1 Who makes the best coffee in Las Vegas according to Desert Companion readers? Sunrise Coffee! Or Sunrise Cafe! Or is it Sunrise Coffee Cafe? So confused! Head hurting! In our readers’ poll results published in our February Best of the City issue, we listed Henderson’s Sunrise Cafe (eatatsunrise.com) as the winner.

PoetThere’s probably no better way to definitively turn off someone iffy about poetry than with the grim phrase, “April is National Poetry Month.” If there’s anything that refuses to dovetail with a didactic, institutional awareness campaign, it’s poetry.

By challenging our fond belief that Showgirls sucked, a new book offers thoughts on how to evaluate cultureAll these years later, it might be hard to recall the critical stink bombs that rained on Showgirls when it came out in 1995. Trust us: Reviews were brutal.

Room with a you:Ordinary doesn't live hereEvery picture tells a storyHeld firmly in placeExperimenting with natureShe’s a little bit symphony; he’s a little bit rock and roll.The first two things you notice when you walk into the home of Warwick Stone and Bethany Swain define their guiding design intention.

Room with a you:Neon stars and guitarsOrdinary doesn't live hereHeld firmly in placeExperimenting with natureAmazing folk art fills a west-side home with narrative and wonderWhen you’re talking about home design, spare rarely means delightful. Rather, it calls to mind a sort of astringent, modern quality that’s all about an admirable clarity — but rarely about pure joy.

Room with a you:Neon stars and guitarsOrdinary doesn't live hereEvery picture tells a storyHeld firmly in placeIndoors meets outdoors in this home-as-laboratory.On the north-facing wall of Sierra Slentz’s living room is a photogram-like painting of several flower bouquets laid out, overlapping each other, against a background of her signature colors: aqua, magenta, pink.

Listen to our sound advice for functional — and fun — fashions for this summer’s many music festivalsWoodstock was all about peace, love and music — but some of those hippies knew how to dress, too. Free People New Romantics Delphine Dress, $228, Free People in the Fashion Show Mall.

Let’s not allow constant change to turn Las Vegas into everywhere else. The plan was to drive to City.

In this corner, moderate Republicans! In the same corner, hardcore conservatives! Inside the battle for the GOP's soul In 2012, Democrat Justin Jones defeated Republican Mari Nakashima St. Martin in Senate District 9 by 301 votes.

Impressions from 10 years of wandering Zion.It started like it does for dads from the Midwest, Boy Scouts from Texas and newlyweds from the Bronx: with a hike up Angels Landing, that predictably obvious, narrow fin of orange rock so tantalizingly cast out from Scout Lookout, a benign place to sit and watch, to lunch, beyond that other squiggly, curious haven, yes, Walter’s Wiggles, there in the mind-numbing center of the universe you and I call Zion Canyon.