We would have saved the rooster Editor’s note: The Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would not have euthanized a rooster given to the organization. This fact was incorrect in an article (“Gives you wings,” August 2011).

Pecan pie at Delmonico’s Pastry Chef Stephanie Nikolic tells us the origins of Delmonico’s recipe for this Southern dessert staple are unknown, but it’s so popular, “it comes with the restaurant and no one would dream of taking it off the menu.” One bite past the crackling crust, bursting with pecan, butter, egg and sugar goodness and you will taste why.

As Pride celebrates its 28th year, pioneering gay community activists remember the struggles -- and the triumphs Nowadays, it's pretty easy to be a gay activist in Las Vegas. It's no longer risky to be out of the closet in most quarters - even at Nellis Air Force Base - thanks to laws that protect workers and customers from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Blues, rockabilly, sweat, sex, violence and camp — from two skinny twentysomethings Robots are taking over our airwaves. Every other song you hear nowadays is shot through with Auto-Tune, synthesizer or the womp womp womp of chordless bass — and it represents the push toward a genre that promises the reversal of everything the musical classics spent years to build — all on instruments that need a three-prong outlet to function.

She writes and directs edgy, off-the-wall plays — staged on a coupon-clipping budget When a specialist in the plays of Samuel Beckett with a Ph.D.

Her breezy, confident style hides a secret: This young violinist plays until it hurts C.J.

He’s making beauty take flight in the streets — with or without permission A man in gray-rimmed glasses with long dark hair curling out from underneath a ball cap scans the intersection, the cameras. “Always a little nervous,” he explains.

If cell phones are outlawed in cars, only outlaws will play Angry Birds while merging in the Spaghetti Bowl News item: On Oct. 1, a new state law goes into effect that bans talking on a cell phone or texting while driving.