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Sarah Purkrabek

Sarah is writer and lover of music and travel. She spends 70% of her time writing, and the other 30% stalking her favorite artists’ tour schedules and plotting her next adventure. When she’s not behind a laptop, you can find her trying out the latest coffee fad, making any excuse to visit the beach, or binge-watching CSI on Netflix.

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EDC Vegas 2016: The Best and The Worst

By Sarah Purkrabek
Jun 21, 2016

There’s a little bit of everything at EDC Las Vegas. The outfits, décor and stages are all unbelievable, and the massive festival grounds offer plenty of chances to intermingle with fellow ravers. Throughout the weekend, there were many, many bests. But, as with any large logistical nightmare of a gathering,...
Shit People Said on the EDC Vegas Shuttles

By Sarah Purkrabek
Jun 21, 2016

The EDC shuttles could use some love. We get it; it’s not easy trying to transport thousands of people between Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the Strip. For those of us taking the giant buses, it was frustrating having no clear signs or indication of where, exactly, to find the...
Taking a Helicopter to EDC Vegas Is Totally Worth It — If You Can Afford It

By Sarah Purkrabek
Jun 19, 2016

Choosing to ride a helicopter into EDC might sound a little ridiculous; it did to me. But while most of the hundreds of thousands of festivalgoers make the hour-or-more trek to from the Vegas Strip to Las Vegas Motor Speedway by car or shuttle, a few take to the air...
How EDC's Ground Control Crew Quietly Keeps the Festival Safer

By Sarah Purkrabek
Jun 19, 2016

Behind an unmarked door in a nondescript wall behind a row of vendor tents, there’s a small army of positive-minded people whose job it is to make EDC Vegas fun and safe for every attendee. They're called Ground Control, and over the course of the weekend, 370 of them roam...
Best Concerts in Phoenix This Weekend

By David Accomazzo, Sarah Purkrabek, Jeff Moses, Glenn BurnSilver and Troy Farah
Sep 4, 2015

Here are our co The Donkeys - Friday, September 4 - Valley Bar The Donkeys, not to be confused with the late-’70s power pop band from West Yorkshire or the Japanese noise rock outfit, have a solid fan base in Phoenix, prompting these Californians to visit about once a year...

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