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    April 2019

    Desert Companion - April 2019
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    Stories from the April 2019 Issue

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    Patrick Duffy
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    Home Feels Advantage

    Apr 01, 2019

    Whether they showcase art, light, space, or eclectic finds, these four homes celebrate their owners’ passions and pastimes.

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    Historic Fifth Street School
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    Spaces We Love

    Apr 01, 2019

    Three elements make a great public space. Enclosure. Delight. And a view. While large public spaces are not a Vegas specialty, there are small spots here and there if you know where to look.

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    Five Senses
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    In the Realm of the Senses

    Apr 01, 2019

    A five-part sensory experience of Las Vegas

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    Hockey
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    The Golden Knights are back in the playoffs. How far can they go?

    Apr 01, 2019

    The Vegas Golden Knights didn’t just shred the expansion-franchise record book during their inaugural season, they wrote a second edition.

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    Bonnie Springs
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    Nature: Where the Wild Things Were

    Apr 01, 2019

    As Bonnie Springs gives way to luxury homes, the fate of its animals reflects our complicated relationship with the nonhuman world.

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    Poem: Any Old Day

    Apr 01, 2019

    Across the table

    We take our hands together—

    For no one knows the hour or the day...

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    Alexa ciancimino
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    Profile: Just Breathe

    Apr 01, 2019

    Battered by cystic fibrosis, Las Vegan Alexa Ciancimino battles for air with a little help from family and (sometimes famous) friends.

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    Photography by Brent Holmes
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    Sense of Place: Magic in the East

    Apr 01, 2019

    Even when you see it, you can’t explain how it happened.

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    Bars of Hope
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    Bars of Hope

    Apr 01, 2019

    Thanks to the nonprofit Clean the World, the Strip’s discarded hotel soap helps prevent disease worldwide.

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    Public Lands
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    Environment: Missing the Bus

    Mar 25, 2019

    Why does a big public lands bill have so little for Nevada?

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    Cauliflower Shawarma
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    Eat this Now: Cauliflower Shawarma

    Apr 01, 2019

    Most Las Vegans, I wager, will never taste a pita sandwich from a Cairo food cart. Any of us, however, can order from the Egyptian street food section of POTs’ all-vegan menu.

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    Record Runner
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    Retail Therapy: Modern Tech, Throwback Style

    Apr 01, 2019

    It's back to the future with products that combine modern technology with retro cool.

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    Ube (purple yam) ice cream at Asia Creamery
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    Dessert: Taste the Rainbow

    Apr 01, 2019

    The short stretch of Rainbow Boulevard between the 215 Beltway and Windmill Lane is a smorgasbord of cuisines and cafés.

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    Creature Comforts
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    Critic's Notebook: Then and Now

    Apr 01, 2019

    For those with long memories, the Excalibur’s new show, Fuerza Bruta, will bring to mind a (short-lived) blast from the past.

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    Camera
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    Exhibit: Seeing Double

    Apr 01, 2019

    The eye-opening history of stereoscopic photography.

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    Robin Greenspun
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    Film: The Accidental Documentarian

    Apr 01, 2019

    Pulling stories from serendipitous encounters, Robin Greenspun’s films — including the new one debuting at the Las Vegas Film Festival — shed light on unseen lives.

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    Jeffrey Matthews
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    The Hot Seat

    Apr 01, 2019

    This is a talk about a speech — specifically, Colin Powell’s 2003 address to the U.N. Security Council, in which he insisted that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction.”

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    Pizza oven
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    Dining: Pies with a Past

    Apr 01, 2019

    Yukon Pizza has a special 122-year-old ingredient.

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    Editor's Note
    Andrew Kiraly
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    All the Feels

    Apr 01, 2019

    Las Vegas is a nexus of sensory extremes. In the middle of a broiling desert, we’ve got a string of air-conditioned Strip casinos boasting some of the world’s finest food, splashiest production shows, and, of course, row upon row of clamorous, glittering games of chance.

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    End Note

    Random Access Memory

    Apr 01, 2019

    Droll, odd, poignant, and awkward moments from the many Aprils of Las Vegas.

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    Coffinwood
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    Life and Death (Mostly Life)

    Apr 01, 2019

    The reaping isn’t so grim at Bryan and Dusty Schoening’s Coffinwood, where the custom coffins, hearses, and other deathly touches are really about being more alive.

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