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Aug 2014

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Stories from the Aug 2014 Issue

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We just had to ask:Back in the day ...

Aug 01, 2014

Las Vegas is good at forgetting. It’s not necessarily a bad thing: A city of second chances and fresh starts can’t waste too much time futzing with yarns about the good old days.

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Best Doctors 2014

Aug 01, 2014

Your health is your most precious investment. Why choose a doctor that's second best? That's why we partnered with Best Doctors, Inc.

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Committed to care

Aug 01, 2014

Portraits by Bill Hughes

These 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 Nursing

Nurse Practitioner, Brian Berelowitz Endocrinology

She’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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Community:Public offering

Aug 01, 2014

Local AIDS fundraising goes from niche targets to mainstream appeal

It’s hard to comprehend the fundraising challenges of HIV/AIDS advocacy groups when 34 million people live with HIV, which still has no cure and no vaccine. And nonprofits battling the virus and the disease it causes face diminishing federal funds and grant money — nonprofits such as Aid for AIDS of Nevada (AFAN), which assists some 4,000 affected clients.

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Environment: Deep questions

Aug 01, 2014

Like it or not, fracking is coming to Nevada. Can we be the state that gets it right?

Sometimes, being the first in line is a bad thing.

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Zeit Bites: What should I celebrate in August

Aug 01, 2014
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Profile: Gina Gleason, guitarist, Michael Jackson ONE

Aug 01, 2014

Even amid a hundred dancers, gymnasts and acrobats, giant screens, blinding lights and all the other eye-popping stage sensations, you cannot miss the shredding warrior princess with the skyscraping up-do and eight-inch platforms wielding a bullion-hued six-string. If you’ve had the electric pleasure of seeing Michael Jackson ONE at Mandalay Bay, you know what I’m talking about.

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Zeit Bites: Mmm, pie chart

Aug 01, 2014
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Explore: Go Eastern

Aug 01, 2014

Hispanic sabor livens up this part of the avenue

Just before it enters North Las Vegas and becomes Civic Center Drive, North Eastern Avenue has drowned tortas, simmering molcajetes and locally made cheesy ice cream. Also: piñatas!

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Style: Trend Alert

Aug 01, 2014
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Open topic: Design: Big should be better

Aug 01, 2014

The large-scale architecture that ought to engage the community too often doesn’t. Some of the blame falls on us

Southern Nevada’s real estate collapse was ugly and embarrassing — but it may also have been the best thing that could have happened to local architecture.

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Zeit Bites: Books

Aug 01, 2014

‘I barely got through every sickening page’

Classic Vegas novels reconsidered through Amazon’s one-star reviews
 

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS

by Hunter S. Thompson

“Not one funny, humorous or interesting story at all …”

“I couldn’t shake the feeling that this whole book was written in a language I didn’t understand.

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Zeit Bites: The second life of stuff

Aug 01, 2014

Used laptops. Butt-grooved furniture.

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She's a true victim

Aug 01, 2014

For 33 years, the murder of Jamey Walker has haunted her family — and one journalist who covered it. “I feel like I’m letting my daughter down if I don’t find out what happened,” Eleanor Walker told me back in 2004, her voice cracking, sobs working up into her throat.

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Eat this now: Po-boy and burgers

Aug 01, 2014

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

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On the plate: Upcoming foodie events you dont want to miss

Aug 01, 2014

Restaurant Week

Aug. 22-28

Eat well and do some good with this charitable effort benefiting the Three Square Food Bank.

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At first sip: Drinking the LinQ

Aug 01, 2014

More than a stylish makeover, the Linq swings into action with top-notch brews and curated cocktails.

Many changes on the Las Vegas Strip are met with a bit of the grumble and eye roll — “I liked the original MGM sign better!” “I still miss the Stardust!” and, “Hey, when did they tear down that motel with the pink elephant?”

But we all approve of the Linq.

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The dish: Check your head

Aug 01, 2014

As the craft beer trend produces crazy flavors and wacky trends, Bad Beat’s Weston Barkley aims to perfect the classics

Weston 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.

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At first bite: The French reconnection

Aug 01, 2014

Daniel Boulud returns to town with a modern brasserie. French fries? Of course — and so much more

Like every other celebrity chef these days, Daniel Boulud makes a signature burger with fries — three kinds, in fact.

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Stay a while

Aug 01, 2014

I have to confess a bit of queasy ambivalence when I see the bulldozers, block walls and banners signaling the start of a new suburban housing subdivision in the valley these days. On the one hand, sure, I’ll grab the pom poms and cheerlead any hopeful green shoot signaling economic comeback squeezing up out of the cracks.

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The power of two

Aug 01, 2014

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.

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Sketchbook

Aug 01, 2014
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Ace of clubs

Aug 01, 2014

Crime lords, illegal whiskey, federal stings and mysterious fires — par for the course in this tale of two historic Vegas nightclubs 

Someone should put up a historic plaque next to the volcano at the Mirage hotel-casino. Not to commemorate the volcano but, rather, to mark a different kind of historic eruption: That spot is the site of the Red Rooster, the first nightclub on what would eventually become the Las Vegas Strip.

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Reader feedback

Aug 01, 2014

1. Among fans of cheap eats, our fifth annual edition of DEALicious Meals garnered a unanimous chorus of gastronomic delight — everyone together now: Ooh! Aah! Among fans of Cornwall, not so much.

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The wizard behind the curtain

Aug 01, 2014

When you gasp in wonder at a Strip show illusion, that’s the magic of Thom Rubino. Thom who? Exactly?

Thom Rubino is really into choppers.

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