City Cast Las Vegas
🏟️ Stadium foes swing for the fences
September 7, 2023
Here’s some quick fun to get your Thursday rolling: AI graphics depicting how Elvis, Sinatra, Sammy, Dino, Phyllis Diller, and other old-Vegas icons would look today. The sad part? Even dead they’ve aged better than I have.
What's CITY Talking About?
🏟️ Stadium Opponents Come Out Swinging
The pro-education group Schools Over Stadiums has filed a petition for a public referendum meant to repeal public funding for the Oakland A’s’ proposed stadium. The Legislature approved up to $380 million. [Review-Journal]
👍 Name Change
The word “paddock” has long meant an enclosed place where you keep horses — or, if you’re F1, race cars. And that’s what race organizers have been calling the event’s main structure. But in Las Vegas, “Paddock” has another, far more tragic resonance — it’s the surname of the Oct. 1 sniper. So F1 will change the name of its building. [KVVU]
- Seems the least they could do after, ahem, “relocating” trees on the Strip. [Vital Vegas/X]
😿 An Animal Mess
A new lawsuit brought by the animal rescue No Kill Las Vegas accuses the already-embattled Animal Foundation, the valley’s main government-funded shelter, of skirting spay and neuter laws. [Nevada Current]
🛒 Changes in Store?
As grocery store giants Kroger (which owns Smith’s) wants to buy Albertson’s (which owns Safeway and Vons), host Dayvid Figler, food writer Kim Foster, and contributor April Corbin Girnus discuss the implications, good and bad. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
What To Do
🫶🏽 Love on Jackson Block Party | Friday | 4:30-7:30 p.m.
Celebrating the renovation of one of the Historic Westside’s most fabled streets with food, entertainment, kid stuff, and more. [Jackson Avenue between D and E streets; free admission]
🎉 First Friday | Friday | 5-11 p.m.
Rescheduled from last Friday by Mother Nature. This month’s theme is “Soulful September.” [Arts District; free]
🖼️ Opening Reception for ‘Hija/e/o/x(s) de Su—’ | Friday | 6-9 p.m.
This exhibit features multimedia artworks that bring together the Latinx communities of Las Vegas and Reno. [Nuwu Art Gallery + Community Center, Huntridge Park; free]
🎨 Reception for ‘Jackson Street Project’ | Saturday | 6-9 p.m.
Using trash and industrial castoffs from renovations on West Las Vegas’ historic Jackson Avenue, artist Steven Spann has assembled a suite of sculptures celebrating the potential of that which is discarded: materials, people, communities. One night only. [The Doyle, downtown; free]
Today on City Cast
Is There a Safe Way to Merge Grocery Giants?
Grocery behemoth Kroger is trying to buy grocery behemoth Albertsons. What does this blockbuster deal mean to Las Vegas? Podcast host Dayvid Figler talks to contributors April Corbin Girnus, of the Nevada Current, and Kim Foster, the Beard Award-winning author of the forthcoming book “The Meth Lunches.”
More Kim: Listen to Kim Foster outline the problem with Pinkbox Donuts and give her thoughts on school lunches. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
Finally today, your moment of zen: Check out the “ram cam,” a live feed of the Boulder City park where desert bighorn often gather. See you tomorrow.
☕ Scott Dickensheets
Thanks to Sonja Cho Swanson for the edits!
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