Cliven Bundy wasn’t the first to fight the feds over public land in Nevada — but the details of those fights make all the differenceRanchers, heirs to the land, claim ancestral rights and battle the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies over who controls it. Supporters flock to their side and celebrities lend aid.

With a new leader, the Las Vegas Urban League starts to think bigPoor North Las Vegas. Mired in debt, its tax base shriveling, a city limping along as the state considers taking over its finances.

Sloooow…For most of my hiking life, I was strictly goal-oriented. I looked for the easiest way to a peak or the deepest point in a canyon.

Tucked into the heart of the Arts District, Rock’N’oodles is tiny — maybe five tables inside and out — but their ambitions are grand. Rock’N’oodles serves pasta inspired by world cuisine, from a tikka masala plate to a Southern barbecue chicken bowl to a spicy chipotle concoction.

It’s easy to get lost in Las Vegas — well, not get lost, exactly, but lose touch with a sense of place. If the Strip riotously channels everywhere but here, the cityscape that flanks our neon lagoon insists on placelessness: It can often present itself as, at best, a suspiciously Southwestish melange of strip malls, tract homes, weedy lots with political billboards.

Like a small bee swarm, the Basic High School robotics team descends on physics teacher Mark Reed’s classroom. They push desks to the periphery, lay out plastic tubing and wood panels, and puzzle over how to conjure a ring like those used at the VEX Robotics Competition, their Super Bowl.

Chief technological thaumaturgist, Ideabox Media Group Inc., developer of automation systems for homes and businesses YOUR PERSONAL STYLE? My personal style is best described as a “multitool” without looking like one.

Colson Whitehead’s The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death (Doubleday, $24.95) is the latest big memoir about playing in the World Series of Poker.

They didn’t win our Photo Contest, but something about these shots made us want to know more Photographer: Lisane ForelloIt caught our eye because: It could be the composition, it could be the casually naturalistic style or it could be the horse in line at Starbucks.The story: “My husband, Dushon, usually rides his horse, Misty, a black Morgan, between Southern Highlands and Blue Diamond.

Polaroid that is. At the Las Vegas Camera Club the once-obsolete photo system enjoys a new snap. Get the full picture!