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September 2015

Desert Companion 2015
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Stories from the September 2015 Issue

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Feature
Valerie Ventic
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2015 Fall Culture Guide: Ones to Watch

Aug 28, 2015

Meet five up-and-coming artists who are breaking new ground in music, dance, art, theater and more.

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Family, Festivals & Food
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2015 Fall Culture Guide: Family, Festivals & Food

Aug 28, 2015

A big-deal poet comes to town. Offbeat musicians unite for an evening. Artists show their work, actors emote onstage: fall will be chockablock — that’s right, chockablock! — with culture. Our smartly curated guide will help you make the most of this autumn bounty.

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Literature and Ideas
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2015 Fall Culture Guide: Literature & Ideas

Aug 28, 2015

A big-deal poet comes to town. Offbeat musicians unite for an evening. Artists show their work, actors emote onstage: fall will be chockablock — that’s right, chockablock! — with culture. Our smartly curated guide will help you make the most of this autumn bounty.

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Theater and dance
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2015 Fall Culture Guide: Theater & Dance

Aug 28, 2015

A big-deal poet comes to town. Offbeat musicians unite for an evening. Artists show their work, actors emote onstage: fall will be chockablock — that’s right, chockablock! — with culture. Our smartly curated guide will help you make the most of this autumn bounty.

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Music
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2015 Fall Culture Guide: Music

Aug 28, 2015

A big-deal poet comes to town. Offbeat musicians unite for an evening. Artists show their work, actors emote onstage: fall will be chockablock — that’s right, chockablock! — with culture. Our smartly curated guide will help you make the most of this autumn bounty.

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Visual Arts
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2015 Fall Culture Guide

Aug 28, 2015

A big-deal poet comes to town. Offbeat musicians unite for an evening. Artists show their work, actors emote onstage: fall will be chockablock — that’s right, chockablock! — with culture. Our smartly curated guide will help you make the most of this autumn bounty.

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Fairy
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Fall fashion: Enchanted beauty

Aug 28, 2015

Dreamy, daring and dramatic - this season's look embraces a fashion-forward fantasy.

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24 Hours
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24 Hours: Noon, July 31 to noon, August 1

Aug 27, 2015

It’s an enjoyably daunting two-part challenge: One, how many facets of this valley can we capture in one 24-hour period? And, two, in how many vividly diverse ways?

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All things to all people
Solar Energy
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Here comes the sun

Aug 27, 2015

The falling price of solar makes an economic case for upping Nevada’s renewable energy production. Will residents reap the benefits?

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Boulder City Bowl
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A Mayberry of our own

Aug 27, 2015

Sampling the small-town ambiance of Boulder City’s Arizona Street.

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Marisela Altimirano
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Trendsetter: Marisela Altamirano, Fashion and lifestyle blogger at Divercitystyle.com

Aug 27, 2015

Describe your personal style: It’s transitional. Grounded in classics but always incorporating trends to the mix. I’m all about cost per wear.

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All things to all people
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Profile: Wayne Littlejohn, Artist

Aug 27, 2015

Public art can infuse a community with a shared sense of civic pride and cultural ownership.

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Road Closure
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Zeit bites: Not seeking closure

Aug 27, 2015

With another festival closing streets Downtown — which happens all too frequently — a heartfelt plea for more open roads.

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Trikes
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Health care: Ride to live

Aug 27, 2015

Veterans offer their peers therapy on three wheels.

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Bully
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Education: Push and shove

Aug 27, 2015

A tough new law puts more pressure on educators to respond to bullying incidents — or face punishment.

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Business
Still life
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Lifelike

Aug 27, 2015

For the Werners, taxidermy — “capturing the spirit” of a dead creature — is all about family, tradition, memory and a love of animals.

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Culture
Ocean Drive
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Vegas goes dark

Aug 27, 2015

Film noir set in Sin City explores the shadows beyond the neon — and offers a historic glimpse into a long-lost Vegas.

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Dining
Fun, guys: Therapy's mixed mushroom flatbread
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At first bite: Feel-good cuisine

Aug 27, 2015

Therapy brings a new maturity to the Downtown dining scene, and points the way forward.

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Dining
The Cordelia
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Cocktail of the month: The Cordelia at Other Mama

Aug 27, 2015

Other Mama kept the Cordelia off of its menu during the hot months — this suave drink doesn’t readily comport with summer’s demand for friskier cocktails.

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Dining
Pan-roasted chicken
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Eat this now: Pan-roasted chicken at 35 Steaks + Martinis

Aug 27, 2015

I know: Why, why, why (forehead-slap!) get chicken at a steakhouse? Because this pan-roasted chicken is like Chicken: The Concept Album on a plate. The main breast serving is delicate and tender, with a perfect brown crisp on the skin that looks like it was applied with an airbrush. It’s served on a bed of trofie — elegant but unfussy capsule pasta — swimming in an earthy mushroom truffle cream previously only available to one-percenter forest pixies. Save the pastry-wrapped drumstick for last.

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Dining
Bugsy Siegel
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Stirring tribute

Aug 27, 2015

Vegas icons from Sinatra to Zsa Zsa all had their signature, go-to cocktails. Here’s how to catch a bit of their buzz.

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Editor's Note
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Portraits of artists

Aug 28, 2015

This issue marks the sixth year of our “Ones to Watch” feature, where we profile up-and-coming talent on the Vegas culturescape. For this year’s package, we looked back in order to look forward, tapping previous Ones to Watch honorees to see who’s blipping on their radar these days. Their selections didn’t disappoint.

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End Note
Bucks Wild
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Money It's a Gas: Bucks Wild

Aug 28, 2015

With artisanal cash trending, local artists imagine an LV currency.

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Notes and letters
Dr. Conti
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Reader feedback

Aug 28, 2015

Even as it slumbers in the Desert Companion archives, our big July 2014 report on the late Dr. Ralph Conti — a beloved local pediatrician whose career was ruined by a stem-cell scam — continues to touch readers.

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Sports
James Hof
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Hitting it big

Aug 27, 2015

Far from the UFC limelight, hundreds of amateur mixed martial artists fight to go pro — or just straighten out their lives. Las Vegas has become their mecca.

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