Mike Prevatt
Multimedia Producer/ReporterMike has been a producer for State of Nevada since 2019. He produces — and occasionally hosts — segments covering entertainment, gaming and tourism, sports, health, Nevada’s marijuana industry, and other areas of Nevada life.
He’s been a journalist in Las Vegas since moving here in 1998, serving as a music and entertainment editor and writer for alt-weeklies Las Vegas CityLife and Las Vegas Weekly before moving to radio and news journalism. He still flexes his writing muscles for Desert Companion magazine.
A Los Angeles native and UCLA graduate, Mike will talk your ear off about music, film, amusement parks and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Though locals mostly avoid it, the Las Vegas Strip and businesses that support it employ hundreds of thousands of people and it’s responsible for a big chunk of the state’s tax dollars. -
Jazz up your calendar with these sizzlin' concerts, shows, and book readings -
It’s getting cold in Las Vegas, which is nice after that brutal summer. And for many people, reading a good book is the perfect thing to do when it’s this cold out. -
While Nevada’s number one industry is gaming and the resorts, entertainment and sports have grown around it. -
It began with a ghostly presence near a pretty ghostly desert town in 1984. -
Las Vegas likes to read. The city has a fantastic library system, great independent bookstores like Writer's Block and Las Vegas Books, and an acclaimed writers program at Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. -
The brand new Best Friends Forever festival debuted in downtown October 11-13. It's part of the ever-expanding music fest calendar in Las Vegas. -
Going into the 2024 election, we have lawsuits challenging voter rolls, some still chanting "stop the steal," and there are many other efforts to delegitimize the election process. -
The usual culture suspects are back with five new events to fill your October schedule -
The Tropicana hotel-casino's final two towers came down at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
