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  1. Join Me On The First Everything Everywhere Travel Photography Tour: May 5-19, 2012!

    Blog: Everything Everywhere - 13 December 2011

    Over the last several years I’ve had many readers comment on how they would like to be able to travel with me. Well, now you have your chance! From May 5 – May 19, I’ll be leading a travel photography tour through the American Southwest with G Adventures. The 15-day trip will be visiting many [...]

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  2. 4 Things that don’t have to stay in Vegas

    Blog: Vagabond3 - 12 December 2011

        I’m not a huge gambler. In fact, I’ve probably logged more hours in Vegas Casinos than most people and all I’ve ever gambled is 50 bucks. Yes, I’m counting the time I lived there for three months, and that time in college when I met all my friends for Spring Break. I’m even counting all the weekend Vegas trips from LA and bachelorette parties I’ve attended over the years. While...

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  3. This Blog Is On Hiatus

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 13 September 2011

    Part of the stipulation of my fellowship is a requirement that I stop working and focus on my academics, my long-term projects and my life among the other fellows. I know others don't understand that, but there really is no way to be truly in this extraordinary experience and keep one hand in my "normal" life. That's why the podcast has ended, and that's why this blog must cease to be updated.I have no doubt I'll return to blogging, either here or in another form, after this is over. Trust me, you'll know what that time comes. Or check back here around May 2012.

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  4. R.I.P. Aces Smith-Friess

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 13 September 2011

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  5. Stuff I Found Cleaning Out My Vegas Office

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 10 September 2011

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  6. The Show is UP: The Finale

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 10 September 2011

    We're having some sort of problem with iTunes and our final -- and several recent special -- episodes of "The Strip" have not been making it into the RSS feed. We're working on fixing that right now, but all of the recent episodes since the iTunes snafu began are listed with links to your right on this blog. I hope to have TheStripPodcast.Com fixed and updated as soon as possible.

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  7. The Road Trip, Part IV

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 4 September 2011

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  8. Road Trip, Part III

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 3 September 2011

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  9. The Road Trip, Part II

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 30 August 2011

    After the big party Hunter and I attended in Sun Valley on Saturday, Hunter flew back to Vegas on Sunday from Salt Lake City to check out -- and be summarily unimpressed -- with the reopened Plaza.

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  10. America’s Best Party Cities In 2011

    Blog: As We Travel - 29 August 2011

    Posted in City GuidesWhether it’s the east coast, west coast or in the middle of the country, there [...]America’s Best Party Cities In 2011 - As We Travel - Travel Videos & Travel Blog

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  11. The Road Trip, Part I

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 28 August 2011

    I made my tearful farewells on Friday morning, then picked up RateVegas.Com's Hunter Hillegas at McCarran for the first leg of my road trip to Ann Arbor. We drove north from Vegas on U.S. 93 through Pioche, Ely and Jackpot, Nev., where we spent the first night. Here's something funny that happened:

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  12. My last regular LVW Col: Leave Barney Alone!

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 25 August 2011

    Here we go, folks. I've got a whole package planned next week, but this is the last regular edition of The Strip Sense, unless the LVW repurposes the column's name for someone else. I kinda hope they don't since Miles came up with it, but it's their call. Either way, this is my final entry. Enjoy. -sf Leave Barney Alone! The county's attempt to control those in costumes is a waste of time By STEVE FRIESS

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  13. The Blooper Show is FINALLY Up!

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 21 August 2011

    Our blooper episode, recorded on 8/14, turned out to be a blooper in and of itself. I forgot to set GarageBand to record the feed from the mixer, so instead we recorded what the Mac's mike heard. It was a terrible mess and a huge loss because the original version was so much fun. But frequent guest co-host Amy came back on Saturday, 8/20 with another pizza and we re-did it with updated Vegas news and no chat room. This means the chat room folks haven't heard this version, either, which is unusual. Anyhow, enjoy!

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  14. More On R-J Carnage: Severence, Silence & Sherm

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 19 August 2011

    [UPDATE: Oskar Garcia of the Associated Press is out with a report on these layoffs that pretends none of the reporting you've seen here exists. He did, however, speak to Bob Brown, the publisher who declined my requests as well as those of KNPR. Evidently, Mr. Brown does not believe in speaking about this within his own community. Not terribly good modeling for potential sources for the newspaper itself, is it?

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  15. Massive Layoffs Strike The R-J Today

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 18 August 2011

    Last Updated at 2:05 p.m. PT, 8/19/2011 with new names and other details. I'm working hard to gather up all of the names of those journalists who are being ushered out of the Review-Journal's headquarters right now. As I did when Greenspun Media Group canned nearly 40 people in 2009, I will continue to update this post as more names and details are confirmed.

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  16. We are LIVE tonight with BLOOPERPALOOZA!

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 14 August 2011

    As promised, we're live tonight with bloopers, bloopers and more bloopers. We'll begin at 6 p.m.

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  17. Sending Good Vibes To John L. Smith

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 14 August 2011

    This morning's newspaper arrived with news from Review-Journal columnist John L.

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  18. My Stuff, Lately

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 12 August 2011

    Nobody will ever accuse me of slacking off at the end of my Vegas run. In the past week alone, several significant pieces have appeared, but two in particular are worthy of highlighting:

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  19. Next Show is Sunday at 6p

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 12 August 2011

    I'm in Ely, Nev., about to head to Eureka for a piece on how the high price of gold is impacting one rural community that lives off of mining. Then I have to drive back to Vegas and we have the farewell party on Saturday from 2-5 pm PT at Piero's. I've also got a massive pile of writing to do to finish up about four assignments by the end of the weekend.

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  20. The Farewell Tour Hits Stride On Wednesday

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 9 August 2011

    All the appreciation we've been feeling from listeners, readers, friends, sources and colleagues as the days tick down before we leave Vegas has been overwhelming and gratifying. Still, it's hard for me to stop working when there's so many stories left to finish, so it's a weird time.

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  21. Why I'm On A Diet

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 8 August 2011

    After this week's LVW column on the local Weight Watchers cover model appeared, I received a lot of emai

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  22. The show is UP: Settling Old Scores With George Wallace

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 8 August 2011

    We broke some "news" in our George Wallace interview this time. The comic says he's thinking he may vacate the Flamingo showroom where he's appeared for eight years. He also indicates that his friend, Gladys Knight, is having throat trouble and plans to quit her Tropicana gig. And he and Wayne Newton actually have gotten into it over Wallace's ads calling himself "the new Mr. Las Vegas." Fun stuff. Click on the date below to play or right-click to save the show.

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  23. MINI-EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Will Have A Glass Office At Oscar's

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 7 August 2011

    It's a small detail, but it's one that makes me mildly more optimistic that any steakhouse, even one "licensing" the name of our wildly popular former mob attorney/mayor, can work at the Plaza.A Plaza source told me today they're building a glass-walled office for Oscar Goodman off from the bar area in the famed glass-dome space that is soon to open as Oscar's. In it will sit his famous mayoral furnishings, including this:

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  24. Magician Steve Wyrick Postponed Again; Will He EVER Open?

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 6 August 2011

    That's not just my question. It's the one stalking the folks at the Las Vegas Hilton, too.

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  25. KSNV's Beautiful Tribute To Miles

    Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 6 August 2011

    Yesterday was Miles' final day at KSNV, the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas. He worked there or at the company's Reno station for 12 years, finishing up as the executive producer overseeing the entire news operation for the past four years. To commemorate the occasion of his departure -- he's coming with me to Ann Arbor to partake in my fellowship -- his friend and anchor Jessica Moore offered these truly lovely words at the close of the last newscast he produced, the 5 p.m. show:

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