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ALEZA FREEMAN is a true product of the desert, conceived in the Negev and born in Vegas. She worked for many years as a reporter, editor and copywriter for newspapers, ad agencies, internet startups and casino creative departments before branching out on her own as a freelance writer. But it s her role as mommy that e cites her most even more than reporting on-assignment in Israel, interviewing “Weird Al” Yankovic or riding every thrill ride in Vegas with a video camera pointed at her face . Ale as s uad includes her husband Howard, son Evan, two cats, one dog and the occasional spider.
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From the Publisher On the way to realizing a good idea, strange things sometimes happen. Earlier in the year, when we at DAVID had no idea if we would ever be back in the racks, we created an editorial calendar. As it turned out, it became the repository of all our aspirations for this magazine. This November/ December publication was ordained to be our “Celebrations” issue, full of all things good in life. From this vantage point, our intentions seemed pretty noble, if not a tad over-ambitious. With Delta causing misery on an epic scale at that time, was it even possible to find anything to celebrate at the end of the year. During the pandemic, we grabbed whatever we could to celebrate. The images of citizens serenading heroic essential workers in a crescendo of pots and pans or the fist pump on receiving a band-aid on the injection site of a vaccination come to mind. The most profound celebrations must have been the reunions with loved ones separated by lockdown or the survival of a loved one after a lengthy stay in hospital. Last month, together with a large group of concert-goers, I entered the Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center for the opening night of the 23rd season of the Las Vegas Philharmonic. After what seems like a lifetime, a concert in the flesh, shared with a live, masked orchestra and audience, was much to celebrate. Joining in and cheering with the thousands in attendance was so much better than solitary applause in my living room. What once we cataloged as an entitlement now seems such a privilege. erformers are finally returning to the stage. hey help us celebrate our nobler selves and remind us to be grateful for those who labor tirelessly to bring passion and artistry into our worlds. I implore you to support the arts, go to a show, a concert, the ballet, or anything else that floats your boat. Las Vegans are privileged to have so many options available; take your kids, they’ll thank you later. Talking about things that locals should be thankful for, we should be grateful for water, and for those planners and technicians who make sure that it keeps on flowing. From the earliest days, people settled in this desert valley because of the springs that made their survival possible. As the population grew, so did the need to find additional water resources. oday, we receive our water from the Colorado River, which we share with our neighboring states. The white “bathtub ring” at the Lake Mead Reservoir dramatically admonishes us to live responsibly and conserve as instructed by our local authorities. Let’s all do our part! May this holiday season provide you many excuses to crack a smile and laugh a bit as you celebrate with family and friends. Enjoy every minute, stay safe, and take care of each other. We will see you, as always, in the racks.
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PENNYWISE 7:30 p.m. House of Blues, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600. http://mandalaybay. VODKA LATKE BY JEWISH NEVADA 8:30 p.m. XS, Wynn, Las Vegas, 3131 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas. 702-732-0556. RSVP andrew@jewishnevada.org. http://
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BRANTLEY GILBERT - BOOTS ON THE BOULEVARD 8 p.m. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. https://www.
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GEORGE STRAIGHT - STRAIGHT TO VEGAS Through Dec. 4, 8 p.m. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-692-1300.
JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY 7 p.m. Myron's Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-7492012. http://thesmithcenter.com
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LIT AF TOUR HOSTED BY MARTIN LAWRENCE 7:30 p.m. Michelob Ultra Arena, Mandalay Bay Events Center, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600. http://mandalaybay.com
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THE NUTCRACKER Through Dec. 26, times vary. Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-7492012. http://thesmithcenter.com CHVRCHES WITH SPECIAL GUEST DONNA MISSAL 8 p.m. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695.
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LUKE COMBS 7 p.m. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-692-1300.
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DJ VICE ON ICE - BENEFITTING THE NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH 8 p.m. The Ice Rink, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. https://www.
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RAY ROMANO Through Dec. 18, 10 p.m. Mirage Theater, Mirage, 3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-791-7111. http://
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BRUNO MARS Through Dec. 30, 9 p.m. Park Theater, MGM Grand, 3770 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 844-600-7275. https://
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ALLMAN FAMILY REVIVAL 6 p.m. The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-693-5000.
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NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH LIZZO 10 p.m. The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-693-5000.
KATY PERRY: PLAY LAS VEGAS 8 p.m. Resorts World Las Vegas, 3000 S. Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas. 702.676.7000. http://
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NEW YEARS EVE WITH MOE. Through Dec. 31, 8 p.m. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. http://
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BLUE OYSTER CULT 8 p.m. The Showroom, Golden Nugget, 129 Fremont St., Las Vegas. 702-385-7111. http://goldennugget.com
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USHER: THE LAS VEGAS RESIDENCY Through Jan. 1, 9 p.m. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 3570 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 866-227-5938. http://
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Breezing into Brezza Joined by Jason Rocheleau and a passionate group of restaurant industry vets, Executive Chef Nicole Brisson is proving that good ingredients, good people and good practices aren’t a desert mirage. Convinced that sustainable dining is the only food of the future, Brezza is committed
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For every purchase, Sackcloth & Ashes Blankets donates a blanket to a homeless shelter in the buyer’s zip code. Their blanket line has a gorgeous variety of colors and prints, all sustainably made and woven with recycled, dye-free wool blends. The short supply of blankets in homeless shelters remains an ongoing operations problem and Sackcloth & Ashes have made it their initiative to donate one million fleece and wool blend blankets in the next year. sackclothandashes.com
Shady Rays sells quality, polarized sunglasses for active, adventurous people. What sets their sunglasses apart is not their affordable price range, but the lifetime guarantee of free replacements if lost or broken. Shady Rays partners with Feeding America, and they donate ten meals to fight hunger in the . . for every pair of sunglasses sold. All together they have donated more than 20 million meals to food banks around the country. Prices range from $48 to $98 and with a wide range of styles. shadyrays.com
Serving your family a good, guilt-free meal goes beyond what’s in the pan. All Our Place products — including their multifunctional Always Pan, which is designed to replace eight pieces of cookware — are responsibly crafted in ethical factories that provide workers with supportive environments and fair compensation. The brand has approached the coronavirus pandemic with the same sense of mindfulness, donating more than 200,000 meals through a partnership with Feeding America. fromourplace.com
Founded in 2010, Out of Print’s mission is to support literacy programs around the world and spread the joy of reading with their bookish apparel and accessories. Their products feature iconic book cover artwork and literary references to delight readers of all ages and offer them the opportunity to wear their favorite stories with pride. Out of Print has donated more than 5 millions books to communities worldwide in addition to donating money and expertise to literacy programs in impoverished communities. Apparel runs from $30 to and reading fiends can find hundreds of shirts and sweatshirts showcasing their favorite novels. outofprint.com
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Underwear is on the urgent needs list of almost all domestic violence and homeless shelters and Madi Apparel donates brand new underwear to shelters for every item purchased. All of their garments are sustainably made in the Kansas City by factory employees who are paid a true living wage well above the legally-mandated minimum “fair” wage. They believe in “slow fashion” and creating garments to last with ethically sourced, luxuriously soft organic fabrics. Madi Apparel sells a variety of styles of “intimates” as well as basic loungewear essentials for men and women. madiapparel.com
The ultra durable, unpoppable One World Futbol was created to withstand harsh soccer playing conditions for children around the world to enjoy without fear of destruction. Soccer is globally the most popular sport, and children around the world without access to usable soccer balls create makeshift balls out of trash or whatever is accessible. he One World lay roject firmly believes that the power of play is transformative, not just for the millions of youth living in poverty but for all of us, regardless of geography or culture. More than 2 million indestructible soccer balls have been donated around the world to schools and communities in need. oneworldplayproject.com
The Parks Project is dedicated to the conservation and protection of national parks in the United States. Portions of every item sold goes towards conservation programs around the country. Each item tells you which specific park program you are benefiting and customers can browse by park or by genre. Thanks to a successful partnership with National Geographic and REI, Parks Project has donated more than $2 million dollars towards these programs by selling a wide range of camping equipment, home goods, apparel and accessories. parksproject.us
ROMA Foundation merges fashion with philanthropy to give poverty the “boot.” For every pair of rain boots sold, a brand new pair is donated to a child in need. To date, ROMA has donated more than $5 million worth of rain boots to impoverished children around the world, particularly those living in areas with inclement weather. To supply a pair of boots to a deserving child, a customer can purchase from a wide range of rainboot styles for men, women and children or simply donate $10 to the ROMA Foundation. romabootspoverty.org www.davidlv.com | 19
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Mingle Las Vegas Philharmonic Celebrates it’s 23rd Season Opening Night The Smith Center Saturday, October 23 Excitement was in the air as Las Vegas hilharmonic under the baton of Donato Cabrera with soloist oshua Roman playing Dvo k s Cello Concerto in B minor.
concert goers took their seats in the magnificent Reynolds Hall in the Smith Center. The performance marked the return of the Las Vegas Philharmonic to the stage after a 19-month absence due to the pandemic. Audiences were treated to the debut of Artist in Residence oshua Roman as he joined Donato Cabrera and the orchestra for an evening of unprecedented fanfare.
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The orchestra performed Aaron Copland’s best known concert opener, Fanfare for the Common Man and oan Tower’s dynamic counterpoint, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, paired with Tchaikovsky’s triumphant Fifth ymphony and Dvo k s rich and spirited Cello Concerto, featuring oshua Roman.
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Pat Fink and Michele Madole
Yvette and Ellis Landau
Ellen and eorge Richards
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Mingle Vegas Unstripped Main Street, Las Vegas. Saturday, October 16 After a two-and-a-half year delay, Vegas nstripped finally returned to the Las Vegas food scene. On a perfect fall evening, many of the city’s most beloved and ambitious chefs were brought together to present one-night-only dishes in a festive environment. This time, festival planners The Feast of Friends made the bold move of closing down Main Street in the Arts District for the fest, which featured about two dozen local names including Gina Marinelli (La Strega), James Trees (Esther’s Kitchen, Ada’s WIne Bar & Al Solito Posto), Bruce Kalman (Soulbelly BBQ), Angela Sweetser (Queen of Hearts Vegas), Brian Howard (Sparrow +Wolf, Half-Bird), John Arena (Metro Pizza), Marc Marrone raffiti Bao, kinny Fats , Valerie Stunning (Paradise City Creamery), Floriana Pastore (Signora Pizza) and many more, with liquids provided by top bars including the olden iki, and Dollar Lounge, Garagiste, Jammyland and The Silver Stamp. Local bands entertained the crowd of about 800, and local artist Prettydone designed the T shirts and chefs aprons making this a truly only in Vegas night to remember.
Photos: Carlos Masias, Peter Noble. Angie Ortaliza and friends.
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Mingle Las Vegas Super Sunday Jewish Food Festival Tivoli Village Sunday, November 7 Over 2,000 happy souls attended SSJFF, one of the most significant events in the Las Vegas Jewish community’s annual social calendar. They came to enjoy an afternoon of fun, food, and dancing while raising much-needed funds to support the programs of Jewish Nevada. Attendees indulged in bagels, pizza, Chinese food, and rugelach and visited the booths of participating vendors. These included a Jewish camp fair, a craft showcase, and a PJ Library Kid’s Zone. Along with all these festivities, Jewish evada fulfilled its mission by providing many philanthropic avenues for revelers to explore, such as a community blood drive and a food drive for local food pantries. During the afternoon, Jewish Nevada Young Leaders hosted a phone-a-thon to reach out to those unable to attend. “The atmosphere was lively and fun, and we really enjoyed our time. The staff and volunteers were kind and accommodating. I would love to be a part of this event again next year!” said one craft vendor.
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Mingle Keep Memory Alive 25th Annual Power Of Love® Gala Resorts World Las Vegas Saturday, October 16 Anthony Anderson, Tori Kelly, Kenny Loggins, Demi Lovato, Bruno Mars, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., AJ McLean,
(L-R) Kenny Babyface Edmonds, Larry Ruvo, Bruno Mars, and Camille Ruvo.
Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman from Boyz II Men, Jordin Sparks, and Charlie Wilson all got together to honor legendary musicians Smokey Robinson and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds and raise crucial funds and awareness for Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Also in attendance were “Bar Rescue” star Jon Taffer, jeweler Steven Lagos, Las
(L-R) Frances Robinson, John Paul DeJoria and Smokey Robinson.
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis,Jr..
(L-R) Mark Davis, Amber Reyes-Morris and Wanya Morris.
(L-R center) Jordin Sparks, Tori Kelly and their husbands.
Kenny Babyface Edmonds and Demi Lovato.
Camille Ruvo and Greg Phillanganes.
Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis and Patrón Spirits Co. Founder John Paul DeJoria. Earlier in the evening, K.T. Lim, CEO & Chairman of Genting Berhad and developer of Resorts World, received a standing ovation when receiving the Keep Memory Alive Community Leadership award from Ruvo and Keep Memory Alive Vice Chairwoman and Co-Founder Camille Ruvo. Chefs Wolfgang Puck and Bobby Flay prepared exquisite cuisine paired with wines from Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, followed by a showstopping dessert display from the Resorts World Las Vegas pastry team. Photos: Denise Truscello, Getty Images.
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Calling a PAL
Addressing Las Vegas’ Shortage of Pediatric Mental Health Professionals By Paul Harasim
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he problem has festered for years: Half of American children with mental health issues aren’t receiving the necessary treatment. Trying to ameliorate the problem in Nevada is the life’s work of Lisa Durette, MD. Even five daunting and frightening encounters with cancer — chemotherapy blackened skin was shed from much of her body during one series of treatments where death seemed a certainty — hasn’t stopped the child psychiatrist from continuing to work to increase access to mental health treatment for children. In 2012, Durette, well aware that Nevada has long held the dubious distinction of being among the states with the fewest mental health services in the country, opened the Healthy Minds outpatient treatment facility, a psychiatric center in Las Vegas. In 2013, she began to increase the number of child psychiatrists in Nevada by founding and directing the two-year fellowship in child and Dr. Lisa Durette adolescent psychiatry that is now part of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. At present, this assistant professor of psychiatric medicine at the medical school is also leading a medical team that is providing a unique model of care through telephonic and televideo consultation, where real time mental health care expertise is shared with family, pediatric, and primary care physicians who call them when
troubled youth show up at their offices. A Mental Health Block Grant won by Durette supports what is known as the Pediatric Access Line (PAL) project, which is similar to state programs first carried out in Massachusetts. “We know there is a giant shortage of child psychiatrists, and this is a way to provide more access,” says Durette. “This program also helps with stigma problems. Many parents are reluctant to take their children to a mental health professional because of the unfortunate stigma involved with mental health. This way, they can keep their child in the primary care home and still get the mental health help their child needs.” Durette’s medical team is largely derived from the fellowship she founded, as well as from health professionals from the Center for Community Solutions and Chicanos por la Causa. Not surprisingly, COVID-19 and its resulting isolation of children has made the need for assistance more acute. A call to PAL generally results in physicians receiving assistance within 30 minutes, so the patient is still at the doctor s office when a treatment plan is discussed. Durette and two doctors in her fellowship program, Colin Freedman, MD, and Chau Pham, DO, along with contracted child psychiatrist Amanda King, MD, are key figures in the sharing of psychiatric information. Alba Perez, Angela Townsend, and Brooklyn Ives, of Chicanos por la Causa, coordinate the care. www.davidlv.com | 27
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David Savarese, MD, director of the UNLV Health Pediatric Clinic, says the program affords expertise that children would have to wait up to three months for if they made an appointment with one of the state’s few child mental health professionals. He says after calling the PAL line, he’s been able to help several children, including a 17-year-old girl deal who was dealing with depression. At one point, she got to talk, through telemedicine, with a psychiatrist. On another occasion, avarese called the AL line and was able to find the right medication for a 10-year-old developmentally delayed child who frequently engaged in behavior injurious to herself. “We can’t expect pediatricians to handle mental health problems without this kind of support,” Savarese says. In March, when the program began, there were seven requests from primary care physicians for consultations. Now there are up to six in a day. More than 170 clinicians from throughout the state have opted into the program. A website has been created for the project, www.center4cs. org, which includes educational materials and videos “If there’s a situation with a youth for whom the direction, diagnosis, or treatment options aren’t clear, we’re able to offer televideo consultations for the patient within a week, after which we send treatment recommendations back to the primary care team,” Durette says. Given her own healthcare challenges over the years, the more remarkable it is that Durette (along with her staff) are energetically leading the charge for better mental health care for Nevada’s children and their families. She serves as chair of the Nevada Mental and Behavioral Health Commission, president of the Nevada Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and is the Nevada delegate to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. When she was just 8-years-old, Durette knew she wanted to be a physician. Two presents from her family — the Visible Man Anatomical Science Model Kit, which allowed her to paint all of the vital organs, coupled with a microscope that allowed her to see individual cells – sparked an interest in medicine that has never died. She soared academically in K-12. Not being challenged by her courses, Durette went to France as an exchange student and became a high school dropout by choice. She left high school as a junior and won a scholarship to Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. On paper, her time as an undergraduate in the early 90s appears to be nothing more than a positive affirmation of her drive and academic talent. But it was then that she began her fight with cancer, a life and death struggle that s lasted on and off for more than two decades, one that’s seen her wearing a temporary “F--k Cancer” tattoo during treatment which often leaves her nauseous and vomiting. During her sophomore year, she got Hodgkin’s lymphoma. For four months, she scheduled her daily radiation
treatment between classes so she could progress at the proper pace for graduation. Her hair became an accessory she had no problem living without. Less than a year later, her junior year, the lymphoma came back. This time, she had to leave college for a semester, though she enrolled in a microbiology course at a community college that she knew would help her with the MCAT (medical school admissions test). For the exam, Half of all chronic mental illness begins by age 14. The she was allowed to bring a importance of early detection and intervention is vital to the overall health of children. Yet, there is a shortage of child psychiatrists across Nevada, specifically in our thermos of ginger tea to the test rural and frontier regions. UNLV School of Medicine’s Child Psychiatry Fellowship site so she could manage her training program has partnered with the Center for Community Solutions and Chicanos por la Causa to make the PAL program accessible to our clinician partners. nausea. She graduated on time from college in 1995, with honors in 702-553-4528 both chemistry and French, and entered medical school. “I never let getting sick get in my way,” Durette says. “If anything, What information do I need to have on When would I call PAL? hand before I call? it fuels me to work harder, as if every day is the last and I need to squeeze every bit out.” Durette went on to receive What happens when I call? 702-553-4528 her MD from the University www.center4cs.org @Pal_line of South Carolina and completed her residency in psychiatry and fellowship in childhood and adolescent psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. PAL Access Line information sheet. Her experience with cancer had helped further convince her of the importance of a healthy mind in navigating life. Her future couldn’t have looked brighter. In 2004, she moved to Las Vegas because she saw how great the need was for mental health professionals in Nevada. That same year she married psychologist Robert Durette. Cancer appeared to be in her rear-view mirror. She let the good times roll, dancing and hiking and loving when she wasn’t helping patients. While working in private practice and as a psychiatric consultant and adjunct professor at the Touro University College of Medicine, she became pregnant, something she feared may not happen because of her previous chemotherapy treatment. In 2008, her daughter, Allison, was born. In 2011, with the help of her husband and another psychologist, Ken McKay, she opened Healthy Minds. Two years later she began the fellowship that has seen all but one of the graduating fellows stay in Nevada. In 2014, many of the good times stopped rolling. Durette became one of the nearly 1.7 million Americans diagnosed with cancer that year. This time it was thyroid cancer. “We were really worried – the cancer was traveling in her body,” recalls her husband, Robert. PHONE
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Surgery took care of the cancerous thyroid, but Durette started therapy again to deal with her anxiety. “I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression when my cancer comes back,” she explains. “I didn’t want to be a person who focuses on their cancer all their life.” In 2016, she was once again diagnosed with cancer – Hodgkin’s lymphoma yet again. Psychologist Ken McKay, her colleague at Healthy Minds, says that when Durette received a phone call informing her that she had cancer again, she said, “Dammit, I’ve got cancer again” and then went on working, even during chemotherapy. “She doesn’t let it rule her life.” Lisa Ruiz-Lee, a former director of Clark County Family ervices, who now owns a consulting firm that advises nonprofits, says she believes Durette s advocacy for children has helped her survive her repeated battles with cancer. Like Durette’s husband and Alison Netski, MD, the department chair of psychiatry at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, Ruiz-Lee says Durette’s sense of purpose gives her strength. “She really is remarkable. She is tenacious about pursuing things that help this community and its children. She wants to make a difference.” In 2018 and into 2019, Durette was tested like never before. Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Again. This time she went to the world’s premier cancer center, MD Anderson, in Houston. She was there for months, receiving a stem
cell transplant. Doctors told her husband she might not survive. “Chemo had actually burned her skin from the inside out and then peeled off,” Robert says. “You can imagine the pain.” As Durette, 47, looks back on her time with cancer, she doesn’t suggest she’s some kind of Wonder Woman” “To say that I’ve cried a lot and experienced an enormous amount of psychological pain is an understatement. How I’ve dealt with these various traumas is by allowing myself to feel the pain, not hiding it or hoping it will go away on its own. I’ve honored those feelings. I set aside time to fully experience them before moving forward, but I knew, even while crying my eyes out, that I was going to eventually move forward, this was just a normal and necessary step in the healing process. Sharing these experiences and feelings with my family and support network of friends, which I affectionately refer to as my ‘FightClub,’ has been essential to my healing, and I’m also incredibly thankful to have a wonderful therapist I can talk with as well. Mental health professionals rely on mental health professionals, too.” In Nevada, the Pediatric Assistance Line, staffed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. M-F, is 702-553-4528. The number should be used only by health professionals working in primary care settings. Relatives of children who learn about the program should ask their child’s primary care physician whether the program could help their child.
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TH E UNSE E ENE M Using More Than By Jaq Greenspon
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n my younger days, as a bit of self-improvement, I took a sign language class. First day, there were a bunch of us there in that room, all gathered around when the teacher came in. He walked right to the center of the room and started calling names from the roll book, looking around as he did, putting faces to names. Then it happened. He called a name and the student, who was behind the teacher, responded in the affirmative. hey were indeed present.
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Our Five Senses The teacher called the name again, as if he hadn’t heard. Again, the student yelled out, “here.” Nothing. Third time the teacher called out the name and third time the student yelled “here,” this time waving their arm to get the teacher’s attention…which they finally did. The rest of the class was getting visibly uncomfortable and the teacher knew it. He milked it a moment before he looked around the room and smiled at all of us and said, in a very clear voice, “Sorry, I’m deaf. I can’t hear you. You need to do something to get my attention.” www.davidlv.com | 31
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This was an interesting lesson in a number of ways, especially when joined by a little talk the teacher gave later on. He explained that the problem with being deaf was that you can’t see it. “With a lot of other disabilities,” he pointed out, “the issue is readily apparent. Not so with deafness.” He went on to explain that this one fact caused a lot of trouble, particularly out in the world, when he didn’t respond to someone he couldn’t see requesting he do something. The general idea was like when he was taking roll that first day, that the people around him assumed he was ignoring them. Had they been able to tell he couldn’t hear, they would have made accommodations and moved on. We do it all the time with blind people or folks in wheelchairs. But since deafness is internal, it literally doesn’t exist for the rest of us. Even our language is predicated on this general idea: “Out of sight, out of mind” becomes a mantra for dealing with almost anything. If you can’t see it, it’s not a problem you need to concern yourself with. We just shove everything into the metaphorical closet and slam the door, quickly, so it disappears from sight. If we can’t see it, it’s not there. We’ve seen this throughout history — It’s not that there’s more autistics these days, or members of the LGBTQA+ communities, or any additional marginalized othering, instead, we just didn’t have the language, inclination, or legal ability to identify or understand them. Since we didn’t see it, it wasn’t there. The same holds true for the other side of the coin. There have always been racists, sexists, homophobes…but if it wasn’t overt, or affecting us directly, we could choose not to see it. The revelations of these things shouldn’t come as a surprise, but they did and do, usually followed by some sort of denial, “oh not them, they would never…” And again, it just shows that we are not seeing something in front of our eyes, which severely impacts our ability to deal with it. But it’s not just the bigger issues. When we pass judgement on someone based on what we see in a photograph rather than taking the time to understand the whole story, we are basing our condemnation on what we don’t see. When we watch someone park in a handicapped spot, then easily get out of their car and walk towards the shop, our first thought might be anger. Why are they taking up the spot of someone more deserving, more obviously and visually handicapped, than they are? As a country and as a world, we have been dealing with this rather acutely since January of 2020, when it was understood that COVID-19 was not a typical seasonal affliction. As D. M. Shaw points out in “Invisible Enemies:
Coronavirus and Other Hidden Threats,” his article in the December 2020 issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, “Of course, if we could actually see the virus, it would be much easier to deal with it. If…the virus was basically just little red guys who jump between people making them sick, we could easily see who to cross the road to avoid and who not.” And this is the crux of everything. When the virus first hit, all of our scripts, all of the tell tale signals we use to exist in the world, the responses we’ve cultivated to teach us how to react in specific situations, all went flying out the window. The idea of having a cold or the flu, that we understood. Someone’s got a runny nose or a sore throat, you avoid them. But what if the only indication that something is wrong is that they can’t smell the morning coffee? How do we discover and react to that? I know that in our house, with every slight physical discomfort, my wife would ask me to eat something she knows I don’t like to see if I could still taste it. Sure, we treated it with a certain amount of humor, but that was only masking our anxiety. Furthermore, we were told that it was possible for some people to get the disease and never know they had it, to never show any symptoms whatsoever, and yet still be highly contagious. We heard, and paid attention, to all the horror stories. Even when we probably caught it, though, we didn’t check because, really, what good would that do? We would become statistics for the nightly news and we were already following all the safety protocols. Honestly, even if we were proven to have the virus, would difference would it make? I mean, seeing is believing, right? Right? Well, maybe. Back in 1948, George Orwell published a book called Nineteen Eighty-Four, about a totalitarian and oppressive government controlling the will of the people. While it’s given us a number of memorable quotes, the one which sticks with me at the moment is “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. t was their final, most essential command.” Because, and here’s the kicker to all of this, even if we saw the virus, there’s a very good chance we wouldn’t believe it even then, because our natural inclination is to take the easy way out, to prejudge situations, even without all of the necessary context or information (as argued above), and that, in turn, can make us easy to control. There’s a term, “gaslighting,” which has been around since the late 1930s, entered the popular lexicon in the late 1960s and more recently, in the late teens, has become a go-to term for describing relationships, be they with other
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people or with larger entities. In short, it’s a term for when one side of the relationship calls into question the sanity of the other side, in terms of making them question what they know to be fact. “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” This is nothing new, mind you. Lawyers have been doing it for years by reframing the argument, changing the narrative of the story being told. “Don’t you think it could have happened this way?” they ask and you know, often times it sounds entirely plausible. Maybe we don’t know everything, maybe there’s a context we’re missing. And when the people we’re supposed to trust, our political leaders and news media, gaslight us, then everything must get called into question. When the president, years before this pandemic happened, said “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” then we had to ask ourselves, “what is happening?” If the evidence of our eyes and ears is being rejected then it seems Orwell was, evidently, right all along. Part of why this is has to do with something else we can’t see…fear. All of this gaslighting and manipulation is designed to keep us off balance and scared. Since we take in everything around us through our own personal lenses, if we don’t know which way to turn, then the logical response is to turn inwards and keep ourselves and our community safe. Ted Anthony, in an AP article, explained it like this (emphasis added): “This is evident in the reactions to antivirus measures taken by authorities. Many comments echo this observation: We can’t see this getting worse where we are, so let s fi the urgent problem we already can see the collapse of life around us.” The article continues to point out that very few of us witness the tragedy firsthand. n the US, about 1 in 10 has gotten the disease and of those, fewer than 2% have died (slightly higher percentages worldwide). In terms of the general population, those numbers seem insignificant. Maybe we are willfully ignorant, ignoring what s in front of us, or maybe we’re being gaslit by the powers that be. Either way, we’re just not seeing it. And if we’re not seeing it, how do we know it’s really there at all? And if it is, what do we do about it? Why should we all freak out? Ultimately, because we don’t know what we’re facing. We’re like that deaf teacher in class: Sure, we understand something is there, but we can’t acknowledge it if we can’t see it. Or maybe we’re like the student, out of our comfort zone and not understanding why we’re not being acknowledged. Maybe we’re afraid of not being heard.
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By Jason Harris
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ome people have flashbacks to their times in war. I have flashbacks to my time in trenches of a different kind. There are nights where I shiver and shake, thinking to myself of all those hours I spent in the battlefield known as dinner theater. So, when the assignment came down and I found out I’d be covering Superfrico, the new dining plus entertainment experience at The Cosmopolitan, I shuddered, thinking back to my days of playing over-the-top Italian stereotypes
and trying to get your Aunt Gertrude out of her seat to join the conga line. As it turns out, though, Superfrico is not dinner theater. It’s elevated but familiar, a part of the “everything old is new again” trend but with a spiffy, buzz-word type name: immersive dining. This is where your evening meal converges with entertainment of some type. The show here is built to enhance your dining experience, not be passive and observational. Here, the acts happen all around the guests. These are the performers who star in Opium, the Spiegelworld
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show taking place in an adjoining room. Diners can build their meals around going to the show or skip the show entirely and focus on the food, which itself, could use a bit more focus. uperfrico fits well with Opium. t s a natural e tension of the wild, futuristic, circus-style show. The room has LSD inspired panels, showcasing things like a skull shooting star-lasers out of its eyes, penguins in some type of cupcake factory, and plenty of other trippy designs. The walls have paintings like the one with the elephants carrying giant donuts on their backs or the one of the
dog looking like a military general. t s all very ew ork postmodern 70s and 80s. As you sit on a velvety, upholstered chair, contortionists show off their fle ibility around you. For someone like me, who no longer has an ACL, uickly became more envious than amazed at the body movement. Then again, d be happy if could just play tennis again. Speaking of tennis - check this segue out - there were volleys of a different kind between performers. Two sat down in the middle of the dining room and were served some of the venue s Detroit style pi a, causing www.davidlv.com | 35
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them both to go full When Harry Met Sally. I expected someone at another table to yell out “I’ll have what she’s having.” Instead, one member of the duo expressed his orgasmic elation through the form of magic, removing the tablecloth whip fast from underneath the plates and silverware, which stayed on the table. Some type of throwback music would have been appropriate for the stunt, and Superfrico has just the guy to do it. A roving saxophone player wearing shorts and a sparkly Vegas appropriate jacket hit the right notes as he blew his horn on a station attached to a booth full of eaters. As for the food, some dishes work really well. The
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aforementioned Detroit style pizza is some of the best in Las Vegas, courtesy of “Pizza Czar” Anthony Falco, who made his pizza bones at Roberta’s in Brooklyn before becoming a pizza consigliere to restaurants throughout the world. The pistachio mortadella pie features pistachio pesto, mortadella, house mozzarella, house stracciatella, parmigiano reggiano and is reinforced with pieces of pistachio. Beside the natural melding of flavors, the dough here is a star. Crunchy, cheesy edges and a pillowy soft middle makes me hope that Czar Falco will join our growing pizza community and open a slice shop somewhere. Another big success is the lamb ragu babbaluci. Rigatoni type noodles are bathed in lamb sausage, tomato, mint, and parsley. A lemon labneh (yogurt cheese) adorned with a za’atar spice blend sits on top of the pasta for the diners to mix in and get the full complement of Mediterranean meets Middle Eastern flavors. (Interestingly, “babbaluci” is Sicilian for snails, which are neither present nor necessary for the dish, so the name is confusing, but other than that, no complaints.) The last high note comes from the appetizer section. Grilled calamari with yuzu kosho, tangerine honey, aleppo pepper, and basil oil is a fresh and current take on the tried-and-true squid appetizer. This is the type of fusion the rest of the menu needs to elevate itself to – diverse ingredients working for the greater good to create something harmonious on the plate.
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On the other side, the lack of clarity in the menu and the execution of certain dishes brings the entire experience down. The restaurant’s own description of the cuisine makes having no clear focus, and no rhyme or reason for the decisions made in some dishes, sound like a thought out and dynamic style: Italian American Psychedelic cuisine pays tribute to generations of Old World talian cooks by reimagining a treasure trove of classic dishes and family heirloom recipes with the planet’s best, most mind-blowing flavors, textures and techniques. For example –the chicken parm. I’m all for creativity, but if you’re going to riff on a classic, you better make sure your cover version is at least in the same league as the original. In this iteration, the spicy marinara overpowers every other flavor on the plate, rendering the dish rather useless. Perhaps worse than that is the Prime New York Strip, a 10-ounce steak that somehow goes way off the beef flavor profile and te turally is full of gristle and tough on every bite. I’d like to think it was just prepared incorrectly on my visit, because it was a complete miss. In the end, this immersive dining experience was a little more about the immersion than the dining, which is too bad, because the show next door pretty much covers that. SUPERFRICO, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, 3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas. 702-534-3419. superfrico.com
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Water Wise By Brian Sodoma
Things have clearly changed
t’s easy to forget that, thanks to a sizeable aquifer beneath it, Las Vegas was once a water-abundant green oasis with lush meadows and springs. Paleontologists in the area have even found Las Vegas’ rock layers give evidence of a green and wet landscape that supported bison, camels, and ground sloth dating as far back as 500,000 years.
Flash forward to the last 200 years, human activity shifted from settlers passing through town for a water respite in the 1800s to more of us taking up permanent residence in a place becoming less green and wet, and more unsustainable for human survival. But even more recently, we convinced ourselves there was still plenty of water. In the 1950s, our population of roughly 40,000 feasted on 40,000 acre-feet annually of water supplied by that aquifer, about eight times
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The Plan to Keep Southern Nevada’s Faucets Flowing
the amount needed at the time. We dug hundreds of wells and sipped away at our water bounty. Today, the facts are quite different. The aquifer ran dry in 1962, and we now receive 90% of our water from Lake Mead’s annual (and shrinking) Colorado River collection, an allotment of 300,000 acre-feet, to sustain 2.7 million people. The lake is drying up, and its condition will not improve. To sustain, a change in behavior is required. And the question still looms: Can we all do enough to keep the
water flowing? And just how much time do we really have with the precious water resources of today?
Starting with the basics outhern evada suffers from what is scientifically referred to as an anthropogenic drought, the trifecta of climate change, inherent water variability in the region, and the influence of human activity. In layman speak: there are a lot of us who live in a place whose best
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hydrological days are behind it, yet we dare to farm and consume water resources with our fingers crossed. There’s a misconception for many that the low lake levels will somehow reverse if we just have a few good years of rain and snowpack. E cept, as noted by Dan McEvoy, climatologist and assistant research professor at the Desert Research nstitute DR , this past year the Colorado basin snowpack was average. Even with the
result of an average year, the lakes owell and Mead still saw less than of the average run off. ou might need about a decade of wet years to even make a dent. “Lake Mead will not rebound with a really wet year,” McEvoy assures. his is a long term trend, since about . Within that year period, there have been some wet years. he lake gets a little bump, but it s been on a long term decline that s not likely to improve.
Above: Construction workers stand in front of the massive boring machine head used to construct the third straw. This three mile, 24’ diameter tunnel provides water to the over two million residents of the Las Vegas Valley.
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Climate change and a messaging conundrum
That reality has led us to a federally-declared water shortage for 2022. With that, the state must reduce annual usage by 7%, or 21,000 acre-feet, next year. Nevada’s 300,000 acre-feet per year Colorado River allotment is now 279,000. So, why no panic? It was something state climate experts saw coming, and thanks to conservation and other efforts, the region only used about 256,000 acre-feet in 2020 anyway.
Climate change is evident in shifting weather patterns, wildfires, drought, and an unpredictable snowpack year in and year out. That means, in addition to being smarter with water resources, tackling climate change is still required on individual and group levels. While preserving water resources is one piece of the puzzle, all of those daily decisions around burning fewer fossil fuels, recycling, reusing, re-purposing, and not wasting resources still matter. “Anything related to producing greenhouse gas emissions is going to continue to be important, and that’s going to be really important at the policy level,” McEvoy adds. Efforts like the state’s 2020 Climate Strategy and the passing of SB254 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 and to zero by 2050 are important pieces, experts insist. But they are measures that live alongside a need to avoid panic messaging around the subject, too. John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), is in a catch-22. For 20 years, his teams have shaped a narrative balancing the need for conservation with partnerships and infrastructure improvement announcements that assure us the water will keep flowing. Messaging around this topic is always fairly difficult In some ways we’re victims of our own success,” he says. “We’ve built [large] capital facilities and then we bury them behind block walls Our water bills are relatively inexpensive and average about $50 a month, considerably cheaper than our cell phone bills n some ways we take for granted what goes into providing a water supply.” With conservation, the SNWA has clearly shined. Since 2002, Southern Nevada has added 800,000 residents, but reduced gallons per capita per day (GPCD) usage from 211 to 112. Incentives to remove turf and legislation like AB356, which prohibits non-functional turf irrigation, have helped, too. And on the infrastructures side, the big accomplishment in the past decade was the installation of a third intake at Lake Mead. Design began in 2007, the $1.5 billion project was completed in 2015. The move allows the authority to pump from areas of the lake well below the current 1,068-foot level and “even in the most dire of hydrologic conditions,” Entsminger says. The SNWA also has a 50-year resource plan that projects population growth, water demand, and supply levels out for five decades. t is revisited and updated every year and expects Southern Nevada’s population to be 4 million in 2071. Entsminger adds that even with continued declines in water levels, the agency has the tools to meet demand, but not without “substantial community investment and no small amount of political will.” www.davidlv.com | 43
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Fresh approaches to meeting demand art of the reason for the authority s confidence to meet the water demands of a growing population comes from water efficiency technology developments, conservation, and partnerships that can help improve matters on the supply side. For e ample, the WA is working with the Metro Water District of outhern California to potentially fund a multi billion dollar regional water recycling facility that would divert wastewater normally discharged into the acific Ocean and inject it into a uifers along a outhern California water distribution network for reuse. n e change for WAs investment, a certain number of acre feet of the outhern California utility s Colorado River allotment would go to evada. ystem efficiency technologies are evolving as well. Water tart, a nonprofit collection of evada water agencies and large consumers, was created in to accelerate adoption of new water technologies. t has been involved in about different pilot tests since it was created eight are underway right now, says E ecutive Director athan Allen. When we talk about what we do, we often say anything that leads to more water, safer water, and cheaper water, that s what we want to help deploy, Allen e plains. he safer part of that e planation is shown in a current pilot with srael based ensoil nnovations. he pilot uses the company s sensors to monitor an aging levy system in the acramento River delta. f one of the levies broke, it could damage the ability to bring water to million people in outhern California. n that case, utilities would need to rely on more water from Lake Mead, Allen says. Another Water tart pilot involves a technology that allows the WA to create a digital twin of its infrastructure to shorten the time window to find data for inefficiencies and maintenance issues in the system that could lead to resource losses. Water tart is also involved with collaborations on infrastructure monitoring technologies in the and Australia that, if proven, could find their way to outhern evada.
Our water future Even with agencies clearly trying to do the right thing, there are skeptics who have a hard time seeing beyond Lake Mead s unappeti ing toilet bowl ring. One is Chris Fraley, the chief investment officer for RealtyMogul, an online real estate investment crowdsourcing platform with a . billion portfolio. He helps investors find income producing real estate assets, and as part of his due diligence strategy, he evaluates a property s potential future risks. oday, his cautious eye has turned to the desert southwest, specifically cities affected by the year drought. Recently,
RealtyMogul indicated its investors were shying away from long term property holds or more years in markets like hoeni , Las Vegas, ucson and certain outhern California cities, for fear of rising water prices. With respect to water, if things go on the current trajectory, it s hard to imagine water costs not completely skyrocketing over the relatively near term, he says. We re not saying never on investment opportunities ,
Above: An aerial view of Las Vegas fast growing housing sector.
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we’re just being very cautious and trying to make sure we understand the risks associated with the transaction.” When Entsminger and McAvoy were told of Fraley’s position, both were surprised. While there’s ample argument for saying the move is probably a little extreme today, it does beg the inevitable question of when such a move might actually be considered prudent? 50 years? 100? 200 years? That’s a question no one really seems to
know how to answer. “I would say the situation before us is very real and very serious,” Entsminger says. “But we absolutely have the tools to manage the situation as long as we stay in front of it. We only need to have a water crisis in Southern Nevada if we allow that to happen…To me a crisis is when you’ve lost control of the situation and we’re nowhere near losing control of the situation.” www.davidlv.com | 45
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It’s been a year or two, hasn’t it?
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ike most of you, we here at David have been dealing with all sorts of tsuris in our lives. There have been great losses, both personally and professionally, profound disappointments, and every now and again, some genuine outpourings of human kindness and generosity to let us all know it’s going
to be okay. However, since we haven’t been publishing the magazine, we’ve actually had the opportunity to do something we never get to do and you all take for granted – We’ve been able to go back and read the magazine for fun, to take a look at the articles we’ve written, the events we’ve covered, and the friends we’ve made over the decade or so we’ve been around. While reminiscing, we ran across this piece, from December of 2012, when we offered up a whole Hannukah’s worth of new drinks and festive libations. If you can remember that far back, 2012 was the first time during our run when the world was supposed to end. The Aztec calendar was coming to a close and that was going to be it, civilization was shutting up shop. Thankfully, that didn’t happen, and we’ve endured several other world ending events since then. We’re a resilient group and part of what makes us that way is community. We can rely on our group of friends and family, our tribe, to support us and help us out when we need it and in return, we do the same for them.
All of which brings us back to the recipes you’re going to read about on the following pages. Since the dawn of civilization, alcohol has been what we drink when we get together, for either religious or secular activities. And while a good beer or glass of wine is always welcome at the end of a long day, we thought that now, at the end of a long year, we’d revisit these drinks we first told you about nine years ago. These eight drinks (a different one for each night, naturally) are the brainchild of Drew Levinson, former Las Vegas resident and current VP of Business development with Breakthru Beverages Group in Nashville, TN and Andrew Pollard, Beverage Innovation Director at Monin. These two maestro mixologists made up some amazing “mazel tov” concoctions, the ingredients of which can all be sourced locally. The nice thing about this particular collection is that over the eight nights, there are drinks enough to please all palates. From re-envisioning old classics to decadent originals featuring donuts (Yes! Donuts!) all adults who partake, will find something to make their long winter nights go by a little easier. Which is all we really want at this time of year, isn’t it? Something to help ease the journey and, even if it’s just for a little while, make us feel a little bit better. This is what we hope we’ve accomplished by re-sharing this little celebration from the ghost of David past. And so we say, from our family to you and yours, here’s to a wonderful 2022. Let’s make the most of all the good we’ve got.
L’chaim!
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Mazel Tov Cocktail 1.5 oz. Damrak Gin 0.5 oz. St. Germain lder ower Liqueur 1 oz. fresh lemon juice 0.5 oz. simple syrup Top Martini Sparkling Asti Garnish: Edible Gold Flakes Glass: Cocktail Method: Pour Asti into a chilled glass. Combine all ingredients (sans Asti) in a mixing glass with ice shake vigorously and strain over poured Asti. Garnish.
Kosher & Dill 2 oz. roasted garlic-pickle-infused etel ne Vodka oz. Powell Mahoney loody Mary Mix top with cracked black pepper osher salt Garnish: Matzo cracker dill sprig Glass: ucket Method: Combine vodka mix into a mixing glass with ice, roll gently and dump into a bucket glass. (It is imperative T to shake a loody Mary to avoid over-dilution). * INFUSION METHOD: egin infusing by pouring one 50ml bottle of etel ne Vodka into a batching vessel with whole roasted garlic bulb and two whole dill pickles sliced lengthwise. Refrigerate for 2 - hours until desired avor is reached. Strain out mixture and store in fridge again.
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The Schmoozer
Dirty Shtick
1.5 oz. cranberry-infused Templeton Rye Whiskey* 0.5 oz. Cherry Heering liqueur 1 oz. Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth 2-3 dash Angostura aromatic bitters
1.5 oz. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey 1 oz. Ginger-S AP liqueur Double shot fresh brewed espresso 2 dashes Angostura aromatic bitters
Garnish: Marasca cherry Glass: Bucket and Large Format Ice
Top: Whipped Cream and resh Grated utmeg Garnish: Cinnamon Stick Glass: Hot Toddy Mug
Method: Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, stir gently and strain over a 2-inch ice cube and garnish. * INFUSION METHOD: egin infusion by adding 1 cup of dried cranberries with a 1/4 cup of sugar with 750 ml of Templeton Rye Whiskey in a batching vessel. Stir gently. Proceed to infuse for 2 - hours until desired avor is achieved. Strain infusion and refrigerate.
Method: Combine all ingredients in a warm mug, stir and top with vanilla cream. Garnish.
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Sloe Nosh 1 oz. Glenfiddich 15 Solera Reserve Whisky 1 oz. Plymouth Sloe Gin 1 oz. fresh lemon juice 0.5 oz. Monin pomegranate syrup (aka Grenadine) Dash Pasteurized egg white Top: Martinelli’s Sparkling Apple Cider Garnish: Rosemary Picked Cherry Glass: Cocktail Method: Pour cider into a chilled glass. Combine all ingredients (sans cider) in a mixing glass with ice, shake vigorously and strain over poured cider. Garnish.
Gelty Pleasure 1.5 oz. Smirnoff Whipped Vodka 1 oz. Crave Chocolate Mint Liqueur 3 oz. prepared hot chocolate 2–3 dashes Angostura aromatic bitters Top: Hand-Whipped Cream Garnish: Shaved Chocolate and Mint sprig Glass: Irish Coffee Mug Method: Combine all ingredients in warm mug and stir. Top with hand-whipped cream and garnish.
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Day of Rest 1.5 oz. Siete Leguas Blanco Tequila 0.5 oz. Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur 1 oz. fresh lime juice 0.5 oz. fresh blood orange juice 1.5 oz. agave syrup (1:1 dilution agave nectar-hot water) Garnish: Orange & Lime Wheels Glass: Lowball/Bucket Method: Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, shake and strain over fresh ice. Garnish.
Oy Vey! 1.5 oz. 360 Glazed Doughnut Vodka 0.5 oz. Chambord raspberry liqueur 1 oz. coconut cream (1:1 Coco Real-Half & Half) Top: Mike’s Hard Raspberry Lemonade Garnish: Mini Doughnut Glass: Collins Method: Combine all ingredients (sans Mike’s) in a mixing glass with ice, shake and strain over Mike’s. Garnish.
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Wine
Exploring the Santa Cruz Wine-Growing Region
By Marisa Finetti Photos by Mark Ryan
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eep in the earth’s crust, tectonic plates slide past each other, one to two inches per year. Geology and wine come together in many parts of the world, creating a profound and beautiful connection, but there’s no better place than the Santa Cruz Mountains to dig deep… and taste it. The Santa Cruz Mountains is a wine-growing region in the shadow of technology and people. Located amid a sea of three million residents in Silicon Valley, the
appellation is just a short drive south of San Francisco. How fortunate for the Bay Area to have another worldclass wine region – but just a lunch hour away. Besides the uniqueness of being flanked by the San Francisco Bay and the cool acific Ocean, the entire anta Cruz wine-growing area rests where two of earth’s tectonic plates the acific late and the orth American late drive activity along the famous San Andreas fault zone. Spanning 60 miles along the California coast, the appellation is defined by its high altitude vineyards and unique location amid the convergence of the mountains formed by the collision of these tectonic plates over 30
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million years ago. This combination of steep slopes, ridgetops, and marine-cooling influences creates a patchwork of microclimates, enabling the growers and wineries to produce wines ranging from the coolclimate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay to elegant Cabernet Sauvignon, and more. For terroir-loving* wine drinkers, this is the place to discover how the soils, climate, and elevation transfer to a delicious and ingestible art form that captures the time and place we call wine. Viewed from space, the San Andreas Fault looks like a long, narrow valley, marking where the North American plate meets the acific plate. But viewed up close, from
Rhys Vineyards, the fault area is easily seen from the edge of the property as a scrubby ravine. t s such a defining feature of the appellation, says eff Brinkman, Rhys winemaker. Looking across to the North American plate, he continues to describe how it and the acific plate the one we re standing on continues to collide. ou can think of geology as a layer cake, says Brinkman. “As far as we can tell, we have the most geologically diverse wine-growing region in the world, because the soils are e posed over tens of billions of years. In wine-growing, soil diversity is hugely advantageous, www.davidlv.com | 53
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allowing grape varieties to uniquely express themselves in a relatively small area. “We have two vineyards – 400 yards between them,” says Brinkman. They are both at the same elevation, planted with the same material, the farming and winemaking are precisely the same. The big difference is…almost 15 million years of geologic age. There is no repetition.” Every Rhys vineyard is on a different and distinct geology from the others, but their winemaking is the same for each. The idea behind Rhys is to experiment with terroir. They limit the variable in the vineyard and winery, embrace the microclimates, and maximize expression in the wine. Imagine tasting the same wine from grapes that drive deep into the earth from different geologic times. We would expect some difference. The team at Rhys Vineyards aspires to make great Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. They have searched the state for exciting rocky soils that exist within the mountainous, cool coastal climate zone. Along the fault zone surrounded by woodlands in the high elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountain range, they cultivate six estate vineyards, each of which is capable of producing uniquely compelling, distinctive, soil-driven wine. Rhys’ Skyline vineyard has 30-50 million-year-old soils and is incredibly diverse – a mélange of fractured
mudstone, sandstone, and limestone. At over 2,300 feet in elevation, Skyline is one of the highest Pinot Noir vineyards in California. This extreme altitude helps cool the vineyard while providing the constant sunshine that is found above the fog. The rocky soils are incredibly shallow, making the vines work to dig deep. The diversity of the soils produces one of the most mineral-driven and exotic wines in the New World. Yet another vineyard, the Alpine Vineyard, gazes at the acific Ocean located miles in the distance. From its steep and rocky perch, the four-million-year-old, chalky and sedimentary bedrock of the urisima Formation soils are shallow and rocky. The altitude and proximity to the ocean contribute to a cool climate. At Alpine Vineyard, half-acre blocks contain 16 different selections of Pinot Noir and four different selections of Chardonnay. Each of these Pinot Noirs offer the unusual combination of rich black fruit and crushed rock complexity that makes this vineyard distinct from other vineyards, while the Chardonnay showcases a combination of coiled energy in a glass with fine marine saline comple ity. Being able to taste the difference from uniquely different parcels allows a deep dive into how terroir affects the wine. When one has two glasses, the only thing better – besides enjoying the aromas and taste – is to experience the difference of where they are from.
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And still more is to be discovered in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This time, looking across the fault zone to the east, is the North American plate where the acclaimed Ridge Vineyards sits. “We are actually on the edge of North America,” says Eric Baugher, COO and winemaker of Ridge Monte Bello. Looking back at Rhys Vineyards, the ravine of conifers and overgrown brush cover an assemblage of ancient oceanic crust material of sandstone, shale, and clay, known as Franciscan Complex, have been churned and exposed over millions of years. However, Ridge’s vines penetrate a subsoil of a slightly different kind – limestone, which is rare in California and somewhat of an anomaly in the Bay Area. This mountain, on which it stands, was dragged by another ancient plate, the Farallon Plate, which laid between the converging orth American and acific lates. he limestone and greenstone mélange formed 140-160 million years ago as a seamount on the Farallon tectonic plate. “It hit North America, shaved off, and left this mound right here,” says Baugher. The mix lifted to form the Monte Bello Ridge through seismic upheaval from the adjacent San Andreas Fault. The limestone is said to help sweeten the soil, buffering the effects of acidic rain and helping the grapes retain their acidity. The fractured rocks allow for good drainage,
and for the vine roots to penetrate deep into the rock, searching for water. Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot excel in the limestone-influenced soils throughout all four ranches at Monte Bello, especially in more exposed sites where the soil is more weathered. These lean soils temper the vigor of Cabernet Sauvignon, producing intense and structured wines that continue to win the world over. A great amount of complexity and diverse “nurturing” of the vines from different geological eras consequently showcase characteristics in the finished wine. t is also reasonable to say the wines of the Santa Cruz Mountains is in a constant state of energized motion – just as the plates are continuously moving and rubbing against each other, churning up rocks and soil in the process. Those who are aware of Santa Cruz mountain wines have fully engaged palates. They are lovers of coastal influences, high elevation, and cool-weather wines. Wines of energy. From the majestic Redwoods to the rugged acific coastline, Santa Cruz Mountains are home to some of the world’s most passionate wine producers making magic along this geologic wonder. * Terroir (/ter’wär/) is the French term describing all of the environmental factors which can affect a crop’s taste, color, etc. www.davidlv.com | 55
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DRINK (WINERIES) Mount Eden Vineyards Mount Eden Vineyards is a small historic wine estate perched at 2,000 feet overlooking Silicon Valley in the Santa Cruz Mountain Appellation. Founded in 1945, it is recognized as one of the original “boutique” California winery properties, focusing on small lots of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Cabernet Sauvignon. mounteden.com Sante Arcangeli Family Wines Sante Arcangeli Family Wines carefully handcrafts Burgundian varietals that have been gently nurtured from rare mountain-grown fruit to a new life as elegant and expressive California Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. santewinery.com
VISITOR’S GUIDE
Bring Your Surfboard & Your Wine Opener Salty ocean waves. Nature hikes with stunning views. Ziplining through the redwoods. Charming towns. The Santa Cruz Mountains are a place where everyone can play. All that’s required is a sense of exploration. GET THERE Fly into San Jose and rent a car STAY Chaminade Resort & Spa Situated on the northwestern edge of scenic Santa Cruz, Chaminade is a mountaintop resort featuring newly renovated accommodations and breathtaking views of Monterey Bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Lounge amidst lush green trees and the resort’s historic Missionstyle design. Guests can indulge in fresh California Cuisine or experience a revitalizing spa treatment. EAT The Bywater A casual, New Orleans-inspired restaurant in Los Gatos offers raw oysters, gumbo ya-ya, po’boy or fried chicken, and an amazing wine list. thebywaterca.com Plumed Horse Under Head Chef Peter Armellino’s leadership, Plumed Horse presents elegant, modern California Cuisine, emphasizing what is fresh, seasonal, and sustainably produced. Plumed Horse has been awarded a Michelin Star.
Ridge Vineyards Critically acclaimed for more than six decades, Ridge is one of the most well-known Santa Cruz Mountains wineries and steeped in rich history. The Ridge Monte Bello Cabernet beat out acclaimed French wines in the legendary 1976 Judgment of Paris, garnering acclaim for the region and California wines in general. In the 2006 re-tasting, the same wine earned 1st place. Ridge focuses on a minimal intervention approach and has been championing single vineyard winemaking since its inception. ridgewine.com Eden Estate Eden Estate is located in an eastern valley at the base of Mt. Eden. Winemaker Bill Brosseau produces a premium Cabernet Sauvignon from the two and a half acres of hand-harvested fruit grown organically on the property. edenestatewines.com Thomas Fogarty Winery From the beginning, it was the vision of Thomas Fogarty Sr. that when the winery and 30-acre vineyard was developed, the remaining 330 acres from his 360-acre estate would be set aside to remain an open space preserve. Using organic, sustainable, and biodynamic practices, with a healthy touch of intuition, they have developed Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the cool Northern Skyline sub-region of the Santa Cruz Mountains for the past 35 years. fogartywinery.com Mindego Ridge Mindego Ridge is a small 10-acre Santa Cruz Mountains vineyard perched on a south facing, shale-laced slope 8 miles from the acific, lovingly farmed and cared for by husband and wife owners, David & Stacey Gollnick. Their mission is to produce 100% estate grown, single vineyard Pinot Noir and Chardonnay that authentically express the marine-influenced mountain terroir. Wines are crafted in small lots, with minimal intervention, by cool-climate virtuoso, Ehren Jordan. Mindegoridge.com
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By Aleza Freeman The curtain has risen, and the Smith Center for the Performing Arts is back in action following a long, COVID-caused hiatus. That means its President and CEO, Myron Marton, is a very busy man. Not to say he wasn’t just as busy during the pandemic pause. “I found myself on multiple Zoom calls every week with the leading performing art centers coast to coast, a call with the Vegas venues,” he recalls. “Everyone from Cirque du Soleil to Las Vegas events coming together to talk about…what it was going to take to reopen.” DAVID magazine recently caught up with Martin to learn more about the Smith Center’s shutdown experience as well as what to expect from this worldclass performing arts center now that the show has gone on.
When live entertainment went dark in March 2020, where did you and your team concentrate your energy?
President and CEO of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.
That’s a tricky question because the Smith Center is the home to world-class live performance...not Zoom performance. The Smith Center as we knew it stopped on that day and we had to find new ways to stay engaged with our audiences. Yes, we did some online performances and some workshops and master classes online, but it was clear from Day One that nothing ever has or will take the place of live performance.
Other than virtual programs, how else has the Smith Center adapted and grown due to the pandemic? We invested in new technology so people could have their tickets on their phone. We did the same thing, by the way, with our bars. We went to a cashless system. We knew that was going to take a little bit of a learning curve, but people have adapted very quickly. During that shutdown, thanks to things we learned from people and peers around the world, we then invested in things like enhanced filtration in our HVAC systems. We all learned what a MERV 13 rating was for an air filter. We learned that there were benefits in using UV light inside the air ducts. The Smith Center was always known as a place with a pristine environment. Our entire team does an amazing
job of keeping this place looking perfect, all the time. Now, not only are we clean, but we’re totally disinfected… cleaner than clean. Sparkling.
Did the pandemic play any role in shaping your current season? In the beginning of the pandemic, we had to cancel nearly 500 performances. So, the shows we are doing now are the shows that were previously scheduled for a year or two ago and postponed, and now we’re finally getting to present these talented people. We just completed our second Broadway show since reopening.
Do audiences mind your new COVID protocols? The vast majority are thrilled with our COVID protocols. We ask people to be vaccinated and show proof of vaccination. We ask them to wear a mask. For our Broadway shows, we do a pre-show audio announcement in the house just to ask people to get settled in and turn off their phones, but we also thank everyone for making this a safe place by continuing to wear their masks throughout the performance. When that announcement is made, in every single performance, the audience applauds.
How about the performers? Back in action, happy to be back, starting with performances in Myron’s [formerly Myron’s Cabaret Jazz]. I think we did 12 shows in there before we did our first one in Reynolds Hall. All of those first performers were local favorites, people who live here in Las Vegas: Clint Holmes, Frankie Moreno, Lon Bronson Band, David Perrico and his pop strings…and on and on.
How has the neighborhood around the Smith Center grown since the shut down? Our average guest has been away for a year, a yearand-a-half or more. When they left, we had our neighbor to the southwest, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, and on our block, the Discovery Children’s Museum, but everything else was dirt. Now we have new apartment buildings [Auric Symphony Park] that are beautiful, and people are moving in and it’s really changing the neighborhood. The next thing that’s in the works, we’re anticipating some new restaurants…so, in the future, when people come to the Smith Center, they will have some choices right here on our block for pre- and post-show food or drinks.
What are you most excited about this season? If the question were phrased slightly differently, and you asked, “Who am I looking forward to seeing the most?” I would say our audiences. We miss our local friends and neighbors who were regulars coming to the Smith Center and that’s the part I am looking forward to the most.
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