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    Best of the City

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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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    Best of the City 2020: Food & Drink

    Jan 01, 2020

    The best-of Las Vegas food for 2020!

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    Best of the City 2020: Leisure & Community

    Jan 01, 2020

    What better way to kick off a new decade than by celebrating Las Vegas’ most excellent people, food, places, and experiences? Happy best year!

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    Best of the City 2020: Shops & Services

    Jan 01, 2020

    Our New Year's Resolution is to give you a deep, wide-ranging selection of superlative Las Vegas food, shopping, culture, and community intel.  Done!

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    People, Places, and Things We Love about Las Vegas: In Praise of the Strip at Dawn

    Jan 01, 2020

    Someone once told me that there’s nothing uglier than Las Vegas Boulevard during the day. I disagree.

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    People, Places, and Things We Love About Las Vegas: In Praise of Aerosmith's Residency

    Jan 01, 2020

    Aerosmith has played Las Vegas long enough to outlast the city’s first Hard Rock Café.

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    Ghost Adventures
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    People, Places, and Things We Love About Las Vegas: In Praise of Ghost Adventures

    Jan 01, 2020

    It took me a while to understand why I take such rapt, unalloyed delight in Ghost Adventures. At first, I thought I was liking it ironically or in the mode of camp.

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    Alisha Kerlin
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    People, Places, and Things We Love About Las Vegas: In Praise of the Barrick Museum

    Jan 01, 2020

    2019: What a year for the Barrick Museum of Art. Strong out of the gate with Axis Mundo.

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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 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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    Tacos
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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: 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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    Alternate Universe
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    My Own Alternate Universe

    Jan 29, 2018

    Notes from the postmodern anywhere of a suburban convenience store

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    Jw Caldwell's "Time Heals All Wounds"
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    Personal Best of the City

    Jan 29, 2018

    The mural by Las Vegas artist Jw Caldwell that stretched outside the Tilting the Basin exhibit on Commerce Street Downtown.

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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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    Editor's Note
    Andrew Kiraly
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    Latest Flame

    Jan 29, 2018

    I spent a heroically lazy Christmas week on the couch, possibly in the same clothes for several days in a row but that’s not a confession, alternately reading and napping in a state of what I told myself was a silently transformative chrysaloid stasis.

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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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    Hoover Dam
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    Best of the City: Family & Leisure

    Jan 29, 2018

    The best family outings.

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    Las Vegas cyclery
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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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    Letters: Best of the City

    Feb 23, 2016

    Hey, everyone, it’s a guy from Brumby! Reading Desert Companion! He’s in a picture on Facebook, reading our February edition — “Best of the City,” though surely you haven’t forgotten because how could you?

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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: 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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    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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    Andrew Kiraly
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    Best of times

    Jan 25, 2016

    Most top-of-mind observation about our sixth annual Best of the City issue: Wowie! If the intensity level of ballot-stuffing this year is any indication — in many cases, brute, systematic, monolithic, algorithmic and, hafta admit, admirably so — our Best of the City readers’ poll has officially arrived as a showcase for tastemaking and trendspotting.

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    Best of the City Bonus: Good better best

    Mar 16, 2015

    To find the best of something, you have to look for it — examine the candidates, weigh their merits, reach a conclusion. Here, then, four crawls that do just that

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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 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! 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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    Best of the City:Art and culture

    Feb 01, 2014

    Food & Drink Shops & Services Leisure, Family & Fun Outtakes Best headliner Taylor Hicks The fifth-season “American Idol” winner’s success story actually began in Las Vegas. Stranded in New Orleans the night before Hurricane Katrina and unable to return home to Birmingham, Ala.

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    Best of the City: Leisure, Family and Fun

    Feb 01, 2014

    Food & Drink Art & Culture Shops & Services Outtakes Best big-screen movie theater XD, South Point Cinemascope, Cinerama, Dimension 150 … those great wide-screen formats of yore are gone with the wind. But if you want to recreate the experience of seeing a cinema spectacle on a mind-blowingly large screen, try the XD one at South Point.

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    Best of the City: Shops and Services

    Feb 01, 2014

    Food & Drink Art & Culture Leisure, Family & Fun Outtakes Best place to get away from it all 23rd Floor Lobby at Mandarin Oriental Hotel A feeling of serenity settles over you once you’ve ensconced yourself in the 23rd floor lobby (that’s right) of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. From far above the Strip, you can enjoy its vistas yet feel comfortably removed from its hurly-burly, and the staff is the essence of solicitude.

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    Best of the City:The people have spoken

    Feb 01, 2014

    Well, they voted in our online Best of the City poll.  Here are selected results, in artisinal, locally sourced, nonconflict charticles.

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    Best of the City: Readers' poll

    Feb 01, 2013

    The votes are in!  Nearly 400 readers took our online Best of the City Readers' Poll!  Here are select results for the most voted-on categories.

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    Best of the City: Neighborhood watch

    Feb 01, 2013

    Raves from the expert next door Meet our Neighborhood Experts. Centennial Hills, you’re away from the city’s bustle, but the commute makes for some MASSIVE ROAD RAGE. If this spa’s massages don’t dispel stress, their Sunday meditation classes will.

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    Best of the City: Our expert picks

    Feb 01, 2013

    Whether it’s a sandwich or spa, bookstore or Bloody Mary, hiking trail or tailor, you’ll find the best of it all in the pages ahead. But we wouldn’t  be doing our best if we didn’t make a few upgrades.

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    Best of the City: My City

    Feb 01, 2012

    Carla Pellegrino Chef/owner, Bratalian and Bacio restaurants Best place for lunch: Spago at the Forum Shops — I love the Symphony Tuna. Best late-night snack: Holsteins at The Cosmopolitan for burgers or Pellegrino’s Pizza & Deli in the Tropicana (obviously for the pizza).

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    Best of the City: Reader's Choice

    Feb 01, 2012

    Market For finest service, the employees of our four Whole Foods Markets make the top of my list. Their policy of escorting a customer to help find an elusive item feels deliciously like an old-time throwback.

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    Best of the City

    Feb 01, 2012

    Welcome to Desert Companion’s second annual Best of the City. We daresay it’s even better than last year’s.

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    Best of the City: Food + Drink, Arts + Leisure

    Feb 01, 2011

    WHO ARE WE to decide what's the best in food, arts, entertainment and more in Las Vegas? Glad you asked. We're native Las Vegans burning to tell the world about the hometown favorites we grew up with.

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    Best of the City: Shops + Services, People + Places + Community

    Feb 01, 2011

    SHOPS + SERVICES Veggie delivery Make a contribution to the Bountiful Baskets Co-op at the beginning of the week, and by week's end, a basket full of produce arrives at your designated pick-up location. Although not as local, organic and sustainable as other community-supported-agriculture options (e.

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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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    Come together!

    Feb 01, 2017

    Bests we can all agree on.

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    Best of the City Reader's Poll

    Feb 01, 2017

    Best specialty foods store. Best public art.  Best day trip. Best hangout. Best thing downtown...

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