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April 2014

April 2014

  • Room with a you:Neon stars and guitarsEvery picture tells a storyHeld firmly in placeExperimenting with natureZero clutter, smart curation and pop culture converge in one awesomely not very normal space“I’d hate to come home to a normal house,” says Chris Kenner, longtime executive producer of David Copperfield’s show, now at the MGM Grand. Seems his home-décor pleasure receptors are set to 11, well beyond the ability of some cookie-cutter McMansion to satisfy.
  • Room with a you:Neon stars and guitarsOrdinary doesn't live hereEvery picture tells a storyExperimenting with natureThis sleek modern home encourages an intimate relationship with the desertTom Kim has an interesting relationship with space. On the one hand, he’s all over the map — literally.
  • 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.
  • These dishes featuring grains, greens and great flavors let you start the season light Commercials for quinoa air on football Sundays, kale gets chopped into Starbucks salads, and Meatless Mondays is a legitimate movement. Has rabbit food really gone mainstream? Well, yes and no.
  • 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.
  • What should I celebrate in April? Do I like my co-workers with the white-hot intensity of 1,000 suns? Or just a lot? April Fools Day is the holiday for me or I can up the ante with Take Your Child to Work Day on April 24. Perhaps I am fond of outdated cultures.
  • 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.