Nevada

  • The Grand Canal, Vegas

    The Grand Canal, the Gondolas and the Gondoliers of Vegas

    One of the attractions I looked forward to on our trip to Las Vegas was visiting the The Venetian and one of the biggest attractions in it was the Grand Canal and going on a gondola ride in it. Waiting in the wings is a whole Las Vegas travelogue....
  • Grand Canal mural, The Venetian.

    Venice’s Canal on a wall in Vegas

    The Venetian in Las Vegas, as its name suggests is a Venice-themed resort and casino. It’s got everything from Italian art, the kind of architecture you would find in Venice and even Grand Canal with Gondolas and Gondoliers and all. Before I show you the ceiling frescos and the...
  • Pepsi-old-advertisement

    Vintage-Style Pepsi Cola Advertisement

    Found in Las Vegas, NV -- a painting of an old Pepsi Cola advertisement on a wall on Las Vegas Strip. Vintage Advertisement >>...
  • Reno's Midtown Murals

    The big Midtown Murals of the ‘biggest little city’ aka Reno

    Last year when I was in Reno,  I got to see so much art on the streets of this city in Nevada. And most of the works of art that I managed to click pictures of, have already found their way onto this blog. On one of our days...
  • A circus of colors from a mural marathon

    For a few years now, Circus Circus Reno has been organizing an art event giving mural artists an opportunity to put up their works on the walls of the resort. Circus Circus Mural Marathon is the name of the event. Circus Circus Mural Marathon The Mural Marathon put up...
  • Found in Reno: Circus Murals

    When in Reno, Circus Circus is a place to visit. Like all the other casino-resorts in town, it does have a casino. But it also has a place where kids can have a lot of fun playing carnival-style games at Midway in the property. Midway also stages entertaining circus...
  • Shiny Reno and its old-world glamour

    For a while we had been thinking of making a trip to Las Vegas. But something inside me kept saying it is not quite right to go see Vegas before we saw mini-Vegas — Reno, another casino city that lies way north of it. Something kept telling me that...
  • Found in Reno: Utility-box art

    Walk around Reno, NV and you will see so much street art. While most of Reno’s public paintings are on its walls, there’s no way we can miss the ‘Biggest Little City’s’ utility-box art. Here in this post are just two of them, but there’s more coming up. The...
  • Mural at Kanpai restaurant, Reno

    Dreamy Damsels, graffiti-style

    Between the spotting of the Daydream mural from our hotel room in Reno and seeing it from street level, we were exploring Circus Circus (Hotel and Casino). While we were at that, I came across Kanpai Sushi Restaurant that sported paintings of many a dreamy damsel on its walls. The...
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