Early morning photos of Downtown Las Vegas, overlooking Symphony Park, the future home of the near completed Smith Center for the Performing Arts. Click to view hi-res. photos.
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Date taken: 10/18/2011
El Cortez in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada
El Cortez- Jackie Gaughan, owner and local casino legend celebrates his 91st birthday this week. “Happy Birthday Jackie!”
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Photo taken: 9/9/2011
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts nears completion
 Art Deco design |
 Close up detail |
 New Discovery Children’s Museum |
 Stainless steel Art Deco detail |
 Symphony Park takes shape |
 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
Vegas StrEats event photos.
This September’s Vegas StrEats event photos.
Featured Trucks: Tasty Bunz, Sloppi Jo’s, Ben’s BBQ, BBQ Boy, Yellow Lunch Box, Snow ONO, Muncheeze, The Chuck Wagon, Slidin’ Thru SWAG Booth, and HauteChix Fashion Truck.
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Vegas Streats is back! This time it will be on Friday night September 9, 2011. Experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival. The Festival starts at 6pm – 2am 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, Tasty Buns, Snow Ono, Muncheeze, Sloppi Jo’s, Ben’s BBQ, Yellow Lunch Box, Chuckwagon, and with some new comers like Sin City Wings. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there.
Vegas Streats Festival September 9, 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
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