text: I really really wanted to like First Friday and I even waited to post a review about it until I had the chance to experience its competition the Vegas StrEATS festival held on second saturdays downtown near the El Cortez nnThe winner hands down for me was Vegas StrEATS nnAs other reviewers have noted FF is highly unorganized The crowd is less than desirable to say the least and there does not seem to be any sort of mechanism to control which vendors are participating and where they are supposed to be located There was no method to the madness only madness A lot of people were running around screaming for no apparent reason and the sheer amount of high inappropriately dressed teenagers was offputting I hope FF pulls it together as it seemingly used to be a great downtown event