Geoff Carter

1 week ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

Families spread out on the expanse of green grass, putting down blankets, low profile chairs and coolers. They take in the evening air, cooler here in Spring Mountain Ranch State Park than it is in the city, some 10 miles to the east. They admire the craggy sandstone features of Red Rock Canyon in the near distance. They look, expectantly, to the stage. And what bursts forth from it, what you probably wouldn’t expect to find out here in the desert, is rousing, joyful musical theater.

2 weeks ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

The butter alone. If for no other reason—and there are plenty of other reasons, mes amis—you should visit Bar Boheme for a crackly baguette with a generous pat of Beurre de Rodolphe Le Meunier, a salted, positively velvety butter (88% butterfat!) that is, as our server put it, “basically a cheese.” The taste is rich, decadent, and a promise of things to come. Everything at Bar Boheme is a decadence. Everything is velvet.

3 weeks ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

Las Vegas always had the makings of a great video game setting. Our city’s historical connections to organized crime, the Rat Pack and nearby nuclear testing positioned it as the perfect backdrop to Obsidian Entertainment’s 1950s-inspired, post-war Fallout: New Vegas, one of the greatest role-playing adventures of all time.

1 month ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

The story begins, as it did in 11 feature films, a long time ago in a place far, far away. In 2011, at a tiny Sydney, Australia venue called The Vanguard, impresario Russall S. Beattie debuted a Star Wars-themed burlesque parody, The Empire Strips Back, for an intended three-night run. And not unlike a certain Corellian freighter that blasted its way out of Mos Eisley, it just … took off.

1 month ago | lasvegasweekly.com | Geoff Carter

Create a spaceIt could be a desk, could be a table, could be an entire dedicated home office—but no matter what, you need to establish a spot in your home that’s just for work. Lisa Phillips, a web engineer and longtime remote worker for companies such as Fastly and Twitter, once suggested that every home workspace needs a door that can be closed at the end of the day. Don’t have that? Throw a cover over the desk or simply put your laptop back in its bag.