Intel: NBA Summer League a slam dunk for pro hoops junkies
Dunkin’ Donuts opened a new restaurant in Las Vegas at 3481 S. Durango Drive on July 15.
The store will be open 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week and will employ 20 crew members.
The new southwestern Las Vegas location will offer a complete menu of Dunkin’ Donuts’ coffee, lattes, doughnuts and bakery goods along with free on-site Wi-Fi.
First Cup LLC is the Dunkin’ Donuts franchise partner in Las Vegas and operates 11 Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in Southern Nevada. In all, Southern Nevada has 17 Dunkin’ Donuts locations.
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CRAFTING NEW DRINKS: Oak &Ivy, an American craft whiskey cocktail bar dedicated to classic mixology and handcrafted drinks, opened at Downtown Container Park.
Oak &Ivy offers barrel-aged cocktails, including the Angel’s Envy Manhattan, crafted with Angel’s Envy bourbon and Carpano Antica formula sweet vermouth, the Blood and Clovers with Jameson Black Barrel Irish whiskey, Cherry Heering, and Carpano Antica formula sweet vermouth, and the Wright Flight with Wild Turkey rye, Luxardo Maraschino and Rothman &Winter crème de violette.
Oak &Ivy’s barrel-aged cocktails are mixed in batches and aged for four to six weeks to ensure maximum flavor.
Another offering is the terroir mary, Oak &Ivy’s take on the bloody mary, inspired by the neighboring restaurants at Container Park.
The terroir mary features vodka infused at Oak &Ivy with lemongrass and peppercorn, and a mix that includes onion and cilantro in homage to Pinches Tacos, barbecue sauce inspired by Big Ern’s, tomato as tribute to Simply Pure, and red wine inspired by Bin 702.
Oak &Ivy, at Downtown Container Park, 707 Fremont St., Suite 1120, is open 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday; 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday.
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RECYCLING LEATHER: That Southwest Airlines leather seat you’ve been riding to Reno may someday become a soccer ball.
The Dallas-based airline, the busiest at McCarran International Airport, recently launched its LUV Seat: Repurpose with Purpose program in which the company aims to recycle 43 acres of used leather seat coverings removed from the airline’s Boeing 737-700 jets and a portion of its 737-300 fleet.
When Southwest began its Evolve interior redesign project it replaced its leather seat covers with environmentally friendly materials, reducing the weight of each aircraft by 600 pounds.
The LUV Seat program moved the leather to community programs around the globe. Much of the material is being shipped to Africa, where craftsmen are turning the seat leather into shoes and soccer balls.
A donation to Looptworks, a Portland, Ore., company, will result in the production of limited-edition merchandise that will be part of Southwest’s celebration of the end of the Wright Amendment in Dallas in the fall.
As The Dallas Morning News reports, the Wright Amendment was passed 34 years ago by Congress and restricts nonstop service from Love Field to airports in Texas and eight other states. Congress amended the law in 2006 to allow passengers to connect to cities beyond the Wright Amendment borders.
The leather donations also produce jobs.
An organization called TeamLift will develop a leatherworks training program to teach entrepreneurial skills that will generate money to support a boarding school under construction in Malawi.
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The NBA Summer League, which hosted 24 teams and 67 games from July 11-21, was a hit for pro hoops fanatics in Las Vegas.
A new feature on nba.com was “playermetrics” — an interactive online feature that let fans see a 360-degree view of select NBA rookies along with key information on recent draft picks and how they stacked up against current NBA players.
NBA TV’s was also averaging 115,000 household impressions and 136,000 total viewers through the first 12 games, up 39 percent and 26 percent respectively to date over last year.
Also, NBA TV’s first game from Las Vegas — the Milwaukee Bucks and Jabari Parker (No. 2 overall draft pick) against the Cleveland Cavaliers and Andrew Wiggins (No. 1 overall draft pick) — averaged 197,000 total viewers, becoming the second-most viewed NBA Summer League telecast ever.
