A trip to Herbs and Rye offers an escape, and an education. This year, owner Nectaly Mendoza is receiving recognition for the timeless bar he’s created.
Vegas Voices
Bob Ansara has been involved in Las Vegas restaurants for more than 35 years.
Mike Jones’ sound has become an integral part of the Penn & Teller show and finances his love of authentic jazz.
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.
“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.
Most people would be content with a career as a Las Vegas headliner that spans more than two decades and still entails performing five nights a week at the Rio. Penn Jillette is not most people.
In this week’s Vegas Voices Q&A, Nicole Brisson discusses her new role as culinary director at B&B Hospitality Group, which takes her out of the day-to-day work of the kitchen in favor of a broader view of how the restaurants approach food.
Eight years ago, Beli Andaluz uprooted her life in Antigua, Guatemala, and “gambled everything I had” on Las Vegas.
Frederic Apcar Jr.’s latest show is the Reggae in the Desert festival, set for Saturday at the Clark County Amphitheater. He talks with us in this week’s Vegas Voices Q&A.
Steve Huntsman, director of Super Summer Theatre’s “Beauty and the Beast,” talks theater, family and Vegas life in this week’s Vegas Voices Q&A.
To Bruce Isaacson, poetry lies at the core of our being and serves as nothing less than a means through which we can seek to discover ourselves.
Vegas Voices is a weekly question-and-answer series featuring notable Las Vegans. Keith Thompson wouldn’t dream of quitting his “day” job: music director for “Jersey Boys” at Paris Las Vegas.
Las Vegan Wayne Allyn Root considers his 2008 campaign to be the Libertarian presidential nominee “the test run for Donald Trump.”
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., who represents the 1st Congressional District, which she says “goes from the airport to downtown,” has lived in Las Vegas since 1979, moving to the city from Tifton, Georgia, to teach American and Nevada government classes at UNLV. Here, she shares her favorite spots to eat and play.
In this week’s Vegas Voices Q&A, Gino Ferraro talks about how the local restaurant industry has changed since he first arrived in Las Vegas in 1976.
