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Snowflake Tears: Chantal Chandler’s Zine Within a Zine

Chantal Chandler is an artist and writer who grew up near downtown Las Vegas, and she shares some of her childhood experiences in this issue’s “Zine Within a Zine.”

Five sporting events that shook Las Vegas

The Super Bowl is a crowning moment for Las Vegas. Here are five local sporting events — from megafights to Golden Knights — that helped pave the city’s way to the big time.

Who Makes Culture? The arts begin at home

We’ve so ruthlessly professionalized the notion of culture that we often imagine it to be a thing that can be provided only by the elect, a strange noble peerage of those who have “made it.”

Dawn of the City of Sports

Forty years ago, Las Vegas stirred from a civic slump and planted the seeds of a brilliant sporting future.

Gatherer of the Iconoclasts

Tired of dead ends in Hollywood, Jim Cowan moved to Las Vegas and bet his career that the strange, surreal art he loved would be a big deal. It was a winning gamble.

Elevating Las Vegas Kids, One Song at a Time

Kids — and their social, emotional and intellectual growth — are at the center of Polita Simpson’s mission to create the foundation for good lives through the power of art.

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