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Fifth Street

April 29, 2021

Apr 29, 2021
*SPRING HAS SPRUNG!* Welcome to the Patio | Saturdays in the Park | Thrill of the Grill | Basket Case | Inside Out
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Fifth Street

April 22, 2021

Apr 22, 2021
What Did the Past Year Teach You? | Culture Is Back: Art, Theater, Music, and More | Media Sommelier | Photographic Memory: Remembering Bill Hughes
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Fifth Street

April 15, 2021

Apr 15, 2021
Curator Ashanti McGee on New Exhibit A Common Thread | Found Dog, Lost Cause | The Virtual Reality of Money, and Other Scary Futuristic Things
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Fifth Street

April 8, 2021

Apr 08, 2021
The Former Nightlife Exec Bringing Mindfulness to Kids | Wait, My Electric Car Won't Save the Planet? | 'Black Sheep' Jamie Tran's Turn on Top Chef
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Fifth Street

April 1, 2021

Apr 01, 2021
The Meaty Greatest Hits of SoulBelly BBQ | My Obsession with Photographing Clouds | Media Sommelier | When Mid-Mod Turns Margaritaville
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Fifth Street

March 25, 2021

Mar 25, 2021
Area15's Psychedelic Mall for the New Millennium | Follow These 6 Local Instagram Photographers | Parsing the Clark County Lands Bill | My Year of Quarantine Stoner Cuisine
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Fifth Street

March 18, 2021

Mar 18, 2021
15 Hikes in Your Backyard | Nature Next Door | This Hike, It’s Personal | Wild in the City: Civic Trails | Hikes After 5
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Fifth Street

March 11, 2021

Mar 11, 2021
Goldwell's New Portone Sculpture | An Astronomical Encounter at Lake Mead | The Filmmaker Laureate of Ely
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Fifth Street

March 4, 2021

Mar 04, 2021
The Grim Las Vegas of Queen of Diamonds | Suni Paz's Songs of Joy and Justice | How I Got Here: Six-Word Vegas Stories | Media Sommelier
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Fifth Street

February 25, 2021

Feb 25, 2021
How Drag Culture Builds Community | A Review of Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert | The Imaginary Vegas That Saved My Sanity During the Pandemic | Media Sommelier
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DC Blog
The City Observed
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Ultimate locals

Feb 23, 2021

Feral cats are like Las Vegans -- invisible to tourists and newcomers, making a life beyond the lights

Fifth Street

February 18, 2021

Feb 18, 2021
Taco the Town | 'Not an Oil and Gas State' | Media Sommelier
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Fifth Street

February 11, 2021

Feb 11, 2021
*SPECIAL LOVEY-DOVEY ISSUE* | Why She Married a Twilight Cutout | Outdoor Girl Meets Indoor Dating World | How Restaurateur Couples Cook Up Success | Nevada's Famous Hookups and Breakups | How 'Wholesome Hate' Fought Marriage Equality
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Desert Companion
History
Courtesy UNLV Special Collections and Archives
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From Town to City

Feb 09, 2021

Eighty years ago, three developments gave birth to modern Las Vegas.

Desert Companion
Reasons to love
73 Reasons to Love Las Vegas
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Reasons to Love Las Vegas

Feb 09, 2021

From strip malls to small desert downs to swanky seniors and … Nicolas Cage? (Yes!)

Desert Companion
All Things

What’s to Love

Feb 08, 2021

Three conversations about food, art, and the outdoors in Las Vegas

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All things to all people
Joe Pine
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Q&A: Embrace the Experience

Feb 08, 2021

After we control the pandemic, people will gather again. Joe Pine has ideas on how we can prepare.

Fifth Street

February 4, 2021

Feb 04, 2021
*SPECIAL URBAN WILDLIFE THEME* | Feral Cats Are True Las Vegans | Rats on My Roof (and in My Mind) | The Curious Eew of the Black Widow | Why Scorpions Are Nature's Nihilists
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Fifth Street

January 28, 2021

Jan 28, 2021
Hard Road: Cycling in Las Vegas | Vegas Test Kitchen's Tasty Experiment | Media Sommelier | Viva the Atomic Testing Museum!
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DC Blog
The City Observed
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A Strip cultural legacy

Jan 25, 2021

Strip titan Sheldon Adelson deserves credit for expanding our vision of what Strip entertainment could be

Fifth Street

January 21, 2021

Jan 21, 2021
Bringing Everyone In at Nuwu Art | History for (Ventriloquist) Dummies | The Inauguration Poet | Hip Hop and Mass Incarceration
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Fifth Street

January 14, 2021

Jan 14, 2021
War All the Time | Shedding Light on the Moapa Solar Project | After the Capitol Siege, Now What?| Welcome to Inhuman Resources
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Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher Dies In Las Vegas

Jan 14, 2021

BERLIN (AP) — German news agency dpa is reporting that illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher, the surviving member of duo Siegfried & Roy has died in Las Vegas at age 81.

The news agency said Thursday that Fischbacher’s sister, a nun who lives in Munich, confirmed his death of cancer.

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Fifth Street

January 7, 2021

Jan 07, 2021
Remembering Joe Neal | The Taste of Yaad | Why Airplanes Smell Weird | How Being a Las Vegan is Complicated
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DC Blog
Ode
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My Rock Between Two Worlds

Jan 04, 2021

I find my perfect solitude where the city meets the desert

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