter. One: He’s been writing about Las Vegas for 20 years, and he likes to think he’ll get good at it someday. Two: His work has appeared in Entrepreneur, Time Out’s 1000 Songs to Change Your Life and on MSN.com. Three: When he was laid off from the Seattle Times in 2008, he tried to re-create the Vegas experience by getting drunk at noon and hitting up the now-defunct Lusty Lady, but it just wasn’t the same. Four: His enthusiasms include photography, Disneyland, burlesque, fiction writing, and frottage. And five: He prefers the title “Señor Writer,” muchos gracias.
Recent Articles
Site to See
The Cheat Sheet
(PorcelainBomb.com)
May 17th, 2012
“Nothing is true in Las Vegas,” declares the nameplate of Porcelain Bomb, a Vegas-centered culture and news aggregate blog that’s come out of nowhere to become one of my most visited Vegas bookmarks.
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Tour Buzz
May 17th, 2012
There’s just something about Vegas’ bathwater-warm summer nights that cries out for roots reggae, and on May 19, Don Carlos will answer that cry.
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Tour Buzz
May 10th, 2012
I’ve heard the Irish band Snow Patrol described a bunch of ways (often as “that one band that kinda sounds like Coldplay”), but I’ve never heard them called a “party” band.
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They Live
(Deadwords.info)
May 10th, 2012
Our world is impermanent. As the song goes, the Rockies may tumble and Gibraltar may crumble—meaning that eventually every little thing we know, from the Great Pyramids to Kanye, will fall to dust.
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King of the Beach(life)
Meet Paul McGuire, the man who’s going to help you fall in love with the Hard Rock Hotel all over again
May 10th, 2012
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Geeks Just Wanna Have Fun
(TheMarySue.com)
May 3rd, 2012
Geek girls are superior to regular, garden-variety male geeks in every way. They know just how to kick Heinlein in the balls, rock the cosplay thing seven ways to Sunday and have what is arguably a more discerning eye for that which is worthy of fandom (Twilight aside). That’s why The Mary Sue, “a guide to girl geek culture,” is so much more fun to read than similar, male geek-written blogs.
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Tour Buzz
May 3rd, 2012
THE CHANGES: There was a time when REO Speedwagon, Styx and Ted Nugent were virtually all you heard on rock radio.
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Tour Buzz
April 26th, 2012
As it turns out, Tiger Jam is not just something that happens when Charlie Sheen doesn’t drink enough water. This annual concert, a benefit for the Tiger Woods Foundation, brings out heavy hitters the likes of No Doubt, Prince and John Mayer for one-off shows.
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Enough Already
(Unsubscribr.com)
April 26th, 2012
My e-mail accounts look like the inside of my head: organized but overwhelmed, and filled with unimportant stuff that sometimes gets in the way of the stuff that I actually need.
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Tour Buzz
April 19th, 2012
Thanks to The Big Lebowski, I can’t think of the Eagles without thinking of the Dude: “I hate the fucking Eagles, man.” Unlike the Dude I like the Eagles, or at least I did when they had five members (lead guitarist Don Felder was fired in 2001), and before Don Henley went solo in the mid-’80s.
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