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By Sam Glaser 6/18 2:54pm

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Gold Spike

What’s Up With the Gold Spike?

Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project espouses the ideals of building communal spaces that foster serendipitous human interaction—“collisions” in Zappos parlance—to accelerate learning, innovation and productivity. Downtown Project’s purchase of Gold Spike from the Siegel Group exemplifies the group’s intention to become a community hub that maximizes collisions. Downtown Project communicator Kim Schaefer cites Read More
By Geoff Carter 6/17 11:39am

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Moments of Irie: Photos from Reggae in the Desert

With performers that included Luciano, Capleton, Marcia Griffiths and Steel Pulse, there’s no question that Reggae in the Desert — a two-day music, culture and arts festival held June 15 and 16 at Clark County Amphitheater — was a good time. Question is, was there any genuine irie to be found? Judging by the Read More
By Timothy Pratt 6/14 10:27am

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To Downtown, with Bytes and Kicks

Jared Montz stood in black underwear on Hollywood Boulevard, ready to begin juggling a soccer ball for the camera. It was April 19, the last stop in the former professional soccer player’s two-month, 43-city tour across the country. The idea: to juggle and get others to do the same, all in the interest of Read More
By Geoff Carter 6/06 12:52pm

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Is Metro Stepping Up Warrant Searches Downtown?

In Las Vegas’ criminal justice system, the people are represented by two groups. One is the lawyers, who say that the Metropolitan Police Department has stepped up its procedure of running the license plates of cars stopped at traffic lights to look for outstanding warrants, particularly in the Downtown area. The other group is Read More