Whether he’s doing a remixed BLT or a Tree of Life sandwich, this chef is mixing up the menu For many people, going vegan is motivated by a passion for animal rights, better health or saving the earth. For Peter Bastien, executive chef of Bronze Café at The Center, making some of the valley’s best-tasting and most satisfying vegan and vegetarian food is the result of neither fad nor philosophical perspective.

Her discipline is admirable, her willpower exceptional, her music poignant and haunting Having read that music lessons support a child’s aptitude for math and science, Mrs. Haduong enrolled each of her children in music lessons at a young age.

This innovative duo enriches local theater and turns nightlife spots into sensory playgrounds We’re inside the Loman household — that stifling box of middle-class dreams gone sour in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. And then we’re not.

Where do the faithful go when a church rejects gays and lesbians? Places like Northwest Community Church, where Rev. Greg Davis is building a safe harbor “God is still speaking! But are we listening?” These could easily be the words that launch a Sunday service in just about any Christian church.

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So Las Vegas isn’t exactly known as a bookish town. Don’t tell that to Ann DeVere.