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From the Publisher LOSS The Great Recession of 2008-2009 resulted in the demise of many businesses, among them the non-profit publication that my wife Joanne worked on and my architectural practice. We suddenly had an unhealthy amount of free time on our hands. This was the world that DAVID was born into. Capitalizing on Joanne’s professional experience in marketing and advertising we came up with a plan. “Let’s take the publishing world by storm” was more her idea than mine. For me, doing DAVID was all about Joanne. From inception, this was her publication; I worked for her.

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I don’t know if this applies to everyone, but I found I had a lot of spare time on my hands during lock down. I will cop to the fact that an undue amount of that time was spent meandering the highways and byways of the net. During those solitary days, I developed an appetite for the weird and wonderful and my feed got populated by the strangest slices of varying subcultures.

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844-600-7275. https://parkmgm.com LADY A: WHAT A SONG CAN DO TOUR 7 p.m. The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-693-5000.

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ANDREW MCMAHON: THREE PIANOS TOUR 6 p.m. House of Blues, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600.

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MICHELLE JOHNSON PRESENTS HOME! A RETURN TO BROADWAY 6 p.m. Myron's Cabaret Jazz, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012.

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MARC REBILLET: THIRD DOSE DOOR 7 p.m.

Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. http://brooklynbowl.

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UNLV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 7:30 p.m.

Artemus W. Ham Hall, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy., Las Vegas. 702-895-3011. http://unlv.edu

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SYMPHONIC ROCK SHOW 7 p.m. Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http://

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SERENADES OF LIFE: DOCTORS IN CONCERT BENEFITTING NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE 6:45 p.m. The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas.

702-749-2012. http://thesmithcenter.com

ALANIS MORISSETTE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS GARBAGE AND CAT POWER 7 p.m. T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-692-1300. http://t-

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QUINN XCII, CHELSEA CUTLER: STAY NEXT TO ME TOUR 8 p.m. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd.,

Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. https://www. cosmopolitanlasvegas.com

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE: JODI COBB - STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND 7:30 p.m. Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012.

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ROD STEWART: THE HITS Through Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 3570 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 866-2275938. http://caesarspalace.com

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RUSS: TOUR BEFORE THE TOUR 7 p.m.

The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. http://

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FRANKI VALLI 8 p.m. Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas.

702-749-2012. http://thesmithcenter.com JUDAS PRIEST 8 p.m. Zappos Theater, Planet Hollywood, 3667 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-785-5555. http://caesars.com/

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FLOGGING MOLLY & VIOLENT FEMMES: UNITED STATES CO-HEADLINE TOUR 2021 8 p.m. The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-693-5000.

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CATS THE MUSICAL Through Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m. Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012.

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DROPKICK MURPHYS AND RANCID: BOSTON TO BERKLEY II 7 p.m. The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. http://

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BILLY IDOL Through Oct. 23, 8 p.m. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-698-7000. https://www.

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BAD RELIGION & ALKALINE TRIO 7 p.m.

Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. http://brooklynbowl.

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MACHINE GUN KELLY: MY DOWNFALL TOUR 7 p.m. The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-6935000. http://virginhotelslv.com

Hollywood, 3667 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-785-5555. http://caesars.com/

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MUSICAL Through Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m. Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012. http://

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MARC ANTHONY ON TOUR 8 p.m. Michelob Ultra Arena, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-632-7600. http://

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FANFARE! LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC OPENING NIGHT FEATURING COPLAND, DVORÁK, TOWER & TCHAIKOVSKY 7:30 p.m. Reynolds Hall, The Smith Center, 361 Symphony Park Ave., Las Vegas. 702-749-2012.

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PHISH Through Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m. MGM Grand Garden Arena, MGM Grand, 3799 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-892-7575. https://

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AMERICAS GOT TALENT LIVE Through Sept. 4, 8 p.m. Luxor Theater, Luxor Hotel & Casino, 3900 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 877-386-4658. http://luxor.

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PRIMUS: A TRIBUTE TO KINGS WITH SPECIAL GUEST BLACK MOUNTAIN 7 p.m.

The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-693-5000. http://

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STING - MY SONGS Through Nov. 13, 8 p.m.

The Colosseum, Caesars Palace, 3570 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 866-227-5938. http://

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To submit your event information, email calendar@davidlv.com by the 15th of the month prior to the month in which the event is being held.

J. COLE WITH 21 SAVAGE: THE OFFSEASON TOUR 8 p.m. MGM Grand Garden Arena, MGM Grand, 3799 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-892-7575. https://

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ISAIAH RASHAD: LIL SUNNY'S AWESOME VACATION 7 p.m. House of Blues, Mandalay Place, 3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702632-7600. http://mandalaybay.com A DAY TO REMEMBER: THE RE-ENTRY TOUR 7 p.m. The Theater, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, 4455 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas. 702-6935000. http://virginhotelslv.com DANCE GAVIN DANCE - AFTERBURNER TOUR 5:30 p.m. Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-862-2695. http://

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WILCO - ODE TO JOY TOUR Brooklyn Bowl, 3545 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas. 702-8622695. http://brooklynbowl.com/las-vegas

GWEN STEFANI - JUST A GIRL Through Oct. 30, 9 p.m. Zappos Theater, Planet

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Devour

A Decadent Joy Recently opened, Delilah is a sensational, multilevel supper club with sumptuous yet refined American fare, live a accompanied by elegant dancers, and interior design that will make guests feel as if they’ve been transported to golden-era Las Vegas. Dripping with chandeliers and champagne, this high-energy destination provides a uni ue experience alongside top-notch food. A menu highlight is

the Wagyu eef Wellington, with a 12-ounce filet mignon, herbed crepe, and porcini mushroom duxelles drenched in madeira wine us. or dessert, don’t miss out on the Strawberry Shortcake aked Alaska, pictured here.

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Desire

Green Friends

The Sill offers a wide variety of live houseplants, pots and accessories, preserved plants for those without a green thumb, and even monthly subscription packages to keep your home fresh and verdant. The well-curated online store allows one to browse based on need, whether it be pet-friendly plants, easy-to-care varieties, air purifiers, or large statement makers. The Sill’s approachable design, helpful care instructions and tips, and gorgeous photography makes shopping for houseplants a oy. Pictured here are options from their pet-friendly plant subscription which includes a non-toxic plant and a chic ceramic pot every month for $65. thesill.com

Bloomscape makes shopping for a houseplant a fun and playful experience. They provide gorgeous illustrations and photography, informative videos on plant backgrounds and care instructions, and an entire section of their website is dedicated to learning more about horticulture. The founders come from five consecutive generations of greenhouse growers and oral industry innovators. With loomscape, plants are cared for by experts and maintained in optimal conditions in their custom greenhouses until they are ready to be shipped directly to your home. Pictured here is the air-purifying Peperomia Watermelon plant, available for including a choice of different colors of recycled eco-pots. bloomscape.com

Founded by a husband and wife team, Greenery NYC is devoted to elevating indoor environments, both home and workspaces, with the use of biophilic design. They are committed to providing their employees a living wage and giving back to their community with donations of plants and materials to various local organizations, schools and nursing homes. They ship their mix-and-match houseplants and artistic planters throughout the country and also have additional services provided such as lush living “green walls” and corporate design plans for o ce plants. Pictured here is a gorgeous Victoria Birdsnest Fern in a terracotta self-watering pot available for $95. greenerynyc.com

Horti’s subscription service and curated kits are thoughtfully designed to build confidence in plant care allowing consumers can grow alongside their own collection of lush, hardy houseplants suited for a wide range of environments. Options include month-tomonth from $20, a 6-month story from $120, or a 12-month journey from $240. Subscribers will receive new varieties each month while learning incrementally about repotting, propagating and grooming houseplants. Pictured here is an assortment of plants likely to be included in the 12-month journey, a fun option for plant enthusiasts who desire to turn their bare home into a lush jungle. heyhorti.com

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Founded in Holland in 1818, Breck’s is the largest Dutch bulb importer in the United States. The company has a prodigious variety of bulbs and perennials shipped stateside available for home gardening enthusiasts. Approximately two decades ago, Breck’s expanded their business to incorporate a lush houseplant selection that rotates seasonally. Customers can optimize their plant search based on exposure to the sun, bloom time, size and color. Pictured here is an eye catching option that is currently in season and available for $29, the Petra Croton with bold, variegated foliage. Not only is this plant beautiful, but it is resilient and easy for beginners who are still developing their green thumb. brecks.com

The ou s Company offers fresh, uality plants and owers sourced straight from the sustainable farms they are partnered with. They speciali e in farm fresh ower arrangements but also have a wide range of indoor plants available in their “plant family.” This farm-direct transparent sourcing means saying goodbye to the middlemen and yes to longer lasting, healthier owers and plants. Pictured here is the iddle me this, a tall and oh-so-trendy fiddle-leaf ficus in an elegant rose gold pot, available for $94. bouqs.com

Terrain is a one-stop shop for all things nature with a beautiful selection of houseplants. Each of their plants is delivered in a stylish container, ready to display and enjoy immediately. Enjoy a selection of classic houseplants, indoor trees, topiaries, succulents, hanging baskets, and air plants. Each plant comes with detailed care instructions and a replacement guarantee in the unlikely scenario your new friend arrives damaged. Pictured here is the gorgeously colored Tradescantia Tricolor, a fast growing and easy to care for focal point for the home available for $72. shopterrain.com

Lula’s Garden was born out of love for succulents, with hand-picked plants that come from family-owned nurseries. They partner with water.org, an organization dedicated to improving lives around the world by providing access to safe water. Each garden sold provides six months of safe water for one person in the developing world.

Their eco-friendly succulent gardens come in self-sustaining boxes that double as planters. These gardens are ideal gifts and can be customized with notes or corporate logos. Pictured here is one of Lula’s premium assortments, the Urban Garden, available for $95.

This assortment is a stunning centerpiece for any room, complete with seven freshly planted succulents of many hues. lulasgarden.com www.davidlv.com | 21

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Discover

Discover the Emerald Cave A mere one hour from Vegas, hiding along the Black Canyon water trail, is the Emerald Cave, only accessible by kayak, canoe, or paddle raft. For several hours a day, between April and October, the cave walls, the water, and everyone inside is bathed in brilliant, emeraldgreen light. There are numerous companies offering guided kayaking tours for every skill level, each with trips timed specifically to arrive when the cave is most incandescent. Many of these tours include

a pick-up in Vegas and all depart from Willow Beach on the Arizona side of the Colorado River. One notable tour company is Vegas Glass Kayaks; thanks to their see-through polycarbonate kayaks, explorers can enjoy the mystical green lights of the cave while seeing the river owing beneath them.

Willow Beach, 25804 Willow Beach Road, Willow Beach, AZ 86445. nps.gov/lake/planyourvisit/willow-beach

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Early Detection of Lung Cancer UMC, in Partnership with UNLV Medicine, is the First Hospital in Nevada to Introduce the Ion Robotic Lung Biopsy System.

By Scott Kerbs UMC, in partnership with UNLV Medicine, recently became the first and only hospital in the state to introduce the groundbreaking on system, a robotic-assisted platform for minimally invasive lung biopsy procedures.

This technology now plays a vital role in the life-saving efforts of UMC’s nterventional Pulmonology Program, the only program of its kind in Nevada.

Providing new levels of precision, reach, and stability when compared to traditional bronchoscopy biopsy techni ues, the on system helps address a challenging aspect of lung biopsies. The system allows physicians to collect tissue samples from smaller targets deep within the lung to help detect cancer. While it can be di cult to diagnose earlystage lung cancer, the on system helps physicians obtain tissue samples to facilitate an early diagnosis.

This advanced technology has already produced lifechanging results for UMC patients like Kurt lakeman, a -year-old North Las Vegas man who underwent the state’s first robotic navigation biopsy using the on system in June. The procedure was performed by Dr. Arthur Oliver Dr. Arthur Oliver Romero demonstrating the on platform on a lung model during an event at UMC in June 2021. www.davidlv.com | 25

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Romero, UMC Interventional Pulmonologist and Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Dr. Romero is the first fellowship-trained, and only board-certified interventional pulmonologist, in Nevada.

After collecting a tissue sample with the on robotic system, we detected Mr. Blakeman’s lung cancer at an incredibly early stage, Dr. Romero says. When it comes to promoting the best possible outcomes for lung cancer patients, nothing beats an early diagnosis. When we detect cancer early, it provides patients like Mr. lakeman with the best possible chance of survival and sustained uality of life. ollowing the on procedure, Dr. Romero and his colleagues at UMC worked to move Blakeman through the treatment process as rapidly as possible. Within weeks, Cardiothoracic Surgeon Dr. Walter hrman performed surgery at UMC to successfully remove the small tumor from Blakeman’s lung.

’m ust happy that they caught it in time, lakeman says, expressing gratitude toward Dr. Romero and the other UMC team members who cared for him. lakeman, a lifelong resident of Southern Nevada, has fully recovered from the surgery, and looks forward to resuming the activities he en oys as a retiree, including fishing trips with his friends.

By diagnosing Blakeman’s lung cancer at such an early stage, Dr. Romero said the clinical team was able to offer curative surgery and avoid chemotherapy and radiation, which can have significant side effects. f the cancer went undetected and continued to spread, lakeman may have also needed a more extensive surgical procedure to remove a larger section of the lung, which can severely impact lung function and overall uality of life. lakeman says the on robotic navigation biopsy procedure, which initially detected his lung cancer, only took a matter of hours, allowing him to return home the

A pulmonologist studies the monitor during an Ion Platform procedure.

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same day. He returned to UMC several weeks later for the surgery to remove the tumor.

During biopsy procedures with the Ion robotic platform, the physician uses a controller to navigate to the target along a planned path. Dr. Romero explains that the system maps out the patient’s lungs, providing valuable information to guide physicians. The inserted catheter can articulate 180 degrees in any direction, allowing it to pass through small, di cult-to-navigate airways and around tight bends so it can reach all segments of the lung. During navigation, Ion’s peripheral vision probe also provides direct vision through a nearby monitor.

“As a result of this technology, we’re able to safely reach areas of the lung that were previously inaccessible,” Dr. Romero says. “The system represents a valuable step forward in our ongoing fight against lung cancer in Nevada.”

The minimally invasive Ion technology also helps reduce the risks associated with traditional biopsy techniques, which involve puncturing the outer surface of the lung with a long needle. Dr. Romero notes that certain patients, such as those with severe emphysema, have a high risk of sustaining collapsed lungs from needle lung biopsies and will benefit from this new technology.

Looking toward the future, Dr. Romero says he expects the Ion technology to eventually support the direct treatment of lung cancer.

“In three to five years, we will likely have the ability to provide minimally invasive lung cancer treatment using the Ion robotic platform,” he says, explaining that a specialized catheter is currently in development to allow physicians to destroy lung tumors using heat therapy. Once available, this minimally invasive form of treatment may eliminate the need for some surgical procedures to remove lung tumors.

With patients already benefitting from the lung cancer detection capabilities of this new technology, UMC CEO Mason Van Houweling points out that the introduction of the Ion robotic system serves as a reflection of UMC’s unwavering commitment to innovation.

“UMC continues to serve as our state’s most sophisticated hospital, providing community members with access to the latest breakthroughs in clinical technology,” Van Houweling says. “The Ion robotic system serves as a valuable tool to help our world-class clinicians diagnose lung cancer and move patients rapidly to treatment.”

Learn More For more information about the Ion platform and UMC’s Lung Cancer Screening Program, community members can call UMC’s Oncology team at 02.

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By Paul Harasim When you read the TSK Architects’ design brief for the five-story, 1 ,000 s uare foot building that will be the first permanent building for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV – construction on the facility slated for completion by summer 2022 you can’t help but ero in on this paragraph The anchor for student instruction, community partnerships and for the building itself is the super- oor on Level 1 of the building. Nestled six feet into the earth, the super- oor houses the training functions of the building, including standardi ed patient rooms, a simulation suite, virtual anatomy classrooms, and a pro-section cadaver lab, as well as the o ces for administrative and technical staff who run the simulation center. t is uni ue in medical education to have a facility that places all of these program elements on a single oor in close proximity to one another. Having this proximity will allow the school and their community partners opportunities to run a wide variety of simulation scenarios, workshops and events to train students, maintain certifications of licensed professionals and explore medical care in new and exciting ways.

So the Kerkorian School of Medicine, in temporary facilities on UNLV’s Shadow Lane campus since the medical school opened as the UNLV School of Medicine in 201 , won’t be following the leader in medical school design. t is a leader.

Kirk Kerkorian, for whom the school was named in April, was himself a leader. A gaming pioneer known as Architectural rendering of the Kirk Kerkorian School

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the father of the megaresort on The Strip, Kerkorian died in 2015 at age 98. He was the founder of MGM Resorts nternational and considered one of the central figures in making Las Vegas a premier global tourist destination.

Since his death, hundreds of millions of dollars have been given away around the world, anonymously, by his estate, according to an announcement by his confidants. They also say that it is only because the medical school is in a city he loved, will the school, the recipient of millions of dollars of his philanthropy, be the one and only place that carries his name.

With an eye for design that kept patrons of his resorts coming back for more, Kerkorian, no doubt, would have appreciated the educational wizardry designed into the new medical education building that will bear his name.

Flexibility will be a key feature of the structure. While the school’s class size is now 60, the building is designed to appropriately handle a class of 120. ifteen typical patient rooms will be on the super- oor, allowing mock examinations to be run using trained patient actors. Each room is equipped with microphones and cameras to monitor the interaction between students and actors. Debriefings and evaluations of students will be carried out in adjacent conference rooms that are shared with the simulation suite, where students can practice procedures on mannequins that breathe, cry, sweat, and respond to medications.

Divided by three operable partitions, which can allow the simulation rooms to function separately, the simulation rooms – which will also be connected to a control room by both cameras and microphones so the staff can run a variety of scenarios and later provide feedback – can also open up and operate as a multibed suite. A simulated operating room, with appropriate surgical equipment, will also be ready for use. Virtual anatomy classrooms will be filled with speciali ed tables allowing students to virtually explore cellular structure, as well as anatomy and physiology. The prosection lab, with space for eight cadavers that offer students a tactile anatomical experience, will complement the virtual anatomy program.

Yes, Kerkorian, who so appreciated great design, couldn’t help but appreciate the design being built into the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, where gardens, welcoming visitors on Level 2, also set off a walking trail offering students a way to work off stress.

To help complete the school’s sophisticated design, Mike Purtill, a TSK architect, says his Las Vegas firm enlisted Los Angeles-based CO Architects, a specialty group that designs medical schools and hospitals throughout the United States. Purtill points out that administrators at medical schools today, including those at the Kerkorian School of Medicine, are demanding buildings and layouts to facilitate multidisciplinary

instruction of small groups. New medical education buildings at two Texas medical schools, the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and the Texas Tech University- l Paso School of Medicine, both re ect the same educational philosophy as the Kerkorian school.

Large lecture halls, where students diligently take notes to supplement loads of book learning, are no longer the gold standard.

“I went to medical school in a more traditional era, where the first two years were delivered mostly by lecture, says Neil Haycocks, MD, the vice dean for academic affairs and education at the Kerkorian School of Medicine. “This was probably nice for the institution, as it needed only two lecture halls most of the time...Things have obviously changed a great deal in the last two decades, with a much greater emphasis on active learning, small group learning, and hands-on practice prior to the starting of the clinical clerkships.

Barbara Atkinson, MD, the planning and founding dean of the medical school and the only woman to head three medical schools in the U.S., played a large role in the design of the building. She notes that the design of the superoor space also encourages human interaction through circulation patterns and proximity of spaces. Both, she says, enhance the informal collegiality that produces a more e cient learning environment, free of the formality that has been found to sti e learning give and take.

The school’s current dean, Marc Kahn, MD, adds that the many opportunities for simulated learning within the new building are also a safer way to learn than students watching a professor and then practicing on a live patient.

Dr. Kahn made sure that in his new o ce, on the medical school’s fifth oor where administration o ces will be found, he has sightlines allowing him to see students walking by so he’ll be able to easily and informally greet them and talk about their educational experience.

Talk about a school designed with attention to detail.

Though the Nevada legislature greenlighted a new medical school for UNLV in 201 and welcomed its first class of 60 students in 2017, it took six years before construction on a new building began. Three attempts to begin construction on a permanent campus for the medical school, developed by UNLV administrators and the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), fell apart amid tensions between the UNLV donors and NSHE. It wasn’t until late 2020 that construction finally began on the new building that’s quickly shooting up in the Las Vegas Medical District near downtown.

What finally made the pro ect a go, according to Maureen Schafer, Dr. Atkinson’s former chief of staff at the medical school, was advice last year from Robert Lang, PhD. Lang, who died in June, had held the Lincy Endowed Chair in Urban Affairs at UNLV and served as executive director of both the public policy think tank, The Lincy Institute, and Brookings Mountain West, a

Above: Groundbreaking Day, October 29, 2020. (L-R) Melody Rose, Chancellor, Nevada System of Higher ducation, Keith Whitfield, President, UNLV, Robert Sottile, Med Student, Cameron Harris, Med Student, Marc J. Kahn, MD, Dean, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, Kathie Velez, Med Student, Lauren Hollifield, MD, Chris Heavey, Provost, UNLV and Barbara Atkinson MD, Founding Dean.

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Courtesy Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV partnership between UNLV and the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization.

According to Schafer, Lang suggested to donors that the creation of a nonprofit development corporation could get the stalled pro ect off the dime. t did. Through the formation of a development limited liability corporation called the Nevada Health and ioscience Corp. NH C , donors to the school, largely the ngelstad oundation and Kerkorian’s charitable Lincy oundation, along with unnamed philanthropists, committed to more than 1 0 million to build the medical school. With Schafer installed by donors as NH C C O, the funding arrangement by the development corporation it will manage how its philanthropic dollars are spent was approved by NSH .

Under the plan, NSH leases the building for 1 a year until 20 0, when the deed to the property will revert to UNLV and the Nevada oard of Regents.

ight years ago, it was Lang who pushed for a study that ultimately showed a new medical school would bring about 1.2 billion a year into the economy after 1 years of startup. That study, pro ecting that the creation of the school would spawn new biotech companies in Southern Nevada, convinced Nevada legislators the building of a medical school made financial sense.

Dr. Lang was a true visionary, Schafer says.

Kris ngelstad Mc arry, a trustee of the ngelstad oundation, told the Nevada ndependent that the development corporation idea shared by Lang a mode of operation fre uently used by nonprofits in other states allowed donors to escape the existing institutional apparatus which, in her view, had strangled previous attempts by philanthropists to build a medical school.

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The state-of-the-art allopathic, MD granting medical school that Engelstad McGarry has long envisioned as a beacon for improved healthcare in Southern Nevada will welcome visitors on the second oor. There, a multistory community space will act as an informal gathering place, as well as a space for public lectures, TED talks, and school and community events. While this forum space originates on Level 2, which will house a tribute to Kerkorian and a donor recognition wall, it will connect to Level through stepped seating. Level 2 also has a cafe and small study rooms for groups of eight students.

Common to both levels 3 and 4 will be a learning resource center operated by UNLV Libraries, emphasizing the latest in digital media. oth levels will also house small group study rooms and exible classrooms, with operable partitions that open to each other should larger groups need accommodation. The small group study rooms will have screen-sharing hardware and visual displays allowing students to work collaboratively on problem-based learning exercises. The student lounge and a fitness center will be on level .

The new building will also be environmentally sound.

Registered through the reen uilding Certification nstitute, its plumbing fixture water use will be reduced by 2 percent and water-e cient landscaping allows for a 56 percent reduction when compared to baseline building re uirements. nergy use will re ect a 2 percent reduction in energy use over the baseline. t was nearly 0 years ago when James ilbray, then a Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) regent, argued before state legislators that the greater population in the Las Vegas metro area, then around 92,000 compared to Reno’s 1,000 , made it the logical site for the state’s first medical school.

To this day, the 1-year-old ilbray, a lawyer who represented Nevada’s 1st Congressional District from 1 to 1 , finds it hard to believe legislators couldn’t see the signs of how Las Vegas would grow actually think we had the votes to have the medical school built in Las Vegas but at the last minute the Reno option got a lift with the promise of a si able financial gift from a foundation if the medical school was located in Northern Nevada. While the Reno medical school did have a clinical profile in Las Vegas, he says it was so low profile that it didn’t make much of a positive difference in the delivery of healthcare to Southern Nevada, which has grown to a metropolis of million, while Reno sits at 00,000. ilbray says he hopes the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine is a catalyst for improved access to healthcare, so the days of long waits for appointments are no more.

We deserve better, he says.

Amen.

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Dr. Pedro “Joe” Greer, Jr. Dean of the Roseman University College of Medicine

By Jaq Greenspon After an hour of chatting, Dr. Pedro Jose Greer gently admonishes someone for referring to him as Dr. Greer.

Joe, he says, smiling. looked at my birth certificate.

There was no ‘doctor.’”

This isn’t false modesty or a refutation of his credentials, and while it may seem like a practiced line, it sums up a lot of what you need to know about Joe and about his approach to the modern medical system, a system he is definitely trying to change as he enters his second year as the Founding Dean of the College of Medicine at Roseman University of Health Sciences.

For the 65-year-old physician, rewriting the rules is nothing new, he’s been doing it since high school, long before he started his medical career. Back then, in the early 70s, Joe attended a Catholic school where, as he says, the football team was so bad, the “priests didn’t pray for victory, they prayed for no injuries.” This was a team on which the young Greer played offensive center and outside linebacker. Typical ock. xcept was ipping between being a hippie and playing football,” he recalls. “I stood up at the pep rally with a McGovern sign…They did not let me play the first half of the game.

This dichotomy, though, seems to punctuate his entire life. Even as he describes his Cuban-American

upbringing (he came to the US with his family in the early 60s) he also points out that he’s “one of four Cuban democrats of my generation.” This liberal ideal comes from his parents. His father, a first-generation high school graduate, worked his way through medical school and his mother campaigned for Jimmy Carter but most importantly, he was raised with the maxim that “we were supposed to take care of people.” As a catholic, Greer was brought up to believe in a “deep sense of social justice.” However, this was in the late 60s, early 70s, during the height of the Vietnam War and in his high school, they did not require the students to stand for the pledge of allegiance if they were opposed to the actions taking place in Southeast Asia. So, from the beginning, Greer was taught it was vitally important to stand up for what you believe.

And one of the things he believes is that no one should ever suffer or die alone. Not if he can help it. The first challenge to this ideology came during Joe’s second month of interning, when a man came in who was dying of tuberculosis. The man’s identification wrist band only had his name, a date of birth which was probably incorrect and no address, meaning they had found him on the street. Vowing to uphold his promise, Greer went to the only two homeless shelters in Miami at the time to try and track down the man’s family or friends. In that, www.davidlv.com | 35

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he was unsuccessful. What he did find, though was a world of poverty that didn’t know existed in my own country.

His plans up until that point had been to go and practice medicine in a third world country, but then he saw this and he couldn’t believe his eyes. He knew he had to stay and try to make things better at home. rom that point, you can see how the decisions pushing his career forward have all been about achieving that goal.

Joe’s choice to speciali e in gastroenterology hepatology stems from learning that Cubans, like him, had twice the incidence of liver cancer than the rest of America, which was caused by hepatitis C. Then there were the homeless clinics he started and the medical school in Miami in 200 . And each step of the way, he was constantly trying to change the way training and medicine were seen in this country. He asks uncomfortable uestions, uestions which point to the problems with the system, uestions like How do we train our physicians to be humble and empathetic One way he does this is by actually forbidding a specific uestion We never let them ask how do you feel nstead, his students are taught to ask what is your most urgent need or reer, this takes the doctor off the pedestal and puts the control of the situation back on the patient. As he explains, with a sly grin, that as a gastroenterologist, in all these years, asking people what their most urgent need,

was much to my chagrin, nobody said a colonoscopy. nstead, the answers to this uestion are more mundane, things like might lose my ob, or ’m being evicted, or They’re foreclosing on my house. The reason being so a student can fully understand the social determinants of ine uality that 0 to 0 of the diseases in this country have a non-biological point of origin.

Now, this man, who was once short-listed to be surgeon general and received the Presidential Medal of reedom in 200 from President Obama is in the Las Vegas community to once again change the paradigm of what a medical school can and should be. He’s focused on diversity and making systemic changes, literally from the ground up. At Roseman, he plans to look at a number of different factors for the students he admits. We need to produce a socially accountable, culturally humble, empathetic individual that is going to be a great clinician, he explains. ecause one of the things that we have lost is doctors don’t listen.

Joe reer does listen. And he understands. He is an unabashed liberal who has a big laugh and can easily be mistaken for an old world mafioso something he takes full advantage of when dining out and, if you ever meet him, you have to ask about the Sinatra picture . And he wants to make the world a better place. only spoke with him for an hour, but he’s got me thoroughly convinced he’s going to do it.

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Dr. Zoltan Mari Directs Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Care at Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

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Nevada’s first and only Parkinson’s Foundation Center is developing treatments that can slow down or stop disease progression Each year, approximately 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a nervous system disease, which causes progressively worsening impairments in movement and thinking. While there is currently no cure for this disease, significant research advances are being made and treatment options continue to improve. On the frontlines of discovery and improving life for individuals living with Parkinson’s disease is Zoltan Mari, M.D., FAAN, who serves as Director of the Nevada Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders Program at Cleveland Dr. Zoltan Mari Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.

A world-renowned movement disorders neurologist, clinical scientist, and educator, Dr. Mari has been a driving force behind innovation in Parkinson’s disease patient care, education and research since joining the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in 2017.

UnderDr.Mari’sleadership,theNevadaParkinson’sDisease&Movement Disorders program at the center offers patients a multidisciplinary approach to care, with team members including neurologists, physical and occupational therapists, and neuropsychologists and social workers, all collaborating to develop individualized management and treatment plans designed to enhance the patients’ function and quality of life.

The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has celebrated numerous achievements in recognition of its work in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, including being named a Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence – the first and only in the state of Nevada. This sought-after designation identifies hospitals and academic medical centers with specialized teams who are at the leading edge of the latest medications, therapies, and innovations in Parkinson’s disease.

Furthermore, the center has also been named one of the first five CurePSP Centers of Care in the United States in acknowledgement of the services and care offered to patients diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy or Corticobasal degeneration. Finally, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health received the designation of Research Center of Excellence from the Lewy Body Dementia Association. Dr. Mari is the director of these three centers, which are dedicated to excellence in research and care in the area of Parkinson’s disease and other related disorders.

Complementing excellence in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease is the center’s efforts in pushing science forward through research. There are currently no disease-modifying therapies available that can slow down or prevent the progression in Parkinson’s disease, but Dr. Mari and his team are working to change this through research efforts focused on biomarker discovery.

“Biomarkers serve as indicators of disease and can help us not only better study Parkinson’s, but further monitor the progress and stages

of the disease, predict what to expect in the future, and assist in determining if a treatment is effective. Biomarker discovery is a critical area of need in Parkinson’s research that will help fill the gaps in our knowledge of the disease. Over the last several years we have built up our research portfolio around biomarkers in pursuit of a disease-modifying therapy,” Dr. Mari says.

At the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, several research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, which aim to facilitate the discovery, identification, and validations of Parkinson’s disease biomarkers, are underway, especially in relation to cognitive manifestations associated with the disease.

“We have the opportunity to apply a novel approach to the study of Parkinson’s disease including the assessment of a range of clinical, imaging, and biological features of the disease in an advanced analysis process based on artificial intelligence,” Dr. Mari says. “Using our findings from these research projects, we hope to improve our knowledge of this disease and discover treatments that will effectively slow the progression of it.”

In addition to its leading efforts in research and treatment, the Nevada Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Program stands alone in the comprehensive support, education, and therapeutic programing it offers to both patients and their caregivers. Designed to inform, enlighten, and empower patients and their families as they navigate the challenges of living with Parkinson’s disease, these programs span support groups, yoga, a bi-monthly Parkinson’s-focused education series, and music and art therapy, among others. Another major accomplishment in the Parkinson’s and movement disorder educational front is the first-inNevada movement disorder clinical fellowship, which will begin in 2022 with Dr. Mari’s role as fellowship director.

Throughout his career, Dr. Mari has celebrated numerous academic accomplishments, including publishing over 110 peer-reviewed papers, authoring multiple book chapters, and founding and directing dozens of nationally recognized Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs.

Furthermore, he serves as associate editor of the Parkinsonism and Related Disorders Journal, co-chair of the Motor Working Group of the Parkinson Study Group, and chair of the Movement Disorder Society’s Telemedicine Study Group.

To learn more about Dr. Mari, the Nevada Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Program and the services and programming provided by Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Heath, visit ClevelandClinic.org/Nevada.

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Dr. Sunil Patel Leads UMC to Record-Breaking Year for Transplants Expanded Program Improves Access to Life-Saving Kidney Transplants Since joining the UMC Center for Transplantation in 2020, Dr. Sunil Patel has worked alongside his colleagues at Nevada’s first and only transplant center to significantly expand access to life-saving kidney transplants. During the most recent fiscal year, the UMC Center for Transplantation performed 154 transplant procedures, more than tripling the annual number of transplants recorded in recent years.

“We have built an incredible team of transplant experts who remain dedicated to building upon our strong foundation and meeting the health care needs of our community,” said Dr. Patel, Program Director for the UMC Center for Transplantation.

“As a result of this dedicated team, we’re evaluating Dr. Sunil Patel patients earlier and working to reduce the time spent on the waiting list for kidney transplants. We have also expanded the criteria for transplant recipients, allowing our team to provide life-saving transplants for a larger number of Nevadans.”

In the past, many patients were ineligible for transplants based solely on their age or body mass index, even if they were otherwise healthy. To help a larger population of patients, Dr. Patel and his colleagues recently expanded the BMI limit from 35 to 45, while evaluating patients up to 80 years old for transplants. Patients who fall within the expanded criteria are no longer automatically disqualified. The UMC Center for Transplantation assesses each prospective organ recipient on a caseby-case basis, analyzing a variety of health factors to promote the best possible outcomes, Dr. Patel said.

While BMI plays a key role in a person’s overall health, a higher BMI has not been shown to affect outcomes for kidney recipients, Dr. Patel said.

Kidney failure patients with higher BMIs often fall into a vicious cycle: they are not eligible to receive a transplant as a result of their weight, but without a transplant, many are unable to regain the necessary mobility and energy to lose weight.

“At UMC, our team believes these patients deserve the opportunity to break this cycle and live healthier, more fulfilling lives,” Dr. Patel said. “Rather than facing the prospect of remaining on dialysis indefinitely, many of these patients now have the opportunity to improve their quality of life.”

The UMC Center for Transplantation also recently expanded its kidney recipient criteria to include patients with HIV, providing life-saving organ transplants for HIV positive community members.

Dr. Patel and his team members work tirelessly to optimize the use of donor kidneys, utilizing innovative procedures to reduce wait times and help patients recover from kidney failure. This includes performing dual kidney transplants in certain cases, using two donor kidneys rather than one to promote the best possible outcomes. In many cases, the donor organs used for dual kidney procedures are not suitable for single organ

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transplants and would have otherwise been discarded. Dr. Patel said UMC has performed a total of 10 dual kidney transplants, with perfect results in every case.

In an effort to safeguard the health of transplant patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the UMC Center for Transplantation began offering third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to many recent transplant recipients in August. Transplant recipients have a high risk of severe COVID-19, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization in August to provide certain immunocompromised patients with access to third doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.

Team members from the UMC Center for Transplantation contacted patients directly to schedule their third dose appointments.

To further protect patients across the hospital, including immunocompromised transplant recipients, UMC offers the state’s most comprehensive COVID-19 prevention protocols. With the state’s largest COVID-19 testing lab on site, UMC serves as the only civilian hospital in Nevada to provide COVID-19 testing for every hospitalized patient.

This allows UMC’s health care experts to rapidly identify and isolate positive patients, significantly improving the overall level of safety for all patients and staff.

Following each transplant surgery, the UMC Center for Transplantation continues to work alongside patients to closely monitor their health and make adjustments to their personalized care plans as needed to ensure the best possible outcomes. This highly specialized care plays a valuable role in helping patients recover and return to their normal lives.

Looking toward the future, Dr. Patel said UMC plans to introduce the state’s first and only pancreas transplant program in the coming months.

“As the UMC Center for Transplantation continues to expand, our world-class team members take pride in elevating the level of care available in Nevada,” Dr. Patel said.

Learn More Call 702-383-2224 or visit www.umcsn.com/transplant to learn more about the UMC Center for Transplantation.

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Dr. Wolfgang Gilliar Introduces New Technology into Medical School Curriculum

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Portable Ultrasounds Will Allow Students to Gain Critical Knowledge and Experience Dr. Wolfgang Gilliar Leading Touro University Nevada’s College of Osteopathic Medicine into the Future By Integrating New Technology into Curriculum New Portable Ultrasounds Allow Medical Students to Gain Critical Knowledge and Experience Since arriving as Dean of Touro University Nevada’s College of Osteopathic Medicine in January 2019, Dr. Wolfgang Gilliar has been focused on making sure that today’s medical students are ready for an increasingly technological world.

Dr. Wolfgang Gilliar “As the future faces of medicine, it is important for our students to be comfortable with technology,” he says. “At Touro, we are doing everything we can to integrate new healthcare technology into our curriculum.”

Last October, Touro announced a partnership with Vave Health to become the first medical school in the U.S. to provide new, portable ultrasound devices to its second, third, and fourth-year medical students as part of their personal toolbox. These ultra-portable ultrasound devices no longer have any wires, leads, or cords. They work directly with everyone’s smart phone through cloud-based applications.

“We are proud to be the first medical school committed to bringing this path-breaking technology to our students. This is just the beginning of a wonderful, lasting relationship with Vave Health,” Dr. Gilliar says.

“This is going to transform the way our students learn, particularly in the lab setting and in their various clinical rotations. Ultimately, it will enable our students to more efficiently and effectively serve the communities they live in, no matter where their medical careers take them next.”

Dr. Gilliar predicts that, like the stethoscope, the portable ultrasound will become an ever-increasing and important tool for physicians. Integrating the portable ultrasounds into the medical school curriculum will allow Touro’s medical students to enhance their education while gaining critical, hands-on experience in the community.

Touro’s students are already using these portable ultrasounds to provide much-needed care to Southern Nevadans. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the healthcare inequities felt by lower socio-economic populations around the world and Dr. Gilliar hopes his students, equipped with portable ultrasounds and their smart phones, can help assuage those needs for the Las Vegas Valley’s most vulnerable populations.

“Access to healthcare, even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been limited for millions of people around the world,” Dr. Gilliar says. “Having these portable ultrasounds in their pockets allows our students to go directly to the populations who need it most. These populations don’t

have to go to the doctor’s office for an ultrasound because our students can come to them and do it right there at the point of contact.”

Touro University Nevada is hoping its portable ultrasounds will also help develop more partnerships that will have a significant impact on the community.

Recently, the university secured a three-year, $2.6 million grant from the United Health Foundation to help reduce maternal health disparities and increase the state’s OB-GYN and family medicine physician workforce. As part of the new partnership, Touro will bring free prenatal screenings and care to underserved women in Nevada, using Touro’s Mobile Healthcare Clinic, which is equipped with the handheld ultrasound devices and staffed by Touro physicians, medical students, and staff.

The funding will also support medical student education, including the development of new medical school curriculum to provide handson prenatal care education from the first year onward within the medical school. This partnership will directly impact the Southern Nevada community while improving the education of Touro’s medical students.

“This technology benefits our students while also benefitting the community,” Dr. Gilliar says. “Our students get the critical, hands-on training they need as future physicians, and the populations who are desperate for healthcare receive the care they’ve been longing for. It is a win-win situation.”

Medicine is no longer an ‘isolated’ island of professional practice.

Medicine is teamwork, a collaborative between professional dedication and a social mission. Technology can serve as a connector in ways that may be unexpected.

While many people may be afraid of the non-human ‘touch’ that modern technology brings, Dr. Gilliar and his team feel that technology will enhance the physician’s work in ways not yet fathomed.

“When we use technology in a wise and meaningful way, it will always support the art and science of medicine rather than supplanting it,” he says. “Technology is a catalyst. We just need to find what makes the ‘secret sauce’ to bring the patient and physician together in a spirit of community, so that healing can truly happen. Caring and healing are at the center of the work we do; technology is our supporter.”

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Street on the Strip Famous Foods Street Eats @ Resorts World, Las Vegas

By Jason Harris

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he opening of Resorts World earlier this summer was highly anticipated for many reasons. The spacious design, the superstar residencies, the abundance of new restaurants, the giant art sphere installation, and the different hotels making up the mega complex had visitors ready and excited to explore.

However, for many, foodies and those with broader interests alike, Famous Foods Street Eats was the number one point of interest in the new Las Vegas Strip monolith.

The Resorts World website describes the area as “Inspired by the energetic street markets of Southeast Asia, Famous Foods Street Eats features a curated collection of pan-Asian eateries mixed with crave-able concepts by award-wining chefs from around the country. This newage dining destination serves up food edutainment with a side of mouthwatering bites and sensational sips sure to tantalize tastebuds.”

Anyone who has been to a “street market of Southeast Asia” will tell you that this space holds no resemblance to the cramped and crowded, tightly packed mazes of food stalls on the other side of the world. Also missing from the

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Resorts World take is the visceral, sensory experience of seeing items cooked right in front of your face - the smells and the sights are nowhere to be found, though a few eateries do showcase their proteins in the window.

Famous Foods is spacious - and that’s a good thing - taking up what seems like an entire wall’s length of Resorts World. Each stand is brightly lit. There is a center bar for cocktails and conversation, a stage with a DJ stand - who doesn’t want to hear hot beats dropped while they chow down on some savory dumplings? There are also large screens, no doubt primed for football season, and plenty of room to sit and enjoy a meal. A showcase circular dessert bar features western style cakes and eastern in uenced shaved ices.

Computerized directories make it easy for visitors to not only explore menus, but also order and pay for their food.

Before anything else is said, it must be noted how di cult the process of creating an entity like this must be during this time. Dishes that are foreign to many cooks

preparing them are hard enough to learn through hands on training, but in this instance, a number of the items had to be learned via zoom and online communication since the originators of these plates could not come to Las Vegas - or anywhere in America - due to the pandemic.

Add to that the present ingredient and staff shortages found throughout the restaurant industry, and it becomes an even higher mountain to climb.

Lastly, certain items were recalibrated, due to either the aforementioned di culty to find the original ingredients or the conscious desire to modify them to make them more pleasing to the Western palate.

With those complications noted, all the “food edutainment” in the world doesn’t mean much if the bites really aren’t all that “mouthwatering.” This is where Famous Foods shows room for improvement. There is nothing bad, per se, but for the price point - figure an entree and a drink will run at least $20 in most cases you want to be wowed. For the lineup of renowned stalls brought in from Asia, you expect to be wowed. For the

Above (L-R): Chef Marcus Samuelson’s Streetbird, chicken sandwich.

A selection of pan-Asian streetfood dishes.

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bevy of celebrity chefs involved, you should be wowed.

For this concept to work long haul, you need to be wowed.

And for what you are paying, you deserve to be wowed.

And the truth is, once you get past the large variety of options, the wow factor is currently lacking.

The best dish from my multiple visits is from Geylang Claypot Rice, a Singapore import that received a Michelin Plate in 2016. The rice continues to cook in the claypot here modified so no one burns themselves on the actual pot - to hopefully reach that crunchy texture at the bottom, the way bibimbap does. The beef iteration features black pepper sauce, sautéed onions and peppers, and a poached egg while the chicken offering has lap cheong (Chinese sausage), shiitake mushroom, salted cod, yu choy (a Chinese vegetable similar to bok choy), preserved cabbage, and chiu chow (chili oil).

On the celebrity side of things, Marcus Samuelson’s Streetbird Las Vegas makes its entry into the crowded hot chicken sandwich game. Samuelson, the famed Harlem restauranteur, knows avor and spice - all you have to do

is watch him judge a food competition to get that - which is why Streetbird is so ba ing. The promise of thiopian spices - or any spices - is lost on the diner, on an otherwise texturally correct, yet bland piece of fowl.

More successful is local celebrity chef James Trees of sther’s Kitchen and Al Solito Posto. Here, his Mo Bar features a giant chicken parmesan sandwich that is a game day winner. Meanwhile, the basil infused stracciatella di bufala showcases the gooey Italian cheese with pine nut pesto for a avorful punch. However, think even Trees would admit, the meatballs, at this point, have not reached the level of his other restaurants in town.

This food court is a giant undertaking and I expect that in six months, amous oods Street ats will be improved, as one hopes with any restaurant over time.

More hands-on training and more refinement to the dishes are necessary to get this place to the next level.

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What’s the best way to drink scotch?

By Kirk Peterson and Marisa Finetti Kirk: It’s a question that warrants an answer longer than you might imagine. Even if you’re not a big drinker, you’ve heard about single malts, single grains, blended grains, blended malts, blended whiskies. Each of these variations spend varying amounts of time in various types of barrels, the knowledge of which may help with purchasing decisions when faced with overwhelming choices. However, no matter which bottle(s) you buy, it’s much more difficult to find someone to offer you a little guidance as to how to best enjoy the scotch itself.

Marisa: Right, so what is best?

Kirk: The “best” is extracting the maximum amount of pleasure for the least amount of effort.

Marisa: Like many things in life.

Kirk: So, let’s explore our options and devise a strategy.

Marisa: So, we have neat, on the rocks, with water, in a cocktail … there are countless ways to drink whisky.

Winston Churchill took his morning dram as a wee dash of scotch with ample water, opting for a stiff scotch and soda only on the more stressful days. Through the 1960s and 70s whisky was central to drinking culture in Japan, particularly among businessmen with disposable incomes, my own father amongst them. He and his ad agency colleagues would start with scotch and a touch of water. As the night went on in the Roppongi district bars the water was swapped for soda, a thirst-quenching Whisky Highball being just the thing to take them into the early mornings.

Kirk: But let’s begin at the beginning: just drink it neat.

It’s the best place to start.

Marisa: It’s as pure as it gets.

Kirk: Going the purity route presents an opportunity to properly consider your scotch glass.

Marisa: Those tulip-shaped whisky-tasting glasses are wonderful and they feel so good in the hand.

Kirk: And they accentuate the more delicate and hightoned aromatics and can really make the fruity and floral aspects jump out of your whisky. A heavy-bottomed tumbler, weighty enough to be used as a weapon, feels right as well. It’s best with a little whisky and a lot of glass to give the scotch some room to open and capture the aromas.

Regardless of glassware there’s no need to swirl vigorously. Doing so will make the alcohol aroma more prevalent than it should be. As you tilt the tumbler towards your face, explore the top of the glass versus the bottom – smell around the glass, you’ll notice a difference as to where certain aromas are more prominent. And most important: take a proper sip, roll it around in your mouth, hold it… then swallow. Tastes aren’t really tastes, they are smells, and you smell best with your mouth through a phenomenon called retronasal olfaction where the aromas in your mouth curl around your sinuses via the back of your throat. It’s awesome. Take advantage of it.

Above: Marisa Finetti and Kirk Peterson

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Marisa: ow about on the rocks Kirk: A little ice, a lot of ice, geometric slow-melting ice, cold things that aren’t ice… you have options.

Marisa: The important question is whether scotch is more enjoyable the colder it is?

Kirk: t isn’t. cotch is meant to be drunk at what is misleadingly called “room temperature” (around 55 degrees Fahrenheit) but there’s a good chance you’re drinking whisky in a warmer environment than that. The problem with ethyl alcohol being the most chemically volatile component in scotch is that volatility increases with temperature. Long story short: drink warm scotch in a warm place and it’s going to come across as hot, sharp, and boozy. With ice being cold it seems like a nobrainer but scotch also sucks when it’s too cold.

Marisa: But at least it reduces the searing “burn” of ethyl alcohol.

Kirk: However, adding ice is a shotgun solution that takes the good with the bad. Just like a whisky can “open

up” it can also tighten up/shut down, meaning you lose more detail than it’s worth. You may as well just plug your nose and chug it.

Marisa: nd not all ice is created e ual.

Kirk: Indeed, regular ice tends to melt too fast and water your scotch down while big, perfect spheres or cubes dilute slower but chill it down just as much.

Marisa: They’re very sexy, too.

Kirk: Whisky stones and other non-melting temperature-reduction solutions are gimmicks. If you need to chill down your scotch a bit, just throw your glasses in the refrigerator. Besides, temperature is only one side of the e uation the other is dilution. t may seem counter intuiti e at first but a bit of dilution with water tends to work wonders opening up whisky and making it all the more eloquent and detailed.

The best way to drink scotch is in a proper glass, at a proper temperature with water on the side. ince we don’t know what scotch you’re drinking, start slow and start with your scotch neat.

Marisa: nd if that doesn’t knock my socks off Kirk: Then give that scotch a few drops of water, but only a few drops of water at least at first. he woodier the scotch, the older the scotch, especially the higher ABV the scotch, the greater likelihood an undetermined amount of water will work wonders when it comes to spreading the whisky’s legs Marisa: Umm, racy!

Kirk: - and bringing everything into focus making it exponentially more expressive. Whether you use a pipette, a straw, dribble it in with your (hopefully clean) fingers just ensure that the water is cool and clean. ou can only add and not take away, so treat it like salt to your food taste first then add. ow that you ha e the answer to the uestion think it’s best to leave it behind. onsider that humble blended scotch when thrown into a decidedly common and un-proper glass, and subjugated to the indignities of ice and club soda, ends up being completely amazing. It’s the greatest drink ever, being resurrected like a Phoenix from the ashes from its pure essence! And quite incon eniently it breaks all the rules heretofore set forth. he truth is that the best way to drink scotch is the way you best enjoy it.

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Dreams of Rye ““Let us be good stewards of the earth we inherited.”

Kofi Annan

By Jaq Greenspon Photographs by Liad Wischnia Nemeth

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ven in the dead of winter, anyone who has spent any time at all in Las Vegas knows summer is never far away. That slight chill in the air does nothing to bring comfort knowing that a few short months away, the 110+ degrees of summer will be there. Liad, a Las Vegas based photographer who originally comes from another desert, Israel, knows the feeling well.

At the beginning of this past February, Liad knew she’d had enough. “I told my husband that I cannot tolerate summers in Vegas, and want to find somewhere to be during the summer.” A common thought, surely, of many Vegas residents. Liad, however, took her thought one step further, offering up the suggestion to “look for a place in Colorado” a state neither she nor her husband, David, had ever visited. Her reasoning was sound: “I love nature and green and wildlife and all that stuff.” They thought they should at least check it out, except it was February and one look at the current Colorado weather showed snow and extremely cold temperatures. Valentine’s Day would instead be spent in Southern California. Before the month was over, however, a call would come in that would change everything. www.davidlv.com | 49

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The call was, to say the least, unexpected. A member of David’s family, one from whom he was estranged, had passed away, leaving David and Liad the sole heirs of a modest 900 sq ft two bedroom with a “cute little kitchen,” about 75 miles south of Colorado Springs.

With this new inspiration, Liad and David made their first trek to Colorado at the beginning of March to take stock and see what needed to be done. Since then, David has made the trip numerous times to fix the place up.

“We didn’t empty the whole house, but we emptied the majority of it,” Liad says. “And kind of, you know, touchups, cleaning, remodeling, and stuff like that.” They did it all themselves, turning it, as Liad explains, into “a really cute place.” There was one thing it was missing, however.

This past May, when she was visiting home, she knew she needed a mezuzah for their new home. “I went to Tel Aviv and I bought a handmade mezuzah from an artist in Israel.” Upon her return to the States, on her next trip to Rye, the mezuzah went up. “I read a blessing and we put it on the wall,” she says.

While the mezuzah helped nourish the spiritual side of her, the photography and artistic sides were more intrigued by the natural aspects of the area.

As a morning person, whenever she’d go up to join her husband working on the place, Liad tended to wake up early and sit outside, enjoying her coffee and watching for any animals who might wander by.

“You have deer, you have foxes and then you have wild

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turkeys. I know there are bears,” she says with a laugh.

As a photographer, she takes full of advantage of the wildlife, even if the bears might be a bit camera shy.

“I haven’t seen any bears yet, so I’m really anxious to see one. I know they’re around because people do see them in their backyard.”

Those morning hours, though, Liad sees them as her time to relax in this uiet place and re ect on the peaceful moments around her. Sometimes, coffee in hand, she’ll bring out her camera and take photographs of the birds in the yard or just drive around, exploring an environment unlike any she’s ever seen. She’s “discovered beautiful roads and paths and places to look for animals,” amongst the rural settings, while her pictures can easily be seen as an appreciation of the inheritance – not just the house, but the more ambiguous idea of the landscape she now finds herself a part of, even if it’s ust temporarily for the time being.

“It’s good to just go away from the city and the heat and to go to a place green and quiet. You don’t see cars; you don’t hear anybody. Just really nice,” Liad says. “It’s really away from any city, so it’s really dark there at nighttime. We want to enjoy it.”

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Answering the

Call

Jewish Nevada Raises Funds for Those Impacted by COVID

By Aleza Freeman

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he global COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak economic, physical, and psychological havoc around the world, leaving no community untouched. ut many of Nevada’s nearly 0,000 Jews can rest a bit easier thanks, in part, to a Jewish commandment: The mitzvah Hebrew for good deed of tzedakah charity .

The country’s largest Jewish philanthropy organi ation, the Jewish ederations of North America, rallied in response to the pandemic, collectively raising and allocating over 200 million to help their communities. Locally, Jewish Nevada has allocated more than 1 ,000 to local Jewish agencies, synagogues, and schools, as well as individuals and families.

This is the core function of our organi ation, explains Stefanie Tu man, President and C O of Jewish Nevada. And because of the support of donors that contribute annually to our campaign, we are prepared to assess and address the needs of the community at any moment in order to provide the appropriate resources.

When the public health crisis led Nevada overnor Steve Sisolak to declare a State of mergency on March 12, 2020, Jewish Nevada immediately began mobili ing

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leaders and organi ations. Together, they identified areas of need within the Jewish community. Soon after, the Federation’s board of directors committed 2 0,000 from emergency reserves for COV D relief.

“We didn’t waste time,” says Tuzman. “We listened

Providing meals for those in need during quarantine.

and engaged in collaborative discussion, strategic planning, and data-based decision making at the onset of the pandemic.”

The fundraising agency has since provided hardship relief to 1 synagogues, five social service agencies, three community organizations and seven overnight camps as well as PPE, food, housing, living expenses, medical costs, and emergency assistance for families, seniors and homebound individuals. Other highlights of the agency’s efforts include: • • • •

Fully stocked Passover baskets for 75 low-income seniors, thanks to two anonymous donors An $85,000 boost for the Jewish Family Services Agency Help securing Federal Paycheck Protection Program Loans for local Jewish organizations A COVID-19 resources page on the Jewish Nevada website, which has been accessed more

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than 30,000 times Virtual Jewish events as a way for the community to connect An infusion of expanded technologies for synagogues, such as Zoom subscriptions, virtual classrooms, and other virtual services

Rabbi Malcom Cohen’s synagogue, Temple Sinai, received a grant from Jewish Nevada. He called the money quite helpful and elaborated on tzedakah, explaining that it’s an obligation, and not just something you do when you feel good.

“In the very midst of a crisis, you can’t shy away from a responsibility,” he says, adding, “Jewish Nevada recogni ed a problem that needed fixing by understanding the] implicit responsibility or burden that the Jewish community would feel for its members.”

Indeed, the pandemic has been a burden for the Jewish community, some more than others. One unnamed recipient of emergency funds called this tzedakah “a life saver” while another recipient, who was out of work, said it would cover basic bills.

“In the depth of the crisis, after having lost my job, I wasn’t sure how I would put food on the table for my family,” adds Aviva (no last name given), a recipient of emergency relief. “Jewish Nevada’s grant literally saved us.

After receiving a grant from Jewish Nevada, the Las Vegas Community Kollel is now paying it forward.

“Some of our biggest donors had massive setbacks,” explains Rabbi Eliyahu Davidowitz, Director of Outreach and Development. “We’re very busy raising money to help them.

In addition to the Jewish community’s access to food and basic necessities, Davidowitz worries about the emotional scars caused by the pandemic. “It was a di cult time and for many people, it still is, he says.

In fact, Jewish Nevada claims that 50 percent of the community is dealing with loneliness and isolation.

“When you can’t come together as a community it can be very di cult, says Davidowit , noting the strain that COVID restrictions put on religious observances and celebrations. “We were very blessed that we embraced Zoom pretty early and were able to keep learning with people and keep growing.”

Overall, he is heartened by the generosity he sees at almost every turn. The most recent annual Kollel Chanukah toy drive, for instance, was the most successful one yet, bringing in thousands of toys for kids whose parents can’t afford them.

And when he picked up the phone to ask for donations, the answer was pretty much always yes.’

“I felt an outpouring of support,” he says. “People understood that if they were able to give, this was the time to give.”

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Donato Cabrera

The Music Director of the Las Vegas Philharmonic discusses their 2021-2022 season.

In a few short weeks, live music will once again captivate audiences when the Las Vegas Philharmonic returns to live concerts; launching into a new era with the 2021-22 season. The 23rd season for the city’s only professional symphony orchestra dazzles with eight beautifully curated concerts from October 23, 2021, through May 7, 2022.

Music Director Donato Cabrera has prepared a season full of energetic works, including all nine of Beethoven’s Symphonies, interwoven with exciting compositions by living composers i Joan Tower, Anna Clyne, Gabriela Lena Frank, Missy Mazzoli, Jessie Montgomery, Carolyn Shaw, and Juan Pablo Contreras.

A special Very Vegas Holiday performance will welcome back local entertainers including Composers Showcase founder Keith Thompson and vocal illuminati Travis Cloer, Eric Jordan Young, Michelle Johnson, and Vita Corimbi. Cabrera will also conduct a world premiere by Juan Pablo Contreras as part of a special commission in partnership with New Music USA. This bold and artistically brazen season will introduce an artist in residence program with critically acclaimed cellist and artistic visionary, Joshua Roman.

His three-year residency begins on Saturday, October 23, with a performance of Dvo k’s widely popular Cello Concerto.

We chatted with Donato Cabrera as he prepares to return to rehearsals and performances and welcome audiences back into a true concert experience.

What inspired your programming for this season – in a post-shut down world – as you thought about performing again for Las Vegas audiences?

I believe audiences emerging from COVID hibernation are starved, not ust for entertainment, but edification. And sadly, we missed the opportunity, with the unfortunate cancellation of 2020-21 concerts, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. So, this season was inspired uniquely by circumstances of the last year and a half, along with unbridled elation about performing live again.

Is that why there’s so much Beethoven this season?

Playing a Beethoven symphony or concerto is nothing new for this orchestra, or any orchestra in the world. But performing all his symphonies in one season with an orchestra of this size? That is new. It’s saying something bold – taking that

leap and journey into a singular composer’s music with that amount of depth and concentrated attention. While the Beethoven works won’t be performed in chronological order, the bookends suggest a sonic seminar with a narrative arc: The season launches with Beethoven’s famously provocative Symphony No. 1 in C Ma or, and culminates in his grandiose blowout, Symphony No. in D Minor.

There are many living composers featured this season, which is interesting considering the heavy emphasis on Beethoven as well. What do you hope to communicate to audience members through these selections and combinations of works and artists?

Classical music is still a living and important art form, and to stay vibrant and relevant, we must explore music that is being written today in addition to celebrating the monumental and time-honored works and composers.

There is so much still to be discovered out there and so much more to be written.

There are a lot of female composers included, which isn’t often seen in one season, what inspired those choices?

There are many female composers today writing some wonderful music that deserves to be performed by orchestras and brought to audiences. I thought this season was prime for coming back with a strong statement and I think these artists are going to be important voices for years to come. I have been eager to work with some of these composers for years.

The LV Phil was the recipient of the New Music USA Grant. Tell us what this grant will allow the orchestra to achieve.

We were selected as one of six orchestras in the U.S. to lead an initiative to co-commission a new orchestral work through New Music USA’s Amplifying Voices program, which fosters collaboration and collective action toward equitable representation of composers in classical music. We wanted to work with Juan Pablo because of his heritage, to bring his artistic voice into this wonderful city with so much cultural intersection. It is our goal to more deeply connect with the Hispanic community of Las Vegas. To celebrate the diversity of our city through a world premiere of Juan Pablo’s work is an honor.

You like to speak to the audience through pre-concert conversations. Will that continue and what do you get out of these discussions?

I certainly plan on it. That half an hour gives me organic and direct communication and engagement with the audience in a way that cannot happen during a concert; and any chance I get to expand on and share my love and passion for the music is something that I cherish and look forward to.

Join Donato and the orchestra in Reynolds Hall at The Smith Center, October 2021 through May 2022. Tickets for the 2021-22 season are on sale now at lvphil.org.

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