City Cast Las Vegas
🥺 Rocky road for Trop closure
March 28, 2024
⚾ Opening night for the new Las Vegas Aviators season is tomorrow at the Las Vegas Ballpark in Downtown Summerlin. The team faces the Reno Aces with a military flyover and post-game fireworks 🎆
What's CITY Talking About?
🎰 Bally’s Downgraded as Trop Limps To the Finish Line
Less than a week before the Tropicana closes, its operator was downgraded by two credit rating organizations. Moody’s Investors Services and S&P Global Ratings are sour on Bally’s Corp., which could affect the casino company’s involvement in a new resort affiliated with the pending A’s baseball stadium at the site. [Review-Journal]
🌵 The Caper of the Confiscated Cacti
Let’s say you were a criminal mastermind. What would you steal? Jewels, cash, casino chips? How about cactus plants? Two men were arrested for doing just that. Police say more than 40 cacti, worth up to $8,000, have been swiped recently from Henderson communities. [KSNV]
🤔 Is Vegas Bad for the Middle Class?
An analysis of the top 50 metropolitan markets claims Las Vegas is the absolute worst place to live for the middle class — with the exception of Fresno 🤨 The study took cost-of-living increases into account as well as the “true rate” of unemployment and weekly earnings. Just wondering — are strippers and other contract workers counted as “truly” employed? [The Hill]
- Add this to the list of ridiculous thoughts people have about Vegas. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]
What To Do
Thursday, March 28
- 🍷 Duckhorn Wine-Pairing Dinner at the Ahern Hotel | 5 p.m. | $165+ | Downtown
- 🎬 Flamingo Film Club at Clark County Library | 6 p.m. | Free | E. Flamingo
- 👭 Wine, Women & Wigs at Bottega Exchange | 6 - 8 p.m. | $30 | Spring Valley
- 🍴 Crystina Nguyen 00 Pie & Pub Takeover | 6 - 9 p.m. | $50 | Chinatown
- 🎸 Members of Foreigner’s Very Important Beer at SoulBelly BBQ | 6:30 p.m. | $25+ | Arts District
Friday, March 29
- 💎 Denim Vs. Diamonds at Firelight Barn Dinner Theater | 6 p.m. | $26+ | Henderson
- 📚 Exit, Pursued by a Bear at Clark County Library | 7 p.m. | E. Flamingo
- 🍹 F The Bar Cocktail Class at Fergusons Downtown | 7 p.m. | $35 | Fremont East
- 🎥 After Hours at the Beverly Theater | 7:30 p.m. | $10 | Downtown
Saturday, March 30
- ☀️ Spring Carnival & Egg Hunt at Whitney Ranch Recreation Center | 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. | $10 | Henderson
- 🐶 Dog Gone Spring Fun! at Heritage Bark Park | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | $7 | Henderson
- ⛰️ Great Unconformity Cleanup at Frenchman Mountain | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Free | Eastside
- 🌷 Family Spring Fling at Floyd Lamb State Park | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Free | Northwest
- 🚂 Boulder City Bunny Express at Nevada State Railroad | 4 p.m. & 6 p.m. | $25+ | Boulder City
Today on City Cast
How to Forage in Vegas this Spring
Vegas City Cast co-hosts Dayvid Figler and Sarah Lohman (who’s also a culinary historian) discuss the edibles that you can find in park, trails, and other wide-open spaces throughout Las Vegas.
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Thanks to Sonja Cho Swanson for the edits!
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