DOWNTOWN PROJECT
Bi-weekly on Tuesday nights, Downtown neighbors and friends gather at The Beat Coffeehouse & Records to laugh, enjoy cold beer, and test challenge one another’s intellects. Want to know more? Check out this short video, check them out on Facebook, and follow them on Twitter @DowntownTrivia.
Oliver Marlow of the design firm Studio Tilt recently spent time in Downtown Las Vegas facilitating a co-design session for a soon-to-be-opened coworking space. Despite a career spent in creating coworking spaces in Europe, Marlow noted the diversity of interests of the attendees of the two-day Las Vegas co-design workshop. “It was one of the [...]
For those not familiar, FounderDating is a website designed to help solve one of the classic startup problems: how to find a compatible partner to get started. They describe their mission this way: FounderDating aims to bring together super-talented entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and skill sets to start innovative new companies When FounderDating first launched, they [...]
How did a Stanford hospitalist who makes YouTube videos as his alter ego ZDogg MD end up in Downtown Las Vegas? That’s a complicated question. So let’s start at the beginning. Dr. Zubin Damania is the son of two Indian immigrant physicians—his father was in internal medicine and his mother a psychiatrist. They never tried [...]
As the VegasTech Jelly marks its first “birthday” tonight, it seems a good time to take of stock of all the great community and coworking activity that’s happened over the last year and look forward to the future as Las Vegas becomes the coworking capital of the world. From a gathering of eight techies, the tech [...]
This week, the Las Vegas Valley chapter is celebrating national Teach for America week with guest teachers spending time in the classrooms of local corps members. Guest teachers include CCSD Superintendent Dwight Jones, the district’s deputy superintendent and CTO, as well as executives from Bank of America and NV Energy. Community leaders from the Caesars [...]
This Saturday and Sunday, a group of sustainably-minded community members will Build a Greener Block. The group will take over a blighted section of Main Street to demonstrate just how amazing (and green) our Downtown can become. The weekend will include pop-up restaurants and shops, live music, and a chance to learn more about how we [...]
TastySpace Las Vegas Art Gallery and Home of Visual Awesomeness opened in February on the first floor of Emergency Arts. Satterwhite has worked in advertising and graphic design for 18 years. After stints at agencies in New York, Boston, and Austin, he and his wife landed in Las Vegas when she took on the role [...]
But we here in Las Vegas can learn a lot from the town of Greensburg, Kansas. In May of 2007, a tornado basically removed the town from the face of the earth. It leveled the whole place. The town, with a population of around 1,500 and struggling with its primarily agricultural economy, could have just [...]
Graham Hill, founder of treehugger.com and lifeedited.com first visited Downtown Las Vegas a little over a month ago. Now he’s hoping to bring his style of living greener here, and his plans to do that won’t just bring about a change in our environment; they’ll change the way we think about how we live. The [...]
