About Us

TheList.Vegas is a Las Vegas events newsletter and website created by locals, curated for locals. It's the best place to find the coolest things to do in Las Vegas.

Our core offering is our suite of rad newsletters, which are just $3 a month or $30 a year. Of course, there's a free version, too.

Our flagship newsletter, The List, is published every Wednesday. Premium subscribers get the complete version of The List, plus our fast 'n' fun Friday newsletter, The Weekender.

❤️ Buying a premium subscription is the best way to support our work, but you can also buy us a cup of coffee.

Our long-winded manifesto, sort of

With an emphasis on our vibrant local arts, culture, and entertainment scene, The List showcases a diverse sampling of happenings, genres, and venues in the hope that it’ll inspire you to explore and embrace your city.

To put it another way, we're a team of Vegas locals who scour the big dumb scary internet all day to hand-pick cool events from its ocean of spammy algorithmic nightmare dreck.

We're decidedly not an industrial content mill extruding listicle chum or a flavorless AI pink slime trap. We find, curate, and write about Vegas happenings with personality and human verve – qualities rapidly vanishing from the web.

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But we're not just human aggregators — we're (yes, sometimes annoyingly) diehard Vegas locals who are out and about every week, hitting everything from plays to poetry readings, from food festivals to burlesque bashes. The List comprises all the stuff we love to do — stuff we think you'll love too.

TheList.Vegas is an independent business licensed in the City of Las Vegas. It operates out of Downtown Las Vegas and is published by Andrew Kiraly, a native Las Vegan (eastsiiiide!) and longtime Southern Nevada journalist. Contact him at [email protected].

About Our Curators

Andrew Kiraly, publisher. Andrew Kiraly is a writer and editor based in Southern Nevada. From 2010 to 2022, he served as editor of Desert Companion, Nevada Public Radio’s award-winning city-regional magazine. Prior to that, he was a writer and editor at local alt-weeklies The Mercury and Las Vegas CityLife for, gawd, decades. An MFA graduate from UNLV’s Creative Writing program, he’s also published numerous short stories, one deservedly out-of-print novel, and countless punk and skate ’zines. He started TheList.Vegas as a way to keep track of all the fun things he likes to do in his hometown. Now he’s sharing it with you.

Ginger Meurer, curator. Ginger has more than two decades of journalism experience, culminating in Las Vegas as a reporter, copy editor, and finally editor at The View (the newspapers, not the chatty TV show). In addition to newspaper work, Ginger won the Public Relations Society of America’s Pinnacle Award for her work with Imagine Communications. On the literary front, she co-wrote Sinning in the City: A Girl’s Guide to Las Vegas, and survived a broiling summer editing Marta Becket’s award-winning memoir To Dance on Sands: The Life and Art of Death Valley’s Marta Becket. When she isn’t busy finding cool events for TheList.Vegas, Ginger freelances for local and national publications.

Eric Duran-Valle, curator. Eric is a writer based in Las Vegas. He graduated from UNLV with a BA in English. His writing has appeared in Desert Companion, TheList.Vegas, In Parentheses, The Colored Lens, and Las Vegas Writes. Eric is also a musician, performing under the name The Scoundrel of the Sage. The most valuable thing he owns is a red Fender Jaguar.

Scott Dickensheets, curator. Now a freelance writer and editor, Scott has worked all over the Las Vegas media scene: most recently as a daily newsletterist for City Cast Las Vegas, and before that as features editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, deputy editor of Desert Companion magazine, editor in chief of the local alt-weeklies CityLife and the Las Vegas Weekly, and as an editor and columnist at the Las Vegas Sun. He also edited, co-edited, or contributed to eight volumes of the Las Vegas Writes book series, and serves on the literary committee of the Las Vegas Book Festival. He lives in Henderson with several cats and dogs named after gorgeous Colorado towns he can’t afford to move to.

Kim Treviño, curator. Kim is a bibliophile with a stack of books always nearby. When she’s not reading great stories, she’s telling them: She’s participated in four StorySlam events in recent years, and hopes to perform on The Moth Mainstage someday. If you don’t see her browsing at the bookstore, you’ll likely find her perusing the menu at one of her favorite Downtown restaurants.

Poly Schmitt, curator. Poly Schmitt is a cultural connector based in Downtown Las Vegas. From 2007 to 2011, she operated LasVegasHidden, a community for local secret events. Poly serves as vice president for The Historic Beverly Green Neighborhood Association and works as a Realtor specializing in DTLV area homes. Poly is on the “Wall of Inferno” at Mint Indian Bistro for eating nearly a pound of pure ghost chili.