Is the life out of the Life is Lovely in Las Vegas?
The annual downtown occasion’s official web site has been taken down (go to lifeisbeautiful.com for an absence of intel), the most recent proof of the occasion’s unsure future. However the competition house owners say the occasion, block or in any other case, will proceed.
Reps for LiB house owners Rolling Stone, a subsidiary of Penske Media Company, are saying they need to proceed the remnants of the downtown occasion.
What is definite is the occasion just isn’t being held this 12 months, and there’s no time horizon for its return. Its possession group says it intends to purchase property in Las Vegas to convey the competition again.
“Life is Lovely is within the course of of constructing a long-term funding in Las Vegas actual property for the competition’s new residence downtown,” spokesperson for Penske mentioned in an announcement Saturday in response to inquiries to Rolling Stone CEO Gus Wenner. “We’re excited to proceed our legacy for the following decade and sit up for asserting our new venue and date quickly.”
This implies the Plaza is out as host of the occasion. The newest model of LiB, A Lovely Block Get together, was staged for 2 days and nights this previous September on a parcel on the downtown resort. This was a late-in-the-game choice to preserve the LiB model, if not spirit, afloat.
Plaza CEO Jonathan Jossel mentioned Saturday, “We tried, on the eleventh hour, to assist out and create a spot the place the present might proceed to go on. We wished to maintain a downtown custom going. We want them effectively.”
Jamie xx, Justice, James Blake LP Giobbi, LCD Soundsystem, Jungle and Peggy Gou have been among the many headliners within the first and solely Block Get together on the Plaza. The occasion was offered on 10 acres on the resort’s property, bordered by the practice tracks, Las Vegas Metropolis Corridor to the south, and the Plaza tower and parking zone and Core Area.
With a complete capability of 25,000, the Block Get together drew a reportedly papered-up crowd of seven,000.
That is far distant from Life is Lovely and its formidable takeover of 18 blocks downtown. Established in 2013, LiB was initially a music, arts and culinary occasion with a number of levels and a number of other genres activated over three days.
It may not have been a worthwhile enterprise, over time — studies are it ran within the black simply twice within the 10 years earlier than Penske Media took over. However it was a really Las Vegas occasion, based by lead investor and downtown redevelopment visionary Tony Hsieh alongside Joey Vanas and Rehan Choudhry.
San Francisco promoter One other Planet was signed on as main booker. Veteran Las Vegas leisure professional Craig Asher Nyman led the competition’s music and programming technique.
These days are lengthy gone. For 2026 and past, Rolling Stone has the chance to succeed, fail or flip the web page.
John Katsilometes’ column runs every day within the A piece. His “PodKats!” podcast could be discovered at reviewjournal.com/podcasts. Contact him at jkatsilometes@reviewjournal.com. Observe @johnnykats on X, @JohnnyKats1 on Instagram.
