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⚕️ Do hospitals dump patients at shelters?
December 1, 2023
Good morning, and happy Friday. December has arrived, and with it the usual festive features of the season: excited children, bad parking, “Merry Christmas” vs “Happy holidays,” and, of course, endlessly self-renewing arguments about whether “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie. Let’s get to it!
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🐡 Provide Your Own ‘Phish Bowl’ Jokes
In welcome jam-band news, Phish has signed up for four days at Sphere in mid-April. A ticket-request portal is open now through Dec. 11; tickets go on sale to the general public on Dec. 15. Word is the band will create different immersive graphics for each show. [KTNV]
🏥 Questionable Discharges?
Perhaps because actual consequences are rare, it’s more common than it should be for local hospitals to drop off fragile, discharged patients at local homeless shelters without alerting family — even, in some cases, when the patient isn’t homeless. Only two rather minor fines have been levied against hospitals in the last five years, according to this investigation. [Review-Journal]
🚨 State Troopers Killed
Two Nevada state troopers were killed on I-15 near Charleston early yesterday morning — as they assisted a roadside motorist, they were hit by another driver. That (alleged) driver fled, but was later captured. [Las Vegas Sun]
🥟 Chinatown Redevelopment
As Chinatown continues to rise as a culinary and cultural scene, its areas of blight are becoming more of a concern. Some 77 acres within the neighborhood’s two square miles have been identified by Clark County as “blighted.” Chinatown is one of several areas being considered for “redevelopment” status, which would make more cleanup resources available. [KVVU]
- Related: Chef-approved dishes in Chinatown’s burgeoning scene. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
❓ Do You Recognize This Man?
The image above is a “facial approximation image” based on the remains of the body famously found in a barrel in Lake Mead in May 2022. He died of a gunshot wound and may have been in the lake since the 1980s. This image is the FBI’s latest bid to identify him. [Review-Journal]
- Context: How likely is it that the mob dumped that body in the lake? [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
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What To Do
Friday, Dec. 1
- 🖼️ First Friday | 5-11 p.m. | Free | Arts District
- 🆒 MFA Open Studios (visual art) | 5-8 p.m. | Free | UNLV
Saturday, Dec. 2
- 🧟 Sin City Horror Fest (film; multiple dates) | Various times | $5-$30 | Downtown
- 🎅 ‘Great Santa Run’ | 8 a.m. | Free to attend; $55 to participate | Downtown
- 🫔 Tamales and Mariachi Festival | 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Free admission | Downtown
- 🤠 Cowboy Christmas | 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | Free | Floyd Lamb Park
- 🎄 Winchester Creative Christmas | 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. | Free | Winchester
- 🎭 ‘The Odyssey’ (theater; multiple dates) | 2 & 7 p.m. | $10 | Charleston Heights Arts Center
- 🧑🎄 ‘Elf: the Musical’ (theater; multiple dates) | 2 & 8 p.m. | $30 | Chinatown
- 🎤 Clint Holmes Holiday Concert (multiple dates) | 3 & 7 p.m. | $37-$59 | Smith Center
- 🎸 ‘Seasonal Downfall’ Album Release by Pure | 5-8 p.m. | $20-$50 | Fremont East
- 🌺 ‘Kalani Pe‘a’s Hawaiian Christmas’ | 7 p.m. | $15 | Henderson
- 🕍 ‘Viva Oy Vegas’ | 7 p.m. | $30-$40 | The Space
- 🎸 Punk Rock Diversity Showcase | 7:30 p.m. | $18 | Punk Rock Museum
- 🤪 ‘Cinderella: A Pantomime for Las Vegas’ (theater; multiple dates) | 7:30 p.m. | $30 | UNLV
- 🎉 ‘My Body, My Choice, or My Foot Up Your Ass!’ (variety show, fundraiser)| 8 p.m. | No cover | Double Down Saloon (✨ featuring City Cast co-host Dayvid Figler and his band Tippy Elvis)
Sunday, Dec. 3
- 🛍️ Market in the Alley | 11 a.m to 4 p.m. | Free | UnCommons, Durango & 215
- 🥬 Vegan Holiday Survival Group | 2 p.m. | Free | West Charleston Library
- 🎶 Nevada Chamber Orchestra, ‘Winter Wonderfulness’ | 3 p.m. | $15 | Summerlin Library
- 🎤 Regional Poetry Slam | 5-7 p.m. | Free | UnCommons, Durango & 215
- 📽️ ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Quote-Along Version)’ | 5 p.m. | $10 | Beverly Theater
Monday, Dec. 4
- 🎶 UNLV Choral Ensemble, ‘Winterscapes’ | 7:30 p.m. | $10 | UNLV
👉 For a more comprehensive roundup of holiday events, ongoing and one-offs, check out our friends at TheList.Vegas.
🎧 And listen to The List contributor Eric Duran-Valle tout this month’s best events!
Today on City Cast
Do Brits Fear the Sphere? Plus, Adelson’s Hoop Dreams, and Holding a Candle to Vegas
Time for this week’s Friday News Roundup, and co-host Dayvid Figler and executive producer Sonja Cho Swanson are joined by a voice from the past — former co-host Vogue Robinson! (The crowd goes wild!) They’ll talk about a couple of big issues (Miriam Adelson buying an NBA team; London’s will-they-won't-they of a Vegas-style Sphere) and a fun small one: What a Las Vegas-themed candle would smell like. (Your thoughts on that will appear in Wednesday’s newsletter.)
➕ Related: Best places to view Sphere. [Hey Las Vegas 📧]
Lastly today, a fun fact from this week’s official inspection of the Burning Man site in Northern Nevada, notoriously plagued by wretched weather this year. What standard did the event have to meet in order to pass? Less than a square foot of leftover debris per acre. It was a squeaker, but Burning Man passed.
See you next week!
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Sonja Cho Swanson perfectly handled today’s newsletter edits!
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