DOWNTOWN PROJECT
When an art gallery serves as much more than a space to exhibit artwork, it serves its community in many ways. And so it is with Blackbird Studios. The gallery owned by Gina Quaranto, Jesse Smigel, and Gia Ray doesn’t merely present the work of artists; it nurtures them and the community, too. Serving its [...]
Jody Sherman, founder of Ecomom, sold his previous business to Richard Branson’s Virgin. It was a private jet company, a venture that Sherman describes as “helping rich people fly around in airplanes and putting pollution into the world.” For his next act, Sherman knew that he wanted to not only make a living, but also [...]
Having recently relocated to Las Vegas to become a part of the revitalization of Downtown, Greg Baine shares his personal perspective about people and events in his new hometown. This is his first of many posts. You can follow his adventures on Twitter @GregBaine. As I stare out my window at the city I now [...]
Ammy Miller Creator, Burses by Ammy “It was a friend’s birthday. I needed a gift, so I gave her the very first one,” says Ammy Miller about the first Burse that she created. What is a Burse? It’s a purse made from a hardcover book. It’s clever—very clever. Or as Miller describes it in her [...]
Hektor D. Esparza Program Leader, Winchester Cultural Skateboarding Program Founder, Push Forward Managing Editor, BLVDS Magazine Hektor Esparza is an artist, a mentor, a leader, a skateboarder, an editor. He’s a busy guy who is working hard to improve his community and, specifically, the lives of a group of skateboarding young people. Esparza created the [...]
Located in a newly refurbished space inside Emergency Arts is a new library for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and techy types. But make no mistake; /usr/lib is not your father’s library. There’s no one there to shush you. There is no prim and proper librarian seated behind a desk ensuring that proper library etiquette is observed. In [...]
Individual tickets for all 26 performances are now available for The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. If you haven’t already purchased tickets for any of the outstanding plays, musicals, and performances scheduled for The Smith Center’s inaugural season, then now is the time. The Broadway Las Vegas series includes presentations of some of the [...]
The Las Vegas Cultural Corridor Coalition has kicked off a December to Remember, a month-long celebration of arts, history, and culture in the area of Las Vegas Boulevard just north of I-95. The coalition is comprised of Lied Discovery Children’s Museum, Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Cashman Center, Las Vegas Library, Old Mormon Fort State [...]
A Friday night in a decidedly old school banquet room at the historic El Cortez Hotel & Casino in Downtown Las Vegas may not seem a likely setting for fast-paced, collaborative technological innovation. But that is exactly what was going on there during the second installment of Startup Weekend. 75 registrants pitched their ideas, chose teams [...]
