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Downtown Las Vegas street art: Fremont Street and the Arts District
Street art may not come to mind when you think of Las Vegas. That’s fair, I thought the same thing. Are there even opportunities for street art in Las Vegas? The brief answer is yes: Las Vegas has top notch street art. Better yet it’s all within walking distance if you’re staying downtown. Downtown Las…
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Review: Omega Mart (no spoilers)
By now you’ve probably seen ads for something called “Omega Mart,” beckoning you to a specific address in Las Vegas. If you’ve read this far, I bet you’ve already visited the Omega Mart website and learned it’s part of something called Dramcorp. After visiting Omega Mart three times last week I thought I’d provide…
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The Neon Museum, aka the Boneyard
For a city with as much history as Las Vegas, you hardly ever see it. Almost nothing on the strip is older than about 30 years. Even downtown the older buildings have had their facades replaced so many times you often can’t tell the difference between a 10 year old building and a 90 year…
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The Mob Museum
Located in an old courthouse building in Downtown Las Vegas, The Mob Museum tells the story of the mafia in America. It’s a story that most Americans are at least somewhat familiar with, but how often do you learn about it in a museum setting rather than from a secondhand story in a movie? After…
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Signs of the COVID-19 times part 5
The summer is long over since my last post in this series, and tomorrow marks a whole new year. A lot changed since that last post we’ve had a presidential election and the first vaccines are (slowly) rolling out to hopefully put an end to this pandemic before next summer. Though in the more immediate…
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The forgotten monument that was once on top of San Francisco’s Mount Olympus
While poking around Atlas Obscura the other day I came across a truly odd monument that I immediately knew I had to check out. Eccentric businessman and former mayor Adolph Sutro had a statue named “Triumph of Light” built to mark the center of San Francisco. The problem is if you consider the landmass on…
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Signs of the COVID-19 times part 4
It’s been a couple months since my last entry in how this global pandemic has transformed daily life in San Francisco. There’s still no vaccine on the horizon despite Russia’s premature announcement, and likewise the United States has utterly failed to combat the pandemic under Trump’s leadership. In other words, the important things haven’t changed…
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Signs of the COVID-19 times part 3
Since last month’s entry in this ongoing series, a number of local, national, and world events have occurred. It’s been a strange, though hopeful time for the most part. Here’ some more changes I’ve seen around San Francisco. In the most literal sense of the title of this post, the city’s Department of Public Health…
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Signs of the COVID-19 times part 2
Since last month’s entry the pandemic-related changes around the Mission and Castro area have only accelerated. As retail slowly reopens some of these changes may be short lived, so let’s take a look at where things stand now. The city’s Department of Public Health has plastered almost every block with signs about social distancing, wearing…
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Signs of the COVID-19 times
With the COVID-19 coronavirus spreading so quickly, everyone’s had to adapt at a rapid pace. Some of the changes are clearly sad and less than ideal, yet safety has to be prioritized or more people will wind up dead. It’s worrisome that some don’t seem to mind the latter part of that equation. Like most…
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