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ONE | SAFETY NET The Long Way Home The Shade Tree’s transitional housing program is gone, for now. Will it come back?

BY Heidi Kyser

he Shade Tree offers two types of sheltering services for local T women fleeing domestic violence, sometimes with children and pets in tow: emergency and transitional. The first type is self-explanatory. It’s what Belinda, an Oklahoma native who’d come to stay with her aunt and uncle in Las Vegas, needed after her uncle tried to rape her. She knew no one else in the city. A hotel couldn’t shield her from further harm or provide support in dealing with the trauma. “I had no place to go,” Belinda says. “I had money, but I left it all at their house.” She called a friend, who found the Shade Tree online and scheduled a Lyft to drive Belinda there. She was lucky enough to claim one of the 204 beds in the emergency shelter. After a Shade Tree month there, she went home to be reunited Executive with her husband. Hours before catching a Director Stacey bus to Oklahoma, tears in her eyes, Belinda Lockhart said, “I think I’m ready. … I know I’m ready.”

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The Shade Tree’s other type of shelter Her replacement, Lockhart, doesn’t have Green is transitional, meant to bridge the gap experience helping homeless people or those between sudden homelessness and perma- fleeing domestic violence. Discussing the Scene nent housing. Stacey Lockhart shuttered changes she was making, she talked about What not to miss this program shortly after the Shade Tree her commitment to cleaning up the facility. at this year’s Clean announced her appointment as executive But her main focus is on a strength that Energy Summit director on July 11. By press time, all the she gained as director of other nonprofits: transitional program’s former residents had fundraising. Determined to free the Shade been relocated and the lights turned off on Tree from the whims of funding such as The National Clean Energy Summit, the renewable the third floor, which housed its 160 beds. the VOCA grant, Lockhart launched a $2.3 industry’s annual public One Shade Tree resident who might million community giving campaign in horn-tooting/hand-wringing, have benefitted from transitional housing, August. By mid-September, she’d raised happens Oct. 13 at Bellagio Karri, tells of escaping from her abusive, $160,000. (cleanenergysummit.org). schizophrenic boyfriend when he was out “We will keep it going until we reach For $250, you can bask in one day and the “sitter” he’d sent over our goal,” she said. “My hope is, in January the wisdom of luminaries to watch her fell asleep. She’d squirreled we’re sending thank-you cards to everyone such as Barack Obama, Elon away a bus pass and food stamps — enough, announcing that we’ve met our goal.” Musk, and The Killers, all past presenters. This year’s lineup she figured, to make it to safety. Karri has The Shade Tree’s transitional program shifts the focus from the mental and physical scars that will take may also be the victim of a trend in homeless national stage to state, local, time to heal. She would like to work again, services. In its 2016 State of Homelessness and military innovations. but appears unlikely to be ready within in America report, the National Alliance to Here’s the don’t-miss: the 90 days to which her use of emergency End Homelessness reported nationwide services is limited. increases in rapid rehousing and permanent Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize Does she have friends or family who could supportive housing programs, and decreases winner and wake-the-F-up filmmaker, will deliver the key- take her in after that? A daughter, but she in transitional housing programs. Critics note speech at 9:45 a.m. Friday. doesn’t want to go to there. No one else. of transitional housing say the dorm-like Expect to be yelled at about Where will she go? “I honestly don’t facilities are stressful for families, and that why so little changed between his know,” she says. the programs have poor success rates in Inconvenient Truth and Inconve- It’s safe to assume times are never easy permanent-housing placement. nient Sequel documentaries. But at a shelter for battered women that strives But for people like Karri, there are few in a slightly apologetic Southern to take all comers, particularly one in a city other options. As an independent study accent. with chronically low scores in charitable found, “Clark County represents nearly giving and one of the nation’s highest rates of three-quarters of the state’s population Former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will gather all and has the majority of victims across all domestic violence. But 2017 has been remark- 2,000 expected attend- ably tough for the Shade Tree. In March, its crime types (including domestic violence). ees around a stone director of programs and education, Robert However, Clark County does not receive hearth, apparently, White, was arrested and charged with one a representative share of VOCA funds at for what’s billed as a count of domestic battery. Former executive either the individual or the grant-based “fireside chat” about director Marlene Richter put White on leave level. … Clark County is made to do more the energy landscape. without pay the following day, noting that with less, which negatively impacts the the seriousness of the allegations against largest groups of victims.” Perhaps this Three five-minute, contest-winning videos, produced by him warranted immediate action. (He was explains why a metro area of 2.1 mil- college students, will provide a acquitted of the charge in June.) It wasn’t the lion people has eight organizations that break from the wonky talk. Event first time Richter had to handle damaging provide services for victims of domestic producer Clean Energy Project publicity. Four years ago, a television reporter violence — the same number as Washoe solicited videos on two topics: interviewed residents who told of squalid County, with its 450,000 residents. clean-energy success stories and living conditions at the shelter, including Despite the obstacles, and under Richter’s innovative vehicle technologies. rampant bed bugs and rodents. The report leadership, Shade Tree achieved a 91/100 They’re meant to showcase Neva- came near the end of a lengthy recession rating by nonprofit watchdog Charity Nav- da’s renewables prowess. that had hit the Shade Tree with soaring igator. There’s much to be hopeful for, and Brian Sandoval, who is co-hosting demand and sinking funds. In divvying up Karri certainly isn’t giving up. the event with its founder, Harry 2016-17 federal funding from the Victims of “I’d like to get a job here, to be honest,” Reid, will moderate a panel on Crime Act, or VOCA, which the Shade Tree she says, referring to the place that’s been states’ clean energy initiatives. had received in years past, the state passed her refuge for the past month. “The people The list of participants hasn’t the shelter over. After nine years of service, here are really great. They saved my life, and been finalized yet, but the smart Richter was let go in July. I think I could help other people, too.” ✦ money is on Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown. Heidi Kyser 10 | DESERT COMPANION . NOVEMBER 2017 When you open a checking account at CCCU, you become a member/owner of a very special non-profit cooperative. And as a member/owner you’ll receive your share of our bonus dividends when they are declared. 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14 | DESERT COMPANION . NOVEMBER 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY Brent Holmes DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS 5 idea that America was sitting A Tickle on the Leg on top of this extinct empire, A bedbug showed up on but was also destined to be the Fear a couch, which panicked me. Then I looked under next great empire, you get these my mattress and found writers thinking about, well, Factors more than a hundred what about after America is During an October 14 “StorySlam” blood-red adults and the next great empire? (artslasvegas.org), people will be translucent nymphs on the One thing I think is interest- invited to talk about their fears. bed frame, a nasty, horrific sight. I realized, suddenly, ing is that in a lot of stuff I was Here are some of ours. reading, the postapocalyptic why my legs always fantasy wasn’t negative. There itched. My skin might literally have crawled, too; was a lot of stuff, for example, I felt tingly in the worst when they built the Erie Ca- Walk of Fear possible way. nal, where people would go: On a recent visit to San Francisco, I walked from my hotel to a The internet said to Imagine a thousand years from bar — through the Tenderloin. Some parts were a bit sketchy, keep sleeping in my bed now, when some savage sees the but no bigs to a girl who grew up in New York City before it was or they’d infest adjoining crumbling locks, they’re going to a strip mall. Then I turned a corner, walked about 20 feet and rooms in search of blood. imagine, These guys were giants! found myself on a block with the streetlights knocked out, store- It took months to get rid Americans were amazing! fronts abandoned, and a powerful smell of feces and rot. Ragged, of them, during which stooped figures in the shadows muttered and grunted. If I slowed every frayed sheet thread, my step or averted my gaze, if anyone got a hand on me — it’d every tickle of air, and What’s your take on our be like a zombie movie even dreams would toss sense of apocalypse now? and I’d just ... disappear. me into a slapping frenzy. The two takeaways for me The hundred yards or Lying in fear, I worried Mushroom Brain Slip are, one — and this is important so stretched on. Finally, also that my girlfriend — people have thought this way One October night in 1992, I was I got to the next block, or roommates (both for 200 years, at least. So it’s tripping on psychedelic mush- which not only had lights, new) would kick me to rooms with a friend. The UNLV not because we have nuclear but a damn Chipotle. I the curb. campus was affably breathing drew a breath for what weapons that we think this way; Thankfully they didn’t. and sloshing all around us. My seemed like the first Dan Hernandez it’s not because we have a lot of friend dashed off for a moment time in five minutes, and political tension; or because behind a building, laughing imp- it occurred to me that I of global warming. There are ishly — but then a second version couldn’t remember the certainly things to worry about. of her appeared right in front last time I’d been afraid just walking down the street. But people had worries 200 of me! It was a glitch in reality’s Lissa Townsend Rodgers years ago. So when I see “Are program. My world shattered as I realized that concepts like we living in the postapocalypse” space, time, cause, and effect stuff — no. We’re not. Take it were mere veils concealing a with a grain of salt. horrifying maelstrom of chaos But I also think about that and senselessness! Dumbstruck idea that people fantasized with terror, I walked the city Almost Died Naked in Oregon alone until dawn, convinced that about a postapocalyptic sce- Veronica and I got to Cougar hot springs in Oregon, and took this glimpse behind the cosmic nario as a way of being proud of off our clothes; nudity was allowed. For two Ohio people, nudity curtain had driven me insane. where they are. When I moved was super exciting. For an hour we sat in the hot springs, feeling Andrew Kiraly out here, one of the first things really good. As we walked to the car, we saw two people sitting I did was go to Hoover Dam. naked on the edge of a lake. I told Veronica, I bet I could swim When they took me on the tour, across the lake. I jumped in, naked and full of youthful energy. (the guide) basically said, If all But then my body cramped up, went into total shock. The lake humans were to die today, this was deeper than I expected, my feet touching nothing. It hit me: Something bad is happening. 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A person thinking: Yeah, you should be arm toward the gable. Shirt shudders over my increasingly palpitating working at the park told proud of that! People will look heartbeat, and the once-incipient panic is now in full crisis mode. I me that being in the super back 10,000 years from now and retreat down the ladder and wait out the surging storm of my vital hot water, then going into go, Those Americans really knew signs. The process repeats until four hours into a 30-minute job, I hang cold water threw my body how to build a dam. ✦ the last light, and I’m never doing this again. Scott Lien into shock. Noah Cicero

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as Vegas lore is marked by, among other things, death — often of the headline-grabbing variety: the murder of Tupac Shakur; L John Entwistle’s last party; Carole Lombard’s plane crash — plus David Strickland, Sonny Liston, Cornell Gunter, Joe Louis, Ted Binion, even Totie Fields — a who’s who of famous or infamous corpses. Just in time for the Day of the Dead, here are a few more notable passings.

1 “Buffalo” Jim Barrier (April son. Shumate’s accomplice ratted 6, 2008, at a Motel 6 on Boulder him out to Binion, and Shumate 5 6 Highway) A true Vegas character. was found gunned to death near This former wrestler’s auto-body Sunrise Mountain. Binion was shop was next to Crazy Horse Too, suspected, of course, but that’s it. owned by notorious figure Rick The Binion son was Ted, later the Rizzolo. The two feuded for years victim in one of the valley’s most before Rizzolo went to prison on lurid murder cases. tax charges. When Barrier died in a motel the day after Rizzolo’s 5 Bill Coulthart (July 25, 1972, release, family cried foul — but in a parking garage, Third and the coroner ruled he died of heart Bridger) The other possibly Bin- failure triggered by cocaine. ion-related case. A G-man turned businessman, Coulthart was 2 Danny Gans (May 1, 2009, at among those who held the lease, his Henderson home) “This was up for renewal, for the Horseshoe not drug abuse,” the coroner an- property — and he was reportedly nounced a month after the Strip against renewing. The car bomb impressionist died, attempting that killed Coulthart rattled more to quell rumors that began when than Downtown: The leaseholders Gans’ sudden death shocked the later agreed to a 100-year deal. showbiz community. He used Dilaudid to manage symptoms of 6 Wardell Gray (May 25, 1955, chronic pain syndrome, and died last seen at the Moulin Rouge) of “hydromorphone toxicity.” Likened by a jazz critic to “a comet streaking across the heavens,” 3 Dan Wheldon (October 16, saxman Gray missed a show at the 2011, at the Las Vegas Motor Moulin Rouge. He turned up on Speedway) In a tragic accident the outskirts of town, neck bro- during the Las Vegas 300, Whel- ken. Was a drug habit to blame? don died after a 15-car crash. His Mob ties? It remains a mystery. was one of several cars that went airborne, “the sleek open-wheel 7 Frank Bluestein (June 9, racers and drivers inside now 1980, just off McLeod Avenue) nothing more than projectiles Remember in Casino when in low-earth orbit,” as The Daily cops shoot a guy after mistaking Beast put it. He was 33. his foil-wrapped hoagie for a gun? It’s based on the death of 4 Marvin Shumate (December Bluestein, son of a union boss 1967, near Sunrise Mountain) connected to Tony Spilotro. The first of two deaths on this list When cops investigating Spilotro speculatively linked to Horseshoe pulled Bluestein over, they say he boss Benny Binion. This involved got out with a gun. They fired. Af- a cabbie, Shumate, dumb enough terward, contracts were allegedly to devise a plan to kidnap Binion’s taken out on the cops.

16 | DESERT COMPANION . NOVEMBER 2017 ILLUSTRATION Brent Holmes DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS 3 7 MURDER 4 STORIES True-crime writer Cathy Scott on four Vegas killings

In both mob daughter Susan Berman and rapper Tupac Shakur’s cases, conspiracy theories emerged almost from day one. With Ber- man, a theory that she may have been killed by the mob began the moment Los Angeles police officers on the scene saw a “Wanted Alive or Dead” poster for her father, Davie Berman. He was a Jewish-Amer- ican organized-crime figure and partner of Bugsy Siegel. Police told reporters she may have been killed because of her late father’s connections. In Shakur’s case, a 1 theory circulated that he faked his death and escaped to Cuba, leaving his stardom behind. The theory still occasionally surfaces, in part because Tupac’s case remains unsolved. A commonality in the cases of salsa dancer Ginger Rios 7 and mobster “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein was that I interviewed their killers. In the Rios case, I went to the Spy Craft store on Maryland Parkway where Rios, who disappeared in 1997, was last seen. Shop owner Craig Jacobsen gave me the creeps. Once he fled Nevada, I (twice) called the cell number he gave me ... and asked flat-out if he killed Rios. He hung up. Later, his wife led investigators to a shallow grave in Arizona. It was the opposite with Joe DeLuca, a one-time partner with Blitzstein in an auto shop — which turned out to be a front for illegal street rackets. DeLuca was friendly; he told me he didn’t know anyone who would want to kill Blitzstein. It turned out DeLuca had set up Blitzstein in January 1997 to be killed so the Mafia could take over his illegal enterprises.

Cathy Scott will discuss these 2 cases Oct. 20 at the Mob Museum. themobmuseum.org

NOVEMBER 2017 . DESERT COMPANION | 17 EIGHT BACK IN THE DAY What can we say about UNLV in 192 words? Let’s find out! UNLV Before it was UNLV, as everyone knows, it was Nevada Southern University — and if that sounds Turns the like a rather pointed reminder to Las Vegans that their school Maurine Jackson Smith Pipe Organ was an appurtenance to the Reno Big 6-0 Next time the door to the university, check out its original From a plot of land to a valley mainstay university’s Doc Rando Recital Hall is open, pop in for a look name, back when Maryland Park- in just six short decades: way was a dirt road, and classes at a musical marvel: a pipe a brief, celebratory miscellany! organ of some 3,000 pipes were being taught in local high organized in 53 clusters — schools and churches because 10,000 handmade pieces al- the campus had no building: the together. (It took four years to Southern Regional Division of build, paid for by a $500,000 donation.) It debuted in 2004. the University of Nevada, Reno. With its gleaming pipework Can’t you practically feel the north patting the south on the head? But rising some 40 feet, it really is there have been six decades, a couple of name changes, several mascots, HIDDEN(ISH) a pipe dream. unlv.edu dozens of structures, battles over north-south funding disparities, 16 GEMS AT UNLV university presidents (15 of them men), a basketball championship, a couple of scandals, and many acre-feet of academic activity since the school convened its first classes in the fall of 1957. No longer the “Tumbleweed Tech” it was derided as in its early years, or even the “commuter campus” it was later derided as, UNLV now solidly anchors the Midtown neighborhood (especially with recent buildings giving the campus more university-like curb appeal), and is a cornerstone of the valley’s educational, cultural, and scientific life.

Houssels House Twenty grand. That’s what it Baepler Xeric Garden cost to move a house across On just 1.5 acres in the center the city back in 1983. And of campus, this desert garden what a house: Built in 1933 on is more than decorative — Sixth Street, the Tudor home with its mix of species from was described then as the arid regions around the globe, most modern in Nevada — it it’s a “living laboratory” for bi- had a glass-enclosed shower! ology and landscape architec- And it was owned by two ma- ture students. Artists also use jor local figures: lawyer Harley it for installations from time Harmon (namesake of the to time. And for the visitor to street) and gamer Kell Hous- campus, it’s a space of quiet, sels. Saved by preservationists, meditative beauty. it was sited at UNLV, meaning Outside the Barrick Museum the campus’ oldest building of Fine Art, unlv.edu/barrick- has only been there for 34 museum/garden years. unlv.edu/maps/hou

NINE WILDLY RANDOM FACTOIDS ABOUT UNLV $1: What artist Mike Muller charged UNLV for the Hey Reb design in 1982 29: Students in UNLV’s first graduating class Founder of Weight Watchers: Who UNLV’s Jean Nidetch Women’s Center is named for The Pioneer Wall: All that’s left of Maude Frazier Hall, UNLV’s first building Honorary doctorates: Bob Hope (1970), Jimmy Kimmel (2013), Diana Ross (1984), Wayne Newton (1980), CSI creator Anthony Zuiker (2003), Frank Sinatra (1976) “Cliched,” “reminiscent of authoritarian spectacle”: One reason why artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen didn’t aim UNLV’s Flashlight sculpture upward Sand-Burners, A-Bombs, Nuggets: Suggested alternatives to Rebels as UNLV mascot Furniture: What was given to UNLV’s first building by mobster/philanthropist Moe Dalitz A Blackberry: Most incongruous item in UNLV time capsule, to be opened in 2058

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702.797.7878 | rr-spa.com 702.617.7570 | GVRSPA.COM Hear More knpr.org, search “recall” the part. She’s had a history of close elections — she was once deposed by an ambitious Republican by the name of Michael Roberson, before winning her way back to the Senate. Her 2016 election was close: She won by just 469 votes, less than 1 percentage point. And now, a recall committee led by former one-term As- semblyman Stephen Silberkraus wants to recall Woodhouse and replace her with her defeated 2016 rival, Carrie Buck. It’s not just undoing an election, it’s literally having a do-over. Ironically, Silberkraus himself was once the target of an abortive recall filed by conservative activist Chuck Muth, who objected to Silberkraus’ vote for the 2015 commerce tax. Then there’s state Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro, D-Las Vegas, who defeated ex-Assembly- woman Victoria Seaman in 2016 by just NINE | POLITICS more than 1,000 votes in 2016. Cannizzaro, a Clark County deputy district attorney, is in her first term. A recall committee headed by Claire Roth wants to replace Cannizzaro with attorney April Becker. Finally, there’s state Sen. Patty Farley, WithTotal their secrecy-shrouded effortsRecall to recall three lawmakers, are who was elected in 2014 as a Republican, Nevada Republicans out to change the political playbook? easily defeating former Assemblywoman Marilyn Dondero Loop. But after one ses- BY Steve Sebelius sion in the GOP, Farley announced she was re-registering as a nonpartisan, and caucused t’s notable, and maybe even un- know why. There’s not even a fee to file a in the 2017 session with Democrats. (On a derstandable, that nowhere in the recall against an official. recent legislative report card issued by the I Nevada Constitution or the Nevada This shroud of secrecy and ease of process liberal group Battle Born Progress, Farley Revised Statutes is there a list of ac- has attended the filings of three recalls had a perfect score, something no Republican ceptable reasons to recall an elected official. against a trio of state senators, women got.) A recall committee headed by Annalise The Constitution does specify that pe- all, two Democrats and a former-Republi- Castor (and which includes two officials with titions presented to voters must include can-turned-nonpartisan. Recall organizers the conservative Keystone Corporation) a 200-word list of reasons, so voters know have refused to return reporters’ phone wants to replace Farley with Jared Glover. what they’re signing. But those reasons calls, and those few officials who have spoken Of all the recalls, Farley’s is the most could be anything from the righteous to publicly retreat to the same talking point: understandable, but also the most pointless. the ridiculous. Recall is a right under the Constitution. Unlike the other two — who got elected as And there’s no requirement — before the Undoubtedly, but so is marching in a Democrats and voted like Democrats — petitions are actually filed — to make those protest with a Nazi flag. It doesn’t mean Farley changed parties, which some voters reasons public. All that’s required is the filing a person is compelled to do it, or that it’s might view as a recall-worthy betrayal. of a recall notice with the signatures of three a good idea. But Farley has announced she won’t seek voters who actually voted in the election in So, what’s up with the recalls? re-election, and conservative former state which the recall target was elected. Until First, the targets. State Sen. Joyce Sen. Elizabeth Helgelien (née Halseth) has the petitions are actually filed, only the Woodhouse, D-Henderson, is a former said she will seek the seat in 2018. Farley’s organizers and the people they solicit will grade-school teacher who talks and acts district is also the closest in registration:

10 Given that our winter is, oh, like 17 minutes long, we Las Vegans don’t In Praise of the Scarf get much chance to do all that stylish layering that you see denizens of chillier burgs doing in the streetstyle Tumblrs, dashing sinuously around their metropolis, trailing scarves, tails, flares, lapels, and belts like sartorial emoji. So when October arrives, it’s time to get my sweet metrosex on with some scarves. It’s a functional, seasonal accent without the commitment (and the slow corporate strangulation) of a traditional necktie, an urbane flourish that gives faux-sophisticates like me a placebo dose of metropolitan gusto, as though — collar popped, gloved hands in pockets — I’m running to catch the Abbessess line for a tryst in Montmartre. Okay, so I’m dashing into the Terrible Herbst for a Twix. But only because I heard they brought back the dark-chocolate version — a flavor truly appreciated by bescarved, wanna-be aesthetes like me. Andrew Kiraly

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NEVADA BALLET THEATRE’S Democrats outnumber Republicans by just more than 1,000 voters there, while Woodhouse enjoys a 4,000-voter advantage and Cannizzaro’s is more than 5,800. With three recalls in strategically important districts, there’s clearly strategy at work. First, recallers want Democrats to spend money to defend the seats (and here, they’ve succeeded; “decline to sign” campaigns are going on to protect Woodhouse and Canniz- zaro). Second, Republicans know the political map in 2018 doesn’t favor them winning in the traditional way — by actually winning the election. Recalls are a way to fight on their own timeline. (Roberson reportedly boasted at Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s annual Basque Fry barbecue in Northern Nevada that the GOP would control the upper house by Christmas.) And third, the effort may be linked to deep Republican pockets: A lobbyist for a firm that also represents the Las Vegas Sands (headed by GOP megadonor Sheldon Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Adelson, who has indicated his intent to Choreography by James Canfield step up efforts to elect Republicans at the state level in 2018) was found by the Nevada Independent website to have supplied at least one of Cannizzaro’s recall backers with Dec. 9–24, 2017 talking points justifying the effort. Notably, Gov. Brian Sandoval has dis- tanced himself from the recall attempts, saying he will not be involved. But two 2017 PRESENTING SPONSOR officials with close ties to him are: Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchsion’s law firm is providing legal guidance to the efforts, in the person of former Sandoval general counsel Dan Stewart, who now works for Hutchison’s firm. The firm usually advises controversy-averse business clients, but that hasn’t stopped Stewart from taking the cases. Recalls, by law, are difficult affairs: One must collect valid signatures from 25 percent of the voters who actually voted in the election. Finding those voters isn’t hard: A list of who participated in each election is public record. But convincing those voters to abjure their decision at the polls has proven virtually impossible. No state lawmaker has ever been recalled, and the last recall that actually qualified — against former Las Vegas Councilman Steve Ross — failed to remove him from office. And the deadlines are tight: Organizers have 90 days to gather the signatures from the date the petition is filed, deadlines that will come due at the end of this month and the beginning of November. (702) 749-2000 But the very existence of the recalls is a NEVADABALLET.ORG troubling prospect, the very embodiment of the term “permanent campaign.” Recalls Dancer photo by Bill Hughes

NOVEMBER 2017 . DESERT COMPANION | 21 have traditionally been democracy’s last resort, a safety valve for a wayward law- D E S E R T C O M P A N I O N maker who refuses to quit. The proponents of these recalls are courting a dangerous precedent, strategically attacking vulnerable lawmakers with special elections, fig-leafed with supposed disagreements over specific PUBCRAWL policy votes. If this were to become a trend, then every state official can look forward to at THE DISTRICT at least one recall filed six months after the election (a constitutional time limit), and every member of the Legislature can expect one on the 11th day of a legislative session (a more aggressive timeline also found in the Constitution). And even after getting elected and surviving a recall, legislators still might not be safe: The law says repeated recalls are allowed, so long as proponents pay the entire cost of the second or subsequent recall election. With the right amount of money, we actually could see the era of the permanent campaign. And it’s a sure bet that future political cartographers will remember the recalls when drawing new district lines in the 2021 Legislature, knowing that the greater the partisan advantange, the less likely an attempted recall. But the greater the partisan advantage, the less likely a lawmaker is to consider compromise when it comes to policy, an ugly result of partisan gerrymandering. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 6-9PM At least for now, however, Democrats are pledging they will not follow the Re- publican playbook. State Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford, a candidate for Nevada attorney general in 2018, denounced the recalls as purely partisan and a waste of taxpayer money, and says his caucus will not initiate recalls themselves. He added that while recalls should remain an option for voters, the law should be tweaked to require proponents to state their reasons up front, when papers are first filed. And the laws of pragmatism will eventually come into play as well. Whether recalls become commonplace depends a great Space is limited. RSVP required. deal on whether any of the three recalls even qualify, and whether they ultimately Details at desertcompanion.vegas succeed at the ballot box. If not, they may lose their potency as a tactic. Whatever reforms may eventually be enacted, they will not address the underlying issue painted into stark relief by these recalls: There’s really no standard for what should trigger a recall election, and there’s really no penalty (other than public op- probrium) for filing them. It seems some Nevada Republicans have opened the mirror opposite of Pandora’s box, with despair, not hope, at the bottom. ✦

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Married authors Walter KirnBook and Amanda Fortini on the bookfest,Talk the essay, and writing in the age of Trump

manda: Dear Walt — Congrats on finishing your latest weeks listening to my theories and opinions not only on books, but Harper’s column! You’ve had to be at home in Montana current events and so on. I was crushed when he left his position, A this fall because of the ongoing wildfires, while I’ve for selfish reasons. When he reappeared as a reviewer at the paper, been teaching at UNLV, but I know you’re coming I got uncrushed, for literary reasons. His voice is all his own, as are back for the Las Vegas Book Festival, on October 21st, so I thought his tastes, and now that I no longer write many book reviews, I rely we could email a bit about what we’re looking forward to there. on his for guidance. As newspapers cut book review sections and I have to say, I’m pretty excited about your conversation with lay off reviewers, Dwight’s work has become increasingly valuable Dwight Garner (“The Practice of Criticism”) who has been a daily to the reading community at large. Being onstage together will be book critic for the New York Times since 2008. Remind me, how a pleasure, since we haven’t seen each other in years. I hope I don’t do you know Dwight? embarrass him with my deep affection and admiration. Walter: Before he became perhaps the best working book reviewer Amanda: I completely agree about Dwight; what’s so great about in America, Dwight was my editor at the New York Times Book Review, his work is that you can feel his love of language, of books — he seems where I was a frequent contributor. This meant, because I can only to be thoroughly enjoying himself. Wasn’t it Robert Frost who said, think out loud, that he spent hours on the phone with me every few “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the

ILLUSTRATION Ryan Inzana OCTOBER 2017 . DESERT COMPANION | 25 writer, no surprise in the reader”? Dwight is where much of the innovation in the literary Walter: Writing in the age of Trump so much fun to read because you can sense world is happening — just as the memoir is like walking naked into a tornado. You the fun he had while writing. Now you’ll both was the vital form of the late 1990s. Why don’t know if you’re going to be hit by flying be thinking out loud, together, on stage! And is this? I teach the narrative essay (often debris, blown against a brick wall, or sucked festival goers will get to watch. What do you called the “longform essay”), and I write up into the air and dropped in a lake. You think about The Practice of Criticism today? them, and I think about it a lot. I think it’s can’t please everyone, and it’s very easy to What do you think you’ll say? that great essays are one of a kind; they displease everyone, particularly if you write Walter: I’ll be honest, I don’t think much respond to the world and explore their with an independent, questioning spirit of what criticism has become because there subject matter in an original way, without rather than with a partisan agenda. Danger are few people out there getting paid enough the stale conventions of “storytelling.” is exciting, though, at least for my type, to do it well, with their full attention. In- It’s my belief that the reading public has who’s driven by adrenaline. The problem stead, we have reader reviews, systems that become quite hip to, and a little tired of, is you can’t write fast enough to keep up award stars and points, and blogs that may the expected moves of narrative. This is with the story, which changes hourly. That mean well but generally don’t measure up something I’ve been thinking about for means trying to get above the whirlwind, up to the standards of yesteryear. Oh well, an essay I’m writing. Great essays convey where you can look down on all the tumult. journalism in general is in flux now, so why the stamp of individuality — you sense the Perspective. It’s easier to talk about now should book reviewing be immune? beating heart of the writer. than actually achieve. What about you, though, and your panel Walter: Yes. Thus there’s an intimate Amanda: It’ll be interesting to watch you on “Women of the Essay”? I’m a fan of Sarah connection between writer and reader. and Virginia and Mickey walk naked into Hepola’s book Blackout, and I’m looking Amanda: Precisely. The essay as a form a tornado. What else are you interested in forward to that panel. The essay is a form is something you’ve become quite the prac- hearing/seeing at the festival, and why? There that seemed to go dormant for decades, but titioner of in the past couple of years, as you are so many writers I can’t wait to hear, from in the last few years, like memoirs, it’s been write a bimonthly essay for Harper’s about Tayari Jones (a current Black Mountain spectacularly reinvigorated. politics and culture, sharing the storied Institute fellow), whose novel Silver Sparrow Amanda: The lineup we have is just stellar: Easy Chair spot with the great Rebecca I adored; to Kevin Young, whose poetry rocks Sarah Hepola, Carina Chocano, and Megan Solnit. Your other panel is “Writing in the my world; to Alana Massey, who is one of the Stielstra, whose book The Wrong Way to Save Age of Trump,” with Virginia Heffernan and most electric young voices writing today. The Your Life, I’ve been reading so I’m ready to Mickey Kaus. What is it like to comment on roster is world-class. moderate. It’s opened up my thinking about politics and its intersection with culture in Walter: I’m looking forward to “Myths the personal essay. She has a knack for taking the Age of Trump? Although I have written and Mysteries of Las Vegas.” After living part her personal, intimate stories and broadening about politics and feminism a fair amount, time here for the last few years, I’ve come them outward to consider how she fits in this I’ve shied away from both in the Trumpian across many clues to what goes on here, but larger project of humanity we’re all engaged era. Partly because I’ve been preoccupied I haven’t cracked the case. I suspect that in. The book is genius. with writing a book and teaching, but also, would take a lifetime in this fascinating, But to speak more generally, I think you’re I’ll be honest, I also feel wary of stepping frustrating, singular metropolis, but I plan right about the state of the essay. The essay into the fray. It’s treacherous out there, so to do my best. Maybe this panel will help is arguably where all the heat lies right now, much acrimony. me make some progress. ✦

THE NATURE OF VIOLENCE Former military intelligence officer (and Las Vegan) Tim Larkin’s latest book,When Violence is the Answer, could be mistaken for a self-defense manual. It is that, but it is also a reasoned meditation on violence in our society: what it is beyond media portrayals, how all of us benefit from identifying both predators and our own tendencies. We called Larkin for a brief Q&A. How accurate is this assessment: “When Violence Is the Answer is more of a psychology book than a self-defense book”? I would agree that my goal is not simply to train someone to defend himself, but to think about the subject of violence differently, and understand it as a tool that may be critical for them to understand at some time in their lives. The main thing I try to get across is, studying the subject and understanding how violence works does not make you violent. … The most peaceful people I know are the ones who understand how to use violence, and will do everything necessary to keep it out of their lives. The book seems to be most relevant to people least likely to read it — hotheads and pacifists. How do you solve that conundrum? The book hits the middle of the road people enough that the fringe people on both sides are beginning to come around. The reason I went with a larger publisher is to reach a larger audience for that very reason. Your focus on intention resonated with me. Is it possible to sum this up for people trapped in an auto-pilot world? In the world of self-protection and law enforcement it’s called situational awareness, but it really is the basic idea of yoga: understanding where you’re at. … I tell people that they’ve been sleeping with their head on a railroad track and telling themselves they’re fine because the train didn’t come last night. My idea is to get people to take their head off the track so they don’t even have to worry about the train. Heidi Kyser

26 | DESERT COMPANION . OCTOBER 2017 DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS Table 34 Book It! Featuring Chef Wes Kendricks’ contemporary American cuisine including fresh fish, wild Some things to see at the Las Vegas Book Festival game, duck, lamb, Certified Angus Beef, and comfort food classics. Conveniently located off Previously the Vegas Valley Book the 215 and Warm Springs. Dinner Tuesday - Festival, this year’s event Oct. 21 will Saturday 5pm until closing (around 10pm) be keynoted by Y.A. authors Daniel (Lemony Snicket) Handler and Sharon 600 E. Warm Springs Road Draper. Along with booths and activ- Las Vegas, NV ities for kids, there will be talks about (702) 263-0034 video games, mystery fiction, the Mojave Desert, and more. Some highlights, chosen by festival volunteers Crystal Perkins, Geoff Schumacher, and (DC staffer) Scott Dickensheets

IF YOU HAVE KIDS INTO Y.A. Identity Isn’t Everything: Six panelists — Audrey Coulthurst, Erin Finneg- Online isn’t in the an, Jeff Garvin, CB Lee, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Dashka Slater — address LGBTQIA-plus fiction for youths. neighborhood. IF YOU FOLLOW CURRENT EVENTS Race and Justice in the 21st Century: Whether you’re buying or selling a home, only a REALTOR® from the author Wesley They Can’t Kill Us All ® Lowery and a panel that includes Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS can turn the virtual into novelist Tayari Jones, speaker Yusef a reality. Neighborhood knowledge. Up-to-the-moment information. Salaam, and journalist Jill Leovy examine one of our most vexing issues. And advice that comes from an ethical professional with experience and education. That’s the value of your REALTOR®—always your best IF IT’S LITERATURE YOU WANT bet for all your real estate needs. Triple Consciousness: A trio of Afri- can-American novelists — Brit Bennet (The Mothers), Nicole Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun), and Zinzi Clemmons (What We Lose) — join moderator Erica Vital Lazare to discuss being young, gifted black women in the 21st century literary world. YEARS Book Festival After Dark: A pow- erhouse evening program at Inspire IN SOUTHERN NEVADA Theater features Daniel Handler, poet and New Yorker poetry editor Kevin HomeLasVegas.com Young, and novelist Brit Bennet.

IF YOU’RE A DESERT RAT Writing the Mojave Desert: UNLV prof Andy Kirk moderates a sure-to- be-lively talk about the great desert, featuring writer-artist Kim Stringfel- low, journalist Henry Brean, and travel writer Deborah Wall.

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OCTOBER 2017 . DESERT COMPANION | 27 the Desert Research Institute, across the boulevard from UNLV, the museum eventually settled in the second-oldest building on campus. (Renovations revealed UNLV’s old mascot, Beauregard, still emblazoned on the floor of what was once a gymnasium.) Now under the College of Fine Arts, the Barrick hasn’t left its past behind. It is a museum, after all, home to objects, thoughts, ideas, and discourse focused on the primal human need for creative expression. Object-making from the distant past plays an essential role with contemporary art exhibits, presenting conversations between the two, and offering educational value. Along with its growing contemporary art collection (including works inherited from the Las Vegas Art Museum, and pieces from noteworthy UNLV grads), the Barrick retains an extensive gathering of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts, postcolonial masks, retablos, textiles, and art from North and South American indigenous traditions. Interim Executive Director Alisha Kerlin emphasizes creating an “experimental education space” designed to challenge people’s ideas of what art is, where creative activity, workshops, research, and collaborations come together. People are responding: A culture day this summer ushered in 460 children in one day; an online fundraiser brought in more than $6,000 to pay for buses to get children to the museum; and teacher’s night brought in more than 90 educators on a Friday evening CULTURE | INSTITUTIONS to learn about the museum and its potential role in classrooms. The museum is also collaborating or cultivating relationships with other university departments — art, anthropology, architecture, dance, UNLV’s Reborn at 50 School of Medicine, music, and, interesting- No midlife crisis for UNLV’s Barrick Museum as it consolidates its ly, Tara Pike, UNLV’s recycling manager and mission as an art-centered ‘experimental education space’ sustainability coordinator, who was invited to help staff talk to visitors about theTested BY Kristen Peterson Ground exhibit. That’s a lot of change for a recently minted art museum and six-member staff. “A lot 50th anniversary year, a name Its 50th anniversary year launched in (has changed) within the last nine months change, and generous blessings January during one of its most notable alone,” Kerlin says. “It’s such a fun time A from department heads would shows, Edward Burtynsky’s Oil, a hit exhibit right now.” electrify any institution on a of large-scale landscape photographs detail- In celebration, this month sees another college campus that once faced a shaky ing America’s dependence on oil. That was well-curated series of exhibitions crossing future after losing funding during budget followed by Process, a show looking at the into several gallery spaces across campus, re- cuts in 2011. But UNLV’s Barrick Museum making of Process Art. That led to Tested lating to its main show, Preservation, which of Fine Art — formerly the Barrick Museum Ground, which explores land use and waste. examines land use (past and present) and of Natural History — emerged triumphant Rotating exhibits in Barrick’s other galleries includes an artist’s monolithic 22-foot dam by becoming what it had long wanted to be: generated equally broad appeal without structure. Amid this, the museum continues a full-fledged contemporary art institution. diluting strong and engaging educational to research, archive, and share its past, Gone are the live reptiles and ichthyosaur content — tightly curated, highly focused while dealing with the unique challenges of fossil. In its new role, the Barrick has be- exhibits extending beyond visual experience. contemporary art — including how to get a come a leading force in the arts scene. Begun in the 1960s as an exhibit space for 22-foot dam into the building. ✦

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visual art RAYMOND PETTIBON MCQ FINE ART

The little house/ gallery on Seventh Street delivers perhaps the biggest show of the fall, by one of the critical darlings throwback of contemporary RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL art, Raymond SUNSET PARK Pettibon. Rooted in SoCal punk Finally, an excuse art and its DIY to bust out the graphics sensi- codpiece. Bring bility, Pettibon’s your best swords, drawings and armor, period prints range costumes, and widely across elaborate medieval such topics as fantasies to “The religion, politics, Age of Chivalry.” sexuality, and pop There will be culture, layering vendors, food, enigmatic prose music, and more. fragments to Oct. 13-15, Tickets images of dizzying from $15 for a energy. Gotta see single day to $45 it. Through Nov. 3, three-day passes, mcqfineart.com lvrenfaire.com

Kid lit MAC BARNETT AND JON KLASSEN HISTORIC FIFTH STREET SCHOOL

Timed to the anticipated release of The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse — words by Barnett, illustrations by Caldicott-winner Klassen — in which a duck and a mouse are swallowed by a wolf, and decide to live happily in the wolf’s belly. There’s a lesson for us all in there. Oct. 10, 6:30p, free, thewritersblock.org

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outdoors GET OUTDOORS DAY CORNERSTONE PARK, HENDERSON lecture KENNEDY Want to learn about outdoor recreation in Southern Ne- ASSASSINATION PANEL MOB MUSEUM vada but don’t know where to begin? Begin here, with These days, you can’t swing a suspiciously National Park Service rangers dead cat without hitting a conspiracy theory VISUAL ART giving you the lowdown. about some aspect of modern life, from the Learn about camping, about deep state to George Soros to the Koch bros. In “leaving no trace” in the many ways, the murder of John F. Kennedy is wilderness, about how to use the wellspring of that mentality. This evening, Pixel Lake Mead. There will be a two experts will tug at opposite ends of the rock-climbing wall and other assassination’s main controversy: Did Oswald family activities. act alone? Author Gus Russo says yes; author Shtick Oct. 7, 9a-2p, free, Dan Moldea insists he had mob help. Oct. 24, In his new exhibit, Eric Vozzola getoutdoorsnevadaday.org 7p, $20, themobmuseum.org explores the space between the digital and the analog

o say an image is “low res” — low resolution — is to say it lacks T clarity, definition, the proper density of visual information. It’s mostly a term used in modern digital media, meaning a picture is fuzzy, cheap-looking — inferior. Low Res, Eric Vozzola’s new set of paintings, noses fruit- fully through the fraught space between the digital and the analog. That dichotomy begins at the formal level: He’s probing a digital phenomenon with the analog technique of painting. Now look at the canvas above, “Balancing Curiosities.” Note how it deftly upends the 21st century’s unques- tioning belief in the superiority of the digital. Through a wall of pretty squares that indicate the failure of digital imagery to resolve, we get three glimpses of some- music thing organic, mysterious, unresolvable, rendered in old-school black-and-white. Melody Sweets Feel your visual brain trying to divine the whole from the occluded pieces. That’s a CABARET JAZZ IN THE SMITH CENTER very high-res sensation. Scott Dickensheets If the French hadn’t already invented You may know her as the Green Fairy the word chanteuse, we’d have had in Absinthe; now’s your chance to to subcontract them to do it now to catch her in The Sweets Spot, a show describe sultry performer Melody of original songs, covers of classic 10 LOW RES Oct. 24-Jan. 16, Oct. 24, Sweets. She’s a multifaceted singer, numbers, and lots of oo-la-la. 24 Whitney Library, free, lvccld.org songwriter, and burlesque performer. 9:30p, $20-$40, thesmithcenter.com

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BY Andrew Kiraly and Scott Dickensheets

alloween and Day of the Dead share a connection to the Catholic tradition of All Hallows’ Eve — a PULPARINDO H time for fond remembrance of those who have TAMARIND passed on. Both holidays also involve costumes, PULP CANDY parties, and, of course, sweets. Thus it’s little surprise that Often an all- purpose candy the connection got us thinking about candy — Mexican ingredient, candy in particular. To be sure, American sweets have tamarind takes DON PANCHO their extreme variations — think Warheads, Sour Punch center stage in this MILK CANDY Straws; even the modern classic Nerds come in a sour va- chewy mini-bar. A Studded with dusting of salt and chewy pecans, riety these days. But Mexican candy, often informed by chili level it up. this bar of milk culinary traditions involving spices and pickling, presents fudge has a a different experience. Fruits such as mango and plum, mealy, crumbly and the sticky, tart-sweet tamarind, are transformed into texture and a tooth-rattling, complex confections that are very literally mouth-watering. sugar-forward Here are highlights and notes from a recent sampling flavor. we bought at Christy Candy Shop in the Boulevard Mall (christycandyshop.com) and Cardenas (various locations, cardenasmarkets.com). We tasted a range from mild to wild, from crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth marzipan treats to pucker-inducing plums. So, however bold or timid your palate, you’re sure to find a new favorite flavor. ✦

ENCHILOKAS MANGO CANDY If you have trouble wrapping your tongue around the idea of chili in candy, this chili-infused tamarind gummy is your starter treat. It’ll jolt your mouth without five-alarm heat. A gateway to the Hola plums across the page. . 32 | DESERT COMPANION OCTOBER 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY Brent Holmes DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS

DUVALÍN HAZENUT AND VANILLA SPREAD Sold in mini-cups complete with snap-off plastic spoons, Duvalín is similar to Nutella, with the vanilla kicking the sweet factor up a few notches. You can eat it alone or spread on fruit or crackers.

GORDITAS HADA COOKIES Modestly sweet and crackerlike, these cookies taste somewhat like Nilla Wafers. They made a nice base for CHAMOY LOLLIPOP spreading DuvalÍn on. Chamoy isn’t a fruit; rather it’s a complex flavor profile — simultaneously sweet, tart and spicy — HOLA SOUR usually based on pickled LEMON FLAVORED fruits such as apricot, SALTED PLUM mango, or plum. The “Hola” is the brand umami-meets-Wil- name, and a fitting one. ly Wonka flavor These powerfully tart explosion is dried plums shout “Hola” an intense, continuously into your whole-mouth saliva glands. For fans experience. of extreme sour and tart flavors, these plums should be a novel treat.

SANDIAS WATERMELON CHILI LOLLIPOP Sweet and spicy are TAMBORINES CANDY An easygoing a common combo tamarind delight — its mild intensity is in Mexican candy, enhanced by the tactile sensation of but the watermelon the candy dissolving on your tongue. chili lollipop is perhaps its most satisfying execu- tion. Better yet, the chili here isn’t just a surface coating; it’s infused in the hard watermelon candy for a lasting sweet/ spicy kick.

COCONUT CANDY ROLL More subtle than JAPANESE-STYLE PEANUTS you might expect, Addictively crunchy the coconut roll thanks to a carapace has a waxy tex- of wheat flour and soy, ture and pleasing they are nicely salty, but coconut flavor depart with the slightest with slight medici- adios of sweetness. nal undertones. OCTOBER 2017 . DESERT COMPANION | 33 DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS

AT HOME, COOKIN’ Flat-Out Delicious A pennywise cook and a case of expensive beer gone bad

BY Heidi Kyser

TONOPAH Coming off a grueling, five-day backpacking trip on the Toiyabe Crest Trail, my husband, Peter, and I couldn’t wait to check into the Mizpah, shower, and grab a beer at Tonopah Brewing Company. The brews were so good that we bought a case on our way home. We swallowed our sticker shock — $4 apiece! — because it was worth it to support a local brewery.

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©2017 The Howard Hughes Corporation. All rights reserved. STREET FOODIE Oakey Dokey There’s good eating at Las Vegas Boulevard and Oakey — if you know where to look. Follow us! PHOTOS & CAPTIONS BY Brent Holmes

MILKSHAKE AT VICKIE’S DINER, DINING | #TRENDING $3.50 Sometimes you just want simple — and Vickie’s milkshakes are simplicity done Sustainability right, in chocolate, vanilla, or straw- berry. (If you’re feeling extra, in the Can make it a malted.) Rick Moonen peels open a new approach to serving fish

BY Greg Thilmont RIBS AT VIVA LAS AREPAS, $10 ove seafood? Like sustainability? Well, pull back the lid on a tin of Sure, you’ve had the sardines or pop the top on some canned tuna. Quality canned fish namesake corn-pan- is not only delicious, it’s economically and environmentally sound, cake sandwich, but L have you tried the when harvested responsibly from abundant species like skipjack, ribs? Smoky salty, yellowfin, and bonito. Since it’s long-lasting, it reduces waste and keeps its sweet, with a distinctly value for significant stretches of time. South American spice. I learned all this recently from none other than Rick Moonen, revered It’s my go-to. chef-owner of RM Seafood in the Shoppes at Mandalay Bay (rmseafood.com). Moonen is highly regarded for his restaurant’s selection of top-notch fresh fish, from branzino to salmon, as well as his advocacy of environmentally sound fishing methods promoted by the Marine Stewardship Council and Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch. Moonen recently added a “Can-to-Table Crostini” appetizer dish to his MARLIN TACO AT epicurean offerings; it showcases wild-caught sardines and skipjack tuna. The BAJAMAR, $4 sardine filets from BELA Brand Seafood are absolutely non-stinky and have a If you eat one mild flavor profile akin to smoked Idaho trout. Plus, they don’t have bones to pick thing on this list, it should be — must out. As for the tuna from purveyors like Matiz and Tonnino, the flaky chunks are be — the Marlin as succulent as slow-braised chicken thigh. Add in sautéed spinach, sun-dried Taco a Las Brasas: tomatoes, capers, and organic hard-cooked eggs, and the savory construction is the smoked tuna something like a warm, open-faced pan bagnat, that famed Provençal sandwich. with veggies and queso delivers an Beyond bringing new flavor combinations to his guests, Moonen’s can-to- umami punch. table menu also puts a spotlight on responsible seafood producers. “You’ve CUBAN AT PUERTO RICO got to acknowledge them, so that everybody says, ‘Oh, that’s a good business EXPRESS, $7.95 model, let’s all do it.’” The three-meat Tripletta The Mediterranean-influenced snack is Moonen’s first canned-fish foray is king of this sandwich in Las Vegas, and new dishes will eventually be offered. If you crib Moonen’s extravaganza of a menu. But that’s heavy, so I go sustainable sardine-tuna recipes for your home-cooking enjoyment, just be for the easier-to-digest sure to steer clear of downmarket sardines and albacore. Upscale brands are Cuban (above) and don’t just a few bucks more, and they’ll make your environmentally conscious snack feel I’ve missed a thing. all the more delectable. ✦ BRENT HOLMES PHOTOS: FOODIE STREET

. 36 | DESERT COMPANION OCTOBER 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY Sabin Orr DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS Shop Gift Like THE a Boss VISIONARY The idea person BY Christie Moeller who thinks big and leaves the details October 16 is Bosses Day. It’s an opportunity to to others recognize the leaders, dreamers, and commanders in FLYTE LIGHT your workplace (and, yes, maybe earn a few brownie BUCKMINSTER points). Here are some gift ideas for whatever type of LEVITATING LIGHT fearless leader you have. Part desk lamp, part sculpture, part scientific wonder, the Flyte is sure to inspire plenty of eurekas! $349, Neiman Marcus in the Fashion Show Mall

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SOCIETY WHERE THE NEXT MEAL IS COMING FROM

Food insecurity haunts thousands of Las Vegans, but a network of charities is tackling the problem — with surprising efficiency SHELF LIFE BY Michael Lyle Lutheran Social Services of Southern Nevada volunteer Nancy Starkey at the food pantry. Food insecurity affects 280,000 Southern Nevadans.

he end of the month is a busy — who are estimated to be food insecure. “There isn’t just one single face of food inse- time for a food pantry. The peo- “That’s somewhere in the neighborhood curity,” says Rebecca Martin, whose family T ple in line have usually used up of 50 million meals overall that people are uses Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada’s most of their supplemental food missing,” says Regis Whaley, the business food pantry. “I’m a disabled veteran. Yes, benefits — if they have them — meaning support manager of Three Square Food I get my disability, but it’s not enough to their cabinets and refrigerators are bare. Bank. “Food insecurity is when there is a lack make ends meet sometimes. Whether you’re But you won’t hear 65-year-old Margaret of quantity of food or quality of food within homeless or working a job 9 to 5, anyone at Coleman complaining about the wait a household. It’s not just being hungry, but any time might need some help.” at Lutheran Social Services of Nevada also the stress of not knowing where the The Department of Agriculture’s annual (LSSN): She knows that without this, she next meal is coming from.” food insecurity report indicates that about wouldn’t have food. “I make do with what The food-insecure could be seniors on a one-fourth of food-insecure households I have and don’t complain about what I fixed income, people with disabilities who are usually recurrent, but not chronic. On don’t have,” she says. “And I thank God can’t work, even working families that average, these households experienced food for what I do have.” simply don’t earn enough — when times are insecurity about seven months out of the Coleman is among the 280,000 people hard, it’s usually a household’s food budget year. Also a factor: food deserts, a term for in Southern Nevada — one out of seven that can be adjusted, and people go without. areas that lack nutritious foods because

. 38 | DESERT COMPANION NOVEMBER 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY Sabin Orr DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS YOU REALLY there aren’t grocery stores readily accessible. “We find lower-income areas are populated more by convenience stores than actual LOVE OUR grocery stores,” Whaley adds. “So you’ve got a limited quantity of food, but also the MAGAZINE. quality of food.” NOW YOU CAN LOVE IT VIRTUALLY, TOO. According to Three Square, food insecurity is measured by a few factors, includ- Visit us at desertcompanion.vegas and check out our website. ing household size, unemployment rates, Between editions of our Maggie Award-winning magazine, poverty, median household income, and you’ll get web-exclusive stories, breaking cultural news population. With that, it has found the five and fresh perspectives from our writers. local ZIP codes with the highest rates of food insecurity are 89106, 89046, 89029, 89169, and 89101. A common line of defense for people who are food insecure is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps low-income people and families buy groceries. According to the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, the state’s goal is to reduce food insecurity to 6 percent and increase SNAP participation Start Early. to 85 percent by 2018. For the people who qualify, sometimes the money allotted isn’t enough. Kim Amato, Start Right. the outreach and community liaison at Challenger School offers Lutheran Social Services of Nevada, says uniquely fun and academic she has seniors who only qualify for $20 classes for preschool to eighth a month. “What can you buy with that?” grade students. she asks. Our students learn to think While the government has its way of for themselves and to value dealing with food insecurity, members of independence. the community are on the front line, trying to fill the remaining need through food The results are unmatched at any price! pantries, community meals, and resource centers. Last year, Three Square distributed Come see for yourself! 44 million pounds of food through its Observe our classrooms any nearly 1,300 community partners, which time— no appointment needed. includes churches, other nonprofits, apartment complexes with underserved populations, unemployment offices, and libraries. This also includes providing more than 200 schools with meals for low-income students. ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

THE MIDDAY AUGUST sun isn’t kind, and reflects harshly off the pavement outside of the Clark County Library. The few trees are stingy with their shade, providing little comfort. Yet the people waiting for one of Three Square’s weekly produce giveaways An independent private school offering preschool through eighth grade are restless as they eye the bags of potatoes, watermelons, onions, and pears. Desert Hills 410-7225 Los Prados 839-1900 From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Tuesday, peo- 8175 West Badura Ave. 5150 N. Jones Blvd. ple call Three Square to place their names on Green Valley 990-7300 Summerlin 878-6418 the list to receive those items being passed 1725 East Serene Ave. 9900 Isaac Newton Way out in front of the library. Those who come without calling are served afterward. Inspiring Children to Achieve Since 1963 Angela Thomas has brought along two © 2017, Challenger Schools. Challenger School admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin. of her kids. She is a certified nursing as-

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sistant who moved to Las Vegas over the summer to be closer to her son, who was going to college in Arizona. “This was close enough that it wasn’t too close,” she says. She was sure she would get a job when she arrived. But after 30 days and with a rapidly depleting bank account, things are getting tighter. When she saw a flier for the giveaway, she put her name on the list. “This will definitely help,” she says. “Every little bit of assistance helps.” The line moves slowly as people pick up items and put them into backpacks, plastic bags, or whatever improvised container they have come up with. About 150 people go through the line in the 45 minutes it’s open. This will be replicated many times ABUNDANCE OF COMPASSION Before browsing the shelves, Lutheran Social Services clients select their food on DigiMart, a around the valley throughout the week. software program, which uses a point system based on household size. A variety of churches and social-service organizations, many of which rely on a mixture of food from Three Square and for the first 40 people, and Tuesdays and and 500 points each month depending on donations or canned good drives, have been Wednesdays for seniors 60 or older. Clients the size of their household. helping to provide for those in need. select most of what they want on the com- Coleman, in line at LSSN, says she In the lobby of Lutheran Social Services puter, using the nonprofit’s DigiMart. Some moved to Las Vegas with her husband, of Nevada, people are waiting for their 500-600 families come to the nonprofit a disabled veteran, last year. They are names to be called. The organization is open each month. For the DigiMart food pantry, retired and on a fixed income, so they four days a week — Mondays and Fridays people who apply can receive between 100 thought Las Vegas’ cost of living would 2 1 , 2 0 r e hi t W ooking s L ’ e v i t N a , e v i t ooking N a L

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WHAT’S IN STORE Food pantries such as Lutheran Social Services of Southern Nevada step in when government food benefits run out for recipients.

help with their budget. When money got Her box of items is brought out in a shop- tight, it was either find a food pantry or ping cart. As there is extra bread — the pan- go hungry. She heard of LSSN through try gets donations from a variety of stores word of mouth. “And I’ve been going and needs to disperse them quickly — she ever since,” she says. “It doesn’t feel like can pick out four types. Since the nonprofit a handout. The way it’s operated, you are has a surplus of items with an expiration treated with dignity.” date, she can also grab extra meat, choosing Coleman usually visits the nonprofit pork chops and ribs. Now she knows what’s once a week and portions out the 200 for dinner tonight. “Smothered pork chops points she gets for her household. On and fried potatoes,” she says. “I can eat that her final trip in August, she has 66 points for a few days.” left to spend. She sits at the computer Before checking out, she also gets to pick to pick out her groceries. “I usually get out miscellaneous items that need to be meat, bread, and potatoes first,” she says. used. She grabs a prepackaged crab salad “Once I have those, then I can add to it.” and sandwich. “That ain’t bad,” she says. She clicks on the meat item, and then the Rebecca Martin and her husband, Jon- potato icon, and still has 60 points left. She athan, began using the Catholic Charities’ adds bread, two packages of egg noodles, food pantry shortly after the arrival of their two boxes of macaroni and cheese, and baby in July. Rebecca is a Navy veteran and some bags of chips, which she plans to give 100 percent disabled, meaning she can’t to the kids at her church. When she hits work. Even prior to having a newborn, the “done,” a printout of her items is sent to family’s budget was already tight, causing a volunteer, who will prepare her order. Jonathan to sell all but two of the nine guns Lutheran’s Amato says that each day, the in his collection. “It was really difficult nonprofit relies on six or seven volunteers and depressing to do, but it needed to be to run DigiMart kiosks, fulfill orders, and done,” he says. check in clients. “Additionally, volunteers Looking for a way to supplement the accept and sort through donated items, income she receives from disability, and get stock pantry shelves, and help manage the nutrients she needs while she breast- the inventory,” she says. feeds, Rebecca applied for Women, Infant While the volunteers work on Coleman’s and Children, a federally funded program order, she is allowed to fill one plastic bag with for low-income mothers. That program also produce. She picks out apples, cantaloupe, and recommended the food pantry. onions. Are those fresh green beans? “Well, About 4,000 people come through Cath- look at that,” she says. It goes into the bag. olic Charities’ pantry every month — they

42 | DESERT COMPANION . NOVEMBER 2017 DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS can only come once every 30 days and have Church in Henderson, started. It’s one of the underlying reasons why they are in this 10 minutes to select up to 10 pounds of many free community meals offered by position. Beyond a meal, family resource items, which doesn’t include produce or churches and nonprofits. centers like HopeLink seek to break a cycle. bread. In order to qualify for assistance, People are already lined up at 4 p.m. on a Once a person or family comes to Hope- people need proof of residence, any type Wednesday afternoon, even though the door Link, the case managers work beyond the of government-issued identification, and won’t open until 4:30 p.m. “This meal is a crisis that brought them through the door. proof they are low-income such as Medicaid blessing,” says one man in line. “If not for “It could be food insecurity or it could be or SNAP benefits paperwork. this, many of us probably would be stealing. rental assistance that brought them in,” she By design, the pantry looks like a five-aisle You think you would never steal, but that says. “We want to see the whole picture, supermarket. Rows of canned goods and changes when you’re hungry.” though, and not just a snapshot.” boxed items line the shelves. There is even a While Friends in the Desert sees a lot That means taking a look at clients’ in- produce section, and a meat and dairy aisle. of homeless, Muriel Dufendach, the op- come, how they spend their money, and what Next to the weigh stations and check-out erations manager for the meal, says it also other assistance they have, if any. “We help counter are bread donations. gets families who are food insecure and just them budget more effectively,” she adds. Rebecca always imagined a food pantry need a meal to help them get by. Usually Kyger says it’s also about teaching people as a place that just gives people a box of for them, it’s situational, and they only living in poverty how to shop more effectively preselected items, a method many other come for a period of time. Lutheran Social so their food budget can last longer. food banks use. But this feels like grocery Services of Nevada also partners with two Case managers can stay with clients for shopping to her. “It also means I can get churches to put on a free community meal months while they find stability and become fruits and more nutritious items,” she for the elderly. more food secure. Even if they are able to adds. When a person is dealing with food in- get back on their feet again and save money, ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ security, says Karen Kyger, the executive often people are one emergency away from director of HopeLink of Southern Nevada, falling back and might have to start again. WHILE FOOD BANKS give people set items, they are most likely dealing with another But that should never stop people from there is something beneficial about getting issue, such as housing or unemployment. trying. “You can go up,” Kyger says. “It’s served a hot meal. That’s why Friends in the The food they are getting, and even the food not easy, and it’s not fast, but with help you Desert, based out of St. Timothy’s Episcopal stamps that help them get by, don’t address can recover.” ✦

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PROFILE room, withdrew the shoebox from under the bed, and removed $80,000. Though Tobler’s boss was forgiving, Tobler, his younger brother, and his cousin agreed: This man’s lifetime LAUGHING MATTERS of deceit had to end, the sooner the better. Things didn’t go as planned. Poison and blunt objects failed. (Best to watch the episode for full details; it airs early From attempted murder to a career in comedy, next year.) Bottom line: His father hasn’t Brandt Tobler’s life wasn’t always funny — reappeared in Tobler’s life since. Which until he made it that way was more or less the desired outcome, anyway, and this way no one got charged BY Julie Seabaugh with manslaughter. “Some people don’t have stories in their life that immediately pique your interest,” says Eric Abrams, This Is Not Happening urder is bad. It’s a command- of Comedy Central series This Is Not Happen- co-creator and showrunner. “This story, ment, it’s a crime, it often makes ing, he used to work as a Las Vegas gambling how could it not pique your interest?” M a mess. Murder rides high on runner. His job was hitting sports books at a Tobler dreamed of doing TINH since its any list of the most horrible moment’s notice to make high-roller wagers. 2013 debut online. He submitted numerous things people do to each other. It feels odd He kept outlandish amounts of his bosses’ sample tapes, receiving feedback each time to root for someone trying to kill someone cash in a shoebox under his bed. to help him improve his chances. “They else. More so when a potential murderer is Tobler’s father was an abusive ex-con addict. were pretty honest with me through the the potential murderee’s son. Four nights after his Comedian Brandt Tobler didn’t succeed son’s 23rd birthday — OCT BRANDT TOBLER performs at the Stratosphere in killing his father. But he certainly tried to. which he’d forgotten — 23-29 Oct. 23-29, stratospherehotel.com As Tobler explains on an upcoming episode he snuck into Tobler’s

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back-and-forth process, like, ‘You’re just not famous, and we get so many famous people who want to do it,’” Tobler says. “Then one day, Eric called me when I was driving back from Flagstaff. He said they were ready to send over a contract.” Tobler’s episode filmed June 21 at Cheetah’s strip club in Hollywood. This season, the show’s third, also includes longform stories from Drew Carey, Tommy Chong, and Carrot Top. “He was a kid who really, really wanted to have a good father, and whose father is incapable of being a good father,” Abrams explains. “There’s a lot of emotion wrapped up in it, and he did a really good job of conveying that. It takes an intelligence onstage, and also takes a lot of work. He figured out the real meaning of the story, and how people would connect to it.” Originally from Cheyenne, Wyoming, Tobler was voted class clown in both junior high and high school. In 1998 he moved to Vegas from Phoenix, where he’d abandoned RECYCLING DAY his third attempt at junior college. In addition to his father’s theft, as a runner he was mistaken by the TSA for a bomber, had an November 18, office raided by the cops, and was robbed at rifle-point in his living room for $4,000. 8 a.m. to noon. Not that Tobler didn’t sow his own karmic track record. Despite “looking like a stoner,” • Shred old paperwork he’s never done a single drug, including • Recycle glass, aluminum, plastic, cardboard pot. Yet at various times he’s spearheaded • Bring your old computers, cell phones, shoplifting rings, got tossed in Imperial appliances and more Palace casino jail for mouthing off to security • Donate clothes, jewelry, housewares, home decor, etc. guards, broke into Mike Tyson’s house for an entire summer, and hoisted a pair of PILL TAKE BACK. Turn in your unused or expired framed Pro Bowl jerseys from a Florida medications for safe confidential disposal and sports bar owned by former NFL kicker destruction. We will even take the prescription bottle. Mike Vanderjag. “I think I have an authority complex,” Tobler confirms. “I would never steal from a mom-and-pop shop, but I just hate corporate America. Later in life, I also realized a lot of things I’ve done were just plain douchey. So ALL FOR FREE! the only way I can explain it is half immatu- rity and half this authority complex toward authority, managers, security guards …” After one final runner gig ended when his More information at knpr.org bosses skipped town for Costa Rica, Tobler reexamined his priorities. ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

NO SPECIFIC, THUNDERSTRUCK moment of awakening drew him to the stage. Comedy PRESENTING SPONSOR: was less a calling than another crazy feat he’d always wanted to try. There was only one comedy open mic listed in Las Vegas Weekly: Sunday nights at Boomers, a dive in a lonely industrial stretch just west of the I-15. He signed up, then chickened out at the last minute. Repeatedly. Supportive

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friends and the right amount of alcohol able outlet. His material favored fictitious notice them. Tobler was inspired. He mes- finally emboldened him to take the plunge. scenarios with obvious punch lines: “I did saged Stanhope, inviting him to perform “I hate my dad, and I hate vegetables,” the old drive-through wedding … when I in the yard behind his Green Valley rental his first joke began. “I wish my dad would got to my house I realized my order was all house. Stanhope agreed. They set a date get paralyzed so I could just say, ‘I hate messed up.” He told “dumb jokey-jokes” in for February 2008. vegetables.’” His second: “Two people walk the vein of late stand-up Mitch Hedberg. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 2007, na- into a bar … it’s probably my parents.” There were even, he admits, puns. tional headliners Tig Notaro, Martha Kelly, The local comedy scene was nonexistent. Tobler cultivated a laidback, low-key and Steve Agee were winding down their A handful of mainstream clubs populated onstage demeanor unique among his more grassroots Crackpot Comedy Tour of house Strip casinos, where corporate structure boisterous peers. Making the same local (and garage … and barn) shows across the booked all the “appropriate” national talent comics laugh in a dingy side room felt like country. Tobler contacted Notaro, dropping they needed. Not that tourists would ever more of a hang out session than a learning Stanhope’s name for validity. The trio graced waste their Vegas funds on newbies when process. There were no mentors to encour- Tobler’s backyard that September, followed countless (and far superior) entertainment age him through the challenges of becoming by Neil Hamburger, Brody Stevens, and options demanded their attention. better, performing for paying audiences, or Morgan Murphy in November. “The clubs didn’t have any use for the getting booked on the road. Separated in a Attendees brought lawn chairs. Tobler locals,” Tobler says. “There wasn’t even an bubble from the rest of the comedy world, substituted a short riser for a stage, rigged a open mic at any of those clubs, so there wasn’t Tobler remained naïve to the professional couple area lights, and tucked a mini-fridge even a way to get your foot in the door.” craft of becoming funny. along the rear wall, where cars passed just In bars, fledgling comedy shows inevitably In 2007, he read a MySpace post from feet from the performers. competed with overhead TVs and clanging Doug Stanhope, an underground so- In February 2008, Stanhope drew more slot machines. “Countless bars were like, cial-critic comedian who in 1990 performed than 250. “How about the neighbors?” he ‘Okay we’ll try it. …’ Then, after the third his own first open mic a mile and a half began. “This is for the neighbors … (shouts comic curses for the 10th time and one south of Boomers, at the Escape Lounge into the microphone with a German accent) gambler gets upset, they’re like, ‘Okay, II. Stanhope’s post encouraged young Why we are here is to talk about the Jewish show’s done!’” comics to create shows for themselves problem! Heil Heil!” The crowd raised their Boomers remained Tobler’s only depend- rather than waiting for comedy clubs to arms and conspiratorially heiled back. NICE

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(Perhaps funnier 10 years ago than in light of recent news events.) As Stanhope remembers, “It was everything in the world I thought comedy should be: Cut out the middle man, people brought With toothsome foodie features, their own booze and coolers, they could sit full-bodied chef proﬁles, savory where they liked, even up on the balcony, and local dining trends & ambrosial it seemed like this is the way of the future.” photography, home delivery of Tobler’s neighbors complained about the noise and parking. (“If you don’t like my Desert Companion means you sense of humor, you probably don’t want will never miss out on Las Vegas’ it blaring over your Golden Girls at 8:30 at culinary scene even if you stay in*. night,” Stanhope surmises.) He was kicked out two weeks later. The shows marked Tobler’s first real Subscribe now and never miss an comedy experiences outside of Boomers. issue at desertcompanion.vegas. “I thought I was kind of good, then when I saw comedians who were actually good I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m awful. I need to *It’ll be our little secret. start all over!” he laughs. “I gradually got rid of my jokey-jokes and started talking about my real life more. I realized how much more fun it is for me to talk about real stuff.” ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

SHORT-LIVED AS IT was, the backyard series marked a turning point. It was time for Tobler to gamble on himself. He went all in on comedy, picking up small road dates in Barstow, Salt Lake City, and Phoenix. After the L.A. Comedy Club opened at Planet Hollywood in 2007, he hosted for headliners like Bert Kreischer and Aziz Ansari. Tobler lived in Vegas 11 years. In 2011, he stuffed his possessions in two suitcases and took a cab to the bus station. Los Angeles friends let him couch surf for a few months

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He turned inward. Few had life journeys drink, promptly bought a round for Tobler some 40 weeks a year. He still performs in similar to his. Finally facing — and gleaning and two employees. Vegas every three or four months. “It made inspiration from — the hilarity and heart- “Like an idiot, I almost spilled mine,” me tougher,” he says of the city’s role in break he’d experienced felt somehow bigger Tobler deadpans. “It would have been $160 shaping his career. “I can handle any room than the standup stage. in Brad’s lap.” full of drunk people.” This May, Tobler self-published a mem- Garrett suggested Tobler put some expe- “It might have cost him his home that oir detailing his father’s history and effect riences down on paper. Thirty pages or so time, but still, he’s a man with vision,” Stan- on Tobler’s life, generally for the worse. would give him a feel for the writing process. hope says. “Even if it puts his belongings Free Roll concludes with Tobler’s commit- Maybe he’d want to continue onward from next to a dumpster.” ment to a career in standup. Intimate and there as a movie script or book. Tobler is compiling a new book called engrossing, it shocked friends and fellow Known to regularly down quite a few, You Couldn’t and You Wouldn’t. It concerns performers alike. Tobler forced himself to remain sober for 10 girls he’s had sex with whom most guys Tobler says the book wouldn’t exist with- an entire month. He was certain his writings couldn’t, and another 10 that most guys out encouragement from the MGM Grand’s were sloppy, immature, and just plain shitty. wouldn’t want to have sex with. A third Brad Garrett. One night after a show at Garrett had other opinions. project, Diary of a Piece of Shit, will contain Garrett’s comedy club, the Emmy-winning “He later sent me those first 30 pages, wild Vegas stories that didn’t make the actor/stand-up/poker enthusiast invited To- and I felt that his life would make an amaz- Free Roll cut. bler to the casino’s Whiskey Down Lounge. ing book, especially because he’s such a There’s talk of producing a Free Roll “I got to know Brandt after he started playing wonderful storyteller,” Garrett enthuses. TV pilot, or optioning it as a film. Both the club,” Garrett recalls. “He began sharing “I think Brandt’s book speaks for itself — remain largely out of Tobler’s hands. His some of his stories with me. When he told what sets him apart are his life experiences. next personal task is adapting the book me about his life I couldn’t believe it.” He’s gone through things most people to stage as a one-man show. He’ll then get Tobler entertained Garrett for hours. As can’t imagine, and those extraordinary back out on the road, giving audiences new the night progressed and tales compounded, events give him a unique basis for comedic insights into family dysfunction. As with Garrett asked a waitress how much a shot of material.” Tobler sent Garrett pages for any good cathartic art form, processing Louis XIII cognac cost. “A hundred-thirteen nearly three years. pain through comedy is an experience best dollars,” she replied. Garrett, who doesn’t Until recently, Tobler was on the road shared with others. ✦

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MCMULLAN’S Don’t let an unim- pressive exterior 4650 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-247-7000, discourage you from mcmullansirishpub.com stepping into Sin City’s best craft cock- From Poughkeepsie to tail bar with a side Pakistan, the world is of beef. Once home full of “Irish” pubs. Of to the Ruvo family’s course Las Vegas has Venetian Ristorante, more than its share, but Nectaly Mendoza’s the only one that really Herbs and Rye is well gives a taste of the on its way to earning Auld Sod is McMullan’s legendary status — and we don’t just of its own. Credit a ➽ Whenever I hear the name of my friend mean those perfectly superstar roster of ReBAR circle’s go-to happy hour hangout, I think back poured pints of surprisingly quick and 1225 S. MAIN ST. to my ex-, in the ’90s, pounding 3-foot metal rods Guinness. The McMullan friendly bartenders into the ground along the base of our chain-link for the standout 702-349-2283 fence to keep our crazy rescue dog, Phaedra, from cocktails, and Vegas tunneling out of the yard. A throne-sized painting

OTHER MAMA: SABIN ORR; REBAR: COURTESY; FRANKIE’S TIKI ROOM: BRENT HOLMES TIKI ROOM: FRANKIE’S ORR; REBAR: COURTESY; MAMA: SABIN OTHER REBARLV.COM native Nectaly’s of Phaedra in Victorian gown and tiara — like the knack for forging a one of the pug that hung above my friend Kevin’s fantastic joint that’s head at ReBAR on a recent Friday evening — at once classic and would fit in at this Downtown watering hole. The cool. Boasting a dark, “Re” is for “repurposing,” as in selling curated chophouse feel, a kitsch — the shake weights that dotted the place soundtrack of swing Vegas street corner? a few months back, for instance, or the yellow and soul, and a cock- Sounds like something ceramic owl Kevin’s wife Heather got for $2. tail menu spanning Jean Baudrillard would It’s also for “retro,” apparent in the bathrooms’ decades, this is one have loved about our Borax hand-soap dispensers and mid-century red of the few spots that hyper-real Mojave Naugahyde diner booths. And it’s for “reinforc- appeals to both the Metropolis. But Oh ing” community, which owner Derek Stonebarger old guard and the La La has authentic does by developing cocktails for local charities young cats. JPR cred, too: Started and then giving them part of the sales on those by San Francisco drinks. For my crowd, the “Re” is for “relaxed,” restaurateurs Richard since we don’t feel quite this at home in any other OH LA LA Terzaghi and Nicolas bar. “Everyone actually does know my name,” FRENCH Sillac, Oh La La hosts said my friend Michelle, “but that might be more BISTRO frequent happy hours of a reflection of my drinking habit than their and wine-tastings for 2120 N. Rampart Blvd., friendliness.” Or, it could be that another one of 702-222-3522, oenophiles. So let’s our neighborhood friends tends bar there. He, his ohlalafrenchbistro.com toss back a few glass- wife, and their favorite sock monkey, Hubert, will es of Pinot Noir from host Socktoberfest at ReBAR on the 21st of this A French restaurant the Old Country in this month. We’ll all be there. You should stop by. HK located next to snug and stylish refuge a Starbucks on a in the Arrondissement six-lane suburban Las Summerlin. GT

NOVEMBER 2017 . DESERT COMPANION | 55 MOON chills 277 miles from natch, plus an updated Orange (well, when it’s DOUBLE DOGGIES any tasty waves? Who beer tap. Hungry? not “Eastbound And DOWN 3240 S. Arville St. #F, cares if they screen Some say the city’s top Down” or “Friends In 4640 Paradise Road, 702-368-4180 all the Bills games pizza and wings fly di- Low Places”). This is 702-791-5775, when New Era Field is rectly into the bar from such a regulars’ joint doubledownsaloon.com Drinking cities are across the map? Just the Naked City window. that the bartenders notorious for neighbor- go with it. Hot outside? And somehow, the host themed birth- Were it not for the hood dives like Moon Moon Doggies boasts internet jukebox always day parties for ’em. Double Down Saloon, Doggies. So what if enough ceiling fans for seems to be streaming Thankfully, they’re a I probably would not its vaguely surfer vibe liftoff. Thirsty? A full bar, Social D or Agent friendly lot: We’ve met live in Las Vegas. It’s third-generation Las true. When I used to Vegans here, and so just visit this crazy many graduates of town back in the late the nearby Clark High ’90s, the Double Down School it was almost a was my home away class reunion. JPR from home, the first place I hit when I got in and the last place BOTECO I went before I left. I 9500 S. Eastern Ave. recall walking in at 7 #170, 702-790-2323, a.m. for a pre-flight botecolv.com cocktail, to be greeted by a drunk punk point- Hendertucky no more! ing at me, shouting, More like Winederson. “The last thing I’m Over the past few years, gonna do tonight is the third-largest city in buy her a drink!” “You Nevada has made an mean the first thing to- impressive mark on the day,” deadpanned Ian Mojave Desert drinking the bartender, the only map, especially with other person present. pretty, quality spots like If losing track of time Boteco, named after the is a sport in this town, simple, unpretentious the Double Down is Brazilian pubs that where we train our focus on good food Olympic team. You ➽ I always slightly overdress when I go to and drink at affordable walk in for one and Hank’s Hank’s because a) the lambent white movie-set prices. Stop in and relax realize it’s three hours bar and glittering glass seem to deserve it, and with a glass of house- later, or six hours Fine b) frankly I’m self-conscious that otherwise, made sangria or a zippy later. Or you go to the Steaks & some hidden detector is going to flash and ginger-Cognac mojito Double, leave, come buzz, revealing me as some Green Valley — all with real imported back, leave, come back, Martinis pretender trying to bite on their breezy, tanned wines, not mixes. GT like a moth around

IN GREEN VALLEY RANCH insouciance. But Hank’s makes me strive, and a porchlight. When I FRED MORLEDGE BREW FESTIVAL: BRENT HOLMES; DOWNTOWN SMITH; DOUBLE DOWN: HANK’S: CHRISTOPHER HOTEL-CASINO that’s what matters. And I mean it when I say 702-617-7515 the bar deserves it. I’ve been coming to Hank’s for years, and its arrant, consummate reliabil- ity — potent martinis, perfect steaks, and oh, god, that buttermilk chicken — suggests some dutiful, familial commitment to quality worthy of the Hank Greenspun imprimatur. Even the sorority martinis (and, yes, I’ve tried them all, shockface emoji) have an alcoholic sturdiness and underlying dignity. Once I’m settled in, it’s onward with the boozy people-watching: The bejeweled and braceleted matrons, the lawyer dads basking mutely in phonelight, defrazzling happy-hour yoga moms, geese-quacking Sex and the City extras, the date-nighting parents sipping with gratitude and relief. I’m not completely sure that, like most neighborhoods in Las Vegas, Green Valley really exists beyond an afterimage of municipal map-making or insistent developer brand, but this classily blingy suburban casino bar, ironically or not, exudes a decided sense of place. AK

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➽ Las Vegas knows different. Hell, it was built and continues to thrive on different. Different is our Born ACME-like magnet that attracts some 40 million-plus outsiders, and a big reason why 2 million-plus of us choose to call this place home. Which is why I’ve always found it infuriatingly ironic that our neighborhood and watering holes lack the same kind of ingenuity that fuels the rest of our city. You know the drill: Uninspired Raised food and drink menu; dark, smoky atmosphere; the ring-a-ding-ding of poker machines — lather, rinse, 7260 S. CIMARRON ROAD repeat … and repeat … and repeat. ¶ Thank goodness Las Vegas native Scottie Godino came along a few years ago to break the cycle with Born And Raised, which turned the ho-hum Las Vegas tavern concept on 10050 S. EASTERN AVE., its head. Yes, both brick-and-mortar, 24/7 establishments — one in the southwest, the other in Henderson HENDERSON — have poker machines lining the bar. But the focal point and main gathering spot is a peculiarly decorated 702-685-0258 (in a good way) lounge that offers seating options ranging from an L-shaped couch to comfy chairs and booths that were cribbed from every design era from 1920 to 2020. ¶ If I were an interior designer, my BORNANDRAISEDLV.COM head likely would’ve exploded the first time I walked into BAR. But I’m not. What I am is a sports fan, and BAR scores big points with its massive TV wall, which can be configured to show any number of games and which adds to the lounge’s family-room vibe. ¶ Speaking of sports, you know how many owners of so-called “locals” taverns are quick to affiliate themselves with non-local sports teams? Not here. Although he didn’t attend UNLV, Godino made certain his places bleed scarlet and gray, not only showcasing every televised UNLV football and men’s basketball game, but also hosting weekly in-season coaches radio shows. A locals bar that truly is meant for locals—now that’s refreshingly different!MJ

moved to Las Vegas, become, well, old. The I knew no one, and days of “Topless only the Double Down was on the pony!” (don’t where I made friends, ask), double-dildo got laid, got up to pranks (don’t ask), mischief. It was the first and pig’s heads in the place in this city where bathroom toilets (no, people knew me. really, don’t ask) are But the days and in the past, but things years do pass. The can still get crazy. Double Down will turn And this is still where 25 in November — it’s I listen to loud music, become a Travel drink greyhounds, stay 2016 Downtown Brew Festival Channel-sanctioned longer than I intended, tourist stop, many of and feel like I’m home. the bartenders have LTR become parents, I’ve

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Looking to trace the Ultimately, a bar isn’t beginnings of modern about decor or drink craft mixology in Las lists, it’s about the Vegas? Definite props people. Do you feel go to the one-and-only welcome when you Downtown Cocktail walk in the door? The Starboard Tack Room. Celebrating Badlands always has a 2601 ATLANTIC ST. a decade of serving smile and a stiff pour ➽ The original Starboard Tack was a swanky, advanced cocktail for all comers, be they 702-684-5769 storied neighborhood eastside bar that had a creations in its smooth, male, female, gay, spotlight moment in the Vegas labor wars of the nocturnal room, DCR straight, local, tourist, ’70s as the site of a would-be car bombing. Locat- set the stage for many or any combo of the ed on the same site, the new Starboard Tack is a bars to follow, especial- above. The bar’s West- nod to the swank part of that era, offering rum, ly for local joints. The ern theme has evolved rattan, and enchantment-under-the-sea vibe best way to take in the from aggressive cow without going into hipster-pandering thematic lounge’s snazzy vibe is print to a subtler motif overdrive. Sure, it’s got a custom cocktail list with a classic absinthe of natural wood and and grown-up bar food like oysters and exotic service. Select your black-and-white photos pretty, with lots of sandwiches (like their Thai-style hot dog above), favorite brand of la fée of country legends windows to enjoy the but my favorite thing is its odd location: on a verte, and watch it drip (and the occasional verdure outside. It desolate side street off Sahara, huddled against a into cold water with a shirtless cowboy), but features a respectable cluster of apartments. It is hidden, which makes hypnotic, opalescent the atmosphere is really wine list, with numer- it alluring, which makes it a hideaway promising louche swirl. The night created by the friendly ous vintages from sweet momentary protective oblivion from my just took a different bartenders, the fun Italy to complement daily whatevers beyond what a typical bar can turn. GT patrons, and the good the fare (the house offer. (Seasoned drinkers get it: The magnetic pull time you’re gonna have specialty, a rich, meaty of that bright tavern sign in the night ... beacon, with them. LTR pappardelle Bolog- respite, escape.) Inside the Starboard Tack, there are inviting nooks and vignettes, from a living T-BONES nese, gets frequent praise). For a beverage room-style chill spot (complete with a terrarium) CHOPHOUSE to a partitioned dining area to quieter corners of In the Red Rock, 11011 BOTTIGLIA with a bit more verve, savor glasses of heady the bar that seem judiciously draped in an extra W. Charleston Blvd., CUCINA & layer of inviting dim. The fact that it’s practically 702-797-7576 ENOTECA grappa or sunshine in a bottle, a.k.a. limon- around the block from my house has resulted in In Green Valley Ranch Maybe because it’s cello. Tip: Thursday the development of a decidedly Vegas ritual. I’ll hotel-casino, decline to say how often I partake in said ritual, been around for more 702-617-7075, evenings bring than a decade, the bottiglialv.com half-price specials on but I will attest to the powerful therapeutic handsome central bar select bottles of vino, benefits of a dozen oysters, an Old Fashioned, a at T-Bones Chophouse Big, bright, and a great opportunity to $20 bill in the video poker machine, and endless, at Red Rock Resort is bustling, Green Valley find your new favorite private, cozy twilit gloom. AK something of an after- Ranch Resort’s Italian varietal. GT

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60 | DESERT COMPANION . OCTOBER 2017 DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS MY PERSONAL Eight Best FAVORITE Ways to BIKE RIDES, DOG-WALKS, Circumvent AND HIKES Paid Strip IN SOUTHERN Parking NEVADA i i Leisurely ride Crystals valet with friends: The i Bonanza Trail, from Mandalay Place valet Bill Briare Park to Bruce Trent Park i i Challenging ride Fashion Show (valet circle on Fashion with my cycling Show is closest to Strip) group: River BETTER IN Mountains Loop i A baker’s dozen i Trail CONCEPT i Talkative waiters TI i Dog walk with my i Microwaving flavored popcorn i senior rescue dog: i The Mile High Club in a crowded workspace Venetian/Palazzo around the jogging i Haggis i Website redesigns trail at Judge i The Mile High Haggis Club i “By the director who brought i Any Caesars Myron Leavitt Park i Crocs you 300.” self-parking property i Dog walk with my i A dystopian future in which i Buying up some city’s with a local ID spry Border Collie: civilization is saved by plucky downtown in the guise of (Hint: Caesars Palace and The Pittman Wash teens with primitive weaponry building a creative community Harrah’s are best.) trail i History as a nightmare from and technology hub i i Hike with which we’re trying to awake i UNLV football Casino Royale girlfriends: Boy i Wide-scale, massively i Smart everything Scout Canyon, disruptive road construction i Meeting for drinks at the Blue i Boulder City i Comedy hypnosis Martini Lyft -JB i Hike with husband: i Any burger identified by the i Commercials in which North Loop to words “ultimate,” “bacon,” pieces of breakfast cereal Mummy Springs, and “cheese” cannibalistically eat other Mount Charleston i Resurgent populism pieces of the same breakfast -HK i “So bad it’s good” cereal 6 VEGAS SEQUELS Mania! i A Jeff Koons sculpture of i American Horror Story: TO POPULAR Popeye Spongebob -SD FRANCHISES

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OCTOBER 2017 . DESERT COMPANION | 61 HINDSIGHT 5 PEOPLE I’VE SEEN FLAVORS 4 THINGS THAT ON FREMONT STREET WE DON’T IS 20/20 MAKE ME WANT WHOM I WASN’T SURE WHETHER THEY WERE WANT TO TO STAND ON AN X I shouldn’t have eaten BUSKERS OR JUST SEE AT sushi in Pahrump! OVERPASS WITH A NORMAL PEOPLE X That was a school FLAMETHROWER AND LUV-IT zone! BURN THE FREEWAYS 1. Guy in Slipknot T-shirt CUSTARD X That cat did have foam CLEAN OF THEIR vaping really large, on its mouth! luxurious vape clouds X My check-engine light IMPURITIES 2. Man in unaccountably large, French Marmoset was on! battered velvet tophat Chunky Chupacabra 4. The line of traffic X That lady didn’t want 3. Man in beige jumpsuit Rocky Road — now with creeping in the right to see my tattoo! painting a grate more rocks! X I am lactose-intolerant! lane while you’re 4. Someone in a female mouse Wayne Allyn Root Beer X Hobos don’t enjoy trying to merge and costume, but it looked as “bindlestiff” jokes! three left lanes are so though the person inside Moist -SD X The words “Owen” wide open there may was struggling to remove have been a and “Wilson” aren’t Leftovers the headpiece, which made a guarantee of comic situation just for one me wonder whether this specific section of depth and richness! wasn’t some cultish rite of traffic. X The DMV isn’t a public penitence good place for an 3. Middle lane? No traffic 5. Belly dancer and/or woman impromptu slam for miles? 26 mph in tank top really into the poetry recital! sounds about right. hourly light show -AK X When called up 2. Roughly 49 miles of from the audience, gridlock for one poor I shouldn’t try to sap dumping half an subvert David Arrowhead bottle into Copperfield’s magic an overheated Fiero QUESTIONS FOOD CRITICS Official trick! -SD restaurant on the side of the 95. ARE ABSOLUTELY SICK OF HEARING critic disguise 1. The 215 east/15 north X What’s your FAVORITE place EVER in the whole interchange, for which WORLD? (It’s like choosing a favorite child, I couldn’t! the only explanation Also, it’s Le Cirque) is that it specifically X Where can I get really great all you can eat sushi? captures supernatural X Do they, like, KNOW you when you come in? energy born of rage Do you wear a disguise? and frustration for X Tell me where I should eat, something modernist- whatever third-tier fusion French and/or Japanese, haute cuisine, you know, municipal demon j and within 10 minutes of my house, that’s also really designed it. -JS cheap, maybe $15-$20 a person? Oh, and a good craft cocktail list, too. (Yonaka Modern Japanese.) -MW 10 TOWNS AND SITES IN RURAL NEVADA THAT MAKE GOOD 7 DELECTABLE SANDWICHES 10 VEGAS-THEMED BAND NAMES MARIJUANA STRAINS 1. The “Est” at Rosalie: brie cheese, tomato, greens on garlic-olive 1. Carvers oil toasted French bread 1. Sin City Kush 2. Carp 2. Roast Pork with sautéed broccoli rabe and sharp provolone at 2. Las Vegas Skunk 3. Jiggs Plantone’s Italian Market 3. Pink Flamingo 4. Schurz 3. The KJ Prime Rib Dip at Kitchen at Atomic Lounge 4. Tropicana 5. Stillwater 4. Veggie Burger at Panacea 5. Casino Kush 6. Lovelock 5. Peking duck bao at Fat Choy 6. Mob Boss 7. Angle City 6. The Goodwich’s Cold Brown — roast turkey, bacon, tomato, 7. Neon Jesus 8. Cherry Creek Gruyère fondue 8. 3 Kings 9. Big Smoky 7. Hawaiian Benedict at Vesta Coffee Roasters — easy-over egg, 9. Ace of Spades Rest Area fried Spam, Cheddar, sriracha Hollandaise sauce -GT 10. $100 -LTR 10. Oasis -AK

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Reception versatile comic Clark County Mikayla Oct. 24, 5-6:30P. impressions with School District ▼ influence of Social Whitmore: Art Gallery at over 100 impres- High School Mad- Realism, from his There Is No Whitney Library, sions in each show rigal and Chamber ART studies in China Right Time lvccld.org including singers, Choirs perform during the 1980s, Whitmore seeks to comedians, poli- with a cookies- THROUGH and the dreamlike highlight a series ▼ ticians, television and-punch recep- OCT. 8 qualities and sym- of unintentional and movie stars tion to follow. 4P, The Art of bolism of Fantastic vestiges of fading MUSIC — there is always free. Artemus W. Roy Purcell Realism, learned beliefs in order to something for Ham Concert Hall Roy Purcell’s mixed while in graduate trace a pantheon OCT. 5 everyone! 7P, $15. at UNLV, unlv.edu media paintings school in Austria. of contested prin- UNLV Wind Starbright Theatre combine art with Free. 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Big Anthony Bondi by Clint Williams Media presents a lyn Bowl at The Springs Gallery at Bondi’s collages, OCT. 12–JAN. 2 and Monica Guido, spectacular event Linq, brooklyn Springs Preserve, photos, and inter- The Art of Bob Anderson, honoring major bowl.com springspreserve.org active sculptures Kip Miller Vincent Falcone, music legends, encapsulate the Miller presents and Adam Schro- the stars of The OCT. 13 THROUGH wild essence of a surreal world eder. 7:30P, $10. Strip, and more. Mariachis OCT. 15 Nevada, from through his Artemus W. Ham 5P, $25–$50. Main Celebrate Inspired by the Burning Man to stylized paintings. Concert Hall at Theater at Clark Hispanic Family Album Las Vegas. Free. Free. West Las UNLV, unlv.edu County Library, Culture Elizabeth Casper’s The Studio at Sa- Vegas Library, lvccld.org Experience the vi- impressionist-style hara West Library, lvccld.org OCT. 6–7 brant and colorful paintings depict lvccld.org Makana OCT. 12 culture of Mexico moments inspired OCT. 17–JAN. 9 Enjoy this well- An Evening with students from by photos of va- THROUGH Desert known slack-key with Cher, the Clark County cation scenes and NOV. 19 Companion’s guitarist, singer, Stevie Wonder, School District’s children at play. Rainbow’s Edge Focus on and composer of Celine Dion, Mariachi Program, Free. Centennial A collaborative Nevada Photo Hawaiian music. 7P, Barbra Strei- who will showcase Hills Library, quilt exhibit by Showcase $35–$45. Cabaret sand, and many various styles of lvccld.org members of the on Tour Jazz at The Smith more mariachi. 5P, free. Art Quilts, Etc. 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community through $25–$45. Cabaret Center, thesmith works from more song and dance Jazz at The Smith center.com than a dozen com- performances by Center, thesmith posers. 7:30P, $10. talented students center.com OCT. 21 Artemus W. Ham from the Clark 10th Annual Concert Hall at County School OCT. 17 Socktoberfest UNLV, unlv.edu District’s Mariachi UNLV Jazz You are invited programs and com- Memorial to Mr. Smiley OCT. 26 munity ensembles. Fundraising and Inky Louise’s Mozart & 2P, free. Theatre Concert crazy Oktoberfest Brahms at West Las Vegas UNLV’s Jazz birthday party for UNLV Faculty Library, lvccld.org Ensemble I will Hubert D’Givens- presents the perform with ki — a Swiss sock world premiere OCT. 14 special guest jazz monkey! Ludi- of Charles Halka’s Oktoberfest— vocalists in a me- crous accordion string trio, plus The Las Vegas morial fundraising entertainment by chamber music for Philharmonic concert for the the Squeezebox strings and piano Beethoven’s Joe Williams, Paul Hero, Oktoberfest by Mozart and Coriolan Overture, Coladarci, and beer, specials and Brahms. 7:30P, Mozart’s Clarinet Jake Garehime sausages for sale, $25. Lee and Concerto in A scholarships. folks wearing Thomas Beam Major, and Bruck- 7:30P, $10. Judy dirndls, lederho- Music Center at ner’s Symphony Bayley Theatre at sen, and more! UNLV, unlv.edu N. 1 in C Minor will UNLV, unlv.edu Held at the bar be performed. where everything’s NOV. 4 7:30P, pre-show OCT. 18 for sale. 21+ only. Tribute to Rod conversation at Latin Jazz 5P-1A, free. Re- Stewart 6:30P, $30–$109. Ensemble BAR, 1225 S. Main John Anthony is Reynolds Hall at UNLV’s Division St., rebarlv.com an accomplished The Smith Center, of Jazz Studies and squeezebox performer, musi- thesmithcenter. will highlight the hero.com cian, and popular com talented student entertainer who musicians in a OCT. 21 continues to cap- OCT. 15 concert that you Michael Grimm tivate audiences Angelo can expect to be With his soulful around the world Molineri — excellent. 7P, free. voice and earthy, with his incredible Wonder-Ful Main Theater at southern manner, tribute to Stewart. “X-Factor” per- Clark County Li- Grimm charmed 7P, $20. Star- former Molineri cel- brary, lvccld.org millions of viewers bright Theatre at ebrates the music as a contestant Sun City Summer- of Stevie Wonder. OCT. 19 on season five of lin, scscai.com 2P, $25. Cabaret Spotlight 1: A NBC’s popular Jazz at The Smith Night of Flute “America’s Got NOV. 4 Center, thesmith and Strings Talent.” 7P, $20. Copland center.com Members of the Starbright Theatre in Mexico Las Vegas Phil- at Sun City Sum- The Las Vegas OCT. 15 harmonic will play merlin, scscai.com Philharmonic Sol e Mar their favorite en- presents selec- This six-man semble pieces for OCT. 21 tions from Aaron “Percussion Av- flute and strings, Stephen Copland and Sil- alanche” show- including Mozart’s Stills and vestre Revueltas. cases world class Flute Quartet No. Judy Collins 7:30P, pre-show drummers where 1 and Beethoven’s In their first conversation the lines between Serenade for Flute, tour together, 6:30P, $30–$109. performer and au- Violin, Viola, and the acclaimed Reynolds Hall at dience are blurred Cello. 7:30P, $70. folk-rockers share The Smith Center, through call-and- Troesh Studio stories and per- thesmithcenter. response rhythms, Theater at The form their hits and com songs, and dances. Smith Center, the songs from their 3P, free. Perform- smithcenter.com upcoming album. ▼ ing Arts Center at 7:30P, $35–$115. Windmill Library, OCT. 20 Reynolds Hall at THEATER & lvccld.org Serenades of The Smith Center, COMEDY Life — Doctors thesmithcenter. OCT. 17 in Concert com OCT. 5 The Jazz This annual event Take Me Out Eclectic features the musical OCT. 24 The star baseball Concert Series talents of physicians UNLV Choral player for the NY (Vol. 1) from all over the Ensembles: Empires is so con- This show features valley. Headlining Evocations vinced of his pop- the Jeff Hamilton this year’s show is All four student ularity that when Trio in addition to Don Felder, former choral ensembles he casually an- performances by member of The and the Las Vegas nounces he’s gay, hosts Bijon Watson, Eagles. 6:45P, $40– Master Singers he assumes that Niles Thomas, and $125. Reynolds perform a pro- the news will be Dame Madelyn. 7P, Hall at The Smith gram that includes readily accepted

68 | DESERT COMPANION . NOVEMBER 2017 DESERTCOMPANION.VEGAS by everyone. It isn’t. about. Whose ver- 18+ only. 7:30P, sion of the story do $27.50–$33. Judy you believe? 7:30P, Channel10 Bayley Theatre at $16.50. Black Box UNLV, unlv.edu Theatre in Alta Ham Fine Arts at OCT. 5–29 UNLV, unlv.edu Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s story OCT. 25–29 of the grotesque but The King and I childlike creature The legendary who is cast out into Rodgers & Ham- an unsuspecting merstein musical world by his maker. tells the story of Thu–Sat 8P; Sun 2P, schoolteacher Anna $15–$25. Cockroach Leonowens and Theatre, cockroach the King of Siam, theatre.com who has brought her there to teach OCT. 20–21 his wives and Philoween — A children. Wed–Sun One Man Show 7:30P; Fri–Sun 2P, Conceptualized first $36–$127. Reynolds as a memoir and Hall at The Smith Poldark, Season 3 on Masterpiece now a show, Phil Center, thesmith Faiss takes you on center.com Sundays at 9 p.m., premiering October 1 a journey of how horror movies have OCT. 28–29 mirrored and influ- DETROIT 67 enced his life. $13, In 1967 Detroit, 8P. Vegas Theatre Motown music was Hub, 705 Las Vegas getting the party Blvd. N., vegasthe started, and Chelle atrehub.com and her brother Lank were making ends OCT. 20–NOV. 5 meet by turning The Birds their basement into Daphne du Mau- an after-hours joint. rier’s short story, But when a myste- which was also the rious woman found basis for Alfred her way into their Hitchcock’s film, lives, the siblings is adapted for the clashed over much stage. $21–$24, more than the family Thu–Sat 8P; Sat–Sun business. 2P, free. The Collection 2P. Las Vegas Little West Las Vegas on Masterpiece Great Performances: Theatre, lvlt.org Library, lvccld.org Sundays at 10 p.m., She Loves Me Friday, October 20 at 9 p.m. OCT. 21 OCT. 29 premiering October 8 Las Vegas No Labels Improvisational ndoned by his Players straight parents, Musical and skit Terry the dog comedy all made struggles between up on the spot. The gratitude and hostil- only “clean burning” ity for his new gay improv show in the family. 4P, free. valley — so bring Main Theater at grandma and the Clark County Li- kids! 7P, $10; $5 brary, lvccld.org kids, seniors, and military. Show Cre- ▼ ators Studio, 4455 W. Sunset Road, DANCE lvimprov.com OCT. 8, 14–15 FRONTLINE: OCT. 21–NOV. 4 A Choreogra- Edgar Allen Poe: Good Kids phers’ Showcase Putin’s Revenge Something hap- This dynamic part- Wednesday, October 25 and American Masters pened to Chloe nership between Monday, October 30 at 10 p.m. after that party the artists of two November 1 at 10 p.m. last Saturday night. leading cultural Something she says institutions has she can’t remem- debuted dozens ber. Something of bold new works VegasPBS.org | 3050 E Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89121 | 702.799.1010 everybody is talking combining raw

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athleticism, ex- classical Indian team with the numerous dance ical magic to tell OCT. 12 quisite grace, and dance, includes UNLV Orchestra to genres. 7:30P, $18. a story of adven- Asher Hartman kinetic movement. the four most im- present Prokofiev’s Artemus W. Ham ture and romance Hartman gener- 1P, $25–$45. portant aspects of Romeo and Juliet. Concert Hall at through dance. ates his theatrical Mystère Theatre dance in Sanskrit: Rather than simply UNLV, unlv.edu Ages 4+. 7:30P, performance at Treasure Island, emotion, music, reconstruct the $24–$79. Reynolds works from a nevadaballet.org rhythm, and dance. original ballet, the OCT. 22 Hall at The Smith radical mixture of 2P, free. Whitney goal of the work is iLUMINATE Center, thesmith intuition, collab- OCT. 14 Library, lvccld.org to collect a group Winner of center.com oration, psychic/ Rhythm of of choreogra- “America’s Got magical practices, India OCT. 20–21 phers and tell the Talent,” iLUMINATE ▼ and social critique. Bharata Natyam, In Orchestra 3 traditional story combines music, 7P, free. Free. a major genre of UNLV Dance will though the lens of art, and technolog- DISCUSSIONS Marjorie Barrick & READINGS Museum at UNLV, unlv.edu OCT. 7 Violence in the OCT. 20 African Grace Lin American Best-selling author Community and illustrator of Leisa Moseley and picture books, Franklyn G. Verley Lin’s children’s host a forum books are about discussion on the Asian-Amer- violence. 11A, free. ican experience. West Las Vegas 1P, free. Sunrise Library, lvccld.org Library, lvccld.org

OCT. 7 OCT. 24 The History of Brian Rouff: Las Vegas with The House Bill Marion Always Wins Not all entertainment A photographic A story about Strip. journey through young love, a is on the Las Vegas time that explores haunted house, the changing and a war with a physical landscape corrupt casi- and the extraor- no owner are dinary events all captured in that catapulted a Rouff’s unique Get The Led Out nondescript west- Vegas ghost story. ern frontier town Rouff will also talk October 7 7pm into an interna- about writing and | tionally renowned publishing. 7P, metropolis. 2P, free. Jewel Box free. Multipurpose Theater at Clark Room at Sahara County Library, West Library, lvccld.org Henderson Pavilion 200 S. Green Valley Pkwy. lvccld.org Saturday, October 7 NOV. 3 Tickets start at $25 plus tax/fees OCT. 12 The Sinatra El Mundo Stories: An Recreating the studio sounds of Led Zeppelin in an awe inspiring live performance Maya Mágico Evening with Wilson Phillips Learn about the Comedian Tom rise and fall of the Dreesen cityofhenderson.com | 702-267-4TIX Mayan civiliza- Dreesen was Frank October 13 7pm www.gtlorocks.com | Schedule is subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Management reserves all rights. tion, including Sinatra’s opening the contributions act for 14 years. the Mayans made In this show, he to mathemat- shares personal ics, astronomy, stories and insights archeology, and from his work 200 S. Green Valley Pkwy. gastronomy. 6P, with the entertain- free. Multipurpose ment legend. 7P, HendersonPavilion.com | 702-267-4TIX Room at Sahara $39–$59. Cabaret West Library, Jazz at The Smith lvccld.org Center, thesmith Schedule is subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Management reserves all rights. center.com

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▼ education. En- joy a spectacular FAMILY & four-course dinner. Experience FESTIVALS Benefits Create a Change Now. $175, OCT. 11 6:30P. Panevino Erth’s Lounge, 246 Via Dinosaur Antonio, one.bid the Ultimate in Zoo Live pal.net A journey through prehistoric times OCT. 7 featuring lifelike 6th Annual dinosaur puppets Warm Fuzzies PAWcasso Art & in a theatrical per- Silent Auction formance. 6:30P, Raise money for 12 $14.95–$75. Reyn- local animal rescues olds Hall at The by indulging in Smith Center, the food, wine, a silent smithcenter.com auction, music, and art. $30, 7P. Jana’s OCT. 13–29 Red Room inside Haunted the Arts Factory, Harvest 107 E. Charleston This family- Blvd., pawcassolv. friendly event fea- org tures trick-or-treat stations, carnival OCT. 8 games and circus 4th Annual Pawn activities, a petting Stars Poker Run zoo, crafts, live Benefitting The entertainment, and Epilepsy Foun- much more fun. dation of Nevada Fri–Sun 5–9P, $8. Rick Harrison will Springs Preserve, lead hundreds of springspreserve.org bikers through the streets of Las Ve- OCT. 19 gas. The festivities 2nd Annual Scare will continue at Away Epilepsy Pawn Plaza with Halloween Party awesome music A fun-filled night and food. Grand with food, a trunk prize is $2,000 for or treat, pumpkin the best hand and painting, a DJ, $1,000 for the worst Adopt a Shelter Pet face painting, and hand. $13–$35, much more — don’t 8:30A. Gold & forget to wear your Silver Pawn Shop, costume! 6P, Free. 713 Las Vegas Blvd. Nothing feels better than saving the life of a Doral Academy S., pokerrun2017. Saddle Campus, eventbrite.com homeless pet. You’ll experience their unbridled 9625 W. Saddle enthusiasm, unconditional love and steadfast Ave., epilepsy.com/ OCT. 21 affiliates/Nevada ONE DROP companionship every hour of every day. Walk for OCT. 28 Water Indian/Telugu Pay tribute to the So what are you waiting for? Festival millions of women Indian Festival cele- and children who brating Telugu New spend hours a day The warm fuzzies – and your new best friend Year and Sri Rama collecting water, Navaratra presented by taking a 2.7- – are waiting for you right now at by Vegas Telugu mile walk in their The Animal Foundation. Association. 5:30P, shoes from The $10–$15. Main The- Smith Center to the ater at Clark County Springs Preserve. Library, lvccld.org 7A, $15–$25. The walk begins at ▼ the Smith Center, springs FUNDRAISERS preserve.org

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