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Brian’s Top Things To Do in Las Vegas — Psychedelic Edition

April 12th, 2025 · 9 Comments · Grateful Dead, Real-life Adventure Tales

. I’d never given Las Vegas a moment’s thought in my life.  I checked in with some cultural colleagues I’ve been jamming the arts with for 40+ years and none of us can remember the city ever coming up for any reason.  In fact, it was kind of looked down upon as this superficial wasteland […]

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Dead & Company at The Sphere in Las Vegas review

June 30th, 2024 · 7 Comments · Grateful Dead, Music, Real-life Adventure Tales

. Sphere & Laughing in Las Vegas   photo by Jay Blakesberg for Dead & Company . This is the Acid Tests … in a two-billion-dollar spaceship! I’d been reading about The Sphere for years before it was ever built.  It sounded too wild to be true!  And of course I immediately thought how perfect […]

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