Mike Prevatt
ProducerMike has been a producer for State of Nevada since 2019. He produces — and occasionally hosts — segments covering entertainment, gaming & tourism, sports, health, Nevada’s marijuana industry, and other areas of Nevada life.
He’s been a journalist in Las Vegas since moving there 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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Last year was a banner year for the Strip and Nevada’s gaming industry. It sounds like the good times will keep rolling in 2023, right?
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An architect renowned for his work, but also for breaking racial barriers, has been the focus of a photo exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.
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Entertainment is major driver of tourism in Las Vegas.
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The Arts District in downtown Las Vegas still has art, though they are overmatched now by all the restaurants and bars and other shops near Charleston Boulevard and Main Street.
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Local therapist Janet Nordine wanted to do something about this ongoing mental health crisis. So she co-founded a collective centering on youth and family therapy.
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In early September, the local music scene lost one of its most beloved artists, Blair Dewane.
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Las Vegas has seen almost two years of monthly gaming revenue records, previously unseen numbers at Reid International Airport, and if you walk into a casino right now? It’s wall-to-wall people almost every night of the week.
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One way of addressing drug overdoses and the use of dirty needles has been to provide free needles, drug overdose kits and safe-sex items.
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When the long-running Wynn production show Le Reve closed during the pandemic in 2020, many wondered what might replace it. And along came Awakening. But…
