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Best of the City

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Best of the City: Arts + Entertainment

Jan 28, 2019

Love is the Cirque du Soleil you could watch with your eyes closed, hearing The Beatles remixed through 7,000 speakers. This and other entertainment is part of our Best in the City compilation.

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The Best Dry Cleaners
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Best of the City: Shops + Services

Jan 28, 2019

It's time to jump in to our annual superlative-o-pediatm of the best things in Las Vegas, from hamburgers to hikes - all curated by us, your trusted Desert Companion experts. Let's get besting!

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Candlelight wedding chapel
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Best of the City: Family + Leisure

Jan 29, 2019

Find out about the best places to take your family and enjoy the public places in Las Vegas.

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Tacos
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Best of the City: Food & Drink

Jan 28, 2019

Tacos might simply be hand-held tortillas folded on three sides around fillings, but they come in a plethora of styles, and local taqueria Leticia’s seems to have mastered them all. These tacos and more that are considered the best food of the city!

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Best of the City: Readers’ Poll

Jan 29, 2019

What our readers say is the best of the city, not the pretty-goodest of the city, or the premium mediocre of the city.

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Alternate Universe
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My Own Alternate Universe

Jan 29, 2018

Notes from the postmodern anywhere of a suburban convenience store

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Jw Caldwell's "Time Heals All Wounds"
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Personal Best of the City

Jan 29, 2018

The mural by Las Vegas artist Jw Caldwell that stretched outside the Tilting the Basin exhibit on Commerce Street Downtown.

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Bunkhouse Saloon
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Best of the City: Arts & Entertainment

Jan 29, 2018

Here's the best in arts and entertainment for the New Year.

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Editor's Note
Andrew Kiraly
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Latest Flame

Jan 29, 2018

I spent a heroically lazy Christmas week on the couch, possibly in the same clothes for several days in a row but that’s not a confession, alternately reading and napping in a state of what I told myself was a silently transformative chrysaloid stasis.

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Naked City Pizza
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Best of the City: Food & Drink

Jan 29, 2018

Hear from a rousing chorus of voices on the best food in the city!

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Hoover Dam
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Best of the City: Family & Leisure

Jan 29, 2018

The best family outings.

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Las Vegas cyclery
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Best of the City: Shops and Services

Jan 29, 2018

Looking for that special something?  Here is the list!

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Notes and letters
Brumby
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Letters: Best of the City

Feb 23, 2016

Hey, everyone, it’s a guy from Brumby! Reading Desert Companion! He’s in a picture on Facebook, reading our February edition — “Best of the City,” though surely you haven’t forgotten because how could you?

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Best of the City Readers Poll
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Best of the City: Readers' Poll

Jan 27, 2016

Selected results from our survey

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Best of the City
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Best of the City: Personal bests

Jan 25, 2016

Local favorites from valley tastemakers.

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Best of the City
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Best of the City: Bested & tested

Jan 25, 2016

You bested it, we tested it - In which Desert Companion assesses your top choices in our Best of the City readers' poll.

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The look back
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Ten years of Desert Companion, seven years of Best of the City

Feb 01, 2017

Desert Companion has been compiling its annual Best of the City issue since February 2011.

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Editor's Note
Andrew Kiraly
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Best of times

Jan 25, 2016

Most top-of-mind observation about our sixth annual Best of the City issue: Wowie! If the intensity level of ballot-stuffing this year is any indication — in many cases, brute, systematic, monolithic, algorithmic and, hafta admit, admirably so — our Best of the City readers’ poll has officially arrived as a showcase for tastemaking and trendspotting.

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Best of the City Bonus: Good better best

Mar 16, 2015

To find the best of something, you have to look for it — examine the candidates, weigh their merits, reach a conclusion. Here, then, four crawls that do just that

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Best of the City: Eat and drink

Feb 01, 2015

A wild combination of art and cuisine — with some drinking and music thrown in — Yusho After Dark gives you yet another excuse to check out the exciting fare being served from this hidden corner of Monte Carlo.

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Best of the City: Readers poll

Feb 01, 2015

You voted, we statsticalized* and then we doodled.

*Using quantum voodoo to determine top (and bottom!) vote-getters in each category.

 

 

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Best of the City Bonus: Shops and services

Feb 01, 2015

Grayson and her sister were raised by a father who trained recent high school grads to be bricklayers, carpenters and plumbers. Though he said he never wanted his kids following that path, he’d bring home materials and help them do odd jobs for pocket money.

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Best! Thing! Ever!

Feb 01, 2015

Whew! This marks the fifth annual Best of the City issue, and the third time we’ve run an online readers’ poll to put our finger on your vox populi as you turn your head and cough. You flooded us with your faves in food, shopping, arts and entertainment.

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Best of the City:Art and culture

Feb 01, 2014

Food & Drink Shops & Services Leisure, Family & Fun Outtakes Best headliner Taylor Hicks The fifth-season “American Idol” winner’s success story actually began in Las Vegas. Stranded in New Orleans the night before Hurricane Katrina and unable to return home to Birmingham, Ala.

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Best of the City: Leisure, Family and Fun

Feb 01, 2014

Food & Drink Art & Culture Shops & Services Outtakes Best big-screen movie theater XD, South Point Cinemascope, Cinerama, Dimension 150 … those great wide-screen formats of yore are gone with the wind. But if you want to recreate the experience of seeing a cinema spectacle on a mind-blowingly large screen, try the XD one at South Point.

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Best of the City: Shops and Services

Feb 01, 2014

Food & Drink Art & Culture Leisure, Family & Fun Outtakes Best place to get away from it all 23rd Floor Lobby at Mandarin Oriental Hotel A feeling of serenity settles over you once you’ve ensconced yourself in the 23rd floor lobby (that’s right) of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. From far above the Strip, you can enjoy its vistas yet feel comfortably removed from its hurly-burly, and the staff is the essence of solicitude.

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Best of the City:The people have spoken

Feb 01, 2014

Well, they voted in our online Best of the City poll.  Here are selected results, in artisinal, locally sourced, nonconflict charticles.

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Best of the City: Readers' poll

Feb 01, 2013

The votes are in!  Nearly 400 readers took our online Best of the City Readers' Poll!  Here are select results for the most voted-on categories.

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Best of the City: Neighborhood watch

Feb 01, 2013

Raves from the expert next door Meet our Neighborhood Experts. Centennial Hills, you’re away from the city’s bustle, but the commute makes for some MASSIVE ROAD RAGE. If this spa’s massages don’t dispel stress, their Sunday meditation classes will.

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Best of the City: Our expert picks

Feb 01, 2013

Whether it’s a sandwich or spa, bookstore or Bloody Mary, hiking trail or tailor, you’ll find the best of it all in the pages ahead. But we wouldn’t  be doing our best if we didn’t make a few upgrades.

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Best of the City: My City

Feb 01, 2012

Carla Pellegrino Chef/owner, Bratalian and Bacio restaurants Best place for lunch: Spago at the Forum Shops — I love the Symphony Tuna. Best late-night snack: Holsteins at The Cosmopolitan for burgers or Pellegrino’s Pizza & Deli in the Tropicana (obviously for the pizza).

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Best of the City: Reader's Choice

Feb 01, 2012

Market For finest service, the employees of our four Whole Foods Markets make the top of my list. Their policy of escorting a customer to help find an elusive item feels deliciously like an old-time throwback.

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Best of the City

Feb 01, 2012

Welcome to Desert Companion’s second annual Best of the City. We daresay it’s even better than last year’s.

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Best of the City: Food + Drink, Arts + Leisure

Feb 01, 2011

WHO ARE WE to decide what's the best in food, arts, entertainment and more in Las Vegas? Glad you asked. We're native Las Vegans burning to tell the world about the hometown favorites we grew up with.

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Best of the City: Shops + Services, People + Places + Community

Feb 01, 2011

SHOPS + SERVICES Veggie delivery Make a contribution to the Bountiful Baskets Co-op at the beginning of the week, and by week's end, a basket full of produce arrives at your designated pick-up location. Although not as local, organic and sustainable as other community-supported-agriculture options (e.

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Best of the City

Feb 01, 2017

From food and leisure to shopping and culture, we've rounded up dozens of the valley's peak experiences.  Time to get bestin'!

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Come together!

Feb 01, 2017

Bests we can all agree on.

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Best of the City Reader's Poll

Feb 01, 2017

Best specialty foods store. Best public art.  Best day trip. Best hangout. Best thing downtown...

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