City Cast Las Vegas
🐯 How did 7 tigers end up in one home?
April 3, 2025 · Rob Kachelriess
Are you enjoying the schizophrenic weather? ☀️🌧️🥶🔥🌬️
It’s just a little something we call spring in Las Vegas. But when it’s hot, it’s hot. That’s why NV Energy wants to raise rates by up to 9%, while claiming customers will somehow come out ahead in the long run 🤔
What's CITY Talking About?
🐅 Seven of the Ragged Tiger
Authorities tranquilized and seized seven tigers from a private home. And yes, it happened in Pahrump. The homeowner was taken into custody too. [KVVU]
🏳️⚧️ Switching Teams
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association approved a new policy limiting high school students to sports that align with the sex listed on original birth certificates. [KRNV]
⛪ Taking the Lord’s Name in Eminent Domain
The oldest Presbyterian Church in Las Vegas will close after 70 years, following an $18.5 million settlement that ceded property to accommodate the I-15 Project Neon expansion. The Grace Presbyterian Church will hold temporary services at another venue before moving to a new location under construction in the Southwest Valley. [KSNV]
🏘️ North Las Vegas Gets Bigger
North Las Vegas is getting a new neighborhood after receiving a nice gift: 7,000 acres of BLM land 🎉 East Tule Springs will have homes, businesses, and a north UNLV campus. So what else? Take a survey and weigh in on what you’d like to see done with the neighborhood. I’m voting for a Trader Joe’s, boozy pickleball courts, and a new casino with nothing but 3/2 blackjack 🃏 [KTNV]
- How about affordable housing? That works too 👍 Gov. Lombardo has a $250 million plan to expand eligibility and encourage development in Nevada. [Las Vegas Sun]
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Meet us at UnCommons this spring!
- Thursdays 4-7 p.m.; live music featuring Scorpio & General Admission pop-up.
- Fridays 4-7 p.m.; live music featuring Jessica Manalo, stand-up comedy sets and pop-up floral cart.
- Sundays 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; live poetry readings from Beyond the Neon & music featuring Jessica Manalo
What To Do
Thursday, April 3
- 🧵 Sewing Machine Certification at West Charleston Library | 12 - 2 p.m. | Free with registration | Charleston & Torrey Pines
- 🎨 Contracting Best Practices for Artists Workshop at Historic Fifth Street School | 5:30 - 7 p.m. | Free | Downtown
- 🎤 Open Mic: Poetry in the Dining Room at Taverna Costera | 7 - 10:30 p.m. | No cover | Arts District
- 🎭 Magic is Friendship at Vegas Theatre Company | 8 p.m. | $21.94 | Arts District
Friday, April 4
- 🥪 Grand Opening at Urbane Cafe | 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Free admission | Rainbow & Arby
- 🚨 Symposium on Policing Commercial Sex Work at Boyd School of Law | 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Free tickets | UNLV
- 😋 Grand Opening at Mo' Bettah's Hawaiian Style Food | 10:30 a.m. - 10 p.m. | Free admission | Flamingo & Buffalo
- 🎨 First Friday at the Arts District | 5 p.m. - 11 p.m. | Free entry | Downtown
- 🎭 References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at Charleston Heights Arts Center (through April 22) | 7 p.m. | $45 | Charleston Heights
- 🎻 String Quartet Concert: Beethoven & Shakespeare at Whitney Library | 7 - 8 p.m. | Free | Tropicana & Nellis
- 🎸 Jackyl at Count's Vamp'd | 7:30 p.m. | $27+ | Sahara & Rainbow
🎉 Congratulations to our local James Beard Award finalists!
Best Chef: Southwest
Sarah Thompson of Casa Playa
Eleazar Villanueva of Joël Robuchon
Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service
Cristie Norman of Delilah
While I’d like to see far more Vegas representation in the awards — especially off the Strip — the recognition for the above three finalists is well deserved 👍
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