Tag: Las Vegas
Las Vegas Correspondence – March 2016
Las Vegas
March is Sports month in Las Vegas!
Let March Madness begin! March is the true beginning of the nicest weather in Las Vegas. During the month you can usually attend sports activities with moderate...
Las Vegas Correspondence – January 2016
Las Vegas
In Las Vegas, It's That Time of Year for ... Exercise!
Sure, you could go to the fitness centers in Las Vegas in January and do the normal treadmill, step-walker, row-boat, jog around the...
Las Vegas – Correspondence – December 2015
Las Vegas
In some parts of our glorious state, there is snow, sleet, hail and rain. In Las Vegas, there is sun, lots of sun. And because there is a lot of sun, there is...
Nevada Correspondence – November 2015
In this edition:
Baker, Gold Point, Las Vegas(2), Laughlin, Lincoln County, Mesquite, Tuscarora, Virginia City, West Wendover, Railfanning in Nevada
Baker
Although November sees fewer humans in and around Baker, it's the time of year when thousands...
Nevada Correspondence – October 2015
In this edition:
Baker, Las Vegas(3), Lincoln County, Mesquite, Tuscarora, West Wendover, Railfanning in Ely
Baker
October is one of the most beautiful months to visit Great Basin National Park. The cool, crisp air and changing colors makes...
Las Vegas – Correspondence – October 2015
Las Vegas
It's time for Oktoberfest in Las Vegas!
Motley Brews presents the Las Vegas Downtown Brew Festival on October 24th for adults over 21 years of age featuring unlimited samples from over 60 breweries with...
Nevada Correspondence – September 2015
Each month our intrepid correspondents file dispatches from around the state. In this edition:
Las Vegas(3), Lincoln County, Mesquite, Reno, Smith Valley,
Tuscarora, Railfanning in Verdi
Las Vegas
Rio Hotel & Casino
How often do you visit the Rio Hotel...
Las Vegas – Correspondence – September 2015
Las Vegas
Rio Hotel & Casino
How often do you visit the Rio Hotel & Casino? You might be missing out if you have not taken a tour of this just-off-the-Strip location. It’s easy to get...
Nevada Correspondence – August 2015
Each month our intrepid correspondents file dispatches from around the state. In this edition:
Gardnerville, Gerlach, Las Vegas, Lincoln County, Mesquite, Railfanning, Sparks, Tuscarora, West Wendover
Gardnerville
Meet Carolyn, the afternoon bartender at the "New" Overland Restaurant...
Las Vegas – Correspondence – August 2015
Las Vegas
Since pizza is one of the five main food groups, I only eat the very best. Not a problem in Las Vegas as Tony Gemignani, who owns and operates Pizza Rock, is the...
Nevada Correspondence – July 2015
Each month our intrepid correspondents file dispatches from around the state. In this edition:
Eureka, Hawthorne, Las Vegas, Lincoln County, Mesquite, Tuscarora
Eureka
Eureka is talking about open pit mining and vultures, and unlike the Comstock these are...
NevadaGram #161 Sesquicentennial Nevada Day
Nevada Day was very big this year, being the Sesquicentennial edition and all. The year-long effort to celebrate the milestone with events and activities around the state — more than 500 of them...
NevadaGram #154 – Rural Round Up in Ely, Comstock Mining Update, Burning Man Art...
By mid-afternoon on the last day in April, a bus coming from Reno, another one from Las Vegas and a slew of passenger cars coming from every which way had all accomplished the voyage...
NevadaGram #135 – November 2012 A Heavenly Day in Fallon, Must-see, Must-do for 2013
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The New York Times visits downtown Las Vegas and finds Zappos.
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NevadaGram #116 – Rural RoundUp in Mesquite, Surprise in Eureka
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American Airlines introduces its passengers to Sheriff Stone of Gold Point.
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NevadaGram #115 – Mining Threatens Virginia City National Historic Landmark, Fitzsimmons Defeats Corbett...
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The New York Times goes winter kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
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NevadaGram #109 – Inside Nevada’s Mutable Border: Randsburg California
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The folks from Vail go skiing in the Rubies.
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On the map, Nevada is an oddly shaped chunk...
NevadaGram #106 – The California Trail and Virginia City’s Camel Races
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Nevada's ancient Bristlecones are under attack.
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I was pounding the keys upstairs over an Elko barroom, so I missed the...
NevadaGram #98 – Death Valley and Tonopah
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The New York Daily News gnaws on some ribs.
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Someone once described...
NevadaGram #92 – April 2009 Incident at Tonka Tunnel, Hollywood comes to Gold...
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The New York Times eats lamb testicles in Virginia City.
History books will tell you that the first American soldier to shed his blood in World War I was a lieutenant...
NevadaGram #90 – Fallon is Fun City, Sidetrip to Washington DC, a Glimpse of...
For a long time I've wanted to write an article titled "Fallon for Lovers" but I never had the gumption to go there with romance in mind. But even though the idea has slid...
NevadaGram #74 – Laughlin, Tonopah
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The New York Times takes a cruise on the Desert Princess.
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NevadaGram #68 – April 2007 Gold Point, Tuscarora, Las Vegas and Laughlin
This time instead of looking back on a visit here or there, I'm looking forward. But the basic idea is the same: enjoying Nevada. And I'm hopeful that the sunny skies will especially inspire...
NevadaGram #63 – Eureka, Elko, Las Vegas, Gold Point, Wadsworth
If they gave a Pulitzer Prize for grocery stores, Raine's Market in Eureka would have won it already.
It is an amazing store. In its 19th century building — pressed tin ceiling, oiled wood floor...
NevadaGram #54 – Valentine’s Day in Lovelock, Armpit’s Over, Art in Baker and Las...
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The New York Times goes shopping in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #53 – The Waver, A Guilty Conscience, Romance in Lovelock and Wine Tasting...
I felt a sudden flash of — was it joy? — in Reno the other day when I saw Nevada's only living saint performing his ongoing miracle.
The Waver! Ed Carlson was walking along...
NevadaGram #51 – Governor’s Conference, Baker, Eureka, Ely, Pahrump
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The Los Angeles Times meets Frenchies in Las Vegas.
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The recent Governor's...
NevadaGram #49 – Hooters in Las Vegas, Cow Camp, Old Yella Dog Ranch
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The San Francisco Chronicle goes boy crazy in Las Vegas.
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NevadaGram #47 – Caliente, Panaca, Pioche, Planet X
Among the many things I don't understand is why so few people from Las Vegas are visiting the rest of Nevada.
Of course there has been a mainline connection between Las Vegas and Los Angeles...
NevadaGram #37 – Virginia City, Rawhide, Las Vegas, Carson Valley, Ione, Ely and Topaz...
It must have been the rumble of Harleys that woke me up to the fact that things are changing in Virginia City. Landrum's, the locally famous diner on Reno's South Virginia Street (since 1947),...
NevadaGram #33 – 1400 miles through the sagebrush, Part Two
It's been a while since I returned home from a 9-day, 1400-mile trip through the sagebrush but I'm still enjoying it. Here are some highlights from the second half of the trip, from Pioche...
NevadaGram #31 – Jazz, Railroads, Dude Ranches, the Mary Jane Sisters in Eureka and...
No sooner do the first wildflowers of spring begin to paint the mountainsides than Jazz music fills the air around Nevada.
A consortium of Las Vegas investors has bought Tonopah's historic Mizpah Hotel and announced...
NevadaGram #28 – The Governor’s Conference on Tourism
The 20th annual Governor's Conference on Tourism ran its brief course at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, easily the best of them all, if only for the wonderful Caesars Palace food.
Twenty years ago I...
NevadaGram #27 – The MaryJane Sisters, a Reno Hotel with a Heart and Doing...
The only disappointment of my recent visit to Las Vegas was that Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas was not yet open.
The $12 million, enclosed beer garden, a replica of the famous one in Munich,...
Trip Report #21 – Denio, Carson Valley and Carson City, Death Valley, Sparks, Las...
I made a little trip out I-80 and took the opportunity to visit Denio, the little remnant of a town on the Oregon border via US 95 and Nevada Routes 140 and 292. It's...
NevadaGram #12 – August All Around Nevada, Love Note to Beatty and Cowboy Salt
The new edition of The Complete Nevada Traveler is now at the printer. Getting it there took all our August traveling time, so this Trip Report is a melange of items from around the...
NevadaGram #4 – Tonopah Bouncing Back, Las Vegas is Still Slow
Among the e-mails we've received recently was this one from Saskatchewan. Thanks, Carolyn.
THE TOP 21 BUFFETS IN LAS VEGAS
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