Whether you’re a graveyard worker or a weekend warrior, these late-night dining spots are an upgrade from your nearest drive-thru There’s a popular theory that eating after a certain time of the day is bad for you. Perhaps it’s true — which is exactly why you should make each late-night meal worth the damage.

Daytime cooking show queen Giada De Laurentiis has a lot to prove with her first restaurant. She does just that — with surprising flair and flavor Unless you’re a diehard fan of Food Network personality Giada De Laurentiis, it would be difficult to visit GIADA — her new namesake restaurant — without a critical eye.

Mexican Independence Day tequila dinnerSept. 16Border Grill is celebrating Mexican Independence Day with a special south-of-the-border-inspired tequila dinner, featuring world-renowned premium Sauza Tequila.

An excerpt from this month's new Vegas-set novel, Gangsterland The setup: It’s 1998 and Sal Cupertine, hitman for the Chicago mob, has been dispatched to Las Vegas after a botched job ends with three FBI agents dead. Six months of surgeries and rabbinical studies have turned him into another person altogether: Rabbi David Cohen, youth rabbi at a thriving Summerlin temple run by Rabbi Cy Kales, father-in-law of local gangster Bennie Savone.

A passionate populist, Donato Cabrera brings a teaching spirit —and a fervent musical gusto — to his new role at the philharmonic Donato Cabrera’s resumé is impressive, to be sure. Where to start? A University of Nevada-Reno music graduate, he also holds an artist’s diploma in conducting from the Manhattan School of Music, and he’s guest conducted for everyone from the Vienna Philharmonic’s International Orchestra Institute Attergau to the Woodstock Mozart Festival in Illinois.

Encounters with the greatest sportswriter you’ve never heard Lunch OneJerry Izenberg, the greatest sportswriter you’ve never heard of, walks into the Grand Cafe at Sunset Station like a cruiserweight entering a ring. He’s loose, confident, on the balls of his feet.

Sept 19My Children! My Africa!Black Box Theatre, UNLVThe choice between education and violence sits at the heart of this Athol Fugard drama about South African apartheid, as a “humble and humane” black teacher tries to convince a student to make the right decision. Through Sept.

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A conversation with acerbic comedian Doug Stanhope as he returns to where he began Straight from the American id, it’s Doug Stanhope — trampler of pieties, smasher of taboos, peddler of dangerous ideas (such as, it’s okay to stop caring about 9/11). Also, crucially: a comedian.

Grab your clipboards, kids, for the zany,complex game of citizen law-making! You’ll probably lose, but boy, will you have fun!So, you want to pass an initiative?If you’ve reached this point, you’re frustrated. You’ve spotted a problem, and you think you’ve got a solution.