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June 2015

Desert Companion June 2015
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Stories from the June 2015 Issue

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East side super moon
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How I got the shot

May 26, 2015

Seasoned photographers share the stories behind memorable shoots — the how, the why and what happened next.

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Biar Atem
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We Just Had to Ask: Now Arriving

May 26, 2015

Some were reaching for the brass ring. Others were running for their lives. Whatever reason they came here, these Las Vegans from around the globe have fascinating origin stories.

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Isaac Davis
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And the winners are...

May 21, 2015

Oh snap! Time to unveil the best submissions from our annual Focus on Nevada photo contest — including one very enlightening grand-prize winner.

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Alan Duff
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And the winners are... Honorable Mention

May 21, 2015

Oh snap! Time to unveil the best submissions from our annual Focus on Nevada photo contest — including one very enlightening grand-prize winner.

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All things to all people
Bambi Jones
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Zeit: Still shakin’ it

May 28, 2015

For her new book Legends: The Living Art of Risqué, French photographer Marie Baronnet traveled the country to take joyous, revealing portraits of early burlesque performers, many in Las Vegas (such as Bambi Jones, above).

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Valley of Fire
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Discomfort Zone: Valley of Fire detox

May 28, 2015

When the city gets you down, there’s nothing like a natural spectacle to remind you of what, um, really matters … 

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Trendsetter
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Style

May 28, 2015

What’s the biggest fashion mistake most men make? Too many accessories. One bracelet or simple necklace goes a long way. We all love Mr. T, but that was the ’80s.

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Dr. Antonio Serru
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Profile: Dr. Antonio Serru Internist

May 28, 2015

Every day, travelers arrive in Las Vegas from across the globe, but many are here for more than a vacation. They’re refugees seeking a better life.

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Juneteenth
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Zeit: Juneteenth

May 28, 2015

Fourteen summers ago I happened upon a festive gathering in a strip mall parking lot on H Street and Owens Avenue. My first experience with Juneteenth happened to be the city’s first large-scale commemoration of June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom.

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Bloomin' Vegas

May 28, 2015

June 16 is the 111th anniversary of Bloomsday; not bad, considering it marks a day in 1904 that only exists within James Joyce’s legendary modernist classic Ulysses, a novel that nearly all literati bow down before even if many have never finished it.

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Oscillator
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Zeit: Mystified is normal

May 28, 2015

How to break the ice with Brian Porray's work "/'\0SCILL4T0R/'\"

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Nevada book
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History: A state in full

May 27, 2015

Michael Green delivers a Nevada history that finally gives Las Vegas its due — and doesn’t shrink from the state’s dark side.

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Gold digger
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Earth change

May 26, 2015

Nevada’s environmental movement is evolving — just not in time to have made an impact in the 2015 Legislature.

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Dining
Scallop Crudo
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Meatballs, meet modernism

May 26, 2015

At Lago, Italian classics get a fresh makeover for the modern palate 

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Dining
Gelato Messina
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Eat this now: Chocolate fondant and Athenian Burger

May 26, 2015

One of the Westside’s new sweet spots, Gelato Messina has display cases filled with shiny mounds of frozen concoctions ranging in flavor from pistachio and pear-rhubarb to blood orange and vanilla.

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Dining
RM Seafood Scallop
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Spring all summer

May 26, 2015

The delicate, earthy flavors of the season take center stage in these fine-dining dishes.

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Editor's Note
Andrew Kiraly
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Past presence

May 26, 2015

Las Vegas’ transient populace can make for a lot of brain-drain and skeletal, undernourished relationships, but there’s definitely one advantage to living in a city where everyone comes from somewhere else: Whoa, what great backstories. Amid the drifters, dreamers and second-chancers who float our way, there are countless compelling tales of arrival.

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End Note
Michele Fiore
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Satire: Guns, guts and glory

May 26, 2015

With any luck, by the time you read this, the 2015 Legislature will have come to a merciful close. Then again, it’s also entirely possible that, as of this writing, Assemblywoman Michele Fiore and Cliven Bundy are holding our lawmakers hostage at musket-point until they recognize the independent city-state of Fioria. At any rate, here’s a roundup of the newsworthy people, the politics and the power plays of the 78th session.

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Essay
Jobs of the Future
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About those exciting jobs of tomorrow

May 26, 2015

If you paid any attention to the Nevada Legislature this year — the policy part, not the part about the weird woman with all the guns who thinks cancer is a fungus — you heard a fair amount about the need to finally improve education so that Nevada’s youth will be prepared for the exciting jobs of tomorrow.

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Health
Bonnie Barnett
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Dry ideas

May 26, 2015

In a hard-drinking, 24-hour town, a new form of a drug holds hope for recovering alcoholics.

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Notes and letters
Mage Against the Machine
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Notes & Letters

May 26, 2015

Wielding hashtags like throwing stars, the social-media ninjas at the Nevada National Security Site showed us some love for Alan Gegax’s account of touring the former Test Site, which ran in our May issue: “Great #article by Desert Companion magazine about the many #cultural resources at the #Nevada National Security Site,” they posted.

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Take 5
Vogel Collection
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Cultural highlights this month

May 28, 2015

Four words you might not’ve put together before — “Aussie roots jam rock” — come together in superbly listenable fashion. Groove it or lose it, people! 7p, $22-$27.50, Brooklyn Bowl, brooklynbowl.com.

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