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July 2015

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Stories from the July 2015 Issue

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Summer reading
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Summer reading: Microfiction: When the Hormones Kick In

Jun 29, 2015

Hey Kris, It’s Brian B. The bookstore dude gave me your email. I was at your reading the other night.

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Dorothy and the Scarecrow
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Summer reading: Short story: Dorothy and the Scarecrow

Jun 29, 2015

That morning, I took my father’s watch from the top of the dresser where my mother kept it, stuffed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in my jacket pocket and ran away.

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Summer reading: Microfiction: Sense of Direction

Jun 29, 2015

“Calculating route. Turn left and then keep right. In 1.2 miles, turn left to North Green Valley Parkway.

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Coyotes of the Apocalypse
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Summer reading: Short story: Coyotes of the Apolcalypse

Jun 29, 2015

She remembered dancing in the desert. She remembered stars. It was a dream, but one that felt vivid and made her giddy, her head bubbly. She’d been light as wind, a part of the nightscape whispering over the hills.

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Summer reading: Microfiction: Vegas Lights in Vegas Nights

Jun 29, 2015

@mercedesmy You guys. Can you see this? Stars are falling in #LasVegas. Like, crazy ones.

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Dragonfish
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Summer reading: Excerpt: 'I have brought you here to tell you a story'

Jun 29, 2015

Vu Tran’s upcoming novel Dragonfish is set in the Vietnamese underworld of Las Vegas. Robert, an Oakland cop, can’t let go of Suzy, the mysterious Vietnamese wife who recently left him.

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Popular culinary tours sample the best of the Strip and downtown
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The dish: Go ahead, try me

Jun 25, 2015

Local culinary tours are banking on our bellies for business. But what exactly does a “taste of Vegas” taste like?

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The dishes go deep at Tapas by Alex Stratta
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At first bite: Nothing can tapas now

Jun 25, 2015

Back from his long hiatus, Alex Stratta makes a bid to re-establish himself with small plates in Summerlin

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Patisserie Manon
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DEALicious table for two

Jun 25, 2015

Nobody really expects a French place to have a good deal, right? Normally, people associate French food with expense, even though people in France don’t eat like that every day. What do you think so far?

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Pie oh my: Settebello’s $5 margherita mini-pie
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Sixth Annual DEALicious Meals

Jun 25, 2015

So much food • so much flavor • such good deals

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Sammy's LA Pastrami & Burgers
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DEALicious drive thrus

Jun 25, 2015

Drive-thru grub on the go usually entails a heatlamp-tortured yuckburger or a limp burrito filled with wrenching suicidal anguish.

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Charburger At Weiner's Circle
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DEALicious meals - Fusion dishes

Jun 25, 2015

Fusion dishes are all the rage with Korean tacos birthing the food truck revolution, but it doesn’t mean there isn’t room for innovation.

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All things to all people

Zeit: Beyond sangria

Jun 30, 2015

You and a bunch of friends can beat the heat British-style with this pitcher-perfect Planter's Punch.

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Dig that new subway under the Strip.
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Zeit: What could we do if...

Jun 30, 2015

What could we do if... we still had the Water Authority's giant tunnel-drilling machine?

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Makeup
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Style: The perfect poolside look

Jun 26, 2015

Pool season is here, and that means three things: sun, swimming and selfies.

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The Water Knife
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Zeit: Dust to dust

Jun 25, 2015

The Water Knife is a great summer book — and an invitation to worry about the future

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Palladium by Sean Russell
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Zeit: 'What could be salvaged'

Jun 25, 2015

Artist Sean Russell explains how he turns place into art.

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Radio City Pizza
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To Fremont East!

Jun 25, 2015

The latest iteration of an ever-changing street.

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Bruce Issacson
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Bruce Isaacson, Clark county poet laureate

Jun 25, 2015

He shows up clad in black, hefting a bag of his chapbooks, exuding a hint of recently smoked cigarette, effusively friendly, fidgety, fond of gestures. Yeah, Bruce Isaacson definitely comes off like a poet in the raw and expressive tradition of The Beats.

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Small Amphitheater echo chamber
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Design: Gateway to heaven

Jun 25, 2015

How to enjoy Mt. Charleston’s new welcome center

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Beast Sculpture
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Art: In public view

Jun 25, 2015

Why is so much of our public art so meh? Maybe because it’s missing, oh, you know, artists.

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Creativity kid
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The art of getting lost

Jun 25, 2015

In a success-obsessed, results-focused educational environment, are our kids losing their creativity?

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Michele Cusac faces challenges raising a trans child
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‘I’m a real boy’

Jun 25, 2015

Raising a transgender child in Las Vegas is filled with surprises, challenges and trials — but few resources and little help 

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Dining
Red curry flatbread
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Eat this now: Flatbread and Beef Brisket Sandwich

Jun 25, 2015

As a naturalized citizen of Fast Food Nation, my gustatory comfort zone is about the size of a burger and fries. Now and then I try to nudge those boundaries outward an inch or two, which is how I found myself at this winsome Asian-fusion place in Green Valley, ordering a short-rib flatbread. Which turns out to be more or less a pizza.

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Editor's Note
Andrew Kiraly
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Truth in fiction

Jun 25, 2015

For a city with so many stories, characters, contrasts and conflicts — not to mention this whole ultralounge-on-Mars setting we’ve got going on — Vegas sometimes seems like a living novel.

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