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Jan 2011

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Eat well, feel good, get fit: Community health resource listings

Jan 01, 2011

[HEAR MORE: Want to get your kids off the couch and eating healthier? Listen to experts weigh in on "KNPR's State of Nevada"]

Community resources for a happy new you

Eat well

Bet on the Farm! farmers market

Organized by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich, the Bet on the Farm! market is a foodie's fresh paradise, hidden in a nondescript office park. Just follow the trail of fashionably rumpled suburbo-hipsters and make yourself a dinner to remember.

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Feelin' The Om: A newcomer gets twisted with yoga

Jan 01, 2011

I'm the last guy you'd expect to try yoga. What I discovered stretched my understanding of the practice - and (pop!) of myself AFTER SPENDING MY YOUTH CONVINCED OF MY INDESTRUCTIBILITY, I'M SPENDING MY MIDDLE AGE IN DENIAL ABOUT MY FRAGILITY I don't bend well.

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We tried it: Taking fitness trends for a test run

Jan 01, 2011

Acrofit I hate gyms. Not honest gyms in honest neighborhoods, local Ys, rec centers and the like.

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Heal (and pamper) thyself: A tour of exotic day spas

Jan 01, 2011

Spas used to be about massages and mud baths. Now they embrace alternative medicine and exotic therapies from around the globe.

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Sweat the technique: Fitness secrets from the pros

Jan 01, 2011

Your fellow Las Vegans - from police to performers to passionate outdoorsmen - share their secrets to staying in shape

Forget the exercise vids and pricey equipment. Want to eat better and get in shape? Take some advice from your friends and neighbors - your fellow Las Vegans.

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Get up! Get out! Get started!: Two local fitness gurus on getting off the couch and into action

Jan 01, 2011

Maybe you can't bound up 20 flights of stairs like a Cirque acrobat - especially while lugging that baggage you acquired during the sugar- and fat-saturated Bacchanalia known as the holidays. What can a mere, out-of-shape mortal do? Two local experts say getting started is easier than you think.

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Cynthia Gregory: Dance dance evolution

Jan 01, 2011

Legendary ballerina brings gravitas to Nevada Ballet Theatre's avant-garde moves

A legend of dance has been living right under our noses for more than a year. Of course, a secret like that couldn't last.

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Steven Baugh: 'This is what kept me alive'

Jan 01, 2011

The prognosis: death. The doctors had all but given up on Steven Baugh, who says he'd been diagnosed with a form of sickle cell anemia at age 12.

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Too fat, too furious: A new way to track your weight

Jan 01, 2011

Happy New Year! Ready to lose weight? Great! First, let's calculate your Body Mass Index. Take your weight, divide it by your height in inches squared.

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Shop: H&M and you

Jan 01, 2011

You may have been at the grand opening of the world's largest H&M at the Forum Shops at Caesars Dec. 11.

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Smells like (too much) team spirit: The problem with sports arenas

Jan 01, 2011

Mayor Oscar Goodman has it. Caesars Entertainment Corp.

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Relax, Inc.: Inside the burgeoning wellness industry

Jan 01, 2011

Inner peace sells, but who's buying? We all are. A seasoned, stress-busting insider offers insights on the modern industry of peddling wellness

It used to be that massage therapy was for injured athletes, psychotherapy was for the mentally ill, and boxing was for, um, boxers.

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Relax, Inc.: Busting stress the old-fashioned way

Jan 01, 2011

The irony of the rise in the stress-relief industry, says Ron Lawrence, director of the Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada, is that many of the same benefits you can get with professional help are available for free by doing things you've had to cut out of your busy schedule. Remember long walks and family picnics?
Whatever type you are, you don't necessarily need a pricey therapist or arcane yoga poses to take back a semblance of sanity.

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Dining

Romano recipe: pistachio lime biscotti

Jan 01, 2011

Ingredients

12 ounces butter

4 cups sugar

3 tablespoons lime zest, fresh

8 eggs

8 cups all-purpose flour

3½ teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

3 cups pistachios

Method For Pistachio Lime Biscotti

Preheat oven to 320ºF. In a mixing bowl using a paddle attachment, cream butter until smooth.

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Sweetness and light: Pastry chef Megan Romano

Jan 01, 2011

Start that New Year's diet already? Fortunately, Megan Romano proves that good desserts don't have to make you feel bad.

Succulent blood oranges picked at peak flavor, churned into mouth-puckering sorbet.

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Welcome to The Renewed Now

Jan 01, 2011

I was always reluctant to buy into this notion of Las Vegas as a place of second chances and new starts. It seemed too easy.

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Welcome to the Republic of Southern Nevada

Jan 01, 2011

If the governor wants local government to pay for local needs, fine. Let's secede

Did you know that Nevada has the smallest state government per capita in the whole United States of America? It's true!

It's still too darned big, of course (it was on the news), so Nevada legislators and a new governor will soon be cutting public employee salaries and benefits, curtailing services for the mentally ill, slashing education funding and taking other steps to make state government even smaller.

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History

Klatsch of the titans: The story of the Mesquite Club

Jan 01, 2011

Many of Southern Nevada's cultural institutions have roots in the historic Mesquite Club, the women's organization that does much more than afternoon tea

Nearly 100 years ago, a group of Las Vegas women gathered for tea. The city hasn't been the same since.

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Love your strip mall

Jan 01, 2011

Don't dismiss Vegas' classic urban form. You'll love strip malls after this tour that traces the DNA of an emerging new city

The pearly glitz of the Las Vegas Strip should not cause us to neglect all of Las Vegas' other strips.

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Let us in: Why Southern Nevada needs visitable homes

Jan 01, 2011

Think accessible housing is just an issue for the "disabled"? Think again. Making Las Vegas livable in the future means making homes more visitable - today

After a year in rehab recovering from surgery that left her without the use of her legs, Marteen Moore wanted to be with her children and to go back to work as an interior designer.

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