Strict New Rules for Fremont Street Performers

Las Vegas’ leaders have finally managed to paint Fremont Street Experience’s famed buskers into a circle. Starting Nov. 1, street performers plying their trade along the five-block pedestrian mall will have to confine themselves to one of roughly three dozen 6-foot circles painted on the pavement. City Council members on Wednesday unanimously approved the new rule, but only after a monthslong gestation period that featured three separate public meetings, hours of public comment and several legal and logistical tweaks that helped align some buskers, casino operators and the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada behind the effort. The ordinance those…