STILL LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS
In honor of the imminent return of the Neon Museum's "Duck Duck Shed" Conference, here's the keynote I delivered last year.
Dayvid Figler on Las Vegas
NYT calls him a “defense lawyer who doubles as one of Las Vegas’s most popular podcasters + cultural commentators.” Dayvid Figler was raised in the shadow of the Strip. Listen to Dayvid on the podcast City Cast Las Vegas.
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Buckle up. This is a rambling manifesto that may or may not be the "artist" statement behind that book I keep threatening to put out into the world.
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Is part of that because people already don't think of Las Vegas as a legitimate city, and why should we care? Sorry, why we SHOULD care.
Podcast Alert:City Cast LV 6/12/26
Back for a discussion of the Nevada primary outcomes, leaked results, water street + the Boring Co. Loop.
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Cozying up to Las Vegas' most lauded thinker, and then he left.
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