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from the publisher Frances Mayes’ 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun and the 2003 movie written, produced and directed by Audrey Wells (and starring Diane Lane) ignited many aspirational confabs in Casa dei Friedland. As I’m part of an international family, plans were hatched to rent a house in the Tuscan hills and travel there from our various locations around the globe. Every year we vowed, “This will be the year!” And every year, we punted. It was always some insurmountable obstacle, a more pressing agenda.

So when Marisa Finetti pitched her story idea, I could not resist – even though I fully understood the torture it would be to produce, and the problems I would be creating domestically. “What are we writing on this month?” my wife asks. “Castello di Volpai,” I reply. “Where is that?” she asks. “Tuscany, the Italian one.” All she can muster is a sigh as she leaves my office. Further discussion on this topic will ensue I’m sure. She is, after all, part of our proofreading team.

Giving myself the “glass half full” lecture, I resolved that editing this story will be the only trip to bella Italia I’m going to have this summer, and I might as well enjoy it. The magical tale of the wedding gift of a ruined Tuscan village and its restoration into a tourist mecca and organic wine estate was irresistible. Find a comfy chair and take the trip of a lifetime in Tuscan Splendor, pages 46-51.

If your wanderlust leaves you craving a location north of Donald’s walls, we offer up a piece by a new voice in DAVID. Janna Karel has made planet Earth her laboratory of self-discovery.

Her style is to go solo, and this is exactly what she did for her DAVID travelogue. Pack your camera and tag along as she explores the Great Pacific Northwest. Her On the Road piece, pages 52-56, had me in my garage looking for my trusty old backpack.

The folks at City National Bank (DAVID’s bankers) have some fascinating stories to tell. Aside from the usual corporate PR stuff, the bank’s founding and rise to prominence in the middle 20th century in Los Angeles is a part of Hollywood lore. The family lineage that has guided it to impressive growth is notable, especially since there is a strong Las Vegas connection. In Star Bankers, pages 42-45, read about a moment in the early ‘60s when CNB’s commitment to having its clients’ backs extended to a non-client (at the time), Frank Sinatra. The chairman and CEO of the bank, Al Hart, was pivotal in securing the release of Old Blue Eyes’ son Frank Jr. These are good friends to have in a time of need.

Jaq Greenspon has been with DAVID since we started, and we congratulate him on his marriage and impending birth of his first child. Never being one to waste a good opportunity, and having the need for some good Father’s Day content, I instructed him as follows: Grill your dad about the secrets of fatherhood; you are going to need them. See what dear old Dad had to say.

In the immortal words of The Most Interesting Man in the World, “Stay cool, my friends. See you in the racks.”

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CARAVAN PALACE: 8 p.m., $22. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702862-2695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas HELLYEAH WITH ESCAPE THE FATE: Time TBA, $25. SLS Las Vegas, 2535 Las Vegas Blvd.

S., Las Vegas. 702-737-2111. slslasvegas.com JEFF DUNHAM: 7:30 p.m., $49.50-$89.50.

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CHICAGO: July 7, 8 p.m., $75. Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-942-7777. palms.com

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YOUSUF KARSH - ICONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY: Through Sept. 5, times vary, costs vary. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 888-987-6667. bellagio.com BCN BUSINESS BOOK CLUB - THE LIKEABILITY FACTOR: 5:30Â p.m., free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-507-3458. lvccld.org

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BLUE OCTOBER WITH DANNY MALONE: 8 p.m., $27. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas

CLINT HOLMES: Through June 12, 8:30 & 2 p.m., $37. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC - DREAM OF NOW, DREAM OF THEN: 7:30 p.m., $26. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

52 FRIDAYS - MELISSA MANCHESTER: 8 p.m., $19. Golden Nugget, 129 Fremont Street, Las Vegas. 702-385-7111. goldennugget.com/ lasvegas

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JENNIFER LOPEZ: 9 p.m., $59-$229. Planet Hollywood, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

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702-547-7777. sunsetstation.sclv.com ACLU 50TH ANNIVERSARY GALA: 6 p.m., $150$3,500. Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd.

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TOMORROW'S BAD SEEDS WITH BIG B: 9 p.m., $20. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas THE FAB FOUR - THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE: Through June 12, 8 p.m., $19.95. Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas. 702284-7777. orleans.com SUMMER BLOOD DRIVE: 11 a.m.-3 p.m., free.

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CABARET - THE MUSICAL: Through June 19, 7:30 & 2 p.m., $29. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-7492012. thesmithcenter.com

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ALISON WONDERLAND WITH SPECIAL GUESTS VALENTINO KHAN AND VINCENT: 9 p.m., $30-$35. Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. cosmopolitanlasvegas.com

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CAGE THE ELEPHANT WITH SPECIAL GUESTS PORTUGAL. THE MAN AND TWIN PEAKS: 7 p.m., $37.50. Hard Rock, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. hardrockhotel.com SUBLIME WITH ROME WITH TRIBAL SEEDS: 9 p.m., $49.50-$85. Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-632-7777. mandalaybay.com LIPSHTICK - THE PERFECT SHADE OF STAND UP - CARLY AQUILLINO AND JAMIE LEE: 9:30 p.m., cost TBA. Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd.

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CHRISTOPHER TITUS: Through June 19, 7:30 p.m., $30. South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-796-7111. southpointcasino.com

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SLIPKNOT WITH MARILYN MANSON: Time TBA, $30. MGM, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-891-1111. mgmgrand.com

UNLV LEE BUSINESS SCHOOL'S 4TH ANNUAL TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS GOLF TOURNAMENT: 3 p.m., $150. Topgolf Las Vegas, 4305 Dean Martin Drive, #185, Las Vegas. 702963-0000. https://www.unlvalumni.org/TCB

ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL: Through June 19, time and costs vary. For details, visit http:// lasvegas.electricdaisycarnival.com/.

2016 NHL AWARDS: Time and cost TBA. Hard Rock, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 702693-5000. hardrockhotel.com

KANSAS: Time TBA, $27.50. SLS, 2535 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-761-7000. slslasvegas.com

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DRU HILL: 9 p.m., $35. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas PHILLIP PHILLIPS AND MATT NATHANSON WITH ERIC HUTCHINSON: 9 p.m., $45-$50.

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STEELY DAN AND STEVE WINWOOD: 7:30 p.m., $59.50-$225. Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd.

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52 FRIDAYS - FELIX CAVALIERE'S RASCALS: 8 p.m., $19. Golden Nugget, 129 Fremont Street, Las Vegas. 702-385-7111. goldennugget.com/lasvegas CHARO: Through June 25, 7:30 p.m., $25.

South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-796-7111. southpointcasino.com

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BRIAN WILSON - PET SOUNDS 50TH ANNIVERSARY: 8 p.m., $34.50. Hard Rock, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 702-6935000. hardrockhotel.com DON MCLEAN: 8 p.m., $27.50-$55. Boulder Station, 4111 Boulder Highway, Las Vegas.

702-432-7777. boulderstation.sclv.com SLIGHTLY STOOPID: 7:30 p.m., $44.50-$150.

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JIM JEFFRIES: Through June 25, 10 p.m., $49.99. Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. mirage.com

BRYAN ADAMS - GET UP! TOUR: Through July 3, 8 p.m., $32-$57. Cosmopolitan, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. cosmopolitanlasvegas.com

GARTH BROOKS: Through June 25, 7 p.m., costs vary. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 Las Vegas Blvd., S, Las Vegas. http://www.axs.com/

311: Through July 3, 9 p.m., $66.10-$159.10.

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LIPSHTICK - THE PERFECT SHADE OF STAND UP - WHITNEY CUMMINGS: 9:30 p.m., cost TBA. Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-414-1000. venetian.com GARTH BROOKS: Through July 4, times vary, costs vary. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-692-1300. t-mobilearena.com

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THE WORLD SERIES OF BEER PONG: Through July 10, times vary, $299-$499. Westgate Las Vegas, 3000 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 888796-3564. westgatevegas.com IDAHO - THE COMEDY MUSICAL: Through July 17, 2 & 7:30 p.m., $19. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

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SAMSUNG NBA SUMMER LEAGUE: Through July 18, times vary, costs vary. Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas. nbatickets.com

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CRAIG ROBINSON AND THE NASTY DELICIOUS: 9 p.m., $35. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas

JUDY COLLINS: 7 p.m., $27.50-$49.50. Santa Fe Station, 4949 N. Rancho Drive, Las Vegas.

866-767-7770. santafestation.sclv.com NICKY JAM: 8 p.m., $60.50-$160.50. Planet Hollywood, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

866-919-7472. planethollywoodresort.com

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WAYNE BRADY: 10 p.m., $39.99. Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. mirage.com

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STEPHEN RAGGA MARLEY - THE FRUIT OF LIFE SUMMER TOUR: 9 p.m., $30. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702862-2695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas FRANK LASPINA: 2 p.m., $25. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

RON WHITE: Through July 16, 10 p.m., $59.99. Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. mirage.com

JCC KAYAK @ HOOVER DAM: 7 a.m., $90. For more information, contact Elizabeth Bricker at 702-794-0090 or ebricker@jccsn.org. jccsn.org

BOSTON: Time TBA, $49.50. Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 200 S. 3rd Street, Las Vegas. 800-745-3000. dlvec.com

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THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS WITH THE CHURCH: 9 p.m., $30. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695.

JEWISH GENEAOLOGY SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA MEETING: 1 p.m., free. Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Blvd., Las Vegas. For more information, contact Laura Moskowitz at 702-243-5917 or president@jgssn.org. jgssn.org

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702-414-1000. venetian.com

DIXIE CHICKS: Time and cost TBA. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

702-692-1300. t-mobilearena.com

CHEYENNE JACKSON - MUSIC OF THE MAD MEN ERA: Through July 16, 6, 7 & 9 p.m., $39. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

WIDESPREAD PANIC: Through July 10, 8 p.m., $55. Hard Rock, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. hardrockhotel.com DAVID PERRICO: 8 p.m., $20. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

LIPSHTICK - THE PERFECT SHADE OF STAND UP - LONI LOVE: 9:30 p.m., cost TBA. Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

702-414-1000. venetian.com

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CHICAGO: 8 p.m., $75. Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-942-7777. palms.com

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TOAD THE WET SPROCKET WITH RUSTED ROOT: 9 p.m., $35. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas

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LESLIE JONES: 10 p.m., $39.99. Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. mirage.com

CAMP BROADWAY - SHINING STARS CAMP: Through July 22, times vary, costs vary. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

DURAN DURAN: Time and cost TBA. Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-632-7777. mandalaybay.com

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JCC MACCABI TEAM LAS VEGAS PEP RALLY: 6:30 p.m., free. For more information, contact Elizabeth Bricker at 702-794-0090 or ebricker@jccsn.org. jccsn.org

NA'AMAT USA 90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Through July 31, times vary, $400. JW Marriot Resort and Spa, 221 N. Rampart Blvd., Las Vegas. For more information, contact Deanna Migdal at 818431-2200 or naamat@naamat.org. bellagio.com

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UTAH PUPPET THEATRE PRESENTS THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA: Through July 21, 10:30 a.m. & 7 p.m., $3. Historic 5th Street School, 401 S. 4th Street, Las Vegas. artslasvegas.org JENNIFER LOPEZ: Through July 30, 9 p.m., $59-$229. Planet Hollywood, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 866-919-7472. planethollywoodresort.com

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JCC - MAH JONGG - THE ART OF THE GAME: 4:30 p.m., $12. JCCSN, 8689 W. Sahara Avenue, #180, Las Vegas. For more information, contact Elizabeth Bricker at 702794-0090 or ebricker@jccsn.org. jccsn.org

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BILL MAHER: Through July 23, 10 p.m., $59.99. Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. mirage.com BARENAKED LADIES: Time TBA, $41.50.

Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 200 S. 3rd Street, Las Vegas. 800-745-3000. dlvec.com

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THE ART OF RAP FESTIVAL: Time TBA, $28.

Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, 200 S. 3rd Street, Las Vegas. 800-745-3000. dlvec.com LITTLE MISS HANNAH'S RAINBOWS IN THE WIND FESTIVAL: 5:30 p.m., $5-$10. Town Square Las Vegas, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702269-5001. mytownsquarelasvegas.com ARISE ROOTS: 8 p.m., $10-$15. Backstage Bar and Billiards, 601 Fremont Street, Las Vegas.

702-382-2227. backstagebarandbilliards.com ALAN CUMMINGS SINGS HAPPY SONGS: 6 & 8:30 p.m., $59. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-7492012. thesmithcenter.com LIPSHTICK - THE PERFECT SHADE OF STAND UP - GARFUNKEL AND OATES: 9:30 p.m., cost TBA. Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-414-1000. venetian.com

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THE OFFSPRING: 8 p.m., $45. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-8622695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas BLINK-182: 7:30 p.m., $45. Hard Rock, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. hardrockhotel.com THE NEIGHBORHOOD AWARDS BEACH PARTY: 8 p.m., $99.50. Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-632-7777. mandalaybay.com

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CAMP BROADWAY - CLASSIC CAMP: Through July 29, times vary, costs vary. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

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AN EVENING WITH CHRIS BOTTI: 8 p.m., $29. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

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MOVIES IN THE SQUARE - MR. PEABODY AND SHERMAN: Sundown, free. Town Square Las Vegas, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

702-269-5001. mytownsquarelasvegas.com

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NEW EDITION - THIS ONE'S FOR YOU TOUR: 9 p.m., $49.50. Hard Rock, 4455 Paradise Road, Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. hardrockhotel.com HAPA: Through July 30, 7 p.m., $35. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

PROTOJE AND THE INDIGGNATION ANCIENT FUTURE US TOUR WITH RAGING FYAH: 9 p.m., $15. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas

BOBBY BONES AND THE RAGING IDIOTS: 8 p.m., $29. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com UB40: 9 p.m., $39.50-$45. Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-6327777. mandalaybay.com LIPSHTICK - THE PERFECT SHADE OF STAND UP - LISA LAMPANELLI: 9:30 p.m., cost TBA. Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas.

702-414-1000. venetian.com TIM ALLEN: 10 p.m., $59.99. Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. mirage.com ROB ZOMBIE AND KORN: Time TBA, $39.50.

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THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM WITH JJUUJJUU: 9 p.m., $29.50. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-8622695. brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas BRIAN MCKNIGHT: 8 p.m., $33. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. thesmithcenter.com

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Pappardelle Verde Luxurious wide ribbons of housemade pappardelle noodles are infused with stinging nettle, yielding an unforgettable flavor and a bright, distinctive color.

Tossed with a ragu of braised duck, white wine, tomato and sage, which the chef finishes in the kitchen with ParmigianoReggiano.

Carnevino Italian Steakhouse at The Palazzo, 3325 Las Vegas Blvd., S., Las Vegas. 702-789-4141.

Smoky Negroni Some people contend that the Negroni cocktail dates back to Florence in the 1920s, when the flamboyant count and noted tippler Camillo Negroni requested a splash of gin with his Americano. Others say the drink has been around as long as the Americano. Neither matters as much as the taste of it, and variations are always welcome. DW Bistro has created a smoky twist on this classic cocktail, and chef Dalton Wilson recommends enjoying it with a “cocktail caviar” made of apple.

Ingredients: • • • • • • • •

2 ounces El Silencio Mezcal 1/2 ounce Contratto Bitter 1/2 ounce Antica Carpano 3 dashes Bittermens Hellfire Habanero Shrubs 1 ounce pineapple juice 1 ounce DW Lemonade Orange peel cocktail caviar

Glass: Rock Glass Method: In a pint glass, add El Silencio Mezcal, Contratto, sweet vermouth and bitters.

Add ice and stir. Strain over ice.

Garnish: Orange peel boat and topped with cocktail caviar DW Bistro, 6115 S Fort Apache Rd #112, Las Vegas, NV 89148.

702- 527-5200

World Burger Tour No passport required to eat your way around the globe for this World Burger Tour. The tour showcases international Local Legendary™ Burgers — including Las Vegas’ own ATOMIC! Burger, featuring a Certified Angus beef patty, with Atomic-beer-battered peppers, pepper jack cheese, caramelized onions, sautéed mushrooms, garlic chipotle ketchup and chipotle mayo. The English Breakfast Burger, an homage to a classic English breakfast; the Jamaican Jerk Burger, with mango jalapeño cream cheese and jerk seasoning inspired by Montego Bay; and the Java Lava Burger, from Seattle, made (of course) with an espresso rub and lava sauce. The limited time menu runs through June 30.

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Dad’s Desires These sunglasses by Dillon are created with a radical technology to produce a polarized diffused reflector with a satin-like surface that absorbs all internal reflections. This gives the lens a stealth-like appearance. Now available in prescription lenses, only from Eyes & Optics. $345. Eye & Optics, Downtown Summerlin, 11035 Lavender Hill Dr., Las Vegas. 702-254-0332.

This burgundy wool scarf pocket square by SuitSupply will finish the look of any gentleman. $49.00. SuitSupply, Grand Canal Shoppes, 3327 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-359-6100.

The “Bryant” leather backpack by Michael Kors is cool and functional and perfect for a city excursion or the daily office grind. $498. Michael Kors, Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian & The Palazzo, 3327 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-731-2510.

The ultimate leather sneaker by Salvatore Ferragamo. No need to mess with laces, it is sleek and always ready to go. $695.

Salvatore Ferragamo, Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian & The Palazzo, 3327 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-369-0251.

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Make his shaving experience a celebration with the Lexington Collection Fusion Power Razor. $175. The Art of Shaving, Downtown Summerlin, 720 Festival Plaza Drive, Las Vegas. 702-728-2531.

For the candy lover in him, a gift of a sugar high that says “Dad, you’re the sweetest guy!” Gift assortments range from $10 to $30, as shown $28. Clay’s Candy Bar, 5693 S. Jones, #102, Las Vegas. 702-247-4466.

It’s the water bottle for the board room and a swell idea when it comes to your sipping. Made of double-walled stainless steel, it’s hand-dipped so no two bottles are the same. S’well Water Bottle will keep liquid hot for 12 hours and cold for 24. $34.99-44.99. Container Store, Town Square , 6521 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-712-4801.

Understated and handsome and designed by Paloma Picasso, the knot double-wrap bracelet is made of leather and rose gold. $350. Tiffany & Co., Fashion Show, 3200 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-734-2461.

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Try to top this golf This 8-acre playground offers exciting interactive golf games. Guests of all ages and skill levels can relax in hitting bays that feature HDTVs and comfy, lounge-style seating. Up to six competitors (per bay) can track the accuracy and distance of their shots thanks to Topgolf’s microchipped golf balls. The facility also boasts additional game areas – from cornhole and shuffleboard, to everything in between.

If playing is not your thing, hang out, sip a cocktail, grab a bite and enjoy the Strip views.

Topgolf Las Vegas, 4627 Koval Lane, Las Vegas. 702-933-8458.

Bedazzled Beauty & Essex restaurant and lounge celebrates food, drink and jewels. The newly opened venue, by TAO Group and chef Chris Santos explores jewels in all forms. Pearls, gemstones, vintage jewelry boxes, and antique, heirloom pieces abound. This pawn shop-inspired space features a custom chandelier made of draped pearls that radiate from the ceiling down the walls, and a number of plush, tufted purple banquettes. A wall of framed vintage lockets leads guests to a trio of ornate dining rooms, designed with custom finishes, metallic and jewel-toned hues and glamorous lighting.

Beauty & Essex, Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89109 702-737-0707

Sky Combat To channel your inner Top Gun pilot, Sky Combat Ace teaches the basics of aerial dogfighting to complete a simulated attack mission.

It’s the closest you’ll come to being a fighter pilot without joining the Air Force. Ride along or get behind the controls, all under the supervision of a highly trained fighter pilot. An adrenaline rush is guaranteed. Plus, it’s something to check off your bucket list.

Sky Combat Ace, 1420 Jet Stream Drive, Henderson. 888-494-5850.

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mingle THE LAS VEGAS FASHION COUNCIL AND 18B, THE ARTS DISTRICT HOST THE 2ND ANNUAL ARTLIVE! Venue 1

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Date Sunday, May 22

Event The organizers chose the following event title. “Lives Intertwined: The American and Israeli role in the future of the State of Israel” Nearly 200 attendees from the Las Vegas Jewish community came together in support of Israel and JNF’s mission of building a peaceful and prosperous future for the land and people of Israel. Rabbi Nachum Meth delivered the D’var Torah (lesson from scripture). Guest Speaker, Talia Tzour Avner, KKL-JNF Chief Israeli Emissary spoke, providing history and context of the working relationship between the JNF and its partner organizations in Israel.

To make a donation, or to learn more about the Jewish National Fund Las Vegas, please visit www.jnf.org/lasvegas or contact Shawn Willis at 702-434-6506 ext. 985, swillis@jnf.org #JNFLasVegas

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Date Saturday, May 21

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Camp K’helah Promotes Pool Fun and Safety

By Offering the American Red Cross Swim Program

By Lisa Stark

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ccording to the Talmud, parents are obligated to teach their child the Torah, a trade and how to swim. When that was written, of course, Jews lived in landlocked Europe. Why was swimming deemed so important to a child’s life?

The Talmud authors recognized that parents must teach their children how to survive — how to come out on the “swim” end of the “sink or swim” maxim. Teaching a child to swim became a metaphor, then, for learning how to be resilient, independent and successful.

Learning life skills is a core component of the Jewish Community Center’s Camp K’helah. So it makes perfect sense that when the JCC looked at enhancing its overall program, the pool was the first area of focus.

“Pool is the heart of where we build community,” says K’helah camp director Beth Falk. “We are emotionally connected to it.”

This summer the camp’s aquatics program will be unlike anything

before. Think learning to swim on steroids. Camp K’helah is launching a full-fledged American Red Cross Swim Program, the ultimate in swim skill and safety.

In the past, the aquatics program was fine but not fantastic. Under the supervision of the staff at Adelson Educational Campus, there were never any incidents or problems. But the Camp K’Helah leadership believes the pool program has so much more potential.

“We see strengthening our swim program as a unique opportunity to differentiate ourselves from other camps,” says JCC Executive Director Jeff Metz. “More importantly, we can continue to help campers grow in a meaningful way that will impact their lives and their parents’ lives.”

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camp for their kids are about the swim program. Most of the time on her camp tours, she says, is spent staring out at the pool.

U.S. drowning statistics are sobering. From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in this country — about 10 a day. And about New location in 2016 For Campers Entering 2nd - 6th Grade one in five people who dies from drowning is a child 14 or younger.

Big Bear, California August 8 - August 12 Just about all parents have “pool” stories. When my youngest was San Bernadino National Forest Register online @ jccsn.org 4 we were at a pool party and surrounded by a half dozen lifeguards.

Archery • Arts & Crafts • Canoeing • Hiking • Fishing • Camp Fires Then I saw my son at the bottom of the pool. I yelled at the lifeguards, Drama • Nature Lore • Swimming • Wall Climbing • Dance who fished him out. But that gripping fear I felt has never left me.

Julie, a mom of three camp-aged kids, shares a similar horror story.

“We were at a friend’s outdoor pool party. I got distracted (while) getting food for my two older kids and took my eyes off my youngest son Jason, who was 3 at the time,” she says, her voice still thick with the trauma of the experience. “He fell in with all of his clothes on. Thank g-d another parent jumped in and grabbed him. It took him three more years to learn how to swim. And, in many ways, water fears still haunt him … and me!”

Parents of Camp K’helah campers can take comfort in knowing that safety is the top priority for newly hired aquatics director Sheryl Davis-Hass.

For the preschool and kindergarten groups, each instructor will work with six children. A counselor also will be in the pool, providing a 1:3 ratio of adult to child supervision. At least two lifeguards also will always be on duty, Davis-Hass says.

For more experienced swimmers, the instructor to child ratio is JCC of 1:6, with additional supervision by American Red Cross-certified Southern Nevada lifeguards and camp staff.

Unlike in past years, all swim staff, including lifeguards and instructors, will be hired and supervised by Camp K’helah. Falk hopes to have 10 total swim staffers on board by the start of camp.

Camp K'hilah Pines 1/4 Page 03.16.indd 1 2/18/16 “Parents should feel 100 percent confident that their children are being watched by people screened and selected not only for their Red Cross and WSI certification,” she says, “but for their camp experience and character.”

On the instructional side, all campers are evaluated on the first day of camp. They are then separated by age and ability (defined by colored wristbands). Swim-a-grams will be sent home each Friday, CELEBRATING JEWISH CAMPING IN LAS VEGAS providing parents with updates on the progress that their child has made in Instructional Swim that week For Davis-Hass, this job is a perfect fit. The kindergarten teacher and Camp K’helah division head grew up by the pool. She swam competitively and coached her daughter through her competitive swimming career. She also taught swimming at an international school in Okinawa, Japan. When Metz and Falk looked for the right person to lead the Red Cross Program, Davis-Hass was an easy choice. Her passion for the pool is palpable.

“No matter what kind of a day you are having, you always feel bet21 Specialty Camp Options ter when you come out of the water,” says Davis-Hass.

American Red Cross Certified Aquatics Program The newly revamped aquatics program will be a big selling point Early Childhood Program for the moms and dads of prospective campers. After all, it’s a mileK-7th Grade Core Camp Program stone for parents whose children have learned to swim, when they w can hear the word “pool” without their stomach clenching.

Ne Teen Travel Camp Metz sees the stepped-up swim program through an even wider Teen Leadership Program lens. “The goal of the program,” he says, “is to help kids grow in the pool and in their lives. The skills they are learning – working with others, becoming independent and confident, building community JCC of and leadership – these traits will serve them in anything they do.”

Southern Nevada For Falk, the upside is even simpler. “The pool is where you can be you.”

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“Behind every successful woman is a tribe of successful women who have her back.”

By Lisa Stark

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hese words perfectly articulate the framework and collective sentiment for the Women’s Leadership Conference, the signature event of the MGM Resorts Foundation. Now in its 10th year, the goal of the WLC is to arm women with skills to be successful in life and work.

Sounds great on paper, but what does that mean for those who attend? For Las Vegas professional Debby Cameron, the WLC was a pivotal turning point in her career trajectory. The MGM administrative assistant attended for a day two years ago. What she thought would be a positive experience was instead a life-altering two days.

After participating in workshops, networking with female role models and listening to inspirational speeches, Cameron left the WLC with the confidence to take the next step in her career. She enrolled in a program at Capella University and is pursuing her master’s in In-

formation Technology. She credits the people she met and the stories she heard at the conference with inspiring her to take the giant leap.

“It lit a fire that started to burn,” Cameron says, “and I had to do something with it. You could feel the power in the room. It was tangible. It gave me the encouragement and support I needed to move forward.”

Personal stories of success and sisterhood drive the Women’s Leadership Conference Committee to aim higher every year.

Dawn Christensen, MGM’s director of national diversity relations, corporate diversity and community relations, plans to knock it out of the park in her first year as the WLC organizer.

“My hope is that women who attend the conference walk away ready to make an impact in their lives wherever they are needed,” Christensen says. “Sometimes this means personal growth. Perhaps they connect with a speaker who personifies resilience … which, in turn, helps them

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overcome a challenge in their life. Maybe they network with other women, thus opening new doors of opportunity. Perhaps they learn a tactical skill. Maybe they make progress in all three areas.”

Christensen’s passion is palpable when you speak with her. Other WLC Committee members exude similar excitement about their work.

As an organization, MGM Resorts International walks the walk and talks the talk in support of grooming and hiring women for leadership positions. At MGM, 43 percent of the managerial positions and 27 percent of the Board of Directors spots are held by women.

And that raises the question: Is a women’s conference still needed in 2016? After all, as a nation we are within a November general election of possibly having a first-ever female president. And the National Football League has recently hired its first female assistant coach. Yet in corporate America, gender equity numbers still favor men by a wide margin.

Women hold 14.2 percent of the top five leadership positions at companies in the S&P 500. Of 500 companies, 24 have female CEOs. So, yes, it seems conferences designed to empower women are still needed.

The WLC began as the Women of Color Conference in 2007. Four leaders of the Las Vegas minority women’s chambers of commerce created the event. And though it has grown in size and scope, its core mission remains the same.

“It’s a chance to connect with like-minded women,” says Christensen. “And equally important, to be a lifelong learner.”

Diversity is a key component. Diversity of ethnicity, career status and age. The conference draws from a spectrum of industries, and across many local and national organizations. This year, the featured speakers are diverse ethnically and in what they have to share with their colleagues.

Adrianne Haslet, a professional ballroom dancer, was at the finish line at the 2013 Boston Marathon when terrorist bombs exploded.

She lost part of her left leg. Eric Boles is a consultant and executive coach whose clients include Starbucks, Boeing, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army Rangers. Barbara Atkinson, founding dean of the UNLV School of Medicine, also is slated to speak. Christensen says other big name speakers are yet to be announced.

This year the WLC also will team with the College of Southern Nevada in offering continuing education credits.

The Aug. 8-9 conference caps attendance at 1,000, which includes about 100 men. The cost is $450, which Christensen considers a good investment for those attending and their communities.

“Attendees can feel good that all of the proceeds go to a local nonprofit that supports women and children,” says Christensen. “The cost is much lower compared to other conferences of this caliber.”

For Las Vegas professional Lindsay Howard, the admission price was money well spent.

“Being a female in the construction industry, I have had my fair share of challenges,” the project manager for Commercial Roofers Inc. says. “I have heard the term ‘being a woman in a man’s world’ too many times.”

For Howard, the conference not only touched her personally but it inspired the tribe of women around her “I met so many women from all industries and all walks of life,” Howard says. “We were able to connect and encourage each other.

After attending, I felt empowered and excited to share what I learned with my female coworkers and industry contacts. Women are making a difference in all industries, and this conference put an exclamation to that point.”

To register for the 2016 Women’s Leadership Conference, go to www.mgmresortsfoundation.org/womensleadershipconference/register. Follow #WLC2016 on social media.

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The Impresario of Vegas Troy Heard and Sin City’s Onyx Theatre

By Jaq Greenspon • Photos by Richard Brusky

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f you’re the artistic type, there’s a certain story you share with other artistic types. And while all the pieces may not be exactly the same, there are enough similarities to recognize a fellow practitioner. It usually involves a university, some grandiose dreams, some collaborative cohorts and a late night coffee shop with a specific table, where you all hang out and where all your dreams and desires and plans are poured out with every bottomless cup of coffee.

For Troy Heard, the coffee shop was in Georgia and the communal sitting spot, Table 8, was right next to the jukebox. Unlike a lot of the people who share the beginnings of this story, Heard left the coffee shop and actually turned the plans into reality. And Table 8 became the name of the nonprofit theater production company he’s been running for the last decade. “First it became a catch-all for ad hoc productions. The LA Premiere of Debbie Does Dallas the Musical back in 07,” he explains. “When I came back to Vegas, it was the beginning of this

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Left: Troy Heard on the set of Reservoir Dolls. Above: Scenes from some of the Onyx Theatre’s productions.

new trend of immersive and site-specific and interactive theater, that was really spurred on by Sleep No More in New York.”

Heard originally had come to Las Vegas in 2005. He stayed two years before going back to Atlanta to help some friends start a new theater company. But that was the year of the financial collapse and

by Christmas 2009, he was back in Vegas, looking for venues for his new ideas. “We wanted to start crossing the boundary of ‘Let’s go sit down and watch a play’ versus ‘How do we become part of the play.’”

Their first attempt was Oregon Trail: The Play, based on the ubiquitous ‘80s video game. While the play itself was produced in a regular theater space, it included video game elements: The audience could “shoot” at the cast as if in an arcade gallery.

The immersive idea continued. Table 8 produced shows like A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, the story of L. Ron Hubbard told entirely by kids; and Jonestown, about the 1978 Guyana tragedy in which more than 900 people died in a mass www.davidlv.com | JUNE/JULY 2016

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murder-suicide. In Jonestown, all tickets were presold. Ticket holders were emailed the location (from “The Peoples Temple,” which welcomed them as new congregants) only on the day of the show.

Heard, who also writes a number of the company’s productions, took the original transcripts of the tragedy and crafted a two-part script, first having the audience listen to the actual words of leader Jones in the form of a sermon. “It was his highlights, it was his stance on politics, his stance on race relations, his stance on religion. And midway through the sermon was interrupted and you’re swept off to ‘Guyana.’ You were taken outside, under the stars, and we created the final day of Guyana. The audience was taken through the line and you opted to drink the Kool-Aid or not drink the Kool-Aid. It was a way of exploring the tragedy from the congregants’ point of view.”

While Table 8’s primary drive is the immersive and site-specific shows (keep an eye out for The Cat’s Meow at The Velveteen Rabbit for the company’s latest effort), it does contract out, producing shows for other venues. “Have to do your Christmas Carol or Annie to pay for everything else,” Heard says, laughing. And to that end, they’ve done two shows for Super Summer Theatre out at Spring Mountain Ranch. Last year, they did Bye Bye Birdie, but still “tried to find Table 8 elements” and had the cast, preshow, wander the audience, recruiting new members for the Conrad Birdie Fan Club, inducing them to pledge and sing the club song.

Unfortunately… Table 8 doesn’t always put food on the table.

“You’ve got to constantly hustle, you’ve got to constantly pick up gigs,” says Heard. “People make fun of me for doing so much. They say you direct a show a month, why do you do it? That’s because one show is not going to pay a bill, but 12 shows over 12 months eventually will take care of things. … You just can’t rest and you can’t

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stop. Not until you write Hamilton, then you’re fine.”

With that in mind, though, a more permanent position wouldn’t go amiss. And so it was that in December 2014, five years after he returned to “The biggest small town I’ve ever lived in,” he was asked to come in and take the reigns of the Onyx Theatre. His choice was either accept the position or watch the theater close. Heard had directed a few shows there and agreed, provided the owners gave him carte blanche to do as he wanted: that meant focusing on comedy, producing original work and closing The Rack, the infamous fetish shop that shared theater space that Heard wanted for a studio.

It worked.

It worked well.

“I stepped in,” he says, his boyish enthusiasm belying his 40 years, “and we’ve just been working really really hard over the past year and a half. We made an announcement last week: We have formed a new board of directors that is establishing a new nonprofit entity called Onyx Theatre Inc., and we are going to purchase the business, take over the lease and continue taking the Onyx in a positive direction.”

That includes (as the theater finishes up its 10th season) taking an original production, Titus Andronicus, Jr., to the Hollywood Fringe Festival and lining up an even more commercial 11th season. “We took a lot of risks this year,” Heard says. “We did four world premieres, which was great, but we’re looking ahead. We’re looking at a five-year plan to grow the facility.”

Part of what he’s fighting, though, is Vegas itself. “It’s the Vegas 72-hour mentality,” Heard explains, “and that trickles down from the Strip. The city reinvents itself every 72 hours, and you have to constantly remind people these things are still here and this is still going.”

Heard is hopeful, though, that things will change soon, and for

the better. With companies like Cockroach Theater and Super Summer “upping their game,” and the Smith Center starting to produce its own shows, he thinks we might “start eventually seeing Vegas on the national map for theater, for culture. It just takes the algorithm of consistency and quality.” He also believes we have the ultimate theater farm team in the form of the award-winning children’s theater group, The Rainbow Company. “Rainbow is a cornerstone of theater in Las Vegas and education in Las Vegas. It crosses all the boundaries,” he says. And Heard’s Onyx is the youthful thespians’ steppingstone, taking in volunteers and cast.

Cast?

Sure. “It started with Scientology Pageant, which was the first time I worked with kids out here in Vegas. The parents were all amazed: ‘You work really well with kids. Maybe you should do Shakespeare.’”

But just doing a Shakespeare play performed by kids isn’t enough.

By Heard’s reckoning, you can see that in every high school in America. Still, he was intrigued by the parents’ suggestion. “Somehow I work well with kids, even with the twisted sense of humor,” he says.

Taking a cue from the Addams Family, he wondered What if you do Titus with kids? Yes, Titus is a bloody, brutal play, but “that was too much of a gimmick,” Heard says. Finally, he hit upon the right concoction: a play about a teacher directing a student production of Shakespeare, with a “wraparound of the teacher having the meltdown and Titus’s descent somehow (reflecting) the teacher’s descent.”

The show played successfully through May. Now, it’s on to Hollywood for a three-week run at the Fringe festival – kids and all. And you can bet while they’re in Tinseltown, Heard and his cast and crew will sit around a coffee shop table dreaming up a plan for what’s next for Las Vegas theater.

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Herringbone’s Head Chef Geno Bernardo Is Back Where He Belongs

By Jason Harris • Photos by Marie Buck

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’m sitting on the patio at Aria, one of the fanciest hotels in Las Vegas. This specific spot is so swank. It’s so close to the pool with the bikini bods. It’s so close to the misters that are cooling me from the sun. It’s so close to the DJ, who is playing just the type of music. I may as well be in Miami or the French Riviera.

And the head chef at the restaurant, one of the most buzz worthy on The Strip and known for its fish-centric menu, just brought me a plate of radishes. They weren’t cooked or cut in a way that showed some knife skill dominance. They weren’t manipulated with molecular gastronomy or transformed into some type of gelée. Just

radishes! Plain, complete with their tops on. A little butter, a little salt and a little honey on the side.

This is Herringbone, the newest jewel in Aria’s restaurant row crown. It’s the third location of the eatery from owner Brian Malarkey of Top Chef and The Taste fame. And this one, this specific location is going into a different stratosphere for one reason: head chef Geno Bernardo.

If you’re a foodie and live in Las Vegas, you most likely recognize that name. Bernardo called Las Vegas home for many years before disappearing. When he reappeared with the opening of Herringbone at

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Left: Crudo. Above: Grilled Branzino with Mussels & Clams.

the start of 2016, the food mafia smiled with excitement, and rightly so.

Bernardo, now 44, is at a place in his career where he not only has mastered many aspects of his craft, he is confident enough to put down a plate of radishes and know they’re worth the price. Which begs the question: Is Geno Bernardo about to lead a mini food revolution on The Strip?

Every Bruce Springsteen fan knows that greatness lives and breathes in Asbury Park, N.J. It’s where The Boss perfected the Jersey Shore bar band rock sound. It’s also where a young Geno Bernardo (who, in case you were wondering, saw Springsteen at The Stone Pony) learned to love cooking. He has fond memories, at age 8, of his great-grandmother in the kitchen and his great-grandfather foraging through the local surroundings. And, of course, like any good Italian kid from Jersey, he remembers Sunday dinners. As he puts it, “Food and Sundays and night time was a big event at my house. It was an experience. It was about the culture. I just really fell in love with it.”

Bernardo grew up when even fast food was prepared food. At 14, he lied about his age so he could work breakfast shifts at McDonald’s, back when that actually involved cooking breakfast.

From there, he enhanced his culinary skills at Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island.

With college debts to pay, the Italian-American chef stepped away from the kitchen. “I wanted to learn fundamentals of different aspects” of business, he says. “I wanted to learn front of the house. I wanted to learn how to be a manager. I wanted to learn receiving. It definitely helped me.”

He worked as a manager at Logan Airport in Boston, endured the corporate rigmarole at Houlihan’s (he was a kitchen manager) and did time as a steward at the Met Life Building in New York City. By immersing himself in all the other areas of the restaurant, he was ready to own the kitchen when he returned to it.

He headed west to San Diego, where he prepared food in the fine dining area of The Fish Market. After that he took a job on a boat and later learned all things raw fish while working at sushi restaurants.

Herringbone didn’t exist back then, but it was as if Bernardo had been training for his current gig since graduating from culinary school.

Geno Bernardo seems made for Las Vegas. He’s charismatic. He’s a showman. And he embraces the spotlight.

He first landed here more than a decade ago when he opened Nove in The Palms. He likes to say that he helped put the restaurant on the map, and the restaurant helped put him on the map.

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spaghetti and red sauce days of the Jersey Shore. “Italian food was always my passion,” he says. “What people don’t understand is that for a long period of time Italian food wasn’t really cool.”

As Nove ascended to a must-try dining destination, and The Palms a must-visit hotel, Bernardo had a specific mindset. “Back then there were so many celebrity chefs,” he recalls. “This place (Las Vegas) was celebrity chef-driven. It was a fight every day. I thought I was fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world. I pushed myself so hard.”

One of the things he did back then was create relationships with local purveyors. He went to neighboring towns, forged friendships with farmers and delved into the farm-to-table game before it became trendy.

It was a dream job. Bernardo wistfully refers to Nove as his “first baby.” But as The Palms fell out of favor with the public and was sold to new owners, Bernardo, too, needed a change.

He returned home to New York to work for iconic chef David Burke. That relationship lasted less than a year. Then he decamped to Cabo San Lucas and cooked for the rich and famous at El Dorado.

Private yacht parties, being flown in to cook at George Strait’s ranch, catering Christmas parties for the elite of the 1 percent. It was nice, he says, but at “the end of the day I felt I went out to pasture because you’re still a country club chef.”

He needed Las Vegas – and perhaps it needed him. He moved back in 2015, with a view toward opening his own place. But as that option receded, the Herringbone opening fell into his lap. He and owner Malarkey hit it off, and the two were on their way.

What Herringbone is now (and what it will become) bears Bernardo’s stamp. Malarkey is a hands-off restaurateur, who will allow a star chef to interpret the owner’s vision while adding his own flair.

Herringbone Las Vegas offers some classic Malarkey magic. The freshest oysters are always in house. One day it might be Kusshi, the next Big Rock – both with fresh lemon and a tangy kimchi mignonette. Raw fish is a must. Spanish yellow fin is so clean it almost tastes sweet. Served with ponzu and a pineapple relish, it’s an easy plate to finish. Hamachi is stunning, both in presentation and taste. Buri, or Japanese amberjack, features the loin of the fish on the bottom of the plate, with the chopped up belly sitting on top of it. Sweet mangoes from Hawaii, extra virgin olive oil from Italy and house-made, pickled jalapeños make this a dish that fuses excellent elements from all corners of the globe.

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Snapper is a favorite fish of Bernardo, who lets the complementary ingredients speak for themselves. The cheek is prepared with roasted tomatoes and a simple lemon peanut sauce. The tomato is good enough to be the star of its own dish, but here it elevates the fish.

A more intricate layering of flavors is put forth with the grilled octopus. It’s covered with olive oil, rosemary, chiles and lemon and left to confit for three hours. From there it is chilled to room temp, marinated with herbs, charred assertively and finished with 8-yearold balsamic vinegar from Modena. This is the type of dish that little Geno might have seen while helping Great Grandma in the kitchen.

But here he takes it to an ultra-modern Mediterranean destination.

And for the Bernardo loyalists from the old days, hints of Nove find their way onto the menu. His egg yolk ravioli oozes when a fork breaks its packet. The other element of the filling, lemon-spiked ricotta, adds cheese and citrus to counterbalance the yolk. Finished with lemon white wine butter sauce and pancetta, it’s a dish that will be on repeat order. Perhaps the only criticism is that the dish doesn’t come with enough charred bread to soak up all that yolky goodness.

The squid ink and lobster tortellini might best represent what was and is for Bernardo. Here it’s served in a rich sofrito butter, with crunchy haricot verts mixed in for texture and color.

And while all of this is exciting, what’s not on the menu yet might be even more intriguing. On a recent brunch visit, Bernardo served what can best be described as the Italian version of the Middle Eastern dish shakshouka. Stewed San Marzano tomatoes commingling with pork, prosciutto and poached eggs make a ragu that should easily become a favorite for patrons.

Bernardo hopes to do with fish what chef David Chang does with pig at Momofuku. “It’s doing a head-to-tail fish dinner,” Bernardo explains. “I want to start out with three or four different species from around the world, anywhere from 5 to 8 pounds. That will feed six people. The head is going to be a soup. The top part is going to be some type of sashimi to crudo. The middle part is going to be roasted.

Then we’re going to finish with grilled. Then the tail will be something unique. With that, it’s vegetables from the farm. A progression where it’s moving from the head to the tail. It’s the evolution of one fish.”

And it’s the evolution of Geno Bernardo that likely will take Herringbone Las Vegas to greater heights. He may be a kid from Jersey, but now he’s back where he belongs: running one of the best restaurants in Las Vegas. Welcome home, chef. www.davidlv.com | JUNE/JULY 2016

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Star Bankers City National Bank Has Their Clients’ Backs, Just as They did for Frank Sinatra

By Lynn Wexler

Frank Sinatra, right, and Dean Martin leave the Bel Air home of Sinatra’s ex-wife Nancy as preparations were being made for a celebration for freed kidnap victim Frank Sinatra Jr. in 1963. Al Hart, then chairman of City National Bank, produced $240,000 to ransom Frank Sinatra Jr.

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t’s more than a curious footnote that City National Bank’s most recent ties to Nevada indirectly began more than half a century ago with the bungled kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. The criminal conspiracy that would partly define Frank Sr.’s son forever as the victim of an imbecilic abduction plot — never mind his later career as a singer, composer and eventual musical director for his dad — was hatched at roughly the same time as John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas.

The president’s murder on Nov. 22, 1963, was an outrageous shock that demoralized a nation, and much of the world, plunging millions into black melancholy and instantly eradicating a selfabsorbed nation’s innocence amid the Cold War with the Soviet Union. For Frank Sr., it was a personal tragedy. JFK and his younger brother Bobby were Frank’s good friends.

But within days of that emotional trauma, Old Blue Eyes found himself in the middle of his own family crisis. It involved his 19-year-old son, whose singing career was just getting under way

with a three-week gig at Harrah’s Club Lodge in Stateline, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe’s southern shore.

On Sunday, Dec. 8, 1963, “Junior” (his real name was Francis Wayne Sinatra; his father’s was Francis Albert Sinatra) was snatched.

Two 23-year-old former Los Angeles high school chums had been shadowing Sinatra – in Phoenix and Los Angeles and now in Nevada – for some time.

The two kidnappers burst into young Sinatra’s dressing room that evening, tied up his friend (using ½-inch Johnson & Johnson adhesive tape) and hustled the singer out a side door and into the trunk of a waiting car.

The narrow medical tape used to bind up Sinatra’s friend was hardly adequate for the job, and the man quickly freed himself and notified authorities. Roadblocks went up. The captors were stopped.

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Chairman and CEO, City National Bank, Russell Goldsmith (right) and his father Bram Goldsmith the former chairman and CEO.

FBI agents, meantime, set up shop in Reno, where Frank Sinatra Sr. had a room at the Mapes Hotel and was drinking coffee and chain-smoking cigarettes while waiting for the abductors to call.

Agents met with Sinatra, and separately with his ex-wife Nancy at her home in Bel Air, California. They recommended that Sinatra pay the ransom if a demand were made, which they believed would enable the Bureau to track the money and arrest the kidnappers. On Dec. 10, a third conspirator, brought in just for that task, phoned Sinatra Sr. and demanded $240,000 to get his son back.

Sinatra wasn’t a client of City National at the time. So he called his bank, after hours, and asked for help in obtaining the ransom money. No can do, he was told. Sinatra, desperate for his son’s safety, turned to his friend Al Hart, the first chief executive officer of City National, who could and did get the money — the marked bills, taken from the bank’s vault — that would help (along with some latent fingerprints) the FBI eventually track down the conspirators. The drop was made hours later at a Texaco station in Sepulveda (now North Hills), another San Fernando Valley suburb.

The money was left between two parked school buses.

Once the conspirators were caught (one of them, worried about the ringleader’s mental stability and what it might portend for

Sinatra Jr., had let the celebrity son go near Mrs. Sinatra’s home in Bel Air), much of the ransom money was recovered.

Frank Sr., not forgetting what Hart had done in the crooner’s hour of need, began urging his friends to take their business to City National. It gave the bank a foothold in the burgeoning entertainment industry.

“Twenty percent of CNB’s business today revolves around the entertainment industry,” says CEO Russell Goldsmith, a Harvardtrained lawyer with his own ties to the entertainment world. “That’s a whole division that works to provide both private and commercial banking services to one trade.”

Goldsmith has been CNB chairman and CEO since 1995, when he took over from his father Bram, whose own father, Ben Maltz, was one of CNB’s co-founders in Beverly Hills in January 1954.

Over the course of three generations, CNB has expanded its Southern California footprint, has operated in the Bay Area since 2000 and has maintained a presence in New York City since 2002.

It bought the Business Bank of Nevada in 2007, Sun West Bank of Nevada in 2010 and Nevada Commerce Bank in 2011. It has had branches in Nashville and Atlanta since 2011. It merged with the Royal Bank of Canada in November 2015.

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“For all the new opportunities this merger (created),” Goldsmith says, “City National nevertheless continues to operate essentially as it has for more than 60 years - providing complete financial solutions for our clients, their businesses and their families … ” Goldsmith is married to Las Vegas native Karen Mack, a former entertainment attorney at Lorimar Television and Republic Studios in Los Angeles. She is also a producer and best-selling author. She is the daughter of Jerome Mack, who joined banker T. Parry Thomas in starting the UNLV land foundation that added 400 acres to the campus in 1967. When they later funded the campus basketball arena, it was named the Thomas & Mack Center in their honor.

Karen’s mother is Las Vegas philanthropist Joyce Mack, and her paternal grandfather co-founded the Bank of Las Vegas.

Russell Goldsmith began his career as an entertainment litigator in Los Angeles, co-founding his own law firm; he was the chief operating officer and director of Lorimar Television at one point in his career, and was chair and CEO of Republic Pictures Corp. From 2008-11, he was on the Federal Reserve Board’s Federal Advisory Council. In 2010, he founded the Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America, which comprises more than 50 U.S. banks.

In 1995, CNB had $3 billion in assets, 1,300 employees and 24

offices in Southern California. Under Goldsmith’s stewardship, City National had assets of $36.4 billion, 3,700 employees and 75 offices, in five states, according to its latest financial reports. It also manages or administers $53.9 billion in client investment assets, and has been listed on the NYSE since Dec. 4, 2002.

The Goldsmiths and the Thomas and Mack families have used their collective financial acumen and leverage to help shape the Nevada economic landscape. And CNB employees have donated their time to ensure the success of the bank’s Reading Way Up literacy programs in schools.

CNB also offers grants to teachers to help K-12 students learn about managing their money. May marks CNB’s annual workplace giving initiative. This year, its employees’ payroll deductions provided $1.3 million for designated charities.

“The ladder, which is the bank’s logo and (was) designed by Goldsmith, is meant to represent the Way Up for clients, colleagues and all in the community, to help constituents climb to greater personal success,” says CNB executive Paul Stowell.

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Tuscan Splendor Federica Mascheroni Stianti on Volpaia and Her Family’s Viticultural Legacy

By Marisa Finetti

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hen you receive an incomparable wedding gift, such as a quaint, historic village situated in the Tuscan countryside, it comes with great responsibility. This is what Federica Mascheroni Stianti’s mother Giovannella got from her father the day she wed.

She and her new husband Carlo had plans to move to Milan. Instead, the newlyweds embraced the extraordinary largesse – the village of Volpaia – that would eventually become the family estate and provide a one-of-a-kind tribute to Tuscan wine culture.

Set against the backdrop of Tuscany’s rolling hills, snowcapped mountains, dramatic cypress trees and miles of Tyrrhenian Sea coastline, the hilltop hamlet is a relic of the 12th century. At its heart is Volpaia, where some of the region’s most outstanding Chianti Classico and Super Tuscans are made. The charming Federica and I met for lunch, where we talked about the family’s passion

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for its business, the village’s preservation and her own special wine project, Prelius.

I soon learned that Volpaia means “a place of foxes.” It’s also the name of the estate, symbolized on the Riserva label by a cagey, fourlegged friend. Could Volpaia be a village where foxes and people live in harmony?

Federica pulls out her iPad and shows me a photo, taken by her niece, of a sweet, red fox with an injured leg. “So we caught her, put her in a box, and I drove the fox to the hospital,” Federica says. “I was starting to get so nervous because it was trying to scratch its way out of the box.”

Just as the fox is mindful and adaptable to its surroundings, so, too, are the Mascheroni Stiantis, whose dedication to capturing the essence and beauty of their wine is deeply rooted in their respect for the land.

“What is important to us,” says Federica, “is the environment and to conserve what is there. We grow organically; we conserve the village. We want to keep history alive.”

Volpaia’s earliest recorded history dates to 1172. It was once a key stronghold for medieval Florence, helping defend the powerful citystate’s border against rival Siena. But by the 1960s, when Tuscan farmers started moving to larger cities and abandoning their countryside estates, Federica’s grandfather, Raffaello Stianti, wanted to preserve Volpaia.

Thanks to investment and a bit of ingenuity, the fortified village today retains a great deal of its original architecture. It has become a must-visit site for those looking to visualize early Tuscany.

The family preserved the village’s rural and viticultural identity by discreetly inserting a modern winery into the 12th century build-

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ings. It housed aging cellars in cool basements — one is under an old church — and linked the subterranean spaces by a “wineduct” that hides modern winemaking amenities. The family also exploited the hillside’s natural elevation to move wine from the higher ground to lower ground: the crush pad is at the top, the barrel rooms downhill.

From the exterior, Volpaia retains its ancient Tuscan charm. But within the village is a hive of activity. All the inhabitants are directly or indirectly involved in winemaking, and over the years they’ve become like one big family.

“Most of the people have worked with us for more than 10 years,” says Federica. It takes a year to learn the basics of the wine process, she says, and relationships are key in ensuring a quality product and mastering the process.

“Life is made by the season of the wine,” she adds. “So one year is

never enough, because it’s really only the first experience. One year is one moment.”

Running a family business, she adds, also takes balance and a focused vision. She and her brother Nicolò, and their parents, have leveraged their individual talents, she says, in trying to produce the best quality wines to represent Volpaia.

Her mother, Giovannella, remains a huge inspiration and is clearly at the head of the business. “I don’t know what I’d do without her,” Federica says. “She has so much energy and passion.”

Federica describes the idea of the Chianti Classico and Chianti Classico Riserva offered with lunch. “What we want to have inside the bottle is the originality of the place. Volpaia is very unique. We want to keep the tradition of the place – all the concepts of organically grown and conservation of the village.”

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Left: Giovannella, Carlo, Nicolò and Federica - a family whose lives revolve around Volpaia. Above: The Prelius property.

But alongside the reds was a crisp, white wine, made of vermentino grapes. The label was more modern in style than those on the reds. Prelius, as the white is known, is from a different “place,” Federica says. Just as her mother received the village of Volpaia from her father, Federica was given the Prelius winery, on the Tuscan coast of Maremma, by her father.

Guidebooks often refer to Maremma, a once-forgotten region two hours north of Rome, as “Tuscany’s wild west.” Its sweep spans a Tyrrhenian seacoast of limestone cliffs and dunes to maritime pines, which look like storybook broccoli forests, to broad plains of olive trees and fragrant Mediterranean brush, and up to woodlands and ancient, fortified hill towns.

The plains here long were laced with swamps that were finally drained and channeled. Today, summertime offers vistas of sunflowers and waving, golden grain.

Federica manages the 52-acre Prelius property, where organically planted vermentino, cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, and merlot grow. The hilltop vineyards lie along what once was the shore of the ancient Lake Prelius. Accordingly, Prelius’ vermentino label features rings of shrinking shoreline, centered by an amorphous, celestial blue water drop. Today, only a small portion of the lake exists. It’s now part of a national park and a wintering home to migratory birds.

I fell under the spell of Prelius and its surroundings after a single sip of its distinctive white wine. Its racy citrus, tropical fruit and mineral notes, softened by maritime influences linger on the palate. This is all thanks to the Mascheroni Stianti family. Their passion and determination to revitalize an ancient village, their leadership of the local organic viticulture movement, has produced wines of unpretentious charm that capture the historic beauty of their home under the Tuscan sun.

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On the Road A Young Nomad Channels Her Inner Jack Kerouac as She Treks the Great Pacific Northwest.

Story and Photos By Janna Karel

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had just finished reading Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. And it inspired a hunger in me to set off on my own adventure, to meet my own Dean Moriarty, to explore the culture of an earlier America. So I pulled on my favorite flannel jacket, slid a flower into my hair, and set off for a road trip that would turn out to be half urban adventure, half time travel. I was on a mission to see my parents’ America, beyond the iconic landmarks. I was on my way to the Pacific Northwest.

SAN FRANCISCO I stepped off a cable car just past Chinatown and found San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood vibrant with art and music. A band of musicians played a jazzy Oriental tune in front of a mural of Teddy Wilson’s jazz trio. And illuminated open books hung from wires above them. If not for the modern cars driving by, I’d have thought it was 1957. I might have seen my

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San Francisco Skyline, as seen from Alcatraz Prison.

grandpa walk by, 18 years old with a pack of Luckies rolled up in his sleeve, if I stood there long enough.

That was the year Allen Ginsberg was peddling Howl around San Francisco, performing his anguished protest of the “starving hysterical naked” for anyone who’d listen. And City Lights Booksellers & Publishers became famous for publishing it.

What followed was the infamous Howl obscenity trial. And

while the trial failed to remove the work from bookshelves, it counter-productively solidified the Beat movement as one of counter-culture and self-expression.

As I explored the streets below City Lights, I discovered remnants of the Beat culture that once thrived here. Characterized as rebellious, philosophical and boorishly masculine, the Beat movement enticed young people with the thing that young

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people always want: to be free and a part of something.

I wandered into City Lights and meandered through the maze of bookshelves. Before leaving, I penciled Valentine Michael Smith onto a sticky note and affixed it to a bulletin board, under a sign that asked: “Who is your favorite literary hero?”

When I returned to my hostel, my roommates invited me to tag along with them to Vesuvio Cafe. On the way, they shared its history; it had been frequented by the godfathers of the beat movement, Ginsberg and Kerouac, themselves. Vesuvio served as a hub for beatniks from all over who needed a place to sit and think and write.

Even today, it is the cultural launch pad for young people setting off on the beat trail.

Sitting at the bar with six strangers, fellow travelers from Norway, Taiwan, Canada, and the U.S., I felt as if we were intimately honoring the spirit of the place. And we shared stories about where we were off to next, and why it was so important that we go there. For me, that next place was Haight-Ashbury, the epicenter of the hippie movement that shaped my parents’ childhoods.

Wandering through the Haight, I found that the culture of the ‘60s still exists. Folk music still wails from street corners, tie-dye and peace signs still adorn every storefront, and a very specific fragrance still wafts through the air.

A leisurely walk took me into the music of my parents’ adolescence. I strolled past the Grateful Dead House, where the influential band wrote what is now my favorite album American Beauty. And I found a nearby building decorated with a mural of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, luminaries credited with catalyzing the hippie culture through their anthems of love, peace and protest.

I caught a cable car to Golden Gate Park, lingered in the Japanese Tea Garden, and then, naturally, walked across the historic bridge.

The restaurant proves that only in Portland do people care enough about the environment and their fellow man to create an extensive menu of vegan, gluten-free pizza. (It left something to be desired.)

From there, I wandered over to Voodoo Doughnuts, the worldfamous shop that Anthony Bourdain famously visited to try their “non-conformist doughnuts.” I followed suit, selecting the triple chocolate penetration doughnut.

But the highlight of my culinary adventure was Pok Pok. The restaurant has garnered international acclaim for supposedly offering the best Thai food outside of Thailand. With a small group of fellow travelers from my hostel, I sat on the patio and feasted on sticky rice, spicy chicken wings, rich coconut curries and sweet creamy Thai tea.

Between the doughnut and the curry, I more than made up for the vegan, gluten-free “pizza.”

The following night, we stepped off the city’s light rail and found ourselves in a warren of small vintage shops. The city’s collective of creative people and its culture of recycling and upcycling mean that Portland’s 40-something vintage shops are always busy. Women in printed T-shirts, colorful scarves, sturdy leather clogs and untamed curls strolled the sidewalks, looking as if they’d just stepped out of the Polaroids from my mom’s high school days.

Later, the short walk to Deschutes Brewery offered us a veritable tour of Portland’s music scene. Nearly every corner was marked by one indie band or another busking for pocket change.

Once inside the brewery, we sat around a high top and shared origin stories. The other Americans were on a northbound route similar to mine; the Europeans, Australians and South Americans were doing the reverse. We sat around sharing ideas about where to go next and how to get there, sipping on craft beers until closing time.

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My first morning in Portland, I found myself in the farmers market. It seemed that the entire city had the same idea. Vendors called from their stalls, excitedly offering samples and explaining how they made their goods. The city’s ubiquitous food carts, gathered at the perimeter of the market, offered spiced chicken kabobs, savory empanadas and “artisan” peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

The culture of youth activism that surged through the country in the ‘70s seems never to have left Portland. Although the focus has shifted from the Vietnam War to current issues, the underlying energy is equal to that of the Peace generation. Rather than patronize major grocery stores, Portland’s environmental activists support their community by shopping local, carrying linen totes to replace the plastic bags they banned, and discarding the scraps from their meals in specialized waste, compost or recycling bins.

Portland’s social activists concentrate on the city’s growing homeless population. Small sidewalk communes have popped up throughout Portland, and young activists donate provisions to those who take shelter there, and work to fight legislation that threatens to sweep them away. A volunteer at the Right2Dream Too homeless camp near the market explained that as long as a person can follow the camp’s safety and anti-substance rules, she is welcome to take shelter there.

I donned the hand-knitted mittens and cap I’d purchased from the market to shield myself from Portland’s ever-present drizzle, and decided to spend the afternoon exploring the city’s famous food scene.

I stopped for lunch at Sizzle Pie, Portland’s premier pizza spot.

It was gray, wet and blustery when I arrived in Seattle.

I pushed my way through a crowd of flannel-clad strangers and took shelter in the world’s very first Starbucks. After two weeks of journeying through my parents’ and grandparents’ pasts, the comfortable modernity of the little cafe made me feel warm inside – or maybe that was just the coffee.

Java in hand, I continued on to the EMP Museum. The Experience Music Project is an interactive gallery of pop culture. Its most notable exhibit features the city’s fallen son, Kurt Cobain. As a child of the ‘90s, Nirvana’s Nevermind was my anthem. (I wore an armband with that stupid smiley face every day in the eighth grade.) And I excitedly wandered through the exhibit, studying collected bits of the band’s – and my – history.

That night, I went out to the Crocodile Cafe. It’s known in the city for its musical roots. But these days most of its patronage comes from drunken hipsters in search of karaoke. The bar is decorated with photographs of past performers, the founders of ‘90s grunge music – Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and dozens more.

It seemed to me that the city had somehow unanimously agreed to preserve the culture of the ‘90s, from the music to the fashion, to the thriving tech start-up scene. For the first time on my journey, I felt that the youth I’d stepped into was my own.

The following morning, I excitedly headed over to the Chihuly Garden. I’d seen Chihuly’s glasswork in the Bellagio’s ceiling back home in Las Vegas. But the Garden boasts a variety of sculptures that run the gamut of whimsical, elegant and awe-inspiring.

Inspired, I stopped into a small nearby glass blowing shop and

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Left: People’s Bike Library of Portland, also known as Zoobomb Pyle or simply “the pile”, is a 2009 steel and gold leaf sculpture by local artists Brian Borrello and Vanessa Renwick. Above: Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets.

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Above: The Seattle Great Wheel is a giant Ferris wheel at Pier 57 on Elliott Bay in Seattle, Washington. With an overall height of 175 feet, it was the tallest Ferris wheel on the West Coast of the United States when it opened on June 29, 2012.

Left: A glass sculpture from the Chihuly Garden and Glass an exhibit in the Seattle Center showcasing the studio glass of Dale Chihuly.

asked nicely to watch the artists work. I was mesmerized watching the craftsmen mold and shape the piles of molten glass. Using nothing but fire, steel poles and practiced hands, they would dip the glass parison into the furnace, roll it and repeat the process. Occasionally, they would blow air into one end of the pole and inflate the glass before resuming their pattern.

I eventually tore myself away, intent to reach Kerry Park by sunset.

There, I sat on the low brick wall, high above the rest of the city.

From the park, I could see Downtown Seattle, the Space Needle and even Mount Rainier in the distance. As I watched the sun set over the Pacific Northwest, I reflected on my journeys: one by land and one by time.

Nearby, a flannel-clad minstrel settled in with his guitar. He started strumming The Grateful Dead’s Truckin’. “Lately it occurs to me … what a long strange trip it’s been,” he crooned. I had to agree.

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Talking to his dad..

Father-to-be Jaq Greenspon asks his father for some advice.

I’ve never done things the normal way. I had a career as a writer long before I ever went to school to learn what I was doing. At 40, I bought a backpack and spent three months traveling around Europe.

Now, at almost 49, I’m about to have my first child.

I’ve been a day care teacher and an uncle, but this one is a new one for me. So I did what any first-time father would do: I asked my own dad for advice.

Jaq: What’s your first bit of advice?

You must get a lot of rest now. If you and your wife get a lot of sleep now, come July … Let’s see: Baby is due July of 2016, so you probably won’t sleep until July of 2022 or 23. That’s the first thing I learned. You give up all hope of a full night’s sleep until they’re about 7.

A young Jaq Greenspon sitting on his dad’s lap.

DAD: We know we’re having a girl, so … ?

Hold your breath till she’s 14. Up until 13 or 14 it’ll be real easy. Not too many problems. Your daughter will be loving and kind. And then one day — it only takes one day — she starts realizing that you’re wrapped around her little finger and whatever she says, you do. You don’t ask questions. And that’s the way it is. You have to be very tolerant and very careful, and it depends on her mood. At any given moment it changes.

They’re the sweetest thing at 10 o’clock in the morning and at 10:05 she’s a bitch. It goes that quick. I couldn’t tell you what advice was given to me. I can only tell you what I learned over the years. You have to try and be tolerant. …

Jaq: How do you ‘be tolerant’?

DAD: Good question. I’m not the most tolerant person around. I understand that.

You show them, and explain to them. And show them, and explain to them. And explain to them, and show them. Forever. You want them to know that they can make decisions, and you try to teach them to make the right decision. And you try to guide them. Now, most parents quit guiding their kids around 18 or 19. This dad has got an almost 50-yearold and he still tries to guide him. It never ends. It really never ends.

Mothers are a little different. Mothers want to become friends with their daughters. There comes a point when a mother-and-daughter relationship changes. The mother wants to be the daughter’s friend. The father is still a father.

Jaq: So what’s my job as a parent?

DAD: You’re their guide; you’re their

counselor; you’re their protector. You make sure nothing happens to them. You make sure if they hurt themselves, you take care of it.

But you’re not their friend.

If you see a kid fall on the playground, they’ll look to see if anyone is watching them, if anyone sees them. If no one is, they’ll keep playing. But if the parent sees them, they’ll start crying and run to the parent. The parent’s job at that point is to hold the child, kiss the booboo away (that takes about 1314 seconds) and they’re out playing again. If something bad happens, even at the age of 15 or 16 or 17, you have to hold them and cuddle them because they’re still your child.

Jaq: How do you keep them from getting spoiled?

DAD: You’re not their friend. The word ‘no’ is very helpful. However, a better word is the word ‘disappointed.’ When a child does something wrong, you don’t have to say ‘no’ to them. You look at them and say,, ‘I’m very disappointed.

I’m very disappointed in what you did. I’m very disappointed in your decision.’ That will make a child sit up and take notice.

Jaq: So replace ‘no’ with ‘disappointed’?

DAD: Another thing, when a child does something right, and I never did this and I was wrong, but I’ve learned with grandchildren, is that you have to say ‘yes.’ When they do something good, and they draw their name on a piece of paper or draw a funny face and say ‘oh, this is you’ you say thank you, you say ‘yes.’ Because every time a child does something wrong you say ‘no’ but nobody ever says ‘very good’ or ‘yes’ or be positive. We work on the negative. That’s where the word disappointment comes from, not the word no.

Jaq: Knowing your granddaughter is a couple months away, what do you want to say to her?

DAD: I don’t know. She’ll be far away. (He pauses for a second, his voice cracking) I don’t know what to say. In the future I might know what to say. Wish her luck? Treat her parents with respect? I don’t know, I really don’t.

Enjoy your children, enjoy your grandchildren.

Children grow so fast. You gotta be careful. ’Cause one day they’re 6 months old and the next day they’re 50, and it doesn’t take that long (At this, he gets choked up and I change the subject).

— Jaq Greenspon

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