Big Easy po-boy at Streetcar Po-boys 1624 W. Oakey Blvd.

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As the craft beer trend produces crazy flavors and wacky trends, Bad Beat’s Weston Barkley aims to perfect the classicsWeston Barkley never considered brewing as a profession. The first beer he ever drank was an ordinary bottle of Budweiser, and his first major job — a service technician for a local car dealership shortly after graduating from Durango High School — was a stable and satisfactory gig that lasted for almost a decade.

After years of bad blood and north-south infighting, we may finally have a cure for Nevada’s med school crisis People outside health care might not realize we have a public medical school in Las Vegas. Well, sort of one.

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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