🌱 When We Were Young Festival + Grammys Coming To LV Strip

Dominique-Noelle Rafael
·2 min read

Rise and shine, Las Vegas! Here's everything you need to know to get this Wednesday started off right. Here's what's happening today in town.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 63 Low: 43.

Here are the top three stories today in Las Vegas:

  1. My Chemical Romance and Avril Lavigne are among the artists headlining a new 2000s-fueled Las Vegas music festival. The "When We Were Young Festival" is scheduled for Oct. 22 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. Presale tickets go on sale at 10:00 a.m. on Jan. 21. (News3LV)

  2. The Grammys will be coming to the Las Vegas Strip for the first time ever this year, after the originally scheduled Jan. 31 telecast from the Crypto.com Arena was cancelled over COVID uncertainty. On April 3, the music industry’s pre-eminent annual awards show will be coming to the MGM Grand Garden. This year's show will be hosted by Trevor Noah. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

  3. Sam Hunt will be performing as part of the reopening weekend at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub. After a nearly two-year long closure, Light Nightclub at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino have announced that its grand reopening weekend. Featured performances throughout the weekend will include Wyclef Jean on Friday, Feb. 11 and Sam Hunt on Saturday, Feb. 12. (FOX5 Las Vegas)

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Today in Las Vegas:

  • Nature Kids, At Summerlin Library (10:30 AM)

  • Five And Under Storytime, At West Charleston Library (10:30 AM)

From my notebook:

  • Las Vegas Fire and Rescue firefighters were at the scene of a two-alarm fire at 804 E Sahara Ave. on Tuesday morning. (Facebook)

  • The Nevada Gaming Control Board released its annual report, which showed some economic losses, but an overall increase throughout the state.Downtown casinos had a 462.2 percent year-to-year revenue increase from the 2020 fiscal year to the 2021 fiscal year. (Twitter)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Wednesday! I'll see you soon.

— Dominique-Noelle Rafael

About me: Dominique is a self taught UX/UI designer based in Princeton, NJ. She recently graduated from the University of Maryland last spring with a bachelor's degree in Information Science. She is excited to begin working on the Patch newsletter project this year!

This article originally appeared on the Las Vegas Patch