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March 2015

Desert Companion

March 2015

  • Hungry for some basketball-season eats? In honor of March Madness, Lagasse’s Stadium will be serving a special menu through March.
  • If your idea of bar food is uninspired chicken wings and fries, The Sporting Life brings some friendly gourmet competition.
  • The fashion model on style, seasonal trends and great selfies. Born in Hamburg, Iowa, Dani Reeves kickstarted her modeling career after she won the 2007 Miss Iowa USA competition.
  • The Rebel enters the gym. He enters the gym and takes his seat. He enters the gym and takes his seat and watches as the spotlights swirl. He watches the spotlights swirl as his students, tall fellows, greet each other in the glow.
  • On the front lines with homeless advocate Merideth Spriggs. She's using new outreach technology, and dreams of a day where no lives on the streets of Las Vegas.
  • Local governments across the U.S. are doing fresh, important things. Las Vegas is ... fighting over the meaning of an imaginary soccer stadium?
  • You don’t have to be a kid to have a blast at team sports. Men’s adult basketball is offered throughout the year on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, at two levels of competition for those 18-plus. Sixty-minute games are played in 11-week schedules at Whitney Recreation Center at 6:15, 7:15 and 8:15.
  • Coming from a 14-year-old, it’s kind of a shocking confession: “I’d rather be on the golf course than with my friends,” says rising golf star Veronica Joels, quickly adding, “I love my friends, obviously, but me and a golf ball on a course — I don’t have anything else going on. It’s just nice and calm.
  • What is there to do outdoors? It's a great big world out there and these people make the most of it.
  • Among natural areas, Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area has long seemed like a neglected stepchild. But that’s about to change