Living Las Vegas

Real Life in the Shadow of the Strip

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Top Vegas Hotels: Bellagio, Luxor, Rio

I Came, I Saw, I Rode the Escalator: The New Forum Shops at Caesars Palace

The Forum Shops “Phase III Expansion” opened on October 22, but somehow I didn’t get there until a couple of days ago. Until then, I had to wonder how in the world somebody could engineer a triple-decker spiral escalator. Of course, I also had to wonder about the awesome new tenant improvements and over-the-top pseudo-Roman décor…

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The Great Indoors

The Silverton is well known to travelers arriving by car from Los Angeles. It’s the first large casino you come to with a genuine Las Vegas address. RVers and truckers know it well, too. The Silverton’s RV park is one of the nicest in the city, and there’s a TA truck strop right across the highway.

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Book Review: Las Vegas Weddings

Las Vegas Weddings: A Brief History, Celebrity Gossip, Everything Elvis, and the Complete Chapel Guide, by Susan Marg

With over 170,000 marriage and renewal ceremonies each year, Las Vegas easily out-distances its nearest competitor, Reno, for the claim of “Marriage Capital of the World.” In Las Vegas Weddings: A Brief History, Celebrity Gossip, Everything Elvis, and the Complete Chapel Guide, author Susan Marg traces the evolution of the wedding industry in Sin City since 1933. She provides a fascinating look into dozens of chapels currently operating in Las Vegas, part of a thriving wedding industry that contributes, she estimates, over $1 billion each year to the local economy…

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Megawatt Cactus

If you ever had the thought that a city in the desert lacks the ability to look suitably Christamas-y, all you have to do is head to the Ethel M Cactus Garden to find out that you’re very, very wrong. For the eleventh year running, the destination best known for delectable chocolate (another thing you don’t expect to find in a desert) has flipped the switch on a quarter of a million Christmas lights…

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To the Megaliths and Beyond

Here’s a great irony. Las Vegas, the city best known for being fake, is surrounded by some of the best natural scenery in the Western Hemisphere. Oh, I know you’ve been told Sin City is an unnatural blight in the middle of the most unattractive and inhospitable landscape to be found on the planet, but trust me, you’ve been misinformed.

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Living in Las Vegas -- what's it really like? Ten local writers share news & views from Southern Nevada.