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‘Super Size Me’ documentarian, Morgan Spurlock, dies

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died at age 53.

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Discovery Children’s Museum director wants to enrich the experiences of every child

“We’ve built a world-class, state-of-the-art museum that will rival any children’s museum or science museum in the country. But we have to make this a bigger part of the fabric of the community,” says Tifferney White, president and chief executive officer of Discovery Children’s Museum.

 
Bellagio Conservatory helps visitors fall into new season

“I would just say that when people come to Las Vegas, the word on the street is, you have to come by the Conservatory to the Bellagio, and we live up to that standard every day,” says Jerry Bowlen, executive director of horticulture for MGM Resorts.

Comic books more than kids’ stuff to Ralph Mathieu

In a retail landscape littered with the never-to-be reanimated corpses of comic shops that have come and gone, Alternate Reality Comics has become a rare commercial survivor and Ralph Mathieu the unofficial godfather of Southern Nevada’s comic book universe.

Dave Loeb brings jazz music to Las Vegas

“I marvel at how jazz musicians create jazz melodies. … It’s an American art form — it’s vibrant and it’s always changing. Some people say it’s a dead art form — no, it’s not,” according to Dave Loeb, director of jazz studies at UNLV.

Man behind Smith Center sculpture turns pieces of music into art

Southern Nevadans can examine Tim Bavington’s technique in “Pipe Dream,” his outdoor sculpture at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts that is an interpretation of “Fanfare for the Common Man” by Aaron Copland.

Set designer Andy Walmsley loves living among Vegas ‘sin’

“I don’t gamble and I’m not a huge drinker, but I love to be surrounded by ‘sin’ — put me in a smoky bar full of drinkers, gamblers, mobsters, entertainers and I feel like I’m in a movie,” he says.