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    September 2018

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    Stories from the September 2018 Issue

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    Most important meal
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    How to Look at Art

    Aug 30, 2018

    Breakfast as a lens on social change: “I was thinking about how fast-paced our lives have become,” says artist Robby Martin, aka Biscuit Street Preacher, of this painting.

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    2018 Fall Culture Guide: Families and Festivals

    Aug 30, 2018

    As the sun sets on summer, the fall cultural season is just getting started. Plan your outings with our handpicked collection of great art, music,  literature, theater, and festival events!

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    Vibrance
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    2018 Fall Culture Guide: Visual Arts

    Aug 30, 2018

    As the sun sets on summer, the fall cultural season is just getting started. Plan your outings with our handpicked collection of great art, music,  literature, theater, and festival events! 

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    Waitress
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    2018 Fall Culture Guide: Theater & Dance

    Aug 30, 2018

    As the sun sets on summer, the fall cultural season is just getting started. Plan your outings with our handpicked collection of great art, music,  literature, theater, and festival events! 

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    Okaidja
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    2018 Fall Culture Guide: Music

    Aug 30, 2018

    As the sun sets on summer, the fall cultural season is just getting started. Plan your outings with our handpicked collection of great art, music,  literature, theater, and festival events! 

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    Civility and Climate Change
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    2018 Fall Culture Guide: Literature and Ideas

    Aug 30, 2018

    As the sun sets on summer, the fall cultural season is just getting started. Plan your outings with our handpicked collection of great art, music,  literature, theater, and festival events! 

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    Heidi Moore
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    Ones to Watch

    Aug 24, 2018

    Five local creatives — filmmaker, musician, performer, literary dynamo, illustrator — who are having a moment.

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    Water Street
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    These Walls CAN Talk

    Aug 24, 2018

    Three writers reflect on the civic murals that tell us the story of Las Vegas — in food, visual funk, and artful history.

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    Foreclosure homes
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    Visual Commentary: Foreclosure City

    Aug 28, 2018

    Remembering 2008 and the scorching effets of the Great Recession.

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    Paul Vautrinot
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    Profile: Paul Vautrinot, Homeless Advocate

    Aug 28, 2018

    The morning following a heavy July monsoon, Paul Vautrinot treks toward a flood tunnel to deliver supplies to homeless people living underground near the Strip.

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    Bush Booklets
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    An American Artist in Britain

    Aug 28, 2018

    When a young Diane Bush left Vietnam-era America for Britain at age 18, she couldn’t know she’d be, in her way, among a photography vanguard.

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    Marcus Civin
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    The New Guy

    Aug 28, 2018

    As he steers the UNLV art department toward an inclusive, tolerant, community-engaged future, new chairman Marcus Civin is ready to make some changes.

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    Libraries
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    Architecture: More Than Books

    Aug 28, 2018

    In praise of the social utility of a beautifully designed library.

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    Things they carry
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    Style: Things They Carry

    Aug 30, 2018

    We took a peek into the bags of four stylish locals. Here are their tools and totems for getting things done — and looking good while doing it.

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    Jim Stanford
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    Zen Man

    Aug 30, 2018

    Jim Stanford makes art at the shimmering, surprisingly symmetrical intersection of Las Vegas and Buddhism.

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    Las Vegas
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    Bad Reps

    Aug 30, 2018

    What we think of a city has consequences for that city: Las Vegas. San Francisco. Birmingham, Alabama. Three very different cities united by at least one thing.

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    David Anthony
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    Q&A: Meat-free Beefcake

    Aug 30, 2018

    Meet David Anthony, one of PETA’s sexiest vegans — also a (Las) Vegan.

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    Joel Robuchon
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    Death of a Taste Maker

    Aug 30, 2018

    Joël Robuchon’s passing isn’t just sad news in itself. It signals the beginning of the end of Strip fine dining as we know it.

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    Twenty Sound Years

    Aug 30, 2018

    After two decades of making beautiful music, the Las Vegas Philharmonic aims for higher notes.

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    Myron G. Martin
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    My Space: Myron G. Martin

    Aug 30, 2018

    The personal and the professional — all of it entertaining — mingle in the office of The Smith Center’s boss.

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    Missing Manners

    Aug 30, 2018

    Attending a play is no trip to the movies. The theater requires its own code of conduct.

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    Joey Newell
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    Brimming With Creativity

    Aug 30, 2018

    Frustrated that he could never find a hat that fit properly, Joey Newell decided to take matters into this own hands.

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    Diary of a Bookseller
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    Means of Escape

    Aug 30, 2018

    Need a break from the headlines? Whether you want to retreat into light memoir, deep lit, or something a little scary, Writer’s Block co-owner Drew Cohen recommends these new releases.

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    Asian Bakeries
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    Treats From the East

    Aug 30, 2018

    I have to begin by admitting that this list is woefully incomplete: The world of Asian baked goods is massive. It stretches from Turkish baklava to Filipino pandesal.

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    Editor's Note
    Andrew Kiraly
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    Event Horizon

    Aug 28, 2018

    I feel like this summer was extra rite-of-passagier than others on recent historical record, and I therefore deserve to hurl myself extra hard into this fall’s reprieve of cooler temperatures and, more importantly, cultural events.

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