media
Found Material
The Bloom Before the Boom
(Life.Time.com)
May 24th, 2012
Las Vegas was 50 years old in 1955, but the city as we know it was barely starting to take shape at that point. Read more »
Site to See
Meet The People’s Villain
(Facebook.com/RexVelvet)
May 24th, 2012
While attractive young actors portraying fictional superheroes occupy our cinemas from here to Labor Day, a real-life superbattle is brewing in Seattle. Read more »
Vegas Tech
Preparing to Put It All On (the) Line
May 24th, 2012
To prepare for the introduction of legal online poker in Nevada later this year, company executives and regulators met at UNLV on May 18 to discuss how to regulate the business. Read more »
Found Material
Diamond in the Rough
(LATimes.com)
May 17th, 2012
We’ve all heard that you never want to buy the most expensive house in a neighborhood. So imagine how hard it is then to find a buyer for the most expensive residential listing in foreclosure-laden Las Vegas. Read more »
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. Read more »
Media
Taking Over the Southwest
May 17th, 2012
If Gabe Shepherd has his way, the buzz at next year’s SXSW interactive conference won’t be generated by an app or website but by the Las Vegas technology community. Read more »
Site To See
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. Read more »
Social
Online Dating for History Buffs
May 3rd, 2012
Curious about when the Aladdin hotel-casino was imploded? Or the day tennis star Andre Agassi was born? Or—for you lovers of the obscure—when the post office in McGill, Nev., opened? All three of these events had recent anniversaries—and you would have known all about it if you followed @HistoryNevada, a Twitter page dedicated to providing daily “on-this-date” facts related to the Silver State. Read more »
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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. Read more »
