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    August 2015

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    Stories from the August 2015 Issue

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    Feature
    The Artistocrats
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    One big joke

    Jul 28, 2015

    An oral history of the iconic comedy film The Aristocrats as it turns 10 — from its conception in a Las Vegas lounge to its legendary status to its meaning for comedy and free speech.

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    heart
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    The next frontier

    Jul 28, 2015

    New medical technologies in the valley are fighting cancer, saving hearts and eliminating chronic pain.

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    Top Dentists
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    Top Dentists

    Jul 27, 2015

    Here’s something to smile about: a great dentist is just a page or two away. Our 2015 topDentists list features more than 150 of the best dental professionals in Southern Nevada.

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    Best Doctors 2015-2016
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    Best Doctors 2015-2016

    Jul 27, 2015

    More than a traditional second opinion, Best Doctors delivers a comprehensive evaluation of a patient’s medical condition, providing value to both patients and treating physicians. By utilizing Best Doctors, members have access to the brightest minds in medicine to ensure the right diagnosis and treatment plan.

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    All things to all people
    Flash flood
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    Outdoors: Slippery slopes

    Jul 28, 2015

    A foolhardy hike during a flash flood could have killed me. Instead it awakened awe — and a taste for danger.

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    All things to all people
    EHM
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    Leisure: Streetwise: Industrial Strength

    Jul 28, 2015

    From the charter-bus lots and welding shops to the boutiques selling clothing for strip-club performers, the aptly named Industrial Road serves the city’s industrial needs. It encompasses the past and future of the city, with some of the oldest and newest businesses operating near Downtown.

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    Giuseppe Zanotti
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    Style: Trend alert: Get your kicks

    Jul 28, 2015

    From sporty to fashion-forward, from flatforms to slip-ons, you'll want to walk a mile in these shoes.

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    All things to all people
    Hailey and Yong
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    Profile: Hailey & Yong Dawson, Prosthetic trailblazers

    Jul 27, 2015

    Around 7 p.m. on August 17, 5-year-old Las Vegan Hailey Dawson will take to the field at Oriole Park in Baltimore and toss out the first baseball of the Orioles vs. Athletics game using her 3D-printed mechanical hand.

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    All things to all people
    White on Blue Lines by artist Derek Dunlop
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    Zeit: RIFF: Lines of inquiry

    Jul 27, 2015

    Look at this piece, “White on Blue Lines,” by artist Derek Dunlop (in the Satellite Contemporary Gallery through September 12).

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    All things to all people
    Basin & Range
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    Zeit: Satire: Monumental fun

    Jul 27, 2015

    After Basin & Range, a few more Nevada landmarks the president should preserve.

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    All things to all people
    Red Shuttleworth
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    Zeit: ART + ISSUES: Down to the last drop

    Jul 27, 2015

    A few years ago, playwright and poet Red Shuttleworth, a former Las Vegan — he was in UNLV’s first MFA playwriting class, graduating in 1991 — wrote a prescient play about water scarcity and privatization, High Plains Fandango.

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    All things to all people
    School cash
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    Zeit: The Breakdown: School choice

    Jul 27, 2015

    Will SB302 turn our education system upside-down? These facts give the controversial new law some context.

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    All things to all people
    Basin & Range
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    All about the Basin

    Jul 27, 2015

    Whoops and grumbles aside, we can all agree our new national monument is pure Nevada.

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    All things to all people
    Group doctor appointments
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    Patients!

    Jul 27, 2015

    The doctor will see you (and you and you) now.

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    All things to all people
    School of docs
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    School of docs

    Jul 27, 2015

    The 2015 Nevada Legislature approved funding for two full-fledged medical schools in the state, but there’s more to the story between the (bottom) lines.

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    Appreciation
    Ralph Lamb
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    A few stories about Ralph Lamb

    Jul 28, 2015

    A rousing sendoff for the late, the legendary, the larger-than-life Sin City lawman 

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    Crime
    Silver fox, Johnny Rosselli
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    Handsome Johnny in the open city

    Jul 24, 2015

    With irresistible charm and high-level connections, Johnny Rosselli made things happen for the mob in Las Vegas.

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    Dining
    Table for two
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    Table for two: Veggie tale

    Jul 28, 2015

    A practiced vegetarian takes a lifelong carnivore to VegeNation, Downtown’s new meat-free eatery.

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    Dining
    All about Mary
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    Cocktail of the month: All About Mary at Todd English P.U.B.

    Jul 28, 2015

    Jurassic World all up in your mouth: This is less a drink than a hyper-adaptive meal species that somehow clawed out an evolutionary foothold on top of a Bloody Mary.

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    Dining
    Zereshk polo
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    Eat this now! Zereshk polo at Zatyoon

    Jul 28, 2015

    If your only experience with Persian food is fesenjan, that dark-hued stew of chicken, walnuts and pomegranate molasses, your eyes will be absolutely dazzled by zereshk polo.

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    Dining
    Amber waves: Pouring a cold one at CraftHaus
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    The dish: Sally froth

    Jul 28, 2015

    Spicy, sassy and sour: The new breed of small-batch brews will challenge your palate — and deliver a good buzz, too.

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    Editor's Note
    Andrew Kiraly
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    It isn't funny anymore

    Jul 31, 2015

    I won’t drag out that crusty joke about having to go to the airport to find a good surgeon in Las Vegas (nyark nyark!), but it seems to elbow itself into the conversation any time you talk about the state of health care in Nevada.

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    End Note
    Pool Grifter
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    Ballad of the pool grifter

    Jul 31, 2015

    My neighbors are perfect people, and we have the ideal neighborly relationship, which consists of waving a semi-authentic hello from our cars, exchanging the occasional holiday baked good and routinely dragging one another’s garbage cans up the driveway. But we have never been in their house, much less their pool.

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    History
    Bomb
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    The Zero-Armed Bandit

    Jul 24, 2015

    In one of the most unusual ransom schemes in Nevada history, a mad bomber held an entire casino captive with one devilishly mysterious machine

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    Notes and letters
    Dealicious meals
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    Notes & Letters

    Jul 24, 2015

    Scrumptious as it was, July’s DEALicious Meals package didn’t taste right to everyone. First Last, a commenter on desertcompanion.vegas, for instance. “I’m getting so sick of every single restaurant/meal article/review full of dead animal meals,” he or she wrote furiously.

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