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A proud Las Vegas native, cultural anthropologist Brian “Paco” Alvarez happened into a career in the cultural arts after discovering that architecture, his chosen field of study, wasn’t offered…
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In a city of spectacle, you can certainly splash out for some pretty fabulous events —or you can make like a local and take in some of the most interesting happenings for free or almost free. Visit…
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Is it National Plan for Vacation Day already? Cooked up a few years back for the close of January as a not-so-subtle way to remind Americans to use or lose all their allotted time off during the…
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Meet a SCUBA Santa, cheer on NHL hockey from a pool, skate to the classics. Extravagant displays, an embarrassment of entertainment and pop-up bars and assorted festive experiences make the desert…
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José Andrés is likely not the only successful chef to have been fired by Spanish culinary wizard Ferran Adrià of El Bulli, but few if any have enjoyed a similarly meteoric—and sustained—rise since…
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From housekeeper to headliner: If Las Vegas performer Lorena Peril ever writes her autobiography, she’s already got the title. The headliner and host of Luxor’s enduring Fantasy, a dazzling, dizzying…
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Skye Dee Miles grew up in one of those small towns in the Midwest where “dreams are what you see in the movies, not something that happens to you,” she says—a long way from the bright lights of the…
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The hour is well past 10 p.m. on Sunday, but inside the dining room at Zippy's restaurant near the corner of Rainbow and Badura, things are just heating up. The sparsely furnished branch of the…
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New Orleans native Jennifer Landry learned to love food from her father, a gifted Cajun cook who instilled in her a passion for cooking at a young age. The talented executive chef at Alexxa’s inside…
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