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    Feb 2015

    Desert Companion - February 2015
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    Stories from the Feb 2015 Issue

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    Best of the City Bonus: Good better best

    Mar 16, 2015

    To find the best of something, you have to look for it — examine the candidates, weigh their merits, reach a conclusion. Here, then, four crawls that do just that

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    Best of the City Bonus: Mind and body

    Feb 01, 2015

    Flee foul weather and jump through decades of pinball technology at this windowless shrine to flippers, spinners and bumpers.

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    Best of the City Bonus: Out and about

    Feb 01, 2015

    C’mon, you know you take them. And why not? Vegas was made for it.

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    Best of the City Bonus: Shops and services

    Feb 01, 2015

    Grayson and her sister were raised by a father who trained recent high school grads to be bricklayers, carpenters and plumbers. Though he said he never wanted his kids following that path, he’d bring home materials and help them do odd jobs for pocket money.

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    Best of the City: Readers poll

    Feb 01, 2015

    You voted, we statsticalized* and then we doodled.

    *Using quantum voodoo to determine top (and bottom!) vote-getters in each category.

     

     

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    Best of the City: BFF's

    Feb 01, 2015

    BFF's | Eat and drink | Mind and body | Out and about | Shops and services  Readers poll | Good better best | Bonus: Food and drink | Bonus: Mind and body Bonus: Out and about | Bonus: Shops and services.

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    Best of the City: Eat and drink

    Feb 01, 2015

    A wild combination of art and cuisine — with some drinking and music thrown in — Yusho After Dark gives you yet another excuse to check out the exciting fare being served from this hidden corner of Monte Carlo.

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    Best of the City: Mind and body

    Feb 01, 2015

    BFF's | Eat and drink | Mind and body | Out and about | Shops and services Readers poll | Good better best | Bonus: Food and drink | Bonus: Mind and body Bonus: Out and about | Bonus: Shops and services.

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    Best of the City: Out and about

    Feb 01, 2015

    There is something not only mystical but calming about the languid movements of sea creatures. And Shark Reef takes you deeper and deeper not only into the world of the sea, but into yourself.

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    Best of the City: Shops and services

    Feb 01, 2015

    BFF's | Eat and drink | Mind and body | Out and about | Shops and services Readers poll | Good better best | Bonus: Food and drink | Bonus: Mind and body Bonus: Out and about | Bonus: Shops and services.

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    Best of the City: Food and drink

    Feb 01, 2015

    BFF's | Eat and drink | Mind and body | Out and about | Shops and services Readers poll | Good better best | Bonus: Food and drink | Bonus: Mind and body  Bonus: Out and about | Bonus: Shops and services.

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    All things to all people

    Economy: Game changer

    Feb 01, 2015

    2015 may be the year of gaming’s fall from grace. But if gaming isn’t as resilient as we thought, Las Vegas certainly is 

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    Balance: Meet the Walshes

    Feb 01, 2015

    Rare diseases to cure, kids with cancer to be helped … who has time for a personal life? 

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    Civil rights movement
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    History: Our talented tenth

    Feb 01, 2015

    The civil rights movement in Las Vegas benefitted from major figures on the national stage — but we also produced some inspiring leaders of our own.

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    Profile: Jim Favazzo, Feather guru

    Feb 01, 2015

    Dyeing and selling feathers wasn’t exactly the career path Jim Favazzo envisioned, particularly given his employment history. Before he got into the feather business, he was in a decidedly more stereotypically masculine business — construction.

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    Style: A love and beyond

    Feb 01, 2015

    Chocolates and flowers again? Ditch the ordinary this Valentine’s Day and give your beloved a gift from the heart

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    Zeit: Perspective

    Feb 01, 2015

    We asked comedian Barry Friedman, a regular contributor to Desert Companion, about satire in a post-Charlie Hebdo world:

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    Zeit: Teachable moments

    Feb 01, 2015

    ‘I'm showing them how art and science must coexist’

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    Zeit: Help me see what I cant

    Feb 01, 2015

    On Feb. 8, Asylum Theatre will host a staged reading of Reckoning, a drama by Chicago playwright Jenny Seidelman.

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    Dining
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    At first bite: Quiet storm

    Feb 01, 2015

    The unassuming David Clawson Restaurant in Henderson hides many pleasant surprises — and celebrates a return to unfussy, well-crafted cuisine

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    The dish: The molecular chef next door

    Feb 01, 2015

    At 346 Patisserie, pastry chef Arthur Haynes aims to fuse scientific sweets with the neighborhood bakery.

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    Eat this now: Wings and Cincy

    Feb 01, 2015

    Hana wings at Yonaka

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    Dining

    Sweet studies

    Feb 01, 2015

    Fancy chefs — they’re just like us! Even after working for prestigious chef-restaurateurs like Daniel Boulud and Thomas Keller, Haynes isn’t ashamed to look at cookbooks for inspiration. These are his two favorites:.

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    Best! Thing! Ever!

    Feb 01, 2015

    Whew! This marks the fifth annual Best of the City issue, and the third time we’ve run an online readers’ poll to put our finger on your vox populi as you turn your head and cough. You flooded us with your faves in food, shopping, arts and entertainment.

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    Waiting to Inhale

    Feb 01, 2015

    After two UNLV researchers discovered asbestos in Southern Nevada soil, they wanted to study it further. Why did state health authorities stand in their way?

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