1. Among fans of cheap eats, our fifth annual edition of DEALicious Meals garnered a unanimous chorus of gastronomic delight — everyone together now: Ooh! Aah! Among fans of Cornwall, not so much.

‘I barely got through every sickening page’Classic Vegas novels reconsidered through Amazon’s one-star reviews FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGASby Hunter S. Thompson“Not one funny, humorous or interesting story at all …”“I couldn’t shake the feeling that this whole book was written in a language I didn’t understand.

Portraits by Bill HughesThese unsung health care professionals work hard to heal the sick and comfort the suffering (and deliver the occasional squealing bundle of joy) Susan Vanbeuge, Assistant Professor, UNLV School of NursingNurse Practitioner, Brian Berelowitz EndocrinologyShe’s helping to pave the way for the next wave of nursing professionals When Susan VanBeuge told her grandmother she’d finally decided to go to nursing school after putting off her childhood career dream for nearly a decade, the family matriarch replied that it was fate: VanBeuge’s namesake, her great-grandmother, had also been a nurse. “Next thing you know, I get a picture in the mail, an antique photo, of my great-grandmother Susan in her nursing uniform,” VanBeuge remembers.

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For 33 years, the murder of Jamey Walker has haunted her family — and one journalist who covered it. “I feel like I’m letting my daughter down if I don’t find out what happened,” Eleanor Walker told me back in 2004, her voice cracking, sobs working up into her throat.

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Local AIDS fundraising goes from niche targets to mainstream appealIt’s hard to comprehend the fundraising challenges of HIV/AIDS advocacy groups when 34 million people live with HIV, which still has no cure and no vaccine. And nonprofits battling the virus and the disease it causes face diminishing federal funds and grant money — nonprofits such as Aid for AIDS of Nevada (AFAN), which assists some 4,000 affected clients.

Even amid a hundred dancers, gymnasts and acrobats, giant screens, blinding lights and all the other eye-popping stage sensations, you cannot miss the shredding warrior princess with the skyscraping up-do and eight-inch platforms wielding a bullion-hued six-string. If you’ve had the electric pleasure of seeing Michael Jackson ONE at Mandalay Bay, you know what I’m talking about.

Crime lords, illegal whiskey, federal stings and mysterious fires — par for the course in this tale of two historic Vegas nightclubs Someone should put up a historic plaque next to the volcano at the Mirage hotel-casino. Not to commemorate the volcano but, rather, to mark a different kind of historic eruption: That spot is the site of the Red Rooster, the first nightclub on what would eventually become the Las Vegas Strip.

When you gasp in wonder at a Strip show illusion, that’s the magic of Thom Rubino. Thom who? Exactly?Thom Rubino is really into choppers.