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    Spring - 2021

    Desert Companion - Spring 2021
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    Stories from the Spring - 2021 Issue

    Desert Companion
    Field Notes
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    Field Notes: Head Space

    Feb 08, 2021

    I got lost in the desert looking for Double Negative. Maybe that was the point?

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    Yaad Patty
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    Dining: Flavor Island

    Feb 08, 2021

    What does yaad taste like? A couple with a passion for tasty Jamaican patties wants Las Vegas to find out.

    Desert Companion
    Reasons to love
    Suburban Paradise
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    My Wildish Suburban Paradise

    Feb 09, 2021

    Right outside my subdivision, reminders of the wild Mojave abound.

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    Reasons to love
    73 Reasons to Love Las Vegas
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    Reasons to Love Las Vegas

    Feb 09, 2021

    From strip malls to small desert downs to swanky seniors and … Nicolas Cage? (Yes!)

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    Wild Flower
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    Still Lands Run Deep

    Feb 09, 2021

    On the life lessons the desert southwest has taught me.

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    All Things

    What’s to Love

    Feb 08, 2021

    Three conversations about food, art, and the outdoors in Las Vegas

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    All Things
    Photo by Heidi Kyser
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    Climate Change: Doing Renewable Right

    Feb 08, 2021

    Covering vast swaths of public land is the easy way to develop renewable energy. But is it the smartest?

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    All Things
    Pizza Bistro - image courtesy Sabin Orr
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    Dining: Don’t fret. We still have pizza

    Feb 08, 2021

    Amid a year of chaos and dread, pizza remains eternal. And it’s thriving deliciously in the valley.

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    All things to all people
    Labyrinth photo by Christopher Smith
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    Enthusiasms: ‘Rinth and Repeat

    Feb 08, 2021

    Can walking labyrinths ease my doomscroll-addled mind?

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    All things to all people
    Joe Pine
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    Q&A: Embrace the Experience

    Feb 08, 2021

    After we control the pandemic, people will gather again. Joe Pine has ideas on how we can prepare.

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    All things to all people
    The Angry West
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    History: The Angry West

    Feb 08, 2021

    The extreme rhetoric that sparked the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has deep roots in Nevada.

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    Editor's Note
    Editor's Note
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    What’s to Love?

    Feb 08, 2021

    It’s easy to love Las Vegas for the obvious reasons: The great food scene, the beautiful outdoors, the exhilarating freedom to blow your stimulus check on a Deuces Wild machine at 3 a.m.

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    History
    Courtesy UNLV Special Collections and Archives
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    From Town to City

    Feb 09, 2021

    Eighty years ago, three developments gave birth to modern Las Vegas.

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    Sort of Special

    Feb 09, 2021

    The Thompson brothers set out to make a short fantasy film about a magic sword. It turned out to be the perfect commentary on 2020.

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    Sense of Place
    Heidi's Driveway Yoga
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    Out Front

    Feb 09, 2021

    Driveway gatherings are my concrete way of beating the pandemic blues.

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