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Dining Pick of the Week: Lina’s Mexican Restaurant

Lina’s spacious dining room features oversize paintings, floor-to-ceiling windows and several small and family-size booths, all with a great view of television screens and projector that take center stage on fight nights.

Dining Pick of the Week: Cafe Darak

New to the Spring Valley area, Cafe Darak offers various types of coffee in an unusual setting.

On the menu: Salsa

Add some spice to your life during May — National Salsa Month — with one of these concoctions.

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Fast food protesters threaten overseas action

In an effort to raise worker wages to $15-an hour, labor organizers turned up the pressure on McDonald’s and other fast-food chains on Thursday, with plans to stage actions in more than 30 countries.

Growing, foraging entrepreneur helps plant seed for downtown market

Talk about suffering for your cause. Kerry Clasby’s family was hit by a parasite similar to giardia, and as a result, Las Vegas residents and visitors have access to some of the best fruits and vegetables in the country.

Wine of the Week: Rocca delle Macie Campo Maccione

This wine is fairly mature for its relative youth, being from the 2008 vintage. I think that sangiovese-based wines will always be a little more rustic in character, but that makes them charming in their drinkability and distinctively Italian.

Small Plates: Guy Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen & Bar and ‘Smoke & Spice’

Guy Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen & Bar opened in mid-April. Although Las Vegas isn’t his hometown (he grew up in northern California), Fieri said in an interview when the restaurant was announced last June that it was “one of” his hometowns because of the time he spent at UNLV.

13 places for Mexican food

Nachos, fresh tortillas, camarones … these places have it all. Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Mexican restaurants this week.

Kellogg dropping ‘All Natural’ from Kashi product labels

Kellogg Co has agreed to stop using terms such as “All Natural” and “100% Natural” on some of its Kashi and Bear Naked brand product labels and to pay more than $5 million to settle a class-action consumer fraud lawsuit.

Mozen Bistro achieves a serene experience — and great food

On the surface, Mozen seems like kind of an unusual name for a restaurant. Think Mandarin Oriental — that’s the MO — and zen. And, yes, commence the eye-rolling, not for the former but for the latter. Except that in the case of Mozen Bistro, the “zen” part really isn’t a conceit.

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