Posts Tagged Downtown Las Vegas

It’s another festival weekend in Las Vegas! The annual Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival returns on Friday, Sept. 25 for three days of entertainment and inspiration. This festival isn’t just a great time to experience live performances from popular artists, it also gives you an opportunity to learn from distinguished leaders, indulge in culinary excellence and enjoy fantastic artwork.

Hey, Vegas! Are you ready to show off your PRIDE? That’s right. Pride Week is here and there are a bunch of exciting things happening around town. It’s time to show your support and celebrate in the name of love and diversity. Clear your schedules and head over to Downtown Las Vegas on Sept. 18 for the Annual Pride Night Parade. The pre-show for the parade kicks off at 7 pm at the Main Stage on Bridger Avenue. Immediately following the pre-show, the parade begins at 8 pm on West Charleston Blvd. and heads north along 4th Street to Ogden Avenue.

Time to get pumped! Insomniac just announced the dates and ticket details for Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas 2016. Clear your schedules for EDC 2016, set to take place on June 17, 18 and 19. Next year’s annual EDC event marks its 20th anniversary under the electric sky. Be sure to prepare yourselves because tickets go on sale in just TWO WEEKS! On Monday, Sept. 21 you can start buying your tickets online at noon PST.

For those of you who are little rusty on your history, Downtown Las Vegas is where it truly all began… the original designated gambling district and town site pre-Strip. When Steve Wynn opened The Mirage in 1989, Downtown’s popularity with tourists and locals waned as more and more mega-casinos were built. Downtown became marginalized and even belittled as a seedy center for cheap buffets and penny slots.

The insanely popular Life is Beautiful officially released the 2015 lineup for this year's festival that will be held in Downtown Las Vegas on September 25 - 27.

I know that when I think of the city of Las Vegas, in and of itself, there is definitely a glittering dollar sign somewhere to be found in the montage of sensory imagery flooding my brain. Throughout its history, the majority of visitors have come to Vegas to try and attain riches. However, more and more Vegas is beginning to use the casino industry as a solid backdrop to give way to even more glamorous and alluring experiences. The nightlife and daylife scenes are definitely offering more permanent and less fleeting memories to the average consumer.

So you want to party where the cool Vegas people do, eh? Good on you, mate, for using that piece of advice from the well-traveled among us. If you want to get to the heart of a city quickly, you eat where there's a line of locals out the door and you party where the locals do. Downtown Las Vegas (DTLV) is a hipster's paradise as well as an everyman's eden. You'll find countless watering holes to bunker down in, art galleries, boutique shopping, small businesses flourishing and tons of options for your noms and swigs.

One of the Food Network’s shining stars, Ben Vaughn, is joining the Las Vegas family of culinary geniuses with a new restaurant addition to the Downtown scene.  More specifically, the new restaurant, Ben’s Southern Kitchen, will be occupying the space directly next to Atomic Liquors.

For those that haven’t heard of Atomic Liquors, it’s a staple dive bar that has been in Vegas for decades. In fact, it got its name as patrons used to sit on the rooftop drinking alcoholic concoctions while watching the atomic blasts at the Atomic Test Site.

When it comes to cities that rock, Las Vegas is sometimes overlooked, however, being that it's been dubbed the Entertainment Capital of The World, that kind of goes hand-in-hand with offering a little bit of rock 'n' roll to the roster. If you think Vegas can't rock with the best of them, then check out our list of head-banging heaven venues below. That's right, we've got seven of the best places to do more than just bump and grind at the club, but to don those pleather pants and Rolling Stone T-shirt for some all-out, all-night hands-in-the-air groovin'.

In Las Vegas there are an endless amount of festivals to attend. These events are making history at the highest volume and you definitely don’t want to miss out. Consider this your preview guide to information for the biggest and most outrageous festivals of 2015, right here in fabulous Las Vegas.