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In the studio of Brent Sommerhauser, fine art emerges from dirty, hot, dangerous places CORRECTION: This article has been corrected to reflect that Brent Sommerhauser was an assistant gaffer in the creation of the Domsky Glass sculpture for The Cosmopolitan's Book & Stage venue. Artist Larry Domsky conceived, designed and fabricated the piece.

Southern Nevada’s gleaming malls are great for getting your shop on, but what about that dictum to support your small, local, independent retailers? You won’t find many of those in the mix when you’re going wall-eyed deciphering the mall’s billboard-size directory map. But you will find them in force at The Market LV in Tivoli Village.

Jajangmyun at Chapaghetti In South Korea, April 14 is known as Black Day. The anti-Valentine’s Day, it’s an occasion when the lonely commiserate by wearing dark clothes and wallowing over bowls of jajangmyeon, or noodles in black bean sauce.

A beginner dips a toe into the dance scene to find a footloose world where strangers become friends — in just a few simple steps Last summer, a friend of mine married into a Bavarian family. Following custom, the first dance was a full-on, magic-of-Disney, Fred-and-Ginger-eat-your-heart-out waltz — none of that gentle swaying stuff people get away with these days.

Home means a lot of things — sanctuary, roots, multimedia escape pod — but say “investment” these days and you’re likely to get a round of rueful, bitter chuckles. Many Southern Nevadans were laughing all the way to the bank in the Great Stucco Boom years, but the joke was on us.

Meet six unlikely businesses that are taking things green. Compressed soil pucks and solar-powered chocolate, anyone? Chocolate So single-minded are the confectionery warlocks at Ethel M in their pursuit of creating chocolate by whatever means necessary that they have harnessed the elemental power of the sun itself for their dark, rich arts.

The Las Vegas News Bureau and local publicists celebrated Easter with this March 31, 1958 photo, using the Barry Ashton Dancers to remind potential tourists that Las Vegas had — imagine this — beautiful women to see. Donn Arden was and remains the gold standard for the production show, with feather-clad showgirls from the “Lido de Paris” at the Stardust to today’s “Jubilee!” at Bally’s, but others like Frederic Apcar (“Casino de Paris” at the Dunes), Matt Gregory and Ashton, to name a few, contributed to that image of the classic Las Vegas production show.

Three words: You are wrong! That comment is directed to Steve Sebelius and his “answer” to the question, “Why did we celebrate the Las Vegas Centennial in 2005, when the city wasn’t incorporated until 1911?” (The Answers, January). In his response, Sebelius says the reason why we celebrated Las Vegas’ birthday in 2005 was “Mayor Oscar Goodman.