Mark del Monte general manager of Public House Dopplebeck. Sour.

“I guess I was hungrier than I thought,” says Jon Ralston. He’s just devoured a personal pizza at a recent lunch — in the same way he can devour a flip-flopping politician on his TV gabfest: in a flurry of compulsive piranha bites.

GET IN GEAR Send your special someone packing with this travel gear Start shopping for the road-trippers on your gift list, and you’re practically guaranteed to come down with wanderlust yourself. Whether you end up wrapping them or keeping them for yourself, here are some let’s-hit-the-highway ideas for holiday giving.

You know the United Way. They’re that organization that does, well, you know .

A second look at the revived LVAM collection in the newly reopened Marjorie Barrick Museum reveals new intrigues and pleasures While working as a docent at the Venetian’s ill-fated Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, I had the strange and wonderful privilege of hosting student tour groups. Void of self-conscious ramblings, these tours were eye-opening: kids are astute observers and, truth be told, say the darnedest things.

Someone at the podium made an interesting offhand comment during the round of thank-yous and speechlets at the recent media bash for the Neon Museum, the newly opened trophy case of historic Vegas signs. A gloss: Las Vegas may not be known as a global exporter of capital-c Culture, but — woot! — we sure know how to make some pretty signs.

Unleash your inner hero — by lending a hand to these valley organizations in need Animals ALL FUR LOVE ANIMAL SOCIETY (allfurloveanimalsociety.org) What they do: Dedicated volunteers are committed to the rescue, safety and welfare of abandoned kittens and cats.

The rise and fall — and rise and fall — of shock theater impresario Sirc Michaels. (Insert f-bomb here) Jacked up on Mountain Dew and blitzing audiences into shock with a barrage of f-bombs, he came seemingly out of nowhere to set Las Vegas’ theater scene on its ear.

One of the most prized assets of remote national monument Grand Canyon-Parashant is — shhhh — the quiet “Stop right here!” Eathan McIntyre tells us. So we halt our humble two-vehicle caravan, and now we’re stopped on an unpaved road a dozen or so miles inside the Arizona border.

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