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Devour here to find some o the best eats, drinks and foodie happenings in the Valley.

32 Sense Order the pink items on the menu this month. The proceeds will probably go to a very good cause.

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46 Making a Splash Hanoch Rosenn brings his hit show WOW to the Rio, after a 15 year run in Eilat, Israel.

52 Can We Split the Bill.... of Rights From Skokie to Charlottesville, Free Speech Remains Controversial.

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36 Taste A food competition at 1 a.m. on a Saturday night is sure to be intriguing. The Back of House Brawl was no exception.

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Also this month, Jaq Greenspon gets a little personal. In Travels with Monki, pages 28-31, he writes about taking his one-year-old daughter to theme parks in Southern California and France.

I had discussed these attractions with him over the years and invited him to write about what it was like to experience it through Monki’s eyes.

Our intrepid food writer Jason Harris was asked to judge a cooking competition that was recently held in a parking lot near Chinatown at 1 a.m. on a Sunday morning. He very much wanted to write about it and sent me information about the Back of House Brawl.

Max & Joanne Friedland A few years ago we met Jolene Mannina, the originator of the Brawl, when we covered her involvement with another food competition, the Jewish Community of Southern Nevada’s annual barbeque cook-off & festival. In his excellent piece Back of House Brawl, pages 36-40, he shows us why it might be a good idea once in a while to burn the midnight oil.

In a follow-up to a piece we ran last October, Brian Sodoma interviews Donato Cabrera, Music Director and conductor of the Las Vegas Philharmonic. In his piece Under Copland’s Sombrero, pages 42-45, we read about the programming created to bring the music of Aaron Copland and Mexican composers Carlos Chavez and Silvestre Revueltas to the diverse Vegas audience. We applaud their efforts and recommend this season’s concerts to our readers – get your tickets early!

Magazines need top-notch photography. This month we are blessed with fantastic images of WOW, the new show at the Rio. In her piece Making a Splash, pages 46-51, Lynn Wexler interviews the creative orces behind the show. comes to egas a ter a success ul fi teen ear run in ilat, Israel. Our wish is that they play to full houses for years to come.

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THE GREEN WITH TENELLE 7 p.m., $22.

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APOCALYPTICA "PLAYS METALLICA BY FOUR CELLOS" TOUR 8 p.m., $35 and up. The Joint, Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas.

702-693-5000. http://hardrockhotel.com NEVADA CONSERVATORY THEATRE: TAKE ME OUT Through Oct. 8, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m., $27.50 and up. Judy Bailey Theatre, UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas. 702-895-3011 http://UNLV.edu REO SPEEDWAGON 8 p.m., $65.95 and up.

Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas.

702-284-7777 http://orleans.com WOW - A WORLD OF WONDER Through Oct. 30, 7 & 9 p.m., $49 and up. Rio Showroom, Rio, 3700 W Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas. 866-5743851 https://www.caesars.com/rio-las-vegas VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS VS. SAN JOSE SHARKS (PRESEASON) 5 p.m., $25 and up.

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JENNIFER LOPEZ: ALL I HAVE Through Oct. 7, 9 p.m., $119 and up. Axis Theater, Planet Hollywood, 3667 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-785-5555. http://caesars.com/ planethollywood BILLY IDOL, FOREVER Through Oct. 21., 7 p.m.,n $79 and up. House of Blues, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702632-7600. http://mandalaybay.com

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UNLV WIND ORCHESTRA: BIZARRO 7:30 p.m., $10. Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall, UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas. 702-8953011. http://UNLV.org

MAXWELL: THE NIGHT TOUR 8 p.m., $39 and up. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. http:// cosmopolitan.com

CAKE 8 p.m., $25 and up. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. http:// cosmopolitan.com

ALI WONG 9 p.m., $36 and up. Park Theater, Monte Carlo, 3770 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 844-600-PARK. http:// ticketmaster.com

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RASCAL FLATS Through Oct. 21, 8 p.m., $62 and up. Venetian Theater, Venetian, 3355 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-414-1000. https:// venetian.com/ NAS 8 p.m., $32 and up. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. http:// cosmopolitan.com MEGADETH 8 p.m., $41 and up. The Pearl, Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas. 702942-7777. http://palms.com/ KINGS OF LEON WITH SPECIAL GUEST DAWES 9 p.m., $59.50 and up. The Joint, Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas.

702-693-5000. http://hardrockhotel.com JOE ROGAN 10 p.m., $49.99 and up. Mirage, 3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-7917111. http://mirage.com MAKANA 7 p.m., $35 and up. Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http:// thesmithcenter.com JON BELLION 7 p.m., $29.50. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-8622695. http://brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas

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DAMIAN "JR. GONG" MARLEY - STONY HILL FALL TOUR 7 p.m., $30 and up. House of Blues, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600. http://mandalaybay.com LE DINER EN BLANC 5 p.m., $40. Top Secret Location https://lasvegas.dinerenblanc. com/register NBA PRESEASON - SACRAMENTO KINGS AT LOS ANGELES LAKERS 6:30 p.m., $22 and up.

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ERTH’S DINOSAUR ZOO 6:30 p.m., $14.95 and up. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http:// thesmithcenter.com ELTON JOHN, THE MILLION DOLLAR PIANO Through Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., $55 and up. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 3570 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 866-227-5938. http:// caesarspalace.com BRITNEY: PIECE OF ME Through Oct. 28, 9 p.m., $69 and up. Axis Theater, Planet Hollywood, 3667 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-785-5555. http://caesars.com/ planethollywood

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FATHER JOHN MISTY WITH WEYES BLOOD 8 p.m., $37.50. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. http:// brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas LAS VEGAS YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: FALL CONCERT 6 p.m., $15.50. Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall, UNLV, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas. 702-895-3011 http://purchase. tickets.com

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702-693-5000. http://hardrockhotel.com DANIEL TOSH Through Oct. 14, 10 p.m., $65.99 and up. Mirage, 3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. http://mirage.com NHL - DETROIT RED WINGS AT VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS 7:30 p.m., $75 and up.

T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-692-1300. http://t-mobilearena.com OMAR SOSA Through Oct. 14, 7 p.m., $45 and up. Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http://thesmithcenter.com

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THE WEEKND-STARBOY 2017 WORLD TOUR 7:30 p.m., $39.75 and up. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-692-1300. http://t-mobilearena.com

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BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND 8 p.m., $39 and up. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. http:// cosmopolitan.com

EVANESCENCE 8 p.m., $46 and up. The Pearl, Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas. 702942-7777. http://palms.com/

NHL - BUFFALO SABRES AT VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS 7 p.m., $55 and up. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-6921300. http://t-mobilearena.com

THE COMPOSERS SHOWCASE 10:30 p.m., $20 and up. Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-7492012. http://thesmithcenter.com

CLINT HOLMS 7 p.m., $39 and up. Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http:// thesmithcenter.com http://thesmithcenter.com

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LITTLE RIVER BAND 8 p.m., $30 and up.

Access Showroom at Aliante, 7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas. 702-692-7777 http://ticketmaster.com

FEMMES OF ROCK STARRING BELLA ELECTRIC STRINGS THrough Oct. 21. 8 p.m., $30 and up. Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-7492012. http://thesmithcenter.com

JANET JACKSON 8 p.m., $99 and up. Mandalay Bay Events Center, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600 http://mandalaybay.com

DON FELDER 7 p.m., $118 and up. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas.

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RON WHITE Through Oct. 21, 10 p.m., $59.99 and up. Mirage, 3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. http://mirage.com

THE SCRIPT 8 p.m., $27.50 and up. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. http://cosmopolitan.com FRANK LASPINA 2 p.m., $25 and up. Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http:// thesmithcenter.com

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PIXIES 8 p.m., $25 and up. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. http:// cosmopolitan.com TEGAN AND SARA 9 p.m., $36 and up. The Pearl, Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas.

702-942-7777. http://palms.com/ STEPHEN STILLS & JUDY COLLINS 7:30 p.m., $64 and up. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http:// thesmithcenter.com OLETA ADAMS 8 p.m., $25 and up. Access Showroom at Aliante, 7300 N Aliante Pkwy, North Las Vegas. 702-692-7777 http:// ticketmaster.com

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NF HOPE CONCERT 1 p.m., $45. The Palazzo Theater, Palazzo, 3325 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas. 702-414-9000 https://palazzo.com ILUMINATE 7:30 p.m., $87 and up. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas.

702-749-2012. http://thesmithcenter.com ISSUES - HEADSPACE TOUR 5 p.m., $20.

House of Blues, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600. http:// mandalaybay.com ARCADE FIRE, INFINITE CONTENT 8 p.m., $26 and up. Mandalay Bay Events Center, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600. http://mandalaybay.com JCC’S 6TH ANNUAL BBQ COOK-OFF FESTIVAL 12-4 p.m. Opportunity Village,

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BILL MAHER Through Oct. 28, 10 p.m., $59.99.

Mirage, 3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas.

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MELODY SWEETS 9:30 p.m., $25 and up. Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http://thesmithcenter.com

PUDDLES PITY PARTY 8 p.m., $37 and

NHL - CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS AT VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS 7 p.m., $75 and up. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702692-1300. http://t-mobilearena.com

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up. Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http://thesmithcenter.com

$59 and up. Park Theater, Monte Carlo, 3770 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 844-600-PARK. http://ticketmaster.com

HANSON – 25TH ANNIVERSARY – MIDDLE OF EVERYWHERE TOUR 7 p.m., $40. House of Blues, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600. http:// mandalaybay.com

Pearl, Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Rd., Las Vegas.

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S THE KING AND I Through Oct.29, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., $35 and up. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http://thesmithcenter.com

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27 STEVEN WRIGHT 9 p.m., $50.95 and up.

Treasure Island, 3300 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-894-7111. http://treasureisland.com NHL - COLORADO AVALANCHE AT VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS 3 p.m., $55 and up.

T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-692-1300. http://t-mobilearena.com

702-942-7777. http://palms.com/ MARILYN MANSON WITH SPECIAL GUEST ALICE GLASS Through Oct. 28, 7 p.m., $65 and up. House of Blues, Mandalay Place, 3950 http://mandalaybay.com

29 JOHN CARPENTER: ANTHOLOGY TOUR 8 p.m., $39 and up. The Joint, Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. http://hardrockhotel.com STEVE MARTIN & MARTIN SHORT 7:30 p.m., $66 and up. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 3570 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 866-2275938. http://caesarspalace.com

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Devour Get Served Tucked behind a mini mall in Henderson, Chef Matthew Meyer of Served offers flavors of the world that should be front and center.

His dishes are an eclectic mix, ranging from American classics to Pan-Asian-inspired plates. Heat, flavor, and texture deliver harmony to the palate in his Salmon Panang. A seared cottish salmon fillet gentl rests on to of seasonal baby squash, bell pepper, and spinach, which accompanies a generous helping of garlic fried rice in rich panang curry.

Served, 1770 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Henderson. 702-263-0136

A Sip of Spain Following Chef Julian Serrano’s Spanish heritage, the cocktail list at Picasso incorporates Cava in many of the recipes. One of bartender Andrew Tau’s favorites is the La Sevillana. “Its flavors are based on my experiences in and around Seville, where the streets are lined with orange trees. When in bloom, the scent is inescapable.” Tau created a cocktail which would mix the memorable flavors and aromas of Spain, including dry sherry and Cava. “The touch of our house-made marmalade not only adds a unique flavor, but also balances out the flavor of the sherry.”

La Sevillana • 1 Tbsp house-made orange marmalade • 1/2 oz manzanilla sherry • 1/2 oz Hangar Mandarin Blossom Vodka • Ice • Cava • Orange twist to garnish Stir house-made orange marmalade into manzanilla sherry and Hangar Mandarin Blossom Vodka until mostly dissolved. Shake with ice and strain into a champagne flute. Top with Cava and add orange twist garnish.

Picasso, inside Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd., S., Las Vegas.

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Short Rib Season For something hearty as we enter the fall season, The Barrymore’s short rib is served with triple-mashed potatoes with truffle oil and black truffle peas, bringing bold flavors to the dish. “We top the short rib with an incredibly delicious sauce, which is made b braising the uices rom the short rib, and finish the late with s ic onion to add another layer of flavor,” says Executive Chef Martin Dominguez. The Barrymore’s short rib has been on the menu for years and the recipe hasn’t changed since it was first introduced. t s a sta le guests can count on time a ter time.

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Desire

Falling for Fashion Elegant and timeless with playful individuality, the large, dual carry style bag from the “Palazzo Empire” line is crafted in superior supple calf leather, with bright leather florals and a central Medusa head. $3,295. Versace, Forum Shops at Caesars, 3500 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-932-5757.

A decidedly feminine look is executed with a devilish wink with this offthe-shoulder-check wool frill top by Self Portrait. It’s where romance meets attitude. $305. BergdorfGoodman.com

One of fall’s must-haves is the kimono. For a modern interpretation of vintage boho chic, Johnny Was’ “Kehlani” kimono in floral-printed velvet with floral embroidery trim is reversible with a striking shawl collar. $325. Neiman Marcus, Fashion Show, 3200 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-731-3636.

For the month of October, and into the fall, the orange Scallop-edged guipure lace enhances the graceful air of a pointy-toe pump. Set on a willowy, curved heel, Gucci’s Mary Jane pump is adorned with a delicate crystal buckle. $980. Gucci, Forum Shops at Caesars, 3500 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-369-7333.

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A statement piece showcasing a black, smooth leather band threaded through a heavy 18k yellow-gold-plated pewter curb chain, Maison Mayle’s choker is detailed at the front with the brand’s signature coin charm. $650, Barneys New York, The Grand Canal Shoppes, 3327 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-629-4200.

Keep the look fresh, unexpected, and distinctive with the “DiorStellaire1” sunglasses and their square shape and flat blue lenses. The ultra-thin goldtone metal frame enhances the military mod look. Inquire for pricing. Dior, The Shoppes at Crystals, 3720 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-597-0941.

After New York Fashion Week, it’s evident that red is the color of fall.

Stand out with Stuart Weitzman’s pull-on boot with a modern, streamlined design that is also truly versatile: wear it pulled up for a sleeker look or slip it down a bit for a casual, slouchier style. $775. Nordstrom, Fashion Show, 3200 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-862-2525.

Crafted from luxurious silk organza and cut to flatter the waistline, this voluminous pleated midi skirt accentuates the slimmest part of your frame. Wear with the ELISEE top for a matching-set look or a tucked-in sweater. $950. Anne Fontaine, Forum Shops at Caesars, 3500 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-733-6205.

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Venue Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center

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Opening night of the L.V. Phil’s 19th season featured Richard Strauss’ tone poem in E- major, Don Juan. This tour de force, which premiered in 1889, conveys the story of the legendary 17th century lothario. Following that, the audience enjoyed a performance of Common Tones in Simple Time by John dams. This was the orchestra s first performance of this important work that premiered in 1979. After intermission the internationally recognized pianist Mykola Suk joined the orchestra for a spirited er ormance o ohannes rahms s first Piano Concerto. Following the program, attendees were invited on stage to raise their glasses to the new season.

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(L-R) Emily Ellis Santana, Max & Joanne Friedland and Freddy Santana.

(L-R) Prisca Crawford, William Crawford, Jeri Crawford, Emma Crawford and Elena Jacobs.

(L-R) Bob & Shelley Dubin and Shakeh Ghoukasian.

(L-R) Scott & De Ann Letourneau, Art and CJ Woolston.

(L-R) roslava homik, teve and Susan Philpott.

(L-R) Eric Mendelsohn, Ingrid Cervantes, Michele and John Madole

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Mingle Vegas Golden Knights Practice Facility Opens in Summerlin.

Venue City National Arena, Summerlin.

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This Monday morning invite-only event featured Vegas Golden Knights Chairman and CEO Bill Foley and City National Bank Chairman and CEO Russell Goldsmith and included a celebratory puck drop with the Jr. Golden Knights players. There were remarks from Foley, Goldsmith, Nevada Lieutenant Governor Mark Hutchison, Clark County Commissioner Susan Brager, Clark County Commissioner and Chairman Steve Sisolak and Senior Vice President of Community & Government Relations for Summerlin, Tom Warden. The event also featured members of the team and other future stars of the NHL. Fresh ice, what better way to start the week.

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Invitees take to the bleachers to enjoy the ceremony.

Home ice at the City National Arena.

(L-R) Russell Goldsmith congratulates Bill Foley at the unveiling of the City National Area sign.

MacKenzie River Pizza, Grill & Pub. Merchandising at the arena.

Young enthusiasts.

What rink would survive without a zamboni.

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Travels with Monki Through the Eyes of My Child

By Jaq Greenspon

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here are two types of people in the world – those who can enjoy Disneyland in any of the multiple ways it presents itself… and people who just can’t get out of their own way to have fun. Personally, I’m one of the former. I remember going to Disneyland when I was a kid, when the planning of the trip involved rummaging through the junk drawer in the kitchen (you know the one, with all the take out menus, rubber bands, and extra ketchup and hot sauce packets) for unused A or B ride tickets (there were never unused E tickets… ever!).

Disneyland, and by extension other theme and adventure parks, has been a part of my life forever.

A place for celebrating good times and easing the sting of bad ones.

So it was no surprise that when m wi e and first started dating, the first tri we went on together was to Disneyland Paris (the former EuroDisney, which was only EuroDisney for a couple of years).

And now… well now we’re on an even bigger adventure. We have an almost 15 month old baby girl, nicknamed Monki, so it only stands to reason that her first big tri , and ours as a family, should include not only Disney, but as many theme parks as we could handle.

The situation was this: We live in Eastern Europe and the grandparents on my side are in Las Vegas, so a trip overseas was in the works from the time we announced onki s im ending arrival. ummer o , right around her first birthda , seemed the most appropriate time and a family-centric holiday week in an Diego was our first destination. ow, since dadd is a ournalist, he thinks nothing of trading on personal and private events for the sake of a stor , and since, a ter ears working or this maga ine he finall had fancy new business cards in hand, he arranged to take advantage of the family-fun destinations San Diego had to offer in an effort to introduce his

daughter to the joys of theme and adventure parks. And Disneyland… we can never forget the Mouse. ur first sto was the an Diego oo.

As people, my wife and I are opposites in a lot of ways – the biggest being that I am extroverted and outgoing, I can make friends with anyone, at anytime in any place. My wife, on the other hand, is rather shy and reserved. She doesn’t like crowds and doesn’t react well when faced with large groups, especially when she’s expected to be “on.” We have our own dynamic and it works well for us. But the Monki… she’s a brand new creature and we honestly have no idea how she’s going to react to any of this.

Here’s the thing: I’m coming at this whole parenting thing a bit later in life than most. I also get that there are certain tropes and consistencies that we as parents will all experience when it comes to our own kids. But since this is m first time on this articular ride, I like to imagine I’m blazing a trail here. So while I understand “all kids” do that, this kid is mine and she’s doing stuff never before seen in the history of the world! And so am I as a dad. alking into the oo, the first thing we encountered, before animals or popcorn or anything else, were two underpaid employees in fullbod walk around costumes. ow, know that rides and waiting in lines might be a little much for a one-year-old, but costumed characters are a (literally) whole ‘nother animal. This is the province of classic memories and family holiday cards for years to come – if she doesn’t freak out and run screaming to hide behind mommy’s legs in fear. We waited in line to see the six-foot panda until it was our turn and the moment of truth was upon us. This was the point that would determine the next few years of our theme park experiences with her, let alone the next few weeks where we had already planned visits.

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After a moment’s hesitation, Monki reached out and tweaked the Panda’s nose! We were safe! She wasn’t afraid of the big critters and one of my own fears had been allayed. It was weird how that one moment brought everything into sharp focus for me as I fully realized that it wasn’t about me anymore. While waiting in line, I wanted her to enjoy meeting the characters because I enjoyed meeting the characters. When she was excited, I was excited, too. I just wanted her to be happy.

Over the course of the next few weeks, though, I would learn that same lesson several times. The rest o our da at the oo was filled with us parents trying to interest Monki in the various animals – she was more interested in picking up leaves off the ground. In the petting zoo, she tried stroking the hair of the other children and left the kids alone. Sea World was a bit better… Monki barked at sea lions and enjoyed strolling through the large animal aquariums. She even liked seeing the killer whales.

These two parks, though, even if there were some bigger activities, were really more passive experiences, especially for little ones. The big test was when we hit the D’land itself. We had scheduled to go to Disneyland Paris on our way back home, but were surprised by a friend who works for the SoCal park and invited us there for an afternoon. Now is when things were going to get real. We knew Monki could handle the characters, but now there were rides in the mix and rides is what it was all about.

The first, and onl , ride we went on at Disne land was a ride des ise – It’s a Small World (Ironically, one of the original “E Tickets”). Here, I was sacrificing or the sake o m child. was willing to endure a ride hated because knew this was a ride s ecificall or kids. t wasn t one o the dark rides I enjoyed so much in Fantasyland, which had the chance to scare her,

so figured this was a nice, sa e bet.

We got on the boat and floated in to the building where thousands o figures o little children sang, re eatedl , that it was a small world afterall. I twitched like a headless chicken but I looked over and Monki was enjoying it.

Until she wasn’t.

It’s a long ride and about halfway through, she’d had enough. She started crying and making a fuss. Is it wrong to say I was secretly thrilled she didn’t like a ride I didn’t like? At least for now? She did like the parades though, and the spectacle.

And by the time we got to Disneyland Paris, she was an old pro. She s ent her first birthda riding around on carousel horses and l ing elephants, meeting Disney characters and, taking a page from my book, making friends with the other people in line. It was a fascinating experience, sharing this with her. It was amazing to see her face light up when she saw the castle or when she was able to touch Baloo (she loves dancing around to “The Bare Necessities”). I know she won’t really remember any of it… but we will. And we’ll tell her the stories and show her the pictures and when she is old enough to remember, to consciously say “Mom, Dad, I want to go to Disneyland for my birthday,” we’ll be able to look at her and say “You’ve already been there. No need to go again.”

Then we’ll pack her up and go and instead of her one-year-old eyes, we’ll get to see it all over again, anew, at whatever age she happens to be. And we’ll revel in that just the same.

(If you’re wondering about the origin of the name Monki – you can check out the full story here: https://goo.gl/naHx4W)

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SINGERS, DANCERS, COMICS, JUGGLERS, MAGICIANS & MORE...

Premiere Showcase of Jewish Talent Benefiting the JCC of Southern Nevada

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Pinktober “Pinking out” for Breast Cancer

By Marisa Finetti

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ink is everything cancer is not. The petal-soft hue is playful, calming, life-affirming. If, for the rest of the year, we are not wearing pink, eating pink, or drinking pink (except for rosé wine, which we all know by now, is not just a summer quaffer), October is the month to do pink with gusto for breast cancer awareness. Go on, it’s a “feel good” waiting to happen – for a much needed cause.

Eat & Drink Pink Many places around town are offering food and drink specials throughout October that benefit research. A few of them to try are highlighted below and if you don’t eat out often, certainly there are other ways to support.

For example, Yoplait yogurt has a long standing campaign to “Save Lids to Save Lives” by donating a portion of their sales to research.

The Bagel Cafe is baking pink bagels during the month of October.

Proceeds from their sale will be donated to Susan B Komen® and the American Cancer Society®. Though they may look unusual, these delights taste like regular bagels. So why not “pink out” with a pink bagel, pink shmear, and pink lox, all for a very good cause?

Locally, several years ago Jaret Blinn created and developed Project Pink, a Station Casinos effort that donates proceeds from pastry sales to the Southern Nevada affiliate of Susan G. Komen®. Now operating

his own spot in Henderson, CRAFTKitchen, Blinn, in honor of his mom, continues the project. Throughout the month of October, his restaurant will be featuring house-made pink pastries, such as white chocolate strawberry macarons and pink cronuts.

Stations Casinos, as well, continue to support Susan G. Komen of Nevada® and American Cancer Society’s® Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk The 8th Annual Project Pink takes place the entire month of October with Project Pink offerings at Red Rock Resort, Green Valley Ranch Resort, The Palms, Palace Station, Boulder Station, Texas Station, Santa Fe Station, Sunset Station, Fiesta Henderson, and Fiesta Rancho.

Grab a pink chocolate covered strawberry or pink glazed bundt cakes and other sweets at any of their cafes or order a pink drink at the bar.

And speaking of drinks, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is partnering with Stoli Vodka this year to promote Pinktober, which benefits breast cancer awareness as well as Susan G. Komen®. The resort will be serving “Think Pink,” an elegant play on a Negroni, at all front bars for the entire month of October.

Off the strip at The Black Sheep, imbibe on “The Pink Sheep” for a warm and fuzzy (and buzzy) feeling to benefit the American Cancer Society. The cocktail is made with Russell Henry plum infused gin, Cocchi Americano, egg whites, simple syrup, and lime. According to partner Andy Hooper, this drink was offered outside of the month of October and was hugely popular.

Now’s the time to drink “The Pink Sheep” again in all its glory, garnished with pink peppercorns and cardamom bitters, of course!

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F U T U R E

Imagine a community that provides every citizen with the doctors, nurses and healthcare providers they need when they are well, and when they are sick. Imagine shorter wait times to see those providers, with patient-centered care focused on improving health outcomes. Our state needs more qualified healthcare providers to bridge the gaps that exist.

With your help, we can all reimagine a better future for our families, friends and our communities. Roseman University, a not-for-profit, private University thanks its friends and advocates for generously giving time and resources to build a healthier Nevada.

Join us as we reimagine the next chapter of healthcare for Nevada. Make your gift to the College of Medicine by calling 702-802-2870 or text “Reimagine” to 855-790-8070.

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Andiron at Downtown Summerlin offers the “Andiron Cosmopolitan” for starters, in which partial sales will be donated to the Orion Foundation.

Finish with something sweet, such as the crème brûlée filled donuts, topped with a pink glaze.

Honey Salt is offering “The Pink Lemonade,” made with Casamigos Blanco tequila, Deep Eddy lemon vodka and agave and for dessert, a pink panna cotta, made with strawberries and tuile cookie.

And if wine is your choice of libation to celebrate and/or remember someone who had breast cancer, the Cline Family Cellars produces a label called Cline Cashmere, which has a strong charitable component.

The Clines introduced Cashmere in 2001 and as it grew in popularity, the label continued to represent the Cline Family’s dedication to supporting charitable causes. The family makes annual donations in support of breast cancer research, most recently working with Susan G. Komen®. To date, Cline’s annual donations have exceeded $270,000.

ONEHOPE Wine also invites everyone to “Drink Pink” and support the cause. Every year, ONEHOPE offers several wine bottles with proceeds benefiting both breast and ovarian cancer. To date, their #DrinkPink program has provided more than 15,000 women with clinical trials for new cancer treatments, and educated close to 1.5 million women on their risk factors for, and symptoms of, ovarian cancer.

In September and October of 2017, ONEHOPE will donate to The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance and/or the Gateway for Cancer Research for every bottle purchased of their Reserve Central Coast Rose and Pink Glitter California Chardonnay, among others.

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MUSIC. CULTURE. EDUCATION.

Project Pink at Station Casinos

CONCERT TICKETS START AT $30

Think & Rethink Pink Finally, if you’re going to do anything in October, make it recurring all throughout the year. In fact, you don’t have to “pink” anything.

Sure, a drink here or there is one way to support. But, remember to do yourself a favor and educate yourself on home exams, and schedule annual mammograms. Then, go and make a difference in someone’s life directly.

Why The Pink Ribbon?

Remember Tony Orlando’s song, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree?” It is said that this song brought back the practice of wearing yellow ribbons as a token of remembrance for loved ones who served in the military. Then, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, red ribbons began appearing to support AIDS awareness and other charitable organizations and endeavors began following suit. In 1992, Alexandra Penney (then editor-in-chief of Self magazine) and Evelyn Lauder (breast cancer survivor and senior corporate vice president of Estée Lauder) joined forces to create a pink ribbon. Soon, The Estée Lauder Company distributed pink ribbons, along with a breast self-exam card, at their department store makeup counters. In return, they collected more than 200,000 pink ribbon petitions aimed at the White House, asking for increased funding for breast cancer research. The pink ribbon, and pink in general, has since come to symbolize health and has become synonymous with breast cancer awareness.

Purchase concert tickets at LVPHIL.ORG or box office phone: 702.749.2000 Performance at 7:30pm in Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center

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Back of House Brawl A Judge Reflects on the Tastes Before Him

By Jason Harris Photos by Spencer Burton 8:55 pm - Sunday. This is what it’s like when people say they are getting old. I’m not old, still in my 30s, but man, did last night kick my ass. Today my day went almost exactly like how it would if I was nursing a hangover. I woke up around 11:30, somehow made it to the couch and watched football until 1.

Then it was time to eat. I have food in the house, but that wasn’t happening.

A quick run to the sandwich shop covered me for lunch and dinner. ter m first meal, it was back to slee or one o those hour na s that turns into three. I woke up, ate again, even got my ass out of the house to walk the dog. Eventually I plan on showering. This is exactly what it’s like the day after you drink too much - save for the vomiting.

The thing is I didn’t drink too much last night. All I did was experience The Back of House Brawl.

This is what it’s like the day after one of the most raucous underground food events in all of Las Vegas. You go, you indulge, you party and you get drunk - either on alcohol or on the event itself. For me, it was the latter. It

was a shindig for the culinary scene out here unlike any I’d ever attended.

And I can say that for sure, because it’s almost 9 pm the next day and I’m ust now finding the energ to write about it.

The Back Of House Brawl is the brainchild of Jolene Mannina, a vital element o the as egas ood scene. first met her ears ago, when she was both a server at STK and running her own side hustle: Sloppy Jo’s, a food truck that specialized in chili, featuring New Mexico hatch chilies.

Come to think of it, I could use a bowl of Sloppy Jo’s chili today, complete with gooey fried egg on top to get my motor running.

Mannina would go on to be a lead contributor to the culinary program of Life Is Beautiful in its initial year and has thrown all types of fun specialty dinners as the owner of the soon-to-be defunct Relish, a boutique event planning company. She is currently doing her most important work as the Vice President of Culinary Partnerships at Urban Seed, connecting major chefs in town to the futuristic aeroponic farming organization.

Everything she does, including the Back of House Brawl, now runs in conjunction with Urban Seed.

Back in the day, before it became a competition, the event was known as

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Left: Jolene Mannina explains the rules to the two teams. Center: Ricardo Heredia of China Poblano with his sous chef Steven Aung. Right: Shaun King

of Momofuku with his sous chef Johnny Church.

Saturday Night Truck Stop. Food trucks throughout the city would spend the night in the parking lot of Tommy Rockers, a bar on Dean Martin Drive that has been known as both a strip club at some point and a local karaoke joint at others. Mannina knew there had to be another hook than just a food truck conglomeration. She recalls, When we started the Saturday Night Truck Stop, I knew I wanted an element to get the restaurants involved, because I knew I wanted the chef community at the Saturday Night Truck Stop. All the chefs would come up to me and tell me their ideas of what kind of concept they would have for a food truck. From my personal experience, it’s difficult to work on the food trucks. ‘This is perfect,’ I thought. ‘I’m gonna give the chefs a little taste of it. We’ll get them on here.’

And it seemed like a format was the best way to do it - that Chopped style, with secret ingredients, all while trying to figure out the food truck. Because it took me a while to figure out my own truck.

The Brawl was born and became such a sensation that a television series based on it, Late Nite Chef Fight, aired for two seasons on FYI Network. Mannina remembers the show as a good experience with great national exposure, but it couldn’t capture the kinetic energy of what the Brawl was supposed to be. When I asked her about the TV show versus last night’s Brawl, she exclaimed of the latter, “This is the pure form. This is what the Back of House Brawl is. At the end of the day the real event is the community event, the local event. We can be ourselves, say whatever we want, do what we want and just have a really good time. I have no extra aspirations this time. I want this to be exactly what it was this past weekend.”

The host of this Brawl was Brian Howard (himself a multi-time Brawl winner) at his restaurant, the Chinatown hot spot Sparrow + Wolf. The

parking lot looked like some type of unsavory late night rally – what the cause was, who’s to say – I just imagine if you were passing by with no knowledge of the event, and you saw that group of seedy characters out in mass, you’d hit the gas pedal harder and get the hell away as fast as you could.

The culinary carnival outside the restaurant featured a bar, an alcoholic fruit-pop stand, a Spanish food truck and Sparrow + Wolf’s chef de cuisine, Justin Kingsley Hall, grilling up beef heart skewers on an open flame. Had the Boqueria Street truck been commandeered by a group of rogue bandit post-apocalyptic women, commandeered by a group of rogue bandit kick ass women fighters, a ost a ocal tic ad a st le takeover would not have seemed out of place.

Inside Sparrow + Wolf, the night’s competing chefs, Shaun King of Momofuku and Ricardo Heredia of China Poblano, each grabbed their sous chefs and waited for the unveiling of the mandatory ingredients. Says Mannina of how ingredients are chosen, “It’s gotta be an item that can be cooked within 30 minutes, but it also can’t be an item that can be cooked too fast because there will be a lapse in time. It also has to be items that are challenging but still you can have a thought process with. At the end of the day I want the chefs to be successful.”

Upon a visit to Michael’s Gourmet (MGP Specialty Foods), Mannina found the bulk of her lot. She recalls, “They were talking about ostrich eggs and in my mind I said, ‘This could not be more perfect.’ Because I had never opened an ostrich egg. And then of course I wanted to incorporate something from Urban Seed. I try to give a spice, a protein, a carbohydrate or some dairy. Some acid. All the different kind of foods together.”

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Moonen and food writer Al Mancini. ingredients: jicama sticks, pink peppercorn, and dwarf peaches in truffle oil. Marigold leaves, courtesy of Urban Seed, rounded out the mandatory item list. s one o the three udges or this contest, here were m ďŹ rst thoughts The ostrich egg could be tricky because it is enormous. It’s the size of 22 chicken eggs and needs to be sawed open. Jicama sticks retain a lot of moisture and the best way to use them would be to have other flavors elevate them. Pink peppercorn is a gift and matches everything. Marigold leaves are pretty tasty and reinforce the peppery notes. But damn, those dwarf peaches suck. They are at once acidic and completely overwhelmed by truffle. Not only do I not like them, but I worry that they will ruin everything else they come in contact with. Peaches are so good on their own. Peaches are so good with so many other things. But those damn villainous truffles tainted their goodness here.

The chefs have 30 minutes to make a cohesive dish utilizing all the ingredients. A wild, live cheering section for each chef, by way of each restaurant, lined the kitchen as I, along with my fellow judges (Top Chef Master Rick Moonen and food writer Al Mancini) watched up close and personal. All the while, the camera friendly Mannina ran around, holding two microphones and called the action for the livestream, which played on the Urban Seed Facebook page. It was a rush of energy for everyone.

As the judges were placed at a tasting table outside, we were swarmed

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by onlookers. Both plates were presented to us and, not surprisingly, the colossal egg was the star of both chefs’ dishes. King went with an Asian take on scrambled eggs. He had a unifying flavor due to his usage of lime laced throughout the dish, including lime zest in the eggs. Two little chunks of bread were given to make it feel more “breakfasty.” Heredia went Spanish with his play on migas, a traditional breakfast dish in Spain and Portugal.

His bread was actually in the eggs, giving it volume. He topped everything with taleggio cheese which was effective, but he had two sauces around the rim of his bowl and nothing to sop them up with.

In the end, it was a unanimous decision. King was the winner with a clean sweep based on taste, presentation and use of ingredients. For me, it was that tying together of flavors from the lime that put it all over the top. Plus I liked that I could utilize his bread as a vessel to taste the accompanying sauces. (He also had a specialty cocktail made by the bartenders at Velveteen Rabbit which was presented to the judges. I’m not saying it helped, but it didn’t hurt.)

As the verdict was announced, his fans chanted “King of the North!” as a reference to him being their Jon Snow, their Game of Thrones style culinary hero.

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headquarters. This event will also mark the return of “The Cock Fight,” a of bartenders who will compete in a mixology competition starting directly after the end of The Brawl. So, you know, 2 am. annina has five more rawls lanned through a o ne t ear. ith all the enthusiasm or the first one, it is likel there will be more coming. he knows what she s created. he confidentl states, t s a genius event because who doesn t want to be where the che s are hanging out ou re into food, you’re going to see the rock stars of the restaurants of Las Vegas. t s a late night che com etition and it s an underground event. o i ou hear about it, eel like ou re luck to know about it.

As it stands, she has spotlighted a few must-not-miss Brawls.

Says Mannina, “Nicole Brisson of B&B Hospitality Group’s Carnevino and John Courtney of Simon Hospitality Group’s Carson Kitchen have battled be ore on the T show. ohn ourtne wants, don t want to sa revenge, but he wants another shot to win. (November 11, 2017 at The Sand Dollar Lounge). Josh Clarke, the man behind The Goodwich and ustin ingsle all rom arrow ol are like best riends and both o them have not battled. reall ersonall wanted to see that battle arch , at erbs e . love the i a gu s going against each other. James Trees of the upcoming Esther’s Kitchen LV, and Vincent Rotolo who mans the ovens at Evel Pie and Chris Decker, the unsung hero o etro Pi a that made sense. The re all new and haven t battled be ore. a , at arrow ol .

Other than Brisson, all of these chefs are based off The Strip, which is a testament to how far the local food scene has come.

As for The Back of House Brawl, well it’s come full circle and ended up e actl where and how it should be. ow, i ou ll e cuse me, m going back to sleep.

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Under Copland’s Sombrero The Las Vegas Philharmonic Reaches Out to the Local Hispanic Community and Reaffirms the Role of Art in Today’s Politically Divided Landscape

By Brian Sodoma

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t some point in one’s career, it’s common to question what you know, to shake up one’s discipline or craft, and challenge status quo. By his early 30s, composer Aaron Copland had studied with Modernists in Europe and was commanding respect from his classical music peers; he, however, questioned whether there was a creative “vacuum” in America and found himself heading south of the border for inspiration.

Copland ventured to Mexico in 1932. At the time, the country was an artistic hotbed of sorts, where creative expression influenced political and social issues of the day. Copland met Mexican composers Carlos Chavez and Silvestre Revueltas, the latter of whom is a relative 20th century unknown, but his passion for political statement and artistic purpose distinguished him in Mexican culture.

Before Mexico, Copland, like any other young artist, “put on the cloaks of whatever you’re being influenced by,” explains Donato Cabrera, music director and conductor for the Las Vegas Philharmonic. “By the time he went to Mexico, he was stunned by how artists, muralists, composers … were as important as the statements made by politicians. Their commentary on the situation at hand was every bit as important, and that blew Copland away.”

After Mexico, and perhaps as a result of Revueltas’ and other artists’ inspiration, many of Copland’s works became cultural statements about the American Southwest. His compositions were popular in American Westerns. Some of his most famous post-Mexico work includes “Appalachian Spring,” the somewhat frenzied “Hoe Down” from his ballet www.davidlv.com | 43

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Rodeo, as well as the musical score or the film version o teinbeck s Of Mice and Men and his ballet or the stor o Billy the Kid. ow, re lecting on o land s time in e ico o ers an o ortunit or the as egas Philharmonic to engage with the local is anic communit , abrera notes. ith its Music Unwound rogram ctober th to ovember 4th , the Philharmonic uses o land s work to introduce evueltas and other e ican artists who in luenced the merican outhwest, while still l ing ver much under merica s radar. t a time o dee olitical divides, abrera sa s it s a ro riate to shed light on a uni ue moment o e ican merican cultural connectivit . rt has a wa o s eaking the truth without artifice, in a wa that words and olemic could never do, abrera sa s. e rogrammed this concert well over a ear ago and it seems more timel than ever to have it ha en right now.

Shaking up the traditional orchestra Done in collaboration with the ndowment or the umanities and UNLV, Music Unwound is a si da estival, whose concert on its final da is curated b merican musicologist ose h orowit . There are also lectures, interactive e eriences, and er ormances on the da s leading u to that final er ormance. n addition to introducing audiences to evueltas, Music Unwound

also breaks rom orchestral traditions b working to urther educate the audience between musical numbers. The ov. th er ormance in uses an actor who reads both o land and evueltas, narrating while delving into o land s and evueltas s backgrounds and themes.

The concert o ens with o land s oe Down, but then segues, not into a lecture rom abrera, but to the actor who la s the art o a curious o land then, also, a slightl o kilter evueltas, claiming, as a bo , to re er banging on a washtub to doing something use ul, and whose man li e teachers were the best o them with no degrees.

This narrative a roach in ects some humanities education into a concert e erience, hel ing the audience travel, with the aid o a stor and color ul characters, to conte tuali ing the musical er ormance. want to break out o the rut o generic concerto s m hon rogram that doesn t give ou an humanities content, orowit e lains. think orchestras see themselves as humanities institutions, which is what museums do. ut too man orchestras live in a little silo. think what we re doing here is intellectuall ambitious.

Music Unwound also o ers s m osiums that touch on the music o the s, e ican film histor , the e ican evolution, and other as ects o e ican culture and histor . n the da o the concert, attendees can en o an audio tour along with seeing visual artists o the time and mariachi er ormances, too.

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“We want this to be multi-layered and multi-faceted, like the population reflected in our city,” adds Kevin Eberle, the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s Director of Education. “A lot of people know classical music. They know Aaron Copland, but the story stops there.”

A bond with the common man Revueltas and Copland shared a drive for the plight of the common man. o the estival also includes a screening o the film, Redes, for which the Mexican government commissioned Revueltas to compose the musical score. The obert trand film ollows a armer as he works to su ort his family but whose fortunes fade at the expense of the farm owner’s drive or greater rofit, while also dealing with harsh economic realities. The film inspired Copland to write a 1937 New York Times piece about Revueltas and the film.

Revueltas, who was educated in Mexico and Chicago and conducted orchestras in Texas and Alabama, “does not write symphonies and sonatas so much as vivid tone pictures,” Copland wrote. “That is to say, his music is a spontaneous outpouring, a strong expression of his inner emotions.

There is nothing premeditated or unspontaneous about him. When seized with the creative urge, he has been known to spend days on end without ood or slee until the iece was finished. e writes his music at a table in the manner of the older musicians, and quite unlike the musical procedure

of the modern composer, who, because he uses complex harmonies and rhythms, is as a rule forced to seek the help of the piano. I mention this as an instance of Revueltas’s extraordinary musicality and naturalness,” Copland also wrote. dds orowit evueltas was a urel olitical artist. The onl thing that mattered to him was impact.”

Copland’s time in Mexico and subsequent success wasn’t met without challenge. In 1953, he was questioned by Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy as a Communist party sympathizer. Copland became somewhat estranged rom the audience he cultivated in the s and s, orowit notes, who sees similar plights for artists in a politically polarized America today.

“We are not as culturally conducive to political art as Mexico … even other nations, orowit added. ow, we re at a moment when a lot o us in the arts communit uestion wh are we doing this and what is the role of culture and art when the U.S. is split in two.” abrera and orowit agree there ma not be a more er ect time or a city in the American Southwest to embrace Music Unwound.

“I’m not here to prove a point,” Cabrera says. “I’m just here to celebrate realities. There is a realit that the is anic o ulation o as egas is underserved with the arts and underrepresented and under-celebrated. ….

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Making a Splash Hanoch Rosenn Brings His Hit Show to the Rio After a Fifteen-Year Run in Eilat, Israel

By Lynn Wexler

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here is no shortage of spectacle to revel in while visiting Sin City. Pick your passion. Serve your fantasy. Delight in divas, dancers, and divers; high-wire contortionists, jokesters, and magicians; luxurious costumery, innovative visuals, and music reticulations.

WOW, Wonders Of Water, is the newest addition to the genre. It opens this month at the Rio Showroom at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. A 90-minute, water-themed, intense extravaganza, WOW takes theatregoers on a circus-style dream sequence, weaving dance, comedy, acrobatics, illusion, romance, and even treachery through a choreographed narrative, heightened by 3D multi-media projections and holograms.

Damian Costa, Caesars Entertainment - Vice President of Entertainment Operations Las Vegas (which owns the Rio), says WOW will be unlike any production Las Vegas has experienced. “Audiences will be captivated by the splendor of stand-out visual elements, water effects, and a breathtaking cast of performers.”

Hanoch Rosenn is the genius behind the internationally acclaimed production. He is also the show’s director.

For more than ears we continue to success ull resent WOW in Eilat, Israel with a new incarnation of the show every year,” he says. “I have alwa s elt the show was er ect or as egas, so am thrilled to bring it to North American audiences, with the premiere at Rio.” Born in London and raised in Israel, Rosenn’s venture into the world of entertainment began in silence.

“I started out as a mime. I still do it and tour – not at the moment of course – in a show called Speechless,” says Rosenn.

“My father was an interpreter and spoke ten languages. He was involved with the Eichmann trial. It’s possible I grew up with so much language that I decided I wanted to speak with no words,” he says with a glint in his eye, leaving you to wonder if he’s pulling your leg.

“Actually, when I was 16, I traveled through Europe with friends on $5 a

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day – when this was even possible,” he continues. “We found ourselves broke in Munich and turned to street performance to make money. None of us could speak German so we had to entertain without words!”

They were an instant success. Money poured in and they built a reputation and a following throughout much of Europe.

Upon his return to Israel at age 18 for mandatory military service, he was assigned the duty of IDF Mime. “No joke. That’s what was on my military ID. I entertained the troops!” he says. It’s also where he developed the unique style that permeates his performances and stage productions.

Over time, Rosenn’s shows became increasingly elaborate, as did his flair for creating, designing, producing, and directing stage spectacle. He learned to incorporate fantasy, imagery, digitally enchanced backdrops, music, special effects, and storylines - with surprises.

“My shows, including WOW, are intended to engage each audience member personally and individually,” says Rosenn. “From the music to the lighting to the sets, choreography and costumes…the experience is designed to evoke childhood memories as well as provide a peek into the future you imagine for yourself.”

Rosenn uses the stage to offer not only pageantry and parody, but to hold up a mirror for theatergoers to view whatever piercing observations they wish to reflect upon – all conjured through humor, intrigue, and special effects manipulation.

To accomplish this “…WOW performers and imagery are in close proximity to the audience for much of the show, which is fast paced, at times funny, whimsical, daring - but always accessible to the heart and mind.

“Water is life! WOW is a journey through a moment in the life of a fisherman, tra ed in the doldrums, who alls aslee b the water s edge, Rosenn reveals.

The fisherman awakens to find an into icating mermaid who draws him into a fantastical world of magical creatures, which transpire from the twent five vastl di erent ensuing acts o ering adventure, esca e, and ultimately, enlightenment.

“Guests will come to love the characters,” Rosenn adds. “They will want to reach out and hug them. It’s a family show so why not? You can even bring your three-year-old if he or she will sit quietly!”

And hug them you can – and even get their autographs. The cast of more than 30 international and highly acclaimed performing artists, acrobats, dancers even dare devil finalists rom T s America’s Got Talent - join the audience following each performance for photos, questions, and of course, those much-anticipated hugs.

Mounting the show is not without its challenges. “The goal is always to determine how to utilize resources to win the room!” says Rosenn.

While the entire creative team is from the production in Eilat, Rosenn enlisted the local expertise of Keith Wright, former Operations Production Manager for Ka and now Regional Technical Director for Caesar’s ten entertainment ro erties in as egas.

There are rules es eciall or sa et s ecific to as egas concerning fire, electricit , aerial acts and so on. eith has navigated this path for us, as well as recommended local equipment providers that we could not e ficientl identi on our own, sa s osenn.

Then there was the matter of the stage. In Israel, the show takes place on a traditional proscenium arch.

“Here, it is somewhat circular, at 180 degrees, with seating very close to

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the action,” explains Rosenn. e had to build a ool that could drain dr and fill u as needed build surround LED panels that integrate the real and imagined scenery and action and incor orate sound and light all meant to create an environment that wraps around the audience, making them a part of the show’s magic,” he continues.

The theatre seats 650. The space, according to Rosenn, is actually conducive to the intimac that is the show s intended e ect.

Shay Bonder heads up WOW’s e tensive and integral video art. work dail with a team o talented individuals who send me the s ectacular images need rom around the world, he sa s.

Ram Graufman is the show’s sound engineer and describes himself as a sound sculptor. “There is a psychology to how one manipulates sound to deliver the emotions o stor telling, he shares. The music runs the gamut rom classical to modern to talian, rish, ussian, and even irate shanties. vi ona ueno brings to the show ort ears o award winning e erience as a lighting designer. started out doing lighting or rock n roll bands. traveled with Pink Flo d or ears. ueno e lains ighting elevates a show. t unifies the individual creative as ects, ielding something that is ultimatel bigger than an one o those elements on their own. Through lighting, he adds, can create beaut , ear, control emotions, and even hide mistakes in the show. the thirt lus er ormers and fi t lus roduction eo le necessar to rehearse, mount, market and run the show, Rosenn is the maestro at center stage, conducting the m riad o moving arts with the finesse o a virtuoso and the atience o a saint. ou have to la man roles. ne o them is a s chologist, sa s osenn. There are man egos and ragilities to be aware o . ou must balance criti ue with sensitivit . umor with no nonsense. ightness with firmness, he adds.

When asked about comparisons to the Cirque brand, Rosenn is quick to re l with gratitude. e is a huge devotee o Cirque creative directors Franco Dragone and u aron. love their roductions he sa s. e e lained that Cirque productions are poetic, ethereal, and approach the theme of water spectacle differently than WOW. “WOW involves the audience in an intimate e erience. t draws them close and wra s the story around them, as if the story was about them,” he explains. osenn is also renowned worldwide or another large scale e travagan a called Festigal. Founded in , Festigal is srael s largest annual entertainment spectacle and takes place each year during anukkah. t s or the whole amil and is all about imagination. ach ear resents a di erent theme. e re alwa s working to out do ourselves, sa s osenn. n the version, he did, directing Wonder Woman star al adot in her stage debut. osenn is thrilled that over . million eo le rom around the world have seen at its home in ilat. e re now looking orward to as Vegas becoming our second home,” he says.

“We want audiences from around the world, looking to experience world class si le and sensation to come to WOW, eel moved, u li ted, changed, and return home talking about it long a ter the leave the tri , Rosenn muses. e and the whole creative team are es eciall roud to bring WOW to Las egas rom srael. e are ho e ul that ewish communities ever where will see the show and share that ride with us, he sa s. r should sa share with us the thrill o being D

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Can We Split The Bill ... Of Rights?

From Skokie to Charlottesville, Free (Hate) Speech Remains Controversial.

By Dayvid Fiegler

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here were a lot of Jewish babies born in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois in the 1960s. It wasn’t a surprise. In the midsixties, almost 60 percent of the residents of Skokie were Jewish and as late as 1977, it was widely reported that one out of every six residents was either a Holocaust survivor or related to one. Even though my family permanently moved to Las Vegas in , m birth certificate claims kokie as m birth lace, too.

I remember the discussions around the dinner table in 1977 and 1978 about American Nazi’s picking Skokie to stage a demonstration. The promised visuals of Nazi flags, Heil salutes and anti-Semitic chants were all too visceral and infuriating. My father had enlisted in the Army in World ar with the s ecific ur ose to fight the a is even though the government decided his talents were better used in the freezing tundra of the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea. And while his only “action” was a single, Japanese air attack over a three-year tour, the toppling of that dead-eyed, fascist, maniac Jew-killer (name never uttered) was foremost in his mind. Our collective family opinion about what was happening back home was uni orm among our riends and amil it s a shanda to let them march. And that was the nicest thing said about these Neo-Nazis or as my dad called them “the Nazis.”

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way (but did not decide the merits) for a deliberately provocative march in the face of those Americans arguably most devastatingly impacted by the actions of the Third Reich. Paved the way in that the United States Supreme Court found that, at least procedurally, the efforts to disallow the march could not be summarily upheld; the First Amendment was in play. Then, once the case was sent back to Illinois, it turned out the NSPA had already thought twice about being vastly outnumbered in a hostile environment and moved their efforts to the more general population of Chicago. That the march never actually occurred in Skokie or that the United States Supreme Court never actually said they could is lost to history – the takeaway being that the First Amendment is a powerful vehicle for tolerance of even the vilest speech and that a free society should not only expect controversial exhibitions but be strong enough to sustain even the most provocative of them. Indeed, it is the Skokie case that is most often invoked in defending the rights of white supremacists and our annoyingly persistent villains, the Nazis, to take their tiki-torched, antiquated ideas show on the road in places like Charlottesville, North Carolina. But does the Bill of Rights protect even murderous ideologues calling for the systemic elimination of an entire group of people?

Forty years after Skokie, the debate rages on. But the origins of the discussion of the elasticity and boundaries of free speech under the First Amendment predates even WWII and comes from a line of cases starting after World War I. As we take sides and prepare to protest, counter-protest, or even (forbid) start blathering on social media, it’s a good idea to take

stock o how the ourts have defined the meaning o the First mendment.

Some of it may be surprising, but all of it should shape the blueprint of our country’s hallowed marketplace of ideas.

In 1919, while discussing the right of people to attempt to dissuade draftage men from induction into the military during wartime, the esteemed Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. essentially created the test that was used for the next few decades. It called for any punishment for speech to be evaluated as to its “clear and present danger” to society.

And while the case, Schenck v. United States, was resolved in favor of prosecuting the speech at issue, the more relied upon quotation that came rom that case is known as the fire in a theater meta hor. ere, ustice Holmes said “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.”

In 1927, the Supreme Court upheld another conviction of a woman trying to help establish the Communist Party in the United States. Using the clear and present danger status, the Court ruled unanimously, however, and the decision is most notable for a concurring opinion from the country’s first ewish u reme ourt ustice, ouis randeis. n that case, Whitney v. United States, Justice Brandeis warned of a great danger “to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed

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remedies and that the fitting remedy for e il counsels is good ones. He went on to explain the mistakes of the past in suppressing speech: ear of serious in ury cannot alone ustify suppression of free speech and assem ly. en feared itches and urnt omen. t is the function of speech to free men from the ondage of irrational fears. To ustify suppression of free speech there must e reasona le ground to fear that serious e il ill result if free speech is practiced. There must e reasona le ground to elie e that the danger apprehended is imminent. There must e reasona le ground to elie e that the e il to e pre ented is a serious one.

After World War II, the majority of the Court came down with a decision that, or the first time, u held some incendiar language towards ews.

In 1949, in the case of Terminiello . ity of hicago, the Supreme Court reversed a small fine im osed on an incendiar atholic riest who gave a speech laden with anti-Semitic tropes which caused the gathered group o or so ollowers to react b sa ing things like, es, the ews are all killers, murderers. we don t kill them first, the will kill us. The anti ewish stories elicited e clamations o h and sn t that terrible and shouts o es, send the ews back to ussia, ill the ews, Dirt kikes, and much more o an ugl tenor. hile the amous ewish u reme ourt ustice Feli Frank urter dissented in that case, it is the urther dissent o ustice obert ackson that resonated at the time. ustice ackson elo uentl opined: The choice is not et een order and li erty. t is et een li erty ith order and anarchy ithout either. There is danger that if the ourt does not temper its doctrinaire logic ith a little practical isdom it ill con ert the constitutional ill of ights into a suicide pact.

Next, in 1969 came randen urg . hio, where the Supreme Court, in reversing the conviction o a u lu lansman intent on gathering to spread the word of hate and anti-Semitism, also reversed the standard of nited tates . hitney rom . ow, and this still holds true toda , there can only be a conviction if the speech at issue poses “incitement to imminent lawless action. n other words, i it s a call to those listening or an immediate riot. This lead to the kokie situation and a number o subse uent cases including one last case o note rom called . . . . ity of t. aul. n this final case, t. Paul, innesota had assed a law banning cross burnings and dis la s o the swastika. The u reme ourt held that even if sometimes displaying a swastika could be considered fighting words and there ore not rotected b the First mendment , there were times when it isn t fighting words and there ore the law itsel is unconstitutional.

And in all this context of what has come before, comes Charlottesville, North Carolina, where neo-Nazis and white supremacists applied for a permit to rotest the removal o a statue o obert . ee as what a ears to be a clear rete t merel to s read abominable and disgusting words o hate. iting the recedent o law, a Federal udge allowed the ermit to be issued and understandable throngs o counter rotesters gathered. iolence ensued amidst clear and une uivocal dis la s o a i salutes and swastikas and chants o a i slogans. woman was killed and man other in ured when a car drove through the crowd o counter rotesters, allegedl on ur ose. ow, here am back at the kitchen table with riends and loved ones. eading the conversation. arents assed. law degree under m www.davidlv.com | 55

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belt with a fuller and more precise understanding of the tensions of order and liberty. On the one hand, disgusted that it always seems to be the Jews as the targets. Still unable to wrap my head around the WHY US? lwa s us uall re ulsed o course b language against s ecific races, colors, creeds, religion, gender, sexual orientation, country of origin, but not unaware that these groups bring their own personal stories into the equation that I can’t possible fathom. Forty years later it’s all still a shanda. nd then, on the other hand, like man , a firm advocate o s eech, o the idea o fighting words not with violence but with better words. using all legal means short of suppressing mere words to accomplish the order necessary for a functioning democracy. ut the violence at hand is not a theor , it s becoming a realit . nd the intellectual discourse I wish for is an illusory fantasy. How did we get to this oint s ustice ackson s warning that we could kill ourselves on our own rights true s it not so universal that a i is the closest we know to actual versus h erbolic evil and can t we there ore ust ban a is like the do in Germany and other parts of Europe? course, i banning a ism and their s mbols was enough, the rise of anti-Semitism would not be the reality of today. In fact, it is generally acce ted that even with the large u tick in anti emitism in the nited tates, it s ar more revalent in laces where an such e ression is banned. And then, once we ban speech or speeches, how far behind are books n erman , ou can t find a legal co o ein am , but in the Terminiello case, Justice Jackson quoted it – probably the only United States Supreme Court case that does so.

There, ustice ackson warned that the a i slogan ossession o the streets is the ke to ower in the state is not a laughable abstraction but became the basis o the ascist Third eich. ords have ower and as they flow unfettered through the streets they gain more power. have man thought ul riends who claim em ath or m terror at the increasing incidences of hateful speech and actions, but they try to assure me that other laws, short of suppressing speech, are in place to combat violence and aggression. t s true, i not com orting. The don t share m e eriences. the lessons o legal histor have taught an thing, this is an issue that perhaps transcends the First Amendment. It is about the human heart and spirit.

Perhaps speech and symbols are not the issue, as much as it’s about truth and s eaking out. Pointing out allacies. aking eo le res onsible for their libelous and hostile words. To think that we can merely all sit down in a room and intelligentl work through conce tual hate is na ve, but that we can make it uncomfortable to spread lies and hate is our duty. t s a lot like the idea o having the right in court to con ront our accusers they say it’s always harder to lie about a person when you’re face-to-face. nd even as we ma be incited, we must re rain. ut as we re rain, we must never orget. nd so that we ma never orget, we must alwa s, at a minimum, show u and re eatedl rove that those who seek to destro us are to be marginali ed, debunked and called out. bove all, however, we must be sure they are prosecuted the moment they step away from or over the First mendment that rotects our undamental value o libert over o ression.

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