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Scot Rutledge is leaving Las Vegas after leading the Nevada Conservation League since 2006.

Joe Downtown: Challenges daunting but foundation solid for conservation league, departing official says

May 21, 2013 (2 a.m.)

As Scot Rutledge prepares to leave Las Vegas after seven years heading the Nevada Conservation League, he has to take some pride in how far his organization has come since he took the reins. At the same time, he admits the environmental challenges facing his organization and the state are daunting. One of the biggest, he predicts, will be if and when the state starts to deal with climate changes brought on by global warming.

Joe Downtown: Local Motors CEO visits Las Vegas

May 20, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

One of the newest businesses to gain support from VegasTechFund is Local Motors. Founded five years ago, Local Motors uses crowdsourcing to help in the design of a car, motorcycle or other type of vehicle. John Rogers Jr., president and CEO, last week was in downtown Las Vegas, where VegasTechFund is headquartered. The fund is a tech investment group whose partners include Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.
Joe Downtown: Doughnut shop, tavern, offices may be in mix for former hotel

May 20, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

Work last week began on the interior demolition of the John E. Carson Hotel, 124 S. Sixth St., purchased a year ago and now part of the realm of the Downtown Project.
Joe Downtown: TV series to showcase Las Vegas arts scene?

May 16, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

Just beyond the doors of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, a film crew is focused on Charles Ressler. Living in Las Vegas the past two years, Ressler, a New York native, has thrown himself into various roles supporting and bolstering connections between the arts, culture and community in downtown Las Vegas.
Joe Downtown: Shared memories of the Huntridge could be crucial to its revival

May 15, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

If the walls of the Huntridge theater could speak, they might tell the story of Bob Coffin's first kiss. Or of seeing John Angus in stitches at the hilarious musings of Danny Thomas.
Joe Downtown: Tony Hsieh to get new landlord?

May 15, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

Residents of The Ogden high-rise in Downtown Las Vegas are buzzing about what they say is the impending sale of the building to a foreign company. The Ogden is an activity hub for the nouveau downtown tech crowd and home to Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.
Joe Downtown: Keeping the door and keeping the peace at the Griffin

May 15, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

You don't wanna mess with a bouncer whose pro wrestling finishing move is called Death From Above.
Joe Downtown: Experience ‘Our Las Vegas’ artists’ works at Emergency Arts exhibit

May 15, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

Galleries and art on display in the former examination rooms of downtown Las Vegas’ Emergency Arts building, a former medical clinic, will be featured in two events at the end of this month.
Joe Downtown: The Grill at Gold Spike reopens to high praise

May 14, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

The moderate prices, Muzak-less atmosphere and care taken with my chicken caesar salad – no brown lettuce, freshly grilled chicken, just-right tangy dressing – of The Grill inside Gold Spike just earned my vote as a great place to eat downtown.
Joe Downtown: Late delivery will keep Uncle Joe’s in existing shop

May 13, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

Uncle Joe's Pizza is staying put. I reported recently that the longtime Fremont Street restaurant had closed and would reopen in the Gold Spike, one of Downtown Project's most recent acquisitions.
Joe Downtown: Production company seeks Huntridge memories

May 13, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

Silver State Production Services wants people with stories and memories of the Huntridge Theater to tell them for the camera Wednesday night.
Joe Downtown: Two new restaurants join downtown scene

May 10, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

A soon-to-open Italian sub joint, along with Mingo, a new bar/restaurant further near Casino Center Drive and Charleston Boulevard, might just give some of the new Fremont East bar/restaurants a run for their money.
Joe Downtown: Fremont East Studios producer shopping new film to crowd at Cannes

May 10, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

Freeman White III has come a long way since his first film, a documentary about buffalo grass. Next week, he’s bringing “Five Thirteen,”a film five years in the making, to Cannes for the international film festival to show to potential buyers and distributors.
Joe Downtown: Golden Gate not scrimping on National Shrimp Day

May 9, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

There may be nothing more “Vegas” than the shrimp cocktail. Well, that is after gambling, neon signage, diminishing water resources and the mistaken belief that prostitution is legal here.
Joe Downtown: Helldorado Days heralds Vegas’ Wild West past

May 8, 2013

By Joe Schoenmann

Computer chips easily outnumber cowboys in Downtown Las Vegas, especially as startup founders and coders find sanctuary around East Fremont Street, soon to be the backyard of dot-com retailer Zappos. But Zappos aside, Las Vegas’ persona remains firmly grounded in the Wild West myth, and downtown’s Helldorado Days, a multiday celebration of the the West’s rugged reputation, fits right in.

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Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts complex.

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