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Best of the City 2020: Arts & Entertainment

Jan 01, 2020

We’re a bit frozen with awe by the momentousness of it all — the compressed hype packed into the “best” premise, the gravid ta-da of the year 2020.

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Picking Winners: How a 'Best of the City List' Comes Together

Jan 31, 2019

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Best of the City: Readers’ Poll

Jan 29, 2019

What our readers say is the best of the city, not the pretty-goodest of the city, or the premium mediocre of the city.

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Best of the City: Family + Leisure

Jan 29, 2019

Find out about the best places to take your family and enjoy the public places in Las Vegas.

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Best of the City: Food & Drink

Jan 28, 2019

Tacos might simply be hand-held tortillas folded on three sides around fillings, but they come in a plethora of styles, and local taqueria Leticia’s seems to have mastered them all. These tacos and more that are considered the best food of the city!

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Best of the City: Arts + Entertainment

Jan 28, 2019

Love is the Cirque du Soleil you could watch with your eyes closed, hearing The Beatles remixed through 7,000 speakers. This and other entertainment is part of our Best in the City compilation.

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The Best Dry Cleaners
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Best of the City: Shops + Services

Jan 28, 2019

It's time to jump in to our annual superlative-o-pediatm of the best things in Las Vegas, from hamburgers to hikes - all curated by us, your trusted Desert Companion experts. Let's get besting!

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Best Mode

Jan 25, 2019

I often compare Vegas to a Russian nesting doll, but one with neon and video poker instead of those lidless, accusing eyes. You get past the touristy shell, the strip mall shell, the sleepy isolationist suburban shell...

 

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Best of the City: Shops and Services

Jan 29, 2018

Looking for that special something?  Here is the list!

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Hoover Dam
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Best of the City: Family & Leisure

Jan 29, 2018

The best family outings.

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Naked City Pizza
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Best of the City: Food & Drink

Jan 29, 2018

Hear from a rousing chorus of voices on the best food in the city!

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Buffalo Exchange
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Best of the City: Best Day Ever

Jan 29, 2018

Notable Las Vegans share their version of the perfect day in the city.

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Bunkhouse Saloon
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Best of the City: Arts & Entertainment

Jan 29, 2018

Here's the best in arts and entertainment for the New Year.

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The look back
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Ten years of Desert Companion, seven years of Best of the City

Feb 01, 2017

Desert Companion has been compiling its annual Best of the City issue since February 2011.

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Come together!

Feb 01, 2017

Bests we can all agree on.

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Best of the City

Feb 01, 2017

From food and leisure to shopping and culture, we've rounded up dozens of the valley's peak experiences.  Time to get bestin'!

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Think You Know The 'Best Of' Las Vegas?

Feb 01, 2017

Most people love ‘best of’ lists. If not to inspire argument, best of lists at least open doors to topics or places you might want to explore.

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Best of the City: Readers' Poll

Jan 27, 2016

Selected results from our survey

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Best of the City
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Best of the City: Personal bests

Jan 25, 2016

Local favorites from valley tastemakers.

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Best of the City: Bested & tested

Jan 25, 2016

You bested it, we tested it - In which Desert Companion assesses your top choices in our Best of the City readers' poll.

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Best of the City: These are the champions - of valley food, culture, arts, shopping and more!

Jan 25, 2016

We've scoured Las Vegas to locate the best, the finest, the ne plus ultra, if you will, of this city's cuisine, leisure, culture and shopping.

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Best of the City: Readers poll

Feb 01, 2015

You voted, we statsticalized* and then we doodled.

*Using quantum voodoo to determine top (and bottom!) vote-getters in each category.

 

 

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Best of the City Bonus: Shops and services

Feb 01, 2015

Grayson and her sister were raised by a father who trained recent high school grads to be bricklayers, carpenters and plumbers. Though he said he never wanted his kids following that path, he’d bring home materials and help them do odd jobs for pocket money.

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Best of the City: Eat and drink

Feb 01, 2015

A wild combination of art and cuisine — with some drinking and music thrown in — Yusho After Dark gives you yet another excuse to check out the exciting fare being served from this hidden corner of Monte Carlo.

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Best! Thing! Ever!

Feb 01, 2015

Whew! This marks the fifth annual Best of the City issue, and the third time we’ve run an online readers’ poll to put our finger on your vox populi as you turn your head and cough. You flooded us with your faves in food, shopping, arts and entertainment.

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