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    Jan 2014

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    Stories from the Jan 2014 Issue

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    Influence: Shmooze you can use

    Jan 01, 2014

    Power-packed networking mixers - when it comes to connection with professional peers and growing your success, it's not who you know - it's who you get to know. Whether you're a seasoned serial; entrepreneur or a fresh-faced business school grad, there's nothing as effective as the ancient art of swapping business cards and pressing the flesh at networking mixers.

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    Influence: Power chasm

    Jan 01, 2014

    Reflections on influence by a man who has none.

    One of the many gifts this city bestows upon us is a clear demonstration of the nature and perks of power — and, more to the point in my case, its inverse, powerlessness.

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    Influence: Power surge

    Jan 01, 2014

    Nevada has tempted the influential with many chances to misuse their power. Here are five times they gave in

    Eben Rhoades and the Disappearing Money

    In the same 1864 election in which they supported Honest Abe Lincoln, Nevadans elected Eben Rhoades state treasurer.

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    Influence: Rogich

    Jan 01, 2014

    ‘You can make 100 great moves in life, and the 101st can be deadly Sig Rogich on the lessons of a lifetime around influence

    Sig Rogich is a man well-acquainted with influence. He’s counseled presidents, governors, senators and congressmen.

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    Influence List: Arts & Culture

    Jan 01, 2014

    Brett Sperry - Gallery owner, businessman Already influential thanks to his Brett Wesley Gallery and Art Square (to say nothing of his role in Westwood Studios, the pioneering video-game company that laid some groundwork for the Vegas tech scene), Sperry has upped his ante with his announcement in November that he’s spearheading a drive to site the Modern Contemporary Art Museum downtown. The project faces long odds and many hurdles, but Sperry seems able to gather quality players — including top-shelf philanthropic fundraiser Julie Murray — around the project.

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    Influence List: Public Eye

    Jan 01, 2014

    Elaine Wynn Businesswoman, education official While she has the influence you'd expect of No. 296 on last year's Forbes 400, Wynn is of interest to us here as president of the state Board of Education.

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    Influence List :Quiet ones

    Jan 01, 2014

    Tod Story, Executive Director, ACLU

    Story is usually behind the scenes, but as the newish executive director of the ACLU of Nevada, he has worked directly on issues of equity and justice, including issues of police force in Southern Nevada. He served as district director for former Congresswoman Shelley Berkley and as an aide to Sen.

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    Influence: Power Circles

    Jan 01, 2014

    Maybe it's some kind of ectoplasmic spillover from the let-it-all hang out hedonism promised by the Vegas brand - or maybe it's a testament to the personalities who built that image - but power doesn't exactly try to speak softly in Nevada. Oh no.

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    Media: Harpers

    Jan 01, 2014

    Alas, the prudes are still standing.

    Something about the December cover of Harper’s — “Loving Las Vegas: What the Prudes Get Wrong About Sin City”— made us think the story would not only address what the prudes get wrong about Sin City, but would do it big, in a topic-grappling, prude-refuting way.

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    Media: Sun

    Jan 01, 2014

    This Sun rises weekly

    Over the past several months, the Greenspun clan has been embroiled in a civil war over efforts to dissolve the Las Vegas Sun’s longtime Joint Operating Agreement with the Review-Journal. Hammered out in 1989 and tweaked in 2005, the JOA keeps the Sun on corporate life support.

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    Escape: Perfect day

    Jan 01, 2014

    Mountain do

    A guide to keeping things slopacetic on Mt. Charleston, whether you’re a bunny or a downhill dominator

    Before you go: Stock up on warm stuff at locally owned McGhie’s.

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    Profile: Karie Lindsay

    Jan 01, 2014

    Life Coach

    First, let’s talk about what life coach Karie Lindsay is not: Not chirpy, syrupy or gratingly enthusiastic. She’s not suspiciously upbeat or, you know, just a little too happy.

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    Shop: Power plays

    Jan 01, 2014

    Smart accessories for the world of work — whether you’re the CEO or starting your climb up the corporate ladder

     

    The Power Heel

    For the female executive, there’s the power heel. To keep it strictly about business, choose heels no more than three inches high.

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    Education: But you just got here

    Jan 01, 2014

    UNLV President Neal Smatresk shocked most of Las Vegas when he announced, just months after signing a four-year extension to his original four-year contract, that he was leaving to take a presidential post in Texas.

    But a look at history might have lessened the surprise: The 12 people who have led the campus have stayed, on average, for five years.

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    Books: Founding father

    Jan 01, 2014

    When Jay Sarno visited Las Vegas in 1963, he wasn’t impressed. Surveying the city’s second-class hotels and cheesy Old West themes, the Atlanta hotel developer found nothing fabulous about it.

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    The courage to look at my brain

    Jan 01, 2014

    Linda Alterwitz’s ghostly photos explore the intersection where science and soul meet — and sometimes clash

    It was 14 years ago that Linda Alterwitz began suffering from the excruciating headaches. These lasted for three years, during which time doctors discovered a small tumor on her pituitary gland.

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    At first bite: Pizza Rock

    Jan 01, 2014

    For those about to share a pie, we salute you

    It’s proclamation time: Pizza Rock could be the first true dinner hit of the downtown culinary revolution. Oh, downtown already has hits when it comes to breakfast and lunch — Eat and MTO Café come to mind — but Pizza Rock is in the perfect position to become a solid nighttime draw.

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    The dish: Raw ambition

    Jan 01, 2014

    For the intensely driven Akira Back, the Strip isn’t the destination — it’s only the beginning It’s November and chef Akira Back is texting me pictures of his new restaurant. It’s called Akira Back, and it’s inside the JW Marriott Hotel Aerocity in New Delhi.

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    On the plate: Dining events and new restaurants in the valley

    Jan 01, 2014

    Cocktail-making class

    Jan. 15 and Feb.

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    Under the influence

    Jan 01, 2014

    Maybe it’s some kind of ectoplasmic spillover from the let-it-all-hang-out hedonism promised by the Vegas brand — or maybe it’s a testament to the personalities who built that image — but power doesn’t exactly try to speak softly in Nevada. Oh, no.

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    Respect the dragon

    Jan 01, 2014

    A new UNLV program aims to train the next generation of nuclear safety experts. Competitive salary, love of plutonium a plus

    The delicate and dangerous operation was called “tickling the dragon’s tail,” and someone made the dragon very angry.

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    Mall flounders

    Jan 01, 2014

    Hey, is this the Boulevard Mall? How long since you’ve been here?

    Oh, years. Mid-2000s, maybe? My wife must’ve dragged me.

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    Monster music

    Jan 01, 2014

    Nevada-born composer Eric Whitacre talks Godzilla, Grammys and being mistaken for a ‘Game of Thrones’ actor.

    It’s cold and raining in London, but the weather doesn’t darken Eric Whitacre’s demeanor.

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    Take 5: Cultural highlights this month

    Jan 01, 2014

    Whoa! Looks like somebody got a suh-weet pair of scissors for Christmas — because Bobbie Ann Howell has been snipping up a storm. Her photo collages and cut paper works blend landscapes, cultures and shapes into a tasty visual smoothie your eyeballs will wanna slurp up.

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