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We owe the brainiacs at Brookings Mountain West a nice dinner. If Southern Nevada manages to crawl into the 21st century as anything more evolved than a place to feed some slot machines and catch a little Cirque, it’ll be thanks in large part to their ceaseless wonky prodding.
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Jim Begley, dining critic for the Las Vegas Weekly, David magazine Most Thai restaurants in town serve Americanized fare with diluted flavors. Not the case with newly opened David Wong’s Pan Asian (2980 S.
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Everything old is new again There’s a shocking secret in the new Nevada State Museum. In the back — past the ichthyosaur fossil and the bighorn sheep and Comstock miners and railroad trucks, all those trusty icons of Silver State history — is … a shimmering pink wall stocked with elaborate showgirl costumes? Yes.
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“Now, every once in a while, I’ll have a quesadilla.” Imagine being told you could no longer eat your mother’s cooking.
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We bet you’ve got quite an appetite right about now. After all, 2011 was a year of hard work, hunkering down, and holding on beneath thundercloud headlines about halting recovery and slow economic comeback.
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iDrink You know the fine-dining drill: The water’s served, the napkins are unfolded and then the waiter hands over the wine list — that unwieldy tome crawling with vineyard names, grape-growing regions and head-scratching phrases like “dusky hints of tobacco and burnt oak.” That’s changing.
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The new rule for restaurants in the coming year: Keep it simple — and friendly. This guy would know Fresh ingredients, a focus on value and a welcoming atmosphere.
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H. Lee Barnes’ Vietnam war memoir captures the heightened reality of combat Maybe it’s the former deputy sheriff in him, but College of Southern Nevada professor of English H.
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Does Las Vegas have an official food? It does now: The hamburger. Here’s why Many months ago, way before the popular food truck he created with his friend Robert “Mags” Magsalin blossomed into the kind of fresh, hip Hollywood eatery where Jim Carrey would pop in on opening night, Colin Fukunaga was talking a little smack.
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What does the City Impact Center do? What doesn’t it do? Meet the scrappy cluster of do-gooders that make up the emerging new model for social service The Trinity Life Center church is one of the oldest churches in Las Vegas. It traces its roots back to Tenth Street downtown, and it has been in its current home, on St.