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Vegas StrEats December 10, 2011

December 7, 2011
Vegas Streats December 2011

Vegas Streats December 10, 2011 in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada

This Saturday night, December 10, 2011. Food Trucks! Artist! and Live Music!! Experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival. The Festival starts at 6pm – 1am in Downtown Las Vegas across the street from the El Cortez. Admission is free and there will be Live Music, Dj’s, and Artists, and Vegas’ own upscale Food Trucks. Including: Slidin’ Thru, Fukuburger, Pop’s Truck, Yellow Lunch Box, Carefree, BBQ Boy, Snow Ono, Sin City Wings, Papi Churro and Grouchy John’s. Some old favorites and some new trucks this month. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there and dress warm.

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Splash Canyon Water Park – Las Vegas

November 15, 2011

Las Vegas is getting a new water park.  Since the closer of Wet-n-Wild in 2004, Las Vegas with it 110+ degree weather has been water-park-less. A new joint venture with private/public ownership including the County and Howard Hughes Corporation. A new water-park is making its way to Las Vegas. Splash Canyon Water Park will be located away from the Strip and out in the suburbs on 7055 S. Fort Apache Road in the southwest part of town near the I-215.

The public/private partnership was announced November 14, 2012 by the private investment team, Clark County and The Howard Hughes Corporation representatives. In comparison, Wet-n-Wild, open in May 1985, sat on a 27 acre lot next to the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas “Strip” and lost it lease after 20 years. Splash Canyon will be a 25 acre $18 million project for its first phase and expanded to 40 acres in phase II.

Splash Canyon

Splash Canyon in the southwest area of  Las Vegas expected to open May 2012

Splash Canyon Waterpark is expected to open Memorial Day weekend and will employ more than 500 seasonal employees. Splash Canyon will feature the following:

  • Surfable Wave Pool
  • Three-Slide Complex with Multi-Rider Tube Slides
  • Big Slide Complex with Speed Slides and a six-lane, head-first Mat Racer
  • 1,000-foot-long Lazy River
  • Children’s Water Playground with toddler features
  • four-story RainFortress playground with a 500 tipping bucket
  • private cabanas for rent, which includes waiter and cabana service
  • food outlets
  • group picnic area accommodating up to 2,000 people with catering facilities and staff-led activities

Season passes are already on sale for $99 while they last. Visit their website for more information.

UPDATE: This was put on hold for a year and re-branded as Wet’n’Wild and is currently open on the southwest part of town.

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Movies in the Park: Ghostbusters

October 14, 2011

Slidin’ Thru hosted a free movie in the park event at Angel Park near Durango and Alta tonight on the Summerlin end of town. The movie shown was the hit classic, Ghostbusters. Along with with the Slidn’ Thru gang was a taste of Las Vegas’ finest food trucks including: Tasty Bunz, Sin City Wings, Grouchy John’s, Snow Ono shaved ice, and of course the Slidin’ Thru’s own Slider Truck. The weather was perfect and  folks in Summerlin finally got some of that food truck love they deserve.  Enjoy the photos below, click for enlarged images.

 

Photos by: LasVegas360.com
Photos taken: 10/14/2011 

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The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

October 13, 2011
Smith Center for the Performing Arts

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts nears completion

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Art Deco design

Click to enlarge : Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Close up detail

Click to enlarge : New Discovery Children’s Museum

New Discovery Children’s Museum

Click to enlarge : Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Stainless steel Art Deco detail

Click to enlarge : Symphony Park

Symphony Park takes shape

Click to enlarge : Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Smith Center

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts is a public/private partnership that will become the centerpiece of cultural life in Las Vegas offering a blend of performances by resident companies as well as first-run touring attractions. The 4.75-acre cultural complex will feature inviting lobbies with beautiful balconies, refined acoustics and a tastefully landscaped plaza linking surrounding hotels, restaurants, shops and offices in downtown’s 61-acre urban development, Symphony Park. Home to the 2,050-seat Reynolds Hall and the Boman Pavilion, The Smith Center will be a living room for Las Vegas; a place that will educate, entertain and excite the citizens of our great community. The Smith Center broke ground in May of 2009 with a ceremonial carillon bell casting and ringing. In February 2010, it celebrated its “Topping Out” with the raising of 50 tons of steel and is projected to open in March 2012.

Next door the the Smith Center is the new home for the children’s museum, a state-of-the-art building to be named the Donald W. Reynolds Discovery Center. The children’s museum currently is located on Las Vegas Boulevard in the historic Cultural Corridor, where it will continue to serve the children and families of Las Vegas until the new facility is ready to open in late 2012.

Next to the Smith Center, a small park called, Symphony Park will be a two-acre open space within the heart of Symphony Park destined to become the neighborhood’s “Central Park.” The Park is expected to serve as a gathering place and outdoor venue for cultural, art and social activities.

For more information, visit www.thesmithcenter.com.

Photos by: LasVegas360.com
Date of photos: 11/13/2011

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Vegas Streats Festival Food Trucks Ran Over by Crowds

August 14, 2011

Fukuburger Truck

Muncheeze - Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Tasty Bunz

The monthly Vegas Streats Festival was held on August 13, 2011. This was the 6th monthly festival in a row and is growing larger each month. East Fremont was hammered by flocks of people to get a chance to listen to some music, see some art and stand in extremely long lines for food from speciality food trucks. Has the Las Vegas Streats Festival become too big to handle the crowds?  Well, I went down to East Fremont about 8:30pm, again a long line just to enter the festival area like last month but bigger. My intention was to sample a few new trucks this month.  I wanted to check out Fukuburger, Muncheeze, and stop by Snow Ono for a tasty cool treat. But, the lines. The lines were quite long. They were 30-40 people deep at most trucks just to place an order.  Fukuburger, I know you have lots of fans, but damn, that line was ridiculously long. I had to pass you guys up this time (Fukuburger), catch you at a different venue.

I got in the line for Muncheeze, I was hoping these guys were cranking it out.  Well it took over 30 minutes just to get up to the window and to place my order.  I walked around while the food was getting prepared., came back, and then walked around some more.  Now the thing I noticed over the previous month was the masses of people at the festival lined up at the trucks.  There was a continuos line of people outside waiting to get in and it extended half way down the block to the Beat Coffee shop.  I went back to the Muncheeze truck to see if my order was up. Nope. I even spent some time talking to a girl who was handing out menus for Muncheeze and she pointed out what was the most popular items on the menu.  She even mentioned something about a management change and that it was now a family business.  I even got to visit the inter sanctum inside the truck to snap a few photos.

About 30+ minutes passed after placing my order, the food was ready.  My food review will be in a separate post from this one. Spoiler – I like the food from Muncheeze.  Now, I am a great fan of food trucks, but this will probably be my last time at the Vegas Streats Festival.  I really don’t blame the guys and girls in the trucks, but they need to step it up or scale it up a little to move the food out faster.  Now this was just not a problem for this food truck. This seemed to be the theme affecting all the food vendors.  I went over to the Snow Ono truck and there was no line at the window, I walked up ready to place my order and the guy said that there is an 1 hour wait to get your order.  At this point, I said to myself, the Vegas Streat Festival (at least for the food trucks) have hit their maximum capacity.  I will meet up with them on an individual basis at other venues, not here for future food eats.

My hopes for the Vegas Streats Festival, I guess was too high. The music was good, the mix of people, the artists, even the El Cortez placed at least a half dozen more tables out since last time, but fell short in delivering enough food out their windows of those fabulous trucks.  I will just have to track your trucks down in a less crowed place.

Food trucks and business mention in this article:

http://muncheezetruck.com/
http://snowonoshaveice.com
http://www.fukuburger.com
http://www.thebeatlv.com
http://vegasstreats.com
http://tastybunz.com
http://www.elcortezhotelcasino.com

Photos by LasVegas360.com

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Taking it to the Streets – Vegas StrEats Festival

August 11, 2011

The Food Network is getting ready for the premiere of the second season of The Great Food Truck Race, which airs Sunday August 14, 2011 10pm/9c.  Now, you have to chance to experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival.  The Festival starts at 6pm – 2am August 13, 2011 in Downtown Las Vegas across the street from the El Cortez. Admission is free and there will be Live Music, Dj’s, and Artist, and along with Vegas’ own upscale Food Trucks. Including: Slidin’ Thru, Fukuburger, Tasty Buns, Snow Ono, Muncheeze, Lulu’s On the Move and others. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there.

For a quick recap of last month’s Vegas Streats Festival – see July’s post and pictures.

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Vegas Streats Festival - Saturday August 13, 2011 @6pm-2am

Visit their website http://www.vegasstreats.com

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