quotations about Las Vegas, Nevada
Nationally, Las Vegas is known as the city of slot machines and 24-hour strip clubs. Billboards serve as a constant reminder of all "Sin City" has to offer. But venture off the Strip and beyond downtown, and you'll find parts of the valley that resemble any other piece of suburban America.
SANDY LOPEZ
"Is Las Vegas a good place to raise a family?", Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 27, 2016
Let's go back 20 years, to my first few trips to Sin City. Back then, genuine resorts were pretty thin on the ground, and the Vegas experience was very different. The emphasis wasn't on spectacular hotel rooms and wildly extravagant public spaces. It was more about providing facilities so gamblers could cover their basic hierarchy of needs -- bed, gambling, boozing and getting out of the desert heat.
PAUL SCULPHER
"Las Vegas risks pricing itself out of the market", Gambling Insider, March 23, 2016
Las Vegas embodies a certain shoulders-back shamelessness and charming chutzpah that everyone should celebrate. I'm only a dabblesome gambler--a few games of two-buck Top Dollar will more than sate my luck-spinning thirst. But the city's guilt-free version of vice allows visitors to unbuckle their belts an extra notch, both literally and metaphorically.
MARK ELLWOOD
"Why It's Okay to Love Las Vegas", Condé Nast Traveler, March 15, 2016
In Las Vegas, everything takes place as if the absence of any sense of belonging to the environment entailed a hypertrophied sensitivity to details. There is no possibility of visual escape into perceptual horizons of indeterminateness (left-right, forward-back, near-far), but, instead, only the pregnancy of enlarged, exaggerated and highlighted forms. Behind each lit-up sign no space is hollowed out, no incipient world. Everything is there, everything is flat. As thick as the giant advertising billboards that ubiquitously package it, loading it with naive and comic symbols, crude, schematic messages, Las Vegas is a city of literal superficiality.
BRUCE BEGOUT
Zeropolis
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.
NEIL GAIMAN
American Gods
Vegas is a city built on over-expectation. The whole, largely unspoken, theme of the place is that if you have money, you're going to have a much better time than those other guys, and you can make sure to be seen spending it, which must simply make you a better person.
PAUL SCULPHER
"Las Vegas risks pricing itself out of the market", Gambling Insider, March 23, 2016
Las Vegas is the new Florida. It's a retirement destination that's growing in popularity. Age-restricted housing is springing up. Top flight medical facilities are expanding. The University of Nevada -- Las Vegas is working on building a medical school. There's even a brand new downtown.
RICH JOHNSON
"Vegas ego trip: Life outside The Strip", Washington's Top News, April 2, 2016
Las Vegas is the latest travel company to let travellers have a taste of a destination or experience via virtual reality before they go. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has released an application providing travelers with a glimpse of what happens in Vegas. The Virtual Reality Companion app, available for both Apple and Android devices, offers 12 Las Vegas clips that can be viewed on a smartphone or using a virtual reality device such as Google Cardboard or Oculus.
LINDA FOX
"What happens in Las Vegas is now virtual", Tnooz, March 17, 2016