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Culture

2022 Fall Culture Guide

Aug 01, 2022

Clear your calendar app for these concerts, dance performances, literary events, musicals, plays, and more!

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Culture
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Ones to Watch

Aug 01, 2022

These fresh faces in the arts scene are shaking things up in film, music, theater, and more

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Top Doctors 2022

Aug 02, 2022

The valley's best physicians and dental professionals, as chosen by their peers

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Editor's Note
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Byeeee

Aug 01, 2022

Founding Editor Andrew Kiraly bids a fond farewell to the magazine he's called home for a dozen-plus years

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Field notes
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The Real Topgun

Aug 01, 2022

Far from the hype of Hollywood, elite pilots take to the skies in Fallon to train the next generation of combat aviators

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Health
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Dignity for All. Period.

Jul 28, 2022

Menstrual poverty endangers women's health and demoralizes the vulnerable. Here’s how the community is working to solve it

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Body Movin’

Aug 03, 2022

Derrick Butler brings humor and compassion to the weighty job of ferrying the dead

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Dining
Drew Belcher, cofounder of Sorry, Not Sorry Creamery, standing at the storefront.
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Ice Cream Social

Jul 28, 2022

What accounts for Sorry, Not Sorry Creamery’s viral success? Social media savvy topped with deliciously decadent ice cream

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Dining
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Betting on the Food

Jul 28, 2022

At Aroma Latin American Cocina, Chef Steve Kestler spins diverse flavors into a delicious new concept

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Art
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A Towering Spirit

Aug 02, 2022

A new museum finally gives Rita Deanin Abbey her due as a visionary Nevada artist and tireless interpreter of the desert

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Music
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No Brakes Necessary

Jul 28, 2022

The Gas Station Studios began as a music production spot — but it’s gaining momentum as a North Las Vegas creative hub

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All Things
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Now Hear This

Jul 28, 2022

Two Vegas music-lovers riff on their favorite local acts and albums of the moment

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Books
Author Phyllis Barber and her book The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand & Sky.
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Desert Lifescaping

Jul 28, 2022

From her Boulder City upbringing to her Mormon adulthood, writer Phyllis Barber has always been a ‘creature’ of the desert

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Q + A
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Nothing Like It

Jul 28, 2022

As executive director of UNLV’s Performing Arts Center, Lori Cobo leads from the heart

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Writer in Residence
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Fantastic Beasts

Jul 28, 2022

A field guide to the native and non-native animals of Las Vegas (including us humans)

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