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Lead Photo Las Vegas has the potential to be more of a fashion industry player

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Aug 15, 2012 (3 p.m.)

Downtown's upcoming Fashion Lab just might help.

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Lead Photo Dissecting the Downtown glut of bail bondsmen

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Aug 8, 2012 (4:29 p.m.)

How bail bonds work, what the bondsmen do and more.

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Lead Photo A food truck influx has Downtown restaurants—and local government—crying foul

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Aug 1, 2012 (2:24 p.m.)

We often hear that businesses wish government would merely get out of the way. Just as often, however, I see businesses lobbying government to kill off the competition. In the latest example, the Las Vegas City Council is mulling protecting Downtown brick-and-mortar restaurants from their wily new competitors: food trucks. As my Las Vegas Sun colleague Joe Schoenmann reported recently, the owner of Uncle Joe’s Pizza on Fremont East was outraged that “there, in front of his pizza joint, was parked a food truck. And it was selling pizza, no less.”

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Lead Photo Downtown’s dining options are about to explode. Hungry?

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Jul 25, 2012 (4:10 p.m.)

For years, Fremont East was a fun place to drink, especially if you were so committed to drinking (you know who you are) that you didn’t want food to get in the way. Now, however, a restaurant boomlet is coming Downtown. What had been slow and steady progress is quickening, with a pile of new spots opening, in construction or stewing in someone’s imagination.

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Lead Photo Dodger Stadium in downtown LA shows that adding a ballpark is no magic bullet

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Jul 18, 2012 (5:54 p.m.)

Las Vegas could learn something from the City of Angels.

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Lead Photo Why an urban Downtown and lots of free parking spots are mutually exclusive

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Jul 11, 2012 (5:25 p.m.)

Strategic parking policies will be an important part of the Downtown renaissance.

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Lead Photo Coolican measures how far downtown has to go, one step at a time

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Jul 4, 2012 (noon)

After watching the Las Vegas Philharmonic blow the doors off the Smith Center recently, my date and I wanted to have dinner downtown. We stood outside, looking toward the Golden Nugget, and pondered how we’d get there.

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Lead Photo Towne Terrace and the apartment shortage of Downtown revitalization

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Jun 27, 2012 (3:01 p.m.)

Where's everyone going to live?

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Lead Photo Nancy Williams Baker has been bringing color to Downtown for decades

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Jun 20, 2012 (4:29 p.m.)

The costume shop owner intended to stay in town for two weeks — she stayed a lifetime.

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Lead Photo Tony Hsieh’s vision for Downtown might be ambitious, but we need it to happen

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Jun 13, 2012 (2:11 p.m.)

"Not pursuing his brand of urbanism will doom us."

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Lead Photo Frustration takes over in quest for local all-ages music venue

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, Jun 6, 2012 (4:01 p.m.)

Unless it's a religious or educational institution, "it's basically impossible to open a venue for kids."

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Lead Photo On the horizon: A quick look at projects poised to shape downtown

J. Patrick Coolican | Mon, Jun 4, 2012 (2 a.m.)

While development remains fairly moribund in the rest of the Las Vegas Valley, there’s suddenly a diverse array of projects in various states of planning and completion downtown.

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Lead Photo Want a grocery store downtown? Change is in your hands

J. Patrick Coolican | Thu, May 31, 2012 (10:44 a.m.)

My colleague recently moved into a cool place in Soho Lofts in the Arts District—would someone please change the name of this otherwise worthy building?—and is mostly happy with downtown living. But he’s also discovering its frustrations

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Lead Photo Downtown Bound: Column will focus on an evolving, exciting part of Las Vegas

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, May 16, 2012 (4:12 p.m.)

This space is dedicated to one of the most important stories in the Valley.

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Lead Photo The Sahara’s SLS renovation could mean big things for the north Strip

J. Patrick Coolican | Wed, May 9, 2012 (3:42 p.m.)

The hotel's redevelopment project will begin in September.

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The tastemaker: EDMbiz host Jason Bentley breaks down EDC Week’s unifying groove
Bentley has made separate careers of music supervision for film and advertising, as well as DJing nightclubs and music festivals.
New Miss Nevada winners plan for national pageant as Miss America chief …
The newly crowned Nevada representatives going onto the Miss America pageants have less than 90 days to prepare for the national spotlight.
Pat Benatar, Cheap Trick combine for a powerful evening at the Palms
It was the night two great institutions of rock ‘n’ roll teamed up for a knock-out show for the ages — and the “guinea pig” audience loved them for it.

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Cocktail of the Week Jun 12, 2013
by Sabrina Chapman

The Lion’s Tail cocktail at Embers is a spicy classic reimagined for summer

Refreshing, peppery and adventurous; those are the words that instantly come to mind upon first sip of the Lion’s Tail ($9) at Embers Grille & Spirits. This vintage cocktail, which ...
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