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Bringing Life to Fashion, One Mannequin at a Time
How a Colorado company keeps Vegas boutiques looking good
May 3rd, 2012
Consider this the next time you’re footing it through the Forum Shops or Fashion Show: You’re gallery hopping. Beautiful people mingle amid varied objects, positioned at their best angle and in the most flattering light. Viewers take them in, admiring color, texture, shape and space. Some objects are encased in glass vitrines—look, but don’t touch! Tags and wall text enlighten, informing us of provenance, scale and price. And all around, sculpture abounds. Read more »
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In Reno, the Recession Leaves a Legacy
The Biggest Little City is hoping for a comeback. Can its troubled flagship property lead the way?
April 26th, 2012
In the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area, unemployment hovers around 12 percent. Washoe County gaming revenues have plummeted since 2006. Gas prices at $4 a gallon have been keeping potential customers close to home at Northern California Indian casinos and off the vital Interstate 80 corridor to Reno. Read more »
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Savasana With the Giants
The Cactus League heats up
March 22nd, 2012
Spring training is a quiet season, with quiet pleasures. Just ask some of the young players who’ve bought into a hot (literally) training alternative: Bikram Yoga. A yoga-loving San Francisco Giants trainer lined up classes for his farmhands at the Bikram Yoga Institute in Scottsdale. Read more »
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Escaping the Arizona Asylum
March 1st, 2012
As Arizona celebrates its 100th birthday this year, Nevada has a lot to be thankful for. Dumb laws send smart people packing, and some of them find their way north, bringing business and cultural cache with them. Read more »
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Jet, Set, Go!
Sundance 2012’s Vegas nightlife lineup was hotter than ever
February 23rd, 2012
Tao Group has pretty much had the Sundance nightlife scene on lock since Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg stretched their marketing arm waaay up to Utah’s celebrity playground, Park City. For its sweet seventh Sundance programming, the group once again commandeered the underground parking garage at the T-Mobile Village at the Town Lift, Jan. 20-23, to bring us a familiar red-lit, Asian-inspired event space replete with VIP booths and a stage for DJs to reign over the steaming, warmly dressed masses Read more »
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The Man With a Teflon Star
Mired in legal problems, Sheriff Joe Arpaio still portrays himself as a folk hero—and, so far, he refuses to ride off into the Arizona sunset
February 16th, 2012
They say the sheriff’s department routinely racially profiled, unlawfully stopped, detained and arrested Latinos—and then retaliated against those who complained about it. Investigators said officials discriminated against non-English-speaking inmates in the county jails by denying them services and punishing them for not obeying commands given in English. Read more »
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Fracking the Colorado Myth
When energy exploration collides with nature, what’s a recession-torn Western town to do?
February 2nd, 2012
In the shadows of the Rocky Mountain foothills, the St. Vrain Creek meanders eight miles east to Sandstone Ranch. Here, less than 20 miles from downtown Boulder, all is serene—and quintessentially Colorado. But tension lies beneath the surface. Tension and natural gas. Read more »
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
In the California desert, Salvation Mountain has a storied past. Now its future is in question.
January 19th, 2012
In 2007, Leonard Knight made a cameo appearance in the film Into the Wild playing himself, the bug-eyed, sun-ripened, white-haired, contagiously enthusiastic then-76-year-old builder of Salvation Mountain in Niland, Calif. Brief as Knight’s film career was—he only had a few lines—it neatly captured his open, earnest nature, and introduced the world to the cartoonishly colorful monument to everlasting love he’d been building, by himself, for 23 years out in the desert. Read more »
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Lake Invaders
The quagga mussel has made a mess of Lake Mead. Is Lake Tahoe its next victim?
January 5th, 2012
The quagga mussel is about half the size of your fingernail. It originates from the Caspian Sea, but in recent times its shells have been irritating the feet of beachgoers on the shores of Lake Michigan. It filters vital nutrients from freshwater, disturbs the food chain, endangers fisheries, excretes carbon, spurs algae growth and clouds the water. Other than that, it’s great. Read more »
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The Other Side of the Border
In the Sonoran desert, an American dreamer seeds the future
November 3rd, 2011
Out there in the mediasphere, solving the U.S.-Mexico immigration crisis seems to depend on things like optimal fence height and calculating the number of National Guard troops it takes to seal a border. When you live at the border, though, solutions can look different. Read more »
