''Las Vegas Weekly'' is a free

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newspaper based in

Henderson, Nevada Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It is the List of cities in Nevada, 2nd most populous city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with 317,610 residents. The city is part of the Las Vegas V ...

, covering

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arts, entertainment, culture and news. ''Las Vegas Weekly'' is published by

Greenspun Media Group The Greenspun Media Group is an independent company and was a wholly owned subsidiary of The Greenspun Corporation. Headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, the group has over 60 years experience in the Las Vegas Valley. Beginning with the ''Las Veg ...

History

The paper was founded in 1992 by James P. Reza, Greg Ryan and Robert Ringle as a free monthly publication called ''Scope Magazine'' covering Southern Nevada's culture, arts, music and lifestyle from a decidedly

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perspective. Distributed freely throughout the greater Las Vegas area at bars, cafes, record stores, and other retail outlets, ''Scope'' published its first monthly issue in April 1992, featuring a familiar format of band interviews, news features, columns, a venue guide, and a 30-day calendar of music and arts events, presented in the

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style and geared toward alternative culture. The 2021 documentary Parkway of Broken Dreams (directed by Pj Perez) highlights the rise and fall of that alternative culture in Las Vegas, including interviews with Reza and multiple ''Scope'' staffers. In its first year, ''Scope'''s primary competitors were the similar free newsprint tabloids ''In Music'', and later in 1992, the first version of ''Las Vegas Weekly'' (published by Patrick Gaffey, and independent of the ''Las Vegas Weekly'' discussed here). Both ''In Music'' and Gaffey's version of ''Las Vegas Weekly'' ceased publication in 1993. Anticipating the forthcoming decline of "alternative culture" and wishing to broaden the paper's reach and coverage, in 1996 Reza partnered with Daniel Greenspun, forming a new company (Radiant City Publications LLC) to publish ''Scope''. During this partnership, Reza continued on as Managing Editor, expanding the paper's coverage to a more traditional alternative newsweekly style, and accelerating the publishing schedule to biweekly. In 1998, Reza sold his remaining interest in ''Scope'' to The Greenspun Corporation, who soon retooled it, increasing the frequency to weekly and renaming it ''Las Vegas Weekly''. As of December 2009, ''Las Vegas Weekly'' had a circulation of 65,000. In 2018, Greenspun merged sister publication ''The Sunday'' into ''Las Vegas Weekly''. As of 2024, Senior Editor Geoff Carter is the sole staff member of the ''Las Vegas Weekly'' who also worked at ''Scope Magazine''.

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Las Vegas Weekly Alternative weekly newspapers published in the United States Mass media in Henderson, Nevada Newspapers published in Las Vegas Newspapers established in 1998