The look back

If predicting the future is, as economist Jeremy Aguero told us in 2010, “a Sisyphean task,” the weird thing about reviewing your old predictions is that now you’ve kind of become your own stone, rolling back on the Sisyphean you who did all that forward thinking years before.

If it’s not quite accurate to say that food is Desert Companion’s (wink, wink) bread and butter, there’s still a whole grain of truth to it. Whether we’re showing our nom-hunting readers an out-of-the-way taqueria or guiding them through the Strip’s cathedrals of haute cuisine, dining coverage has been baked into our pages almost from the beginning.

In the magazine biz, the cover is often considered the most important page of an issue.

In 1996, a 12-year-old Las Vegas girl named Hydeia Broadbent made a speech to the Republican National Convention, bringing it to “a tearful standstill” with her story of being born with AIDS to a drug-addicted mother.

Dateline: mid-March 2017. Scene: a Desert Companion brainstorming meeting. Six people cluster around a table in a small, windowless conference room colloquially known as “Guantanamo.”

As we write this, our story “Fifteen great hikes (practically) in your own backyard” is number one on the Desert Companion website’s “most viewed” list.

Desert Companion has been compiling its annual Best of the City issue since February 2011.