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I
t’s easy to get lost in Las Vegas — well, not get lost, exactly, but lose touch with a sense of place. If the Strip
riotously channels everywhere but here, the cityscape
that flanks our neon lagoon insists on placelessness:
It can often present itself as, at best, a suspiciously
Southwestish melange of strip malls, tract homes, weedy
lots with political billboards. Landmarks, icons? We’ve
got a few. But considered through the smeared lens of
edifying hangover, they can often seem like last night’s
bad tattoos. (Ahem, let’s hope there’s a removal service
that can professionally and discreetly scrub off that unfortunate Slotzilla on our ankle.) Maybe the reason so
many would-be Southern Nevadans who end up doing
the pass-through shuffle feel a lack of connection isn’t
because of all that bad, sad stuff on whatever Nevada report just came out; maybe it reflects a hunger for iconography, a desire for visual anchors in the desert sea that
signal home.
If I’m describing you — if you keep a suitcase close,
certain boxes unpacked — I prescribe a therapeutic regimen of photography. Download an app with all those filters that add cinematic streaks and glares, or splurge on
a high-end point-and-shoot that instantly uploads to the
social media Skynet. See Nevada solely through a lens for
a while. Why: Not so much an art form or pastime anymore so much as, I dunno, this strange and permanent
collective cybernetic appendage we’ve
all grown, photography nurtures an eye
Next
MONth for the markers of place. That was the private buzz I got from being a judge in our
Get your
fork out:
second annual “Focus on Nevada” photo
It’s our
contest: a crowdsourced affirmation of
fifth annual
all the different and distinct wheres that
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Editor Andrew Kiraly shares his
unique view on arts, culture and
more in the Las Vegas Valley.
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here’s a popular theory that eating after a certain time of the day
is bad for you. Perhaps it’s true —
which is exactly why you should
make each late-night meal worth
the damage. Just say no to the cheap
chicken fingers and frozen French fries
served at your nearest 24-hour video
poker bar. Whether you want a midnight
snack or a full-blown feast, the city has
plenty of options for finding legit, flavorful food at any hour. Here are a few
places to get your fix in the wee hours
of the night.
The first and most obvious option
is to visit the Strip. While I don’t normally
endorse chains, a personal guilty pleasure
is Grand Lux Café (Venetian, 702-4143888, grandluxcafe.com, 24 hours). The
menu is as encyclopedic as the one found
at its sister restaurant, the Cheesecake
Factory, but one particular standout is
the pasta carbonara. Studded with nuggets of smoked bacon, its breakfast-like
quality makes it the perfect pick at 4
a.m. For polenta past midnight (until 1
a.m.), try Wolfgang Puck Bar and Grill
(MGM Grand, 702-891-3000, wolfgangpuck.com, 11:30-6a) for a version made
with spicy fra diavolo shrimp. A solid
late-night menu includes proper entrées
like flat iron steak and grilled salmon,
but anyone with munchies will probably
prefer the wild boar poutine or one of
the celebrity chef’s signature wood oven
pizzas. The Henry (Cosmopolitan, 702698-7000, cosmopolitanlasvegas.com,
24 hours) also has a limited after-hours
menu from 10p-6a. Sure, it’s a bit pricey,
but glimpses of the gorgeous patrons
leaving Marquee come at no additional
charge. For food that doesn’t require a
trek through a casino, sink into a booth
at The Peppermill (2985 Las Vegas Blvd.
S., 702-735-4177, peppermilllasvegas.
com, 24 hours). The freestanding coffee
shop has been serving classic diner fare
for more than 40 years — you’d be hard-
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to get all het up by the
premise of Jo Russ’s
exhibit Walk on the Wild
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SchWarTz
CLark CounTy Library
So you bop into Quickee Mart for a Diet Coke,
cat food and the Sunday
Times; 45 minutes later
you’re still there, vainly cajoling a few bucks from a
video-poker machine. Ever
wonder how those damn
things got entrenched
in our stores, bars and
restaurants? Schwartz,
director of UNLV’s Center
for Gaming Research, tells
you in this discussion,
Side: Her exotic, edgy,
sexy collages meet the
“themes of fantasy,
seduction, illusion and
transformation” found
in Lou Reed’s landmark
1972 album Transformer.
And the Take 5 writer
goes, “Doo do doo
do doo do do doo ...”
Through Aug. 24,
Sin City Gallery,
sincitygallery.com
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The hold
STeady
The JoinT
Erudite and narrative,
“lyrically dense” according to the music critics
at Wikipedia, and often
dealing with knotty topics
— religion, addiction — the
songs of The Hold Steady
are aural stories, with a
rock soundtrack. $20-$25,
hardrockhotel.com
"Welcome to the Neighborhood." Free,
702-507-3458
Seven
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Magical
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arT square
TheaTer
WesT Las Vegas Library
If we learned anything from
the World Cup it’s that this
globe of ours is large and
varied — full of toothy Uruguayans, flopping Dutch, laser-guided Germans and Leo
Messi. But of Peruvians, we
learned nothing; team didn’t
qualify. Now you can fill that
gap in your worldliness with
this performance of Peruvian
Madeline George’s
comedy — “about jealousy … and death and
rebirth and … transformations” — is set amid
the closing of a “weird,
inappropriate natural
history museum” in a
college town. Relationships! Laughter! Fossilized bones! Sounds
like much ado about
something. $25,
cockroachtheatre.com
folkloric dance, presented by
Fundacion Cultural Peruana.
$15, 702-683-9520
@CaesarsFdn
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Strip, revived and re-envisioned; cityscapes and landscapes through different lenses both literal and figurative; people and animals being their true and best selves
in their native habitat. (Totally forgot how cool crows
look.) I’ve heard a pro shooter here and there grumble
how, woe is me, everyone’s a photographer these days,
how Instagram has emboldened the hordes and flooded
the optical marketplace — online life itself is a photo contest, really — but I’m glad of it: It fueled our contest to the
tune of more than 1,400 entries.
This year we matured the process a bit. We created
themed categories to encourage breadth of vision: Artistic/Abstract, People/In the moment, Landscapes/
Nature, Places and Smartphone. To dose the enterprise
with some experimental community cred, we brought
on a bevy of judges — designers, photographers, artists,
architects, stylists, tastemakers — to judge category finalists on three criteria: impact, expression of the “Focus
on Nevada” theme, and technique. The results? Totally
wanna go, “See for yourself!” (p. 41), but I also want to
wax wishful that we had two dozen more pages to share
all the rich sense of place. But the good news is that you
can get there from here.
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events, from music to art to festivals and more.
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You had me at
comicallY
oversized
heads
Held firmly
in place
This sleek modern home
encourages an intimate
relationship with the desert
T
om Kim has an interesting
relationship with space. On
the one hand, he’s all over the
map — literally. When he’s
not working (and odds are, he is), the
globe-tripping Kim might be skiing in
Whistler, British Columbia, sightseeing
in Hong Kong or, yes, skiing again in
Alta, Utah (Kim likes to ski). On the other hand, the intensity of his work as a local orthopedic surgeon — 16-hour days
are not uncommon — often requires him
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to be nailed down with a ferocious focus.
The result: Not much be here now
time. So when he’s at home, he wants
to decompress and just exist in a single
place in a manner that’s vigorous and
affirmative, something that says: I am
in Las Vegas, I am in Southern Nevada,
I am home.
“I wanted a Strip view, but also something that embraced the desert landscape,”
Kim explains. “But also something clean
and linear without a lot of clutter.” He
hired local architecture firm assemblageSTUDIO to design a house that did that.
The result: His 6,000-square-foot home
in the Ridges dubbed Light & Water.
It’s much more than a New
Agey-sounding name. The sleek linearity of Kim’s home disguises a thoroughgoing ethos of uniting the indoors and
the outdoors in clever ways that aren’t
always readily apparent. Consider the
dining room, for instance, where the
burnt ash wall runs along a visual con-
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A new angle: The
6,000 square-foot
Light & Water subtly
blends outside and
inside with both its
building material
and architecture.
The illustrationy, pop brio of Wesley Anderegg’s clay pieces — funny, enigmatic figures with comically
oversized heads; a dog wearing a
cape — shouldn’t obscure their sly
social content, “such as pollution,
the degradation of the environment, and the role of government
in our everyday lives.” Part of
UNLV’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series. (SD) 7p, free, UNLV’s Barrick
Museum, unlv.edu
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memorY,
adaptation,
reinvention
The artist: Erik Beehn, a Las Vegan
now getting his MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago. The work: drawings
and collage on paper, small paintings. The ideas: “The work utilizes
memory as a vehicle for reinvention.
I am interested in our ability to adapt
to a situation, and the layers of experience that either influence, or hinder
our ability to live in the present.”
The look: Moody/dreamy, layered,
ghostly, with landscape elements
and a palpable sense of time. (SD)
Through Dec. 5 (opening reception
Nov. 5, 6p), free, MCQ Fine Art,
mcqfineart.com
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Because i
could not stop
for death, he
kindlY made
this cute
diorama
What’s up with Abigail Goldman’s
Home Sweet Home exhibit? 1. More
miniaturized murder scenes, which
she calls “dieoramas.” 2. Except this
time some will be embedded into
furniture, to heighten the juxtaposition between the household
and the horrible. 3. Also, while the
people in the dieoramas will still be
small — 1/87th scale, yo — the scenes
themselves will be larger: suburban
houses, streets … 4. “Goldman in top
form,” says gallerist Marty Walsh. 5.
Goldman has sold every diorama
she’s ever made. (SD) Through Nov.
28 (opening Nov. 6, 6p), free, Trifecta Gallery, trifectagallery.com
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sea whiz
In her first solo show in four years,
Blackbird Studios chief Gina Quaranto will delve into the mysterious connection between moon-made tidal
surges and human behavior. Her bluedrenched pieces, some wall-mounted
and others “in the round,” will feature
moons, the sea — totems of change
as a life process. (SD) Through
November, free, Blackbird Studios,
blackbirdstudios.com
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Whoa, kid! Watch your foo … too late. An unattended boy, maybe 11 or 12, so optically unnerved by all the art on the wall that he didn’t
see the art on the floor, swung his foot into
Javier Sanchez’s piece. Whoooahh! Because
it was a grid of empty bullet shells set on the
bare concrete of VAST Space Projects, a light
metallic clatter pinged through the gallery
burble. The kid pulled back, bewildered and
probably wondering: Am I in trouble? Nah,
don’t worry, short stuff; as you can see from
a few other spills in the piece, several adults
already did the same thing.
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think pieces exploring the cultural life
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The road
much
Traveled
The highway we know today as I-15 got its
start as a rough, raw, dusty — and sometimes
dangerous — road. (Keep an eye out for horse
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nterstate 15 is an umbilical cord to Southern
Right: a map of the
historic link between Salt
California, bringing countless party-minded
Lake City and Los Angeles
tourists and profit-driven business trips from
Los Angeles to Las Vegas. But long before
I-15 became such a lifeline, a decidedly rougher road connecting L.A. to Las
Vegas went by another name: the Arrowhead Trail Highway. (Today, its most
recognized vestige is Las Vegas Boulevard.) Indeed, I-15 is just the latest version of a highway that was developed to provide a well-maintained (or at least
tolerably drivable) road from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City through Southern
Nevada. It’s interesting to consider that I-15 we know today was born as a rough
passage that has been a trading route, a desert driving challenge and even an
irresistible draw for horse thieves.
But before any of that, the Arrowhead Trail was the Old Spanish Trail —
which, actually, was neither old nor Spanish. It would have been more accurate
to call it the Mexican Trader Trail. Attracted by the valley’s springs, in 1829,
Mexican traders gradually developed a new trail through the harsh Mojave
Desert. Having found the abundant water available in the Vegas Valley, the
dogged explorer and merchant Antonio Armijo blazed the original trail to California with his team, braving desert heat, unforgiving terrain, thirst and hunger
(sometimes allayed by eating one of their mules) to trade wool goods for horses,
which he then sold in New Mexico.
But horse thieves soon caught wind of the trail, tempted by the California missions and ranchos that frequently used the Arrowhead. These thieves were known
as Los Chaguanosos, and began their depredations about 1832, when Juan Jesus
Villapando led the first band over the trail to California, posing as horse traders
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full of ceremonial proclamations and
fourth-grade classes introduced. The
middle is a notorious slog, with only the
most skillful lobbyists lining up their various items in the trough really aware of
what’s happening. And the end is always
The Rush to Close, with 63 lawmakers
careering toward sine die, the governor
trying to grip the tiller and the 120-day
deadline rarely or barely met.
2015 promises to be different: The Session of Chaos.
When the red wave crashed down on
Nov. 4, it washed away Democratic majorities in both houses of the Legislature, including a 10-seat flip in the Assembly. But
as Gov. Brian Sandoval, whose campaign
caused the tsunami that made the wave so
broad and deep, celebrated in public, behind the scenes he was concerned about the
be-careful-what-you-wish-for result that
had turned the Assembly into something
not imagined by the Founding Fathers but
instead conjured by Barnum & Bailey.
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he 2015 Legislature doesn’t be- vote for slavery if his constituents asked
gin until Feb. 2 and already this: — has been found to owe the federal govThe Republicans, who control
ernment more than $1 million in taxes.
the Assembly for the first time in
She was scheduled to chair the — you
30 years, designated as speaker a
guessed it — Taxation Committee. (She
man who once used phrases such as “sim- was briefly taken off in mid-December,
ple-minded darkies” in columns and said
then reinstated after complaining of a
on television, “I haven’t called anyone a “war on women,” then taken off again.)
homo for a long time.” That man, Ira HanAll of this may change again before the
sen, soon had to step down — only to be giv- gavel comes down — yes, as of this writen the No. 3 spot in lower-house leadership. ing, we aren’t even sure who will be branIn his place, the Republicans held an
dishing said gavel — as a handful of rene“election” in the office of his presumed
gade Republicans have been in talks with
successor, Paul Anderson. But Michele
the 17-member Democratic minority to
Fiore, who once played a character
create a coalition government that would
named Storm Fagan in a movie called Si- remake the leadership team into a biparren, arrived with proxies from a passel of
tisan mélange. This, of course, would be
newcomers and installed John Hambrick, fraught with peril and is destined to aca low-key, likable fellow who sat stone- quire fissures before long.
faced as his elevation was announced.
I remind you again: The session hasn’t
And as the New Year comes, Fiore, even started yet.
who claimed the majority leader’s posiEvery Nevada Legislature is sui genertion for herself and installed as whip one
is, but they have a similar rhythm: They
Jim Wheeler — who once said he would
commence with a happy but slow pace,
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aunted. At least three generathe pride and joy of Bill Geraghty, owntions of children in Ely whiser of a storage and freight company, mine
pered that the Geraghty’s old
investor, coal broker and landlord. In 1911,
place, a derelict collection of cotGeraghty moved his wife and two-year-old
tages, was haunted. On a dimly
daughter Melba into a two-room house
lit street on the northern fringes of town,
near Ely’s railroad tracks. By 1925 he orbelow a steep railroad siding, underneath
dered several catalog bungalows, delivered
thick tangles of brambles lived Melba Gerby train and erected next to his modest
aghty, a wild-haired spinster in her
home, to rent out to the town’s rail
nineties who was said to prowl beworkers. Each house had a tiny livhind the murky windows of one of
ing room, an even tinier bedroom,
Hear
the ramshackle clapboard bungaa kitchen with a wood stove, and
more
lows. The Geraghty place was, noa modern bath complete with a
Cowboy
poets Riders claw-footed tub and flushing toilet.
toriously, the perfect place in Ely for
in the Sky
teenage pranks and dares, feigned
Years of neglect had turned
read their
scares and squeals in the dark.
them into the stuff of spooky stoverse on
Of course, it didn’t start out that
ries — and into a shame, an eye“KNPR’s
way. The buildings were originally
sore, and health hazard, according
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to Ely residents Donna Bath and Virginia Terry. So when Melba took sick, they
rallied a group to purchase the property.
To the surprise of some of their doubting
neighbors, the group known as the Ely
Renaissance Society tore into the place,
doing what they do extremely well — effecting a makeover that would have made
good reality TV, turning a crumbling
property into a community attraction.
The town’s women enlisted the town
men. (“Strong-armed and cajoled,” says
Virginia, winking.) Ely’s roofers, electricians, woodworkers — practically anyone
handy with a hammer, a shovel, paint
brush or broom — were recruited. Even
minimum-security inmates from the
nearby prison were engaged to rip out
brush, and to haul rotting wood out and
new lumber in.
Underneath the prickly overgrowth,
they unearthed nine 1920s-era mail-order cottages with peeling paint, rotting
roofs and sagging front porches. Inside
they found tattered wallpaper, curled-up
linoleum and legions of mouse colonies.
You might have thought they hit the jackpot. “When life gives you lemons, well?”
says Donna.
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