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ISSUETHISINTABLE OF CONTENTS RAIDERS PREVIEWSEASON Raiderettes (© 2020 Las Vegas Raiders, photograph by Michael Clemens) COVERTHEON 08 MORE?WANT toHead lasvegasweekly.com. COVER STORY The Raiders made the playoffs last season, but to do so again they’ll need to emerge from a loaded AFC West division.20 4036 424438 SUPERGUIDE Your daily events planner, starring Imagine finaleShaniaKehlani,KendrickDragons,Lamar,UFC279,Twain’sVegasandmore. NOISE Chatting with Yendry, who’s headed to town to perform as part of Rumbazo’s loaded Latin music fest bill. Lamaii Vandervort/Staff)(Wade THE STRIP The beloved Gospel Brunch is up and running again at House of Blues. SCENE The County Strong Project’s Remember Music Festival pays tribute to victims and those affected by the October 1, 2017 tragedy. FOOD & DRINK Two big happenings in favoritelocationBagelsarrivalHenderson—theofBodegaandanewofThaiLamaii. VEGAS INC Could local liquordelivery laws become streamlined soon? LAS VEGAS WEEKLY 7 I9.8.22
THURSDAY
NO MANA With Eddie, Ekonovah, 9 p.m., Commonwealth, seetickets.us.
SOME HEARTS With FallonCromm&The P200, Happy Campers, 9 p.m., Red Dwarf, reddwarflv.com.
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WILL WOOD With Shayfer James, Matt Pless, 8 p.m., 24 Oxford, etix.com (Photo Courtesy) THE (OPENINGDOCKSIDERSNIGHT) 6 p.m., the Duomo, ticketmaster.com. MADEON With Georgia Sinclair, 10 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com.
MERCY MUSIC With Tiny Stills, Sorry Kyle, Nova Babies, 7 p.m., Evel Pie, evelpie.com.
PARABLESSTRASBURGER:GEORGE George Strasburger creates thought-provoking art, and his latest exhibit at Sahara West Library is no exception. The collection includes 18 large-scale oil paintings, which depict his characters performing tasks or engaging in activities that are elemental tasks of survival. One work, “The Stone Throwers,” shows a group of men and women in the desert collecting stones. According to Strasburger, while painting it, he reflected on Palestinian and Mexican youths throwing stones at border“Theguards.normal activities that we engage in have qualities that are universal, psychological, spiritual and political,” Strasburger says. “In my work, I invite you to find yourself, your interactions and your life. Enjoy reflecting on our nature and our histhetightbinationtionsStrasburger’scomplexity.”inten-alongwithacom-oflooseandbrushwork,bringpiecestolife,andclassicalapproach. Through November 26, times vary, free, Sahara West Library, lvccld.org. –Evelyn Mateos
NURSE BLAKE 10 p.m., & 8/9, Mirage Theatre, mgmresorts.com.mirage.
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ALOHA UNPLUGGED With Kaipo, 8 p.m., Emporium Arcade Bar, com.emporiumarcadebar.
THE FUNK HUNTERS 9 p.m., Area15 Portal, area15.com. BEN PLATT With Aly & AJ, 8 p.m., Theater at Virgin, axs.com.
Shania Twain’s Zappos Theater residency concludes with shows September 9 and 10. (Photo Courtesy/Denise Truscello)
CEDRIC GERVAIS 11 a.m., Tao Beach Dayclub, taogroup.com.events.
ANTONIO REY 7:30 p.m., Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall, unlv.edu.
KENDRICK LAMAR With Baby Keem, Tanna Leone, 7:30 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com. KEHLANI With Rico Nasty, 8 p.m., the Chelsea, ticketmaster.com. DIPLO 11 p.m., XS Nightclub, wynnsocial.com.
GARETH REYNOLDS 7:30 p.m., & 9/10, Wiseguys, comedy.com.vegas.wiseguys
MÖTLEY CRÜE & DEF LEPPARD With Poison, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, 4 p.m., Allegiant Stadium, ticketmaster.com.
JONAS BLUE With Phantoms, 11 a.m., Ayu Dayclub, zoukgrouplv.com.
AMANDA SKENANDORE & CONNIE HERTZBERG MAYO 7 p.m., Writer’stheBlock, thewritersblock.org.
SHANIA TWAIN 8 p.m., & 9/10, Zappos Theater, ticketmaster.com.
FRIDAY
MOJAVE SUN With Undergrounds,Elevated The Scoundrels, 10 p.m., Sand Dollar Downtown, thesanddollarlv.com. BORGORE With Neonix, Sisto, 8 p.m., Hard Rock Live, seetickets.us. IGOR & THE RED ELVISES With The Implosions, Battering Ham, Bi , 8 p.m., Taverna Costera, tavernacostera.com.
BABY KEEM After he takes the stage at T-Mobile Arena as part of his cousin Kendrick Lamar’s Big Steppers Tour, 2022 Grammy winner Baby Keem—who was born in California but grew up mostly in Las Vegas until his musical ascent took him beyond the city’s still somewhat limited scope—will party and play at Zouk at Resorts World. He has continued to collaborate on exciting new music after three mixtapes and last year’s breakthrough album The Melodic Blue, including “Savior” with Lamar from spring’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers and O set’s new track “54321.” As Keem told Billboard last fall, he only began working as a producer and “making beats because I didn’t really have any,” so when he started laying his own verses on top, he started laying the foundation for a unique hip-hop career. Whatever comes next, it’s probably coming soon. 10 p.m., $20-$30+, Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com. –Brock Radke (Photo Courtesy)
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MUSTARD PLUG & BUCK-O-NINE With Omnigone, 8 p.m., Backstage Bar & Billiards, eventbrite.com.
NICK BARGATZE 8 p.m., & 9/10, Encore Theater, ticketmaster.com. JUICY J 10 p.m., Drai’s Nightclub, draisgroup.com. USHER 9 p.m., & 9/10, Dolby Live, ticketmaster.com.
IMAGINE DRAGONS Before the anthemic scream-alongs and stadium-size tours, the Weekly named Imagine Dragons 2010’s Best Local Indie Band. Before they became one of the world’s best-selling rock bands, the Dragons recorded their first album inside the Studio at the Palms. And before the world heard the Grammy-nominated, 2017 percussive pop track “Thunder,” frontman Dan Reynolds perfected it in his Las Vegas home. Now in midst of its Mercury World Tour, the band will return to the city where its legend began. New Rick Rubin-produced double-album Mercury (Acts 1 & 2) sees Reynolds grappling with past losses and the emotional labor of moving on, through frankly written lyrics and cathartic deliveries, for what feels like Imagine Dragons’ most personal project to date. With Macklemore, Kings Elliot, 6:30 p.m., Allegiant Stadium, $22-$158+, ticketmaster. com. –Amber Sampson (Photo Courtesy)
THE PRETTY RECKLESS 9 p.m., Fremont Street Experience, experience.com.vegas MARSHMELLO 11 p.m., XS Nightclub, wynnsocial.com. GUNZ FOR HIRE 9 p.m., Area15 Portal, area15.com.
ZEDD 11 a.m., Ayu Dayclub, zoukgrouplv.com.
10 LAS VEGAS WEEKLY 9.8.22 SUPERGUIDE SUPERGUIDE 10 SEP.SATURDAY RUMBAZO LATIN MUSIC FESTIVAL 4 p.m., Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, rumbazofest.com. UFC 279 3:15 p.m., T-Mobile Arena, axs.com. ILLENIUM 11 Taoa.m.,Beach Dayclub, events.taogroup.com. LANY With Surfaces, Annika Bennett, 6 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb.com. RICK ROSS 10 p.m., Drai’s Nightclub, draisgroup.com. CAIFANES 8 p.m., & 9/11, Mandalay Bay Beach, mgmresorts.com.mandalaybay. WORLD SERIES OF COMEDY Thru 9/16, 6 p.m., LA Comedy Club, bestvegascomedy.com STEVE AOKI 11 a.m., Wet Republic, events.taogroup.com. TIËSTO 10 p.m., Zouk Nightclub, zoukgrouplv.com. LAS VEGAS LIGHTS VS. MONTEREY BAY 7 p.m., Cashman Field, lasvegaslightsfc.com. SEBASTIÁN YATRA 8 p.m., The Chelsea, ticketmaster.com. WAYNE BRADY 10 p.m., Mirage Theatre, mirage.mgmresorts.com.
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MONDAYS DARK 8 p.m., the Space, mondaysdark.com. DJ SHIFT 10:30 p.m., Jewel Nightclub, taogroup.com.events.
MONDAY
STEVE OLIVER 3 p.m., Library,Summerlin lvccld.org. ENNORAPURE 11 a.m., Dayclub,Marquee taogroup.com.events.
MELVINS It’s been more than four years since the venues of Downtown Las Vegas hosted Neon Reverb, but the festival still exists as more than a memory. Proof? This Backstage Bar & Billiards show, headlined by 2016 Reverb alums the Melvins and presented by, you guessed it, Neon Reverb. Is it a signal the full fest might return in 2023? Time will tell. But for now, we get to spend more time with singer/ guitarist Buzz Osborne, drummer Dale Crover and bassist Steven McDonald. They’re touring behind 2021 LPs Working With God and Five Legged Dog, they’ve got their thousandth-or-so album (Bad Mood Rising), out this month and one never knows what treats from iconic stoner-rock slabs like Lysol, Houdini and Bullhead they might unearth, too. Plus, as a bonus, self-described “freak-rockers” We Are the Asteroid out of Austin will open, the very sort of act Neon Reverb is famous for intro ducing to Las Vegans. 8 p.m., $20, Backstage Bar & Billiards, seetickets.us. –Spencer Patterson
COMEDY
(Photo Courtesy/Tao Group Hospitality)
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11 SEP.SUNDAY
MUSIC FOOD + DRINKSPORTS MISCPARTY ARTS COMEDY
HARI KONDABOLU 7:30 p.m., Wise guys, comedy.com.wiseguys TRIXX Thru 9/18, 8 p.m., LA Comedy Club, com.bestvegascomedy.
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GORDO 11 p.m., Nightclub,XS wynnsocial.com. IL DIVO 8 p.m., Theater,Encore master.com.ticket KYGO 11 a.m., Encore Beach Club, wynnsocial.com. JA RULE 11 a.m., Tao Beach Dayclub, taogroup.com.events.
UNLV HONORSJAZZCOMBO 7 p.m., Clark County Library, lvccld.org.
AEROSMITH
STÖNER With Mario Lalli & The Rubber Snake Charmers, 8 p.m., SoulBelly BBQ, eventbrite.com MEDUZA 10:30 p.m., EBC at Night, wynnsocial.com. SANTANA 7 p.m., House of Blues, livenation.com.concerts. DJ ZO With Shalvoy, 11 Onp.m.,the Record, ontherecordlv.com.
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TVBOO With Ahee, 10 p.m., Discopussy, discopussydtlv.com. KANSAS 7:30 Reynoldsp.m., Hall, thesmithcenter.com.
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Interpol (Photo Courtesy/Ebru Yildiz)
14 SEP.WEDNESDAY
This rock residency was unlike anything else on the Strip from its first show in April 2019, a vast concert production that began with an extended video montage tracing the history of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame outfit before the band took the stage to joyfully play some early-era gems and then roll through the many hits of two distinct heydays. Just as the show found a satisfying rhythm at Park MGM’s 5,000-seat theater, however, COVID halted everything, and Aerosmith’s summer 2022 Vegas comeback was delayed so Steven Tyler could work through a relapse. But now the boys from Boston are finally back, completing the star-studded roster that made Dolby Live arguably the most exciting residency room on the Strip. They’re shaking o any rust with a couple of northeast dates (including Fenway Park in their hometown on September 8) and should be in fine rocking form for this midweek concert. 8 p.m., $128+, Dolby Live, ticket master.com. –Brock Radke (Photo Courtesy/Zack Whitford)
&INTERPOLSPOON With Water From Your Eyes, 7 p.m., Theater at Virgin, axs.com GIVEON With Fana Hues, 7 p.m., House of Blues, concerts.livenation.com.
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THE BROTHERSRIGHTEOUS 6:30 p.m., thru 9/15, South Point Showroom, ticketmaster.com.
IDKHOW & JOYWAVE Formally known as I Dont Know How But They Found Me, Salt Lake City-based indie pop duo iDKHow is, in its weird way, a sort of Las Vegas supergroup. Both of its members, singer and bassist Dallon Weekes (formerly of Panic! At the Disco) and drummer Ryan Seaman (ex-Falling in Reverse), hail from Valley bands. But their sound doesn’t evoke comparison to either of those outfits. Instead, iDKHow revisits the 1980s pop sound by way of the late aughts, drawing a line from the click-track discipline of Giorgio Moroder to the downand-dirty swagger of MGMT. iDKHow reminds the seasoned listener of such indie dance bands as Joywave—which is a good thing, really, because Joywave is sharing the bill at this Brooklyn Bowl show. Singer-songwriter Savannah Conley opens. 6 p.m., $30-$35, Brooklyn Bowl, ticketweb.com. –Geo Carter
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16 LAS VEGAS WEEKLY 9.8.22 PEOPLE PERFECTIONPASTRY Take It Easy Roasters’ Breanna Arballo serves up delicious desserts and family vibes
“I really enjoyed baking with my mom, and I didn’t really have anything I wanted to major in,” she says. “I was thinking, ‘Where do I see myself more?’ So, right after high school I went to culinary school.”
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Arballo moved here from Santa Monica in 2012 to attend the Art Institute of Las Vegas, where she studied baking and pastry. Originally, she was an athlete; she played softball from a young age and was even offered a scholar ship to play softball at the college level.
Do you get to create new pastries? Yeah, we’re actual ly going to change the menu pretty soon. … We will be doing a fall menu change in October. The menu is going to be more elevated, definitely not an ordi nary coffee shop, desserts and pastries vibe.
(Left) A seasonal tart with edible flowers at Take it Easy Roasters; (above right) pastry chef Breanna Arballo (Steve Marcus/Staff)
What does food mean to you? Family, no doubt—both my personal family and kitchen fam ily. … I see my coworkers more than my own family sometimes. So making sure my team comes into work, ready for the day and wanting to be here is something I’m big on. I want all the good vibes, so we’re able to make food for the families that come in to enjoy it—the same as if I go out with my family to a restaurant.
ake It Easy Roasters, a charming coffee shop and bakery owned by Makers & Finders’ Josh Molina, is tucked into a little corner of Chi natown. Inside, globe string lights hang across the ceiling, and a neon sign reminds guests to “slow down.” An undisturbed sloth hangs from a branch above the café’s logo.
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I love the art of it, obviously. I have worked in fine dining as well. So this is a little different from where I have been, like Mario Batali’s Las Vegas restau rant. This is [my] first open kitchen. I’m usually in the back, and I’d do this beautiful plate and didn’t really get to see [people’s reactions].
Arballo sat down with the Weekly to discuss her day-to-day life as a pastry chef and her love of food. Why did you start baking? My mom; she was actually a stayat-home mom for years. I saw her baking and cooking. At first, I wasn’t really into it, but after a while, I was. What was the first thing you cooked or baked that you were proud of? First time I cooked my mom’s spaghetti and meatballs recipe—everyone knows moms make it best, and we can never replicate it. The first time I made it alone, it tasted exactly how she makes it for our family. I was definitely proud of myself. I know when my mom cooks, she puts her love in it every time. My mom has taught me so much, and having her ways of cooking and baking with me means a lot, because I can pass that down to my kids.
What do you still hope to achieve? People think that for where I am at, I look really young. They underestimate me. They kind of look at me like, “Do you really know what you are doing?” But then when they watch me in the kitchen, they’re like, “Oh, you know a lot.” But I feel like I’m not done [growing]. But I’m comfortable right now. So I just want to do exciting new menus … and there are a lot of ideas [Molina] has, and we actually go with them. It takes some time, because we’re family-owned, but that’s what I like about this place. I want to grow with it and see what can happen.
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LAS VEGAS WEEKLY 17 I9.8.22 Q&AWEEKLYTHE Q+A
Breanna Arballo, the shop’s pastry chef, is the mastermind behind those delicious foods. She was recruited to the position shortly after the shop opened in July 2020.
I’ll also help take care of service; usually there is another person [working], but today, I’m here by myself. I also make sure the orders for the other restau rants get done. So, in a way, it’s like a manager [position], but I still get to be in the kitchen.
What’s an average day like as the pastry chef for Take It Easy Roasters? I come in and open. Then I do prep and bake throughout the day. We bake everything here for Take It Easy Roasters and the sister restaurants, Makers & Finders in Downtown Summerlin and the kiosk at Area15. We have this app called Choco; they put all their orders in through there. We de liver every week, but sometimes we do same-day orders, so I’ll have to leave and deliver them.
Personally, I like eating a lot, but cooking is not really my thing. What is it about cooking and baking that you really love? I love to see people enjoy it; that’s my favorite thing.
While the name focuses on coffee, the pastries are just as memorable. The handmade empanadas make for wonderfully light bites, and the carrot cake doughnut accompanies a latte or tea perfectly.
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The smiles and introspection that have accompanied McDaniels throughout the process of preparing for his rst season in Las Vegas are throwing o those who remember him most from his rst stint as an NFL coach in Denver in 2009 and 2010. The then-33-year-old was known as a straight-faced disciplinarian, if not an all-out control freak. He showed emotion after Bronco victories, but it was more of the st-pumping, screaming variety in a not-so-subtle act of de ance to those who dared question a slew of controversial personnel and strategic decisions.
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No one has ever disputed McDaniels’ football expertise—he was the o ensive coordinator for all six of the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl victories —but many wondered if he was cut out to be the face of a franchise after his rough time in Denver. He usurped all power within the organization, only to go 11-17 through a little more than a season and a half before getting red late in the 2010 McDaniels’campaign.reputation, and prospects as a potential head coach, took another hit in 2018, when he accepted the Indianapolis Colts’ job only to renege at the last minute. He has continued to apologize for that change of heart ever since, including at his introductory news conference with the Raiders in January. That’s also where he acknowledged his ego and poor treatment of people sabotaging his time with the Broncos. He vowed not to let it happen with the Raiders. He has been asked about how he’s approaching things di erently in Las Vegas in most of his media appearances ever since, and has displayed great patience while addressing it. “I’m at peace with the way we’re trying to do it,” McDaniels said in his nal news conference of training camp. “I know this: I can only do what I can do and what I know how to do well. I think that being able to just defer to someone else who knows better than I do
Josh McDaniels learned from— and changed after—his rough stint with the Broncos
Josh McDaniels’ eyes dart to the stands as he heads o the eld and toward the locker room at Allegiant Stadium after his rst home win as Raiders’ coach, a 26-20 exhibition victory over the Minnesota Vikings. He’s looking for his wife and four children, hoping to share a quick moment with them during what he minutes later calls “the best atmosphere” he has ever experienced for a preseason game. The 46-year-old similarly beamed and greeted his extended family the week before, when he began his Raiders’ tenure with a 27-11 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in his hometown of Canton, Ohio, as part of the annual Hall of Fame Game. “I think it’s important at this stage in my life to make sure that you at least stop and are aware of how cool some of the things are that we get to experience,” McDaniels explained on a Zoom call the day after the Vikings’ win. “If you don’t do that, when it’s all said and done, you’ll probably regret the fact that you didn’t take a little time to just acknowledge the journey.”
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in certain situations, be a resource for other people, is really my No. 1 job.” Collaboration is not remembered as a characteristic of McDaniels’ time in Denver. He immediately implemented his systems and policies, and anyone who didn’t t or assimilate was cast out.
It helps that his close con dant and college roommate, new general manager Dave Ziegler, has nal say with the Raiders’ personnel (he served in an advisory role with the Broncos). But that only goes so far. McDaniels’ in uence is still widespread on the roster, which is littered with former Patriot disciples like backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham, running back Brandon Bolden, fullback Jakob Johnson, edge rusher Chandler Jones and safety Duron Harmon. “It’s like if you were getting babysat by your older brother and now the parents are nowhere at home and you’re stuck with your big brother for the weekend,” Bolden said earlier this summer of going from working with McDaniels as an o ensive coordinator in New England to a coach in Las Vegas. “Josh has been cool. Just these past years to see him coming from Denver, coming back to New England. I’ve had him since I was a rookie, and just to see where he is now, I’ve appreciated his journey and I appreciate being part of his journey.”
Raiders’ practices were noticeably quieter this training camp. McDaniels’ predecessor, Jon Gruden, often came o like a caricature of an old-school, hard-nosed coach who would yell himself red in the face any time something went McDanielswrong.was reportedly that way in Denver, but he has rarely lost his cool thus far in Las Vegas. Of course, that’s easier in the preseason. The real test for whether McDaniels can maintain his calm will come if the Raiders hit a rough patch during the regular season. By then, he might have already built up enough goodwill to escape the criticism that stalked his every move in Denver. McDaniels says he’s prioritizing personal relationships in Las Vegas, and through one o season, he has demonstrated as much.
McDaniels infamously feuded with then-Broncos incumbent quarterback Jay Cutler, with the coach ultimately using his autonomy to trade the young star to the Chicago Bears. He replaced Cutler by reaching to take another quarterback, Tim Tebow, in the rst round of the NFL Draft.
“It’s been a growth opportunity for me to try to put some of those things I’ve learned over time into place as the head coach, and I’ll continue to do that moving forward,” he said.
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A new coach arriving to a franchise and bringing in his own preferred players is hardly out of the ordinary, and it’s a trend McDaniels has repeated in Las Vegas. He’s just done it in a gentler fashion, not disparaging former franchise favorites like a pair of captains in fullback Alec Ingold (not tenured, signed with the Dolphins) and edge rusher Yannick Ngakoue (traded to the Colts) on their way out.
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Few defensive backs ever go out of their way to match up with Adams. Hobbs became one of the rare exceptions throughout training camp. The second-year cornerback out of Illinois would cut the line in oneon-one drills to face o against the Raiders’ new $141 million receiver and welcome every chance for more work against him in full-team periods. While teammates presumably shied away from Adams to keep their practice lm clean in an e ort to make the o cial roster, Hobbs seemed more league, not even just receivers, so if you that saw Adams freeze Hobbs at the The 2021 fth-round draft pick had preferring Hobbs’ comfort and track record on the inside. But injuries eventually forced their hand. Fellow cornerbacks Rock Ya-Sin, Anthony Averett and Trayvon Mullen (who has since been traded to Arizona) all missed multiple weeks of training camp, and Hobbs was pressed into action on the outside. He excelled both in practice and preseason games.
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It wasn’t just lip service. Hobbs noticeably improved against Adams as the summer stretched on, to the point where he was regularly getting the best of him. Hobbs began to look like a seasoned veteran at outside cornerback, quite impressive considering he had never played the spot professionally until August.
an exceptional rookie season as a slot cornerback, which had many calling for him to get a chance on the outside. New coach Josh McDaniels and new defensive coordinator Patrick Graham initially appeared resistant, however, it’s no di erent this year. I feel like believing is knowing. That’s what I stand on.” HobbsNate
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“I felt like last year, I believed it, so I did it,” Hobbs said. “And I feel like
focused on the bigger picture. He predicts he can one day emerge as an elite NFL cornerback and be tasked with following gamebreaking players around the eld. Practicing against one every day could expedite that“He’sprocess.oneof the best players in the want to play at a high level and that’s my opponent, why wouldn’t I want to get those reps?” Hobbs asked. Hobbs took some lumps against Adams, including one infamous example line of scrimmage, which leaked to social media. But Adams immediately jumped to Hobbs’ defense and tweeted that he’s “one of the best young defensive backs I’ve been around.”
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Now he could serve in either role during the regular season and might be on pace to arrive as the Raiders’ top cornerback, and potential lockdown defender, ahead of schedule.
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Thefootball.26-year-old said the biggest “wake-up call” came before the 2020 season, when he felt he didn’t live up to his potential in training camp. The Raiders signed him to the practice squad after he failed to make the team in his rookie season but passed in his second year. That rejection prompted him to change his diet and workout regimen during a full season away from the NFL. The Raiders again cut him before last season but kept him on the practice squad before elevating him to the active roster for four games at the end of the Cottonyear.performed well and built on that momentum during the o season to ingratiate himself to the new coaching sta . He won the team’s “Samson Award,” reserved for the hardest workers in the weight room—an honor he described as “like winning the Super Bowl to McDanielsme.” lived up to his promise of giving every player a fair shot to win a job regardless of their background or when they were drafted, with Cotton serving as the shining example. Miller was the only o ensive lineman with his role secure coming into training camp, and Cotton became the improbable next one to claim a starting spot. He often looked like he had the best footwork and quickness on the o ensive line in training camp. Cotton had one rough preseason game at Miami but responded by grading as one of the top 10 linemen in the league by Pro Football Focus in the nal week of exhibition games against New England. It should have been no surprise. After all, bouncing back has become Cotton’s well-established specialty. “Everybody knows I went through a lot of tough times,” Cotton said. “It was real rough for me in the beginning. I had to grow out of it and mature.”
The impact of kickers and punters on a team’s overall success is often minimized. Last year’s Raiders showed why that can be a mistake. Las Vegas would have never advanced to the playo s for the rst time in ve years had it not been for Carlson and Cole putting together career years. In his fourth season, Carlson set an NFL record with ve walk-o , game-winning eld goals. Cole nearly set his own all-time mark in his third season, when his average punt distance hovered near Sammy Baugh’s 1940 record of 51.4 yards in the middle of the year. Cole’s average ultimately fell to 50 yards per punt, still good for eighth in NFL history.Thathelped give the Raiders’ the second-best average starting eld position in the league, as opponents started their drives a mean of 74 yards away from the end zone. Las Vegas rewarded Cole and Carlson handsomely with long-term contracts—a 3-year, $12 million pact to Cole and 4-year, $18.4 million deal for Carlson—that could make them the rare specialists that turn into household names. The challenge in getting there will be maintaining their high standard, a notoriously di cult thing to do, since kicking is statistically one of the most volatile parts of football on a year-to-year basis. But Carlson and Cole appear up for it, and they’ve pushed each other to try di erent things in training camp. “Last season at this point doesn’t matter,” Carlson said. “Obviously, it’s nice to have that, but every year during camp I kind of write my own Carlsongoals.”didn’t share his personal goals coming into this season, but topping last year’s 93% eld goal rate—which included making six of seven from 50-plus yards— should keep him occupied. Cole wants to get better directionally, since he feels his ability to place pinpoint punts along the sideline lags in comparison to his knack for distance andMcDaniels,hangtime.new special teams coach Tom McMahon and even new general manager Dave Ziegler (a special teams expert dating back to his days as a player in college) could help bring the best out of the pair. Despite their success, the Raiders ranked only 21st in the NFL in special teams e ciency by Football Outsiders’ DVOA ratings last year. The mediocre standing was almost entirely because of poor kick and punt coverage units around Carlson and Cole, however. Ziegler and McDaniels were both part of the New England Patriots’ dynasty from 20022019, and one of the most overlooked hallmarks of that run was a consistent advantage on special teams. They’ve overhauled the return teams around Carlson and Cole in what looks like an attempt to replicate the Patriot Way in Las Vegas. “From a coaching standpoint, I think the biggest thing and the way I’m approaching it is consistency,” McMahon said. “We want the same ball all the time by both of fection.”that’ssametheybecausethem,ifhitthatball,perLESTERGUARDCOTTON
“I was like, ‘Wow, what a question,’” Carr remembered this summer. “I said, ‘Man, keep working your butt o The.’” message was simple but powerful coming from Carr, and Cotton took it to heart, even though reaching his goal of becoming a starting NFL guard took longer than he expected. The Raiders waived Cotton four times— including in three straight years as part of nal cut day heading into the regular season—but he never gave up on
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Mac Jones paces the sideline on the middle practice field at the Raiders’ facility in Hen derson, appearing to talk to himself in a frus trated manner after throwing an interception following a string of incompletions.
Now, of course, the question is, how much does any of that matter? How to value the eye test before the real games start is an age-old conundrum in the NFL, and this year’s Raiders should provide a fascinating case study. Does their consistent success getting ready for the season outweigh their shortcomings? Shortcomings do exist, though Raiders’ fans have tended to ignore them while lost in the euphoria of big-name newcomers arriving to the franchise in the offseason. It started with the hiring of general manag er Dave Ziegler and coach Josh McDaniels, two of the primary contributors to the Patriots’ two-decade dynastical reign. The duo then won immediate favor by bringing in a pair of superstar players in Davante Adams—wide ly regarded as one of the absolute best wide receivers in the NFL—and Chandler Jones, the NFL’s leader in sacks over the past 10 years. Those are two major additions, but it re mains to be seen if they’re enough to lift a team that wasn’t truly as strong as last year’s playoff berth indicated. Las Vegas went 10-7 in 2021, but point differential is statistically proven to be a more predictive measure going forward, and that’s where the team fell short.
The 2021 Raiders were outscored by 66 points on the season, the lowest mark of any NFL playoff team since 2010. And while Ziegler and McDaniels undeni ably upgraded the glamour positions, they arguably did so at the neglect of more press ing matters. Las Vegas had one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL last year, and the biggest addition was a third-round draft pick in Memphis guard/center Dylan Parham.
The Patriots’ point differential was 224 points better than the Raiders’ in 2021, when they got as high as the third betting favorite to win the Super Bowl during a midseason seven-game winning streak. The Raiders, meanwhile, squeaked into the playoffs with an improbable string of four-straight victories to end the regular season. But that all felt like ancient history when the two teams squared off to officially end training camp in late August. Having already seemingly establishing itself as the better team in the practices, a squad mostly comprising Raiders backups and practice-squad players blew out the majority of the Patriots’ starters 23-6 in the preseason finale at Allegiant Stadium.
The Raiders’ secondary was only margin ally better than the offensive line, and they addressed it with risky investments instead of Can the Raiders translate a terrific summer into a memorable regular season?
The victory lifted Las Vegas to a 4-0 record in the preseason for the first time in franchise history. It was the perfect capper to a six-week stretch during which the Raiders regularly looked capable of greatness.
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The New England Patriots’ second-year quarterback hardly resembled the rookie revelation from a year ago during his week long stay in Las Vegas this summer that in cluded a pair of joint practices and a presea son game against the Raiders. And it wasn’t just Jones: Las Vegas mostly dismantled a New England team that was far superior to it only a season ago.
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Free-agent cornerback Anthony Averett was an end-of-the-roster player until last year, when injuries pressed him into action with the Ravens. Cornerback Rock-Ya Sin— acquired via trade with the Colts in ex change for Yannick Ngakoue—fell out favor in Indianapolis largely because of madden ing inconsistency. The weak spots have been evident in practice, but easy to write off based on which teammates have been mak ing the plays against them. Opponents last year couldn’t block Pro Bowl edge rusher Maxx Crosby —who finished second in the league with 101 quarterback pressures—so it’s unreasonable to expect a rotating cast of Raider right tackles to do much better.
Raiders cheerleaders from every decade took over Allegiant Stadium on August 14 to celebrate 60 years of history. The women performed two routines together, to the team’s original fight song, “The Autumn Wind,” and to “We Are Family,” accompanied by singer Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge. ¶ “Game days are the best days of the year!” says Raiderette Audrey (last name withheld), a four-year member of the squad who will hold the title of captain for the 2022 season. “Being able to step onto the field in those white boots, feel the energy Raider Nation exudes, and cheer on the best team in the NFL is [a feeling] like no other.” ¶ Here are some statistics from the squad’s six decades on the field. –Evelyn Mateos
surefire improvements. Free-agent strong safety Duron Harmon is 31 years old, far past the usual prime of defensive backs, and he has declined in each of the past two seasons since leaving New England.
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The season will tell whether that’s a short-sighted mistake or a well-earned reaction.
Adams, who makes catches even when well-covered, has quickly rediscovered the chemistry he had with quarterback Derek Carr dating back to their college days at Fresno State. Carr has been extremely accu rate with all of his receivers, avoiding inter ceptions entirely in practice until the final week of training camp, when second-year cornerback Nate Hobbs read and jumped an AdamsHobbsroute.hasplayed like a potential break out Pro Bowler, while Carr has looked like he could merit consideration as a darkhorse NFL MVP candidate. It’s a good example of how, for every ounce of Raiders’ pessimism, there’s a much-larger dose of optimism. No teams are without their issues going into the season, but the Raiders’ concerns feel more minimized because of how sharp they’ve been under McDaniels to this point.
WEEK 11: AT DENVER BRONCOS Sunday, November 20, 1:05 p.m., Fox Current line: Broncos -4.5 Prized Raider defensive offseason acquisition Chandler Jones has joked that he followed prized Bronco offensive offseason acquisition Russell Wilson to the AFC West. The former Cardinals edge rusher has sacked the former Seahawks quarterback 14.5 times during their careers.
WEEK 8: AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS Sunday, October 30, 10 a.m., CBS Current line: Saints -2 Eight years after getting fired as the Raiders’ head coach, Dennis Allen gets a second chance with the Saints this season, succeeding Sean Payton, who stepped down after 16 years.
WEEK 5: AT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS Monday, October 10, 5:15 p.m., ESPN Current line: Chiefs -6 The low point of the Raid ers’ season came at the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Sta dium a year ago, where they were blown out 48-9 in Week 14 to drop their record to 6-7.
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WEEK 14: AT LOS ANGELES RAMS Thursday, December 8, 5:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video Current line: Rams -6.5 The Raiders make their second trip of the sea son to LA’s $5 billion SoFi Stadium, where they’ve gone 1-1 since its 2020 opening … or 2-1 if you count their presea son victory over the Rams in 2021.
WEEK 3: AT TENNESSEE TITANS Sunday, September 25, 10 a.m., Fox Current line: Titans -2.5 The Titans posted the best seasonrecordregular-seasonintheAFClastdespitedealing a slew of injuries, including to franchise running back Derrick Henry.
WEEK 10: INDIANAPOLISVS. COLTS Sunday, November 13, 1:05 p.m., CBS Current line: Raiders -1 Gus Bradley, the Raiders’ defensive coordinator last season, and Yannick Ngakoue, a team captain and edge rusher for the Raiders last year, both wound up in Indianapolis after a one-year stay in Las Vegas that report edly left them feeling slighted by the organi zation.
WEEK 12: AT SEATTLE SEAHAWKS Sunday, November 27, 1:05 p.m., CBS Current line: Raiders -3 The Raiders used to make an annual trip to play the Seahawks when the two franchises were both in the AFC West, but haven’t traveled to Seattle in eight years.
WEEK 15: VS. NEW PATRIOTSENGLAND Sunday, December 18, 5:20 p.m., (time subject to change), NBC (subject to change) Current line: Raiders -2.5 Expect the currently scheduled Sunday Night Football broadcast to be filled with talk of new coach Josh McDaniels, new general manager Dave Ziegler and a slew of new Raider players going up against their former team in the Pa triots.
WEEK 1: AT LOS CHARGERSANGELES Sunday, September 11, 1:25 p.m., CBS Current line: Chargers -3.5 This amounts to an immediate rematch of what many consider the best regular season game of last year, when the Raiders upset the Char gers 35-32 in overtime of Week 18 to reach the postseason.
WEEK 2: VS. ARIZONA CARDINALS Sunday, September 18, 1:25 p.m., CBS Current line: Raiders -2 It’s the first time the franchises have met since Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray (who signed a five-year $230 million contract this
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WEEK 4: VS. DENVER BRONCOS Sunday, October 2, 1:25 p.m., CBS, Current line: Pick’em This rivalry has suddenly turned one-sided, with the Raiders having won five of the last six meet ings and their only loss coming by a single point.
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WEEK 6: BYE WEEK 7: HOUSTONVS.TEXANS Sunday, October 23, 1:05 p.m., CBS Current line: Raiders -8.5 Local product Brevin Jor dan, who starred at Bish op Gorman during its run of high school football national championships, returns to Las Vegas for a potential breakout sec ond season as the Texans’ top tight end.
WEEK 13: VS. LOS CHARGERSANGELES Sunday, December 4, 1:25 p.m., CBS Current line: Pick’em Raiders quarterback Derek Carr reunited with one “best friend” when Davante Adams came to the team in the offsea son but saw another, former Raider linebacker Khalil Mack, become a divisional rival after a trade to the Chargers.
WEEK 9: JAGUARSJACKSONVILLEAT Sunday, November 6, 10 a.m., CBS Current line: Raiders -3 It’s just the fourth time in franchise history that the Raiders have traveled to Jacksonville, where they’ve previously gone 1-2 but won the most re cent meeting in 2016.
Betting odds suggest the AFC West’s hype isn’t overblown
The AFC West is the first division in NFL history with four starting quarterbacks who hold a career passer rating of at least 90, according to ESPN. It’s a bona fide gauntlet, and navigating will be the biggest challenge standing in the way of another successful Raiders season.
WEEK 17: VS. SAN 49ERSFRANCISCO Sunday, January 1, 1:05 p.m., FOX Current line: 49ers -2 This will mark the first installment in the two teams’ “Battle of the Bay” rivalry since the Raiders left Oakland for Las Vegas and should break a 7-7 deadlock in the all-time series.
BY CASE KEEFER Ten NFL teams are currently listed at 20-to-1 or less to win the Super Bowl at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook. That includes all four franchises in the AFCBettingWest.odds agree with the widespread assessment that the Kansas City Chiefs (10-to-1 to win the Super Bowl), Los Angeles Chargers (10-to-1), Denver Broncos (20-to-1) and Las Vegas Raiders (20-to-1) have formed one of the best collections of teams in a single division ever. Only one other time since the NFL realigned to its current four-team divisional format in 2003 has an entire group of teams been priced that short to win the Super Bowl, according to future odds database sportsoddshistory.com. That was the 2003 AFC East, though the eventual Super Bowl champion New England Patriots were the only of the four teams that ultimately made the playo s. It would be shocking if the AFC West didn’t produce at least two playo representatives this year. The Raiders are currently the only team not favored to reach the postseason, with the SuperBook paying +135 (i.e. risking $100 to win $135) on them to make the playo s and -155 (i.e. risking $155 to win $100) on them to miss. That implies about a 41% chance, after adjusting for the house’s holdAfterpercentage.theNFLadded a third wild card in each conference two years ago, it’s now possible for all four teams to make the playo s. Four divisional rivals haven’t all reached the playo s since 1997—when it happened in the now-extinct NFC Central—but there’s a strong case to be made for every team in the NFC West.
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WEEK 16: STEELERSPITTSBURGHAT Saturday, December 24, 5:15 p.m., NFL Network Current line: Raiders -1 The Raiders play on Christmas Eve for the eighth time in franchise history, which includes a 37-31 double-overtime victory over the Baltimore Colts in 1977 that’s considered the best game ever contested on the holiday. The Raiders forced overtime in that playo game with the famous “Ghost to the Post” play, on which Hall of Fame tight end Dave Casper made an improbable 42-yard catch to set up a field goal.
WEEK 18: VS. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS Saturday, January 7 or Sunday, January 8, time TBD, TV TBD Current line: Chiefs -2.5 Kansas City has won the AFC West for six consecutive seasons, but with as tightly contested as the division looks this year, the race could easily come down to the final week. Photo/Photo Illustration)
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The Chiefs haven’t missed the playo s since 2014 and have likely the best player in the league in former regular-season and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes. The Raiders made the postseason last year and got better this o season with the major additions of wide receiver Davante Adams and edge rusher Chandler Jones. The Chargers only missed the playo s because of an overtime loss to the Raiders in the final game of the regular season, and spent free agency heavily upgrading their defense to go with one of the NFL’s best o enses. And the Broncos traded for former Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson to address the lone perceived weak spot on their roster. By sportsbooks’ over/under win totals, all four teams are expected to post a winning record this season. It’s di cult to see any of them falling too short, considering the level of play they all have at quarterback between Mahomes, Wilson, Los Angeles’ Justin Herbert and Las Vegas’ Derek Carr.
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“Je was a solid journalist who had credibility,” said Brian Greenspun, publisher and editor of the Las Vegas Sun, where German got his start in Las Vegas. “He had a reputation for protecting a source. In the newspaper world, that’s the best anyone can say about you—that they trusted you. I know Je was trusted.” Metro Police o cers found German, 69, dead with stab wounds around 10:30 a.m. September 3 in front of his home near Vegas Drive and Tenaya Way, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where German had worked since leaving the Sun in 2010. “We believe [an] altercation took place outside of the home,” Capt. Dori Koren, a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, said at a news conference. “We do have some leads. We are pursuing a suspect but the suspect is outstanding.” Metro Police released surveillance images of the suspect wearing a straw hat that covers their face and carrying a shoulder bag. They’re wearing blue jeans and a bright orange long-sleeved shirt. Metro is asking for the public’s help in tracking down more neighborhood footage. German joined the ReviewJournal 12 years ago after more than two decades at the Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter covering courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime. He was known for his stories about government malfeasance and political scandals. Ray Brewer
Two 50-foot showgirls lit up the night August 31, welcoming drivers to Downtown Las Vegas.Theshowgirls can be found at the corner of Main Street and Las Vegas Boulevard. “Over the decades, YESCO has created some of the most notable signs in Las Vegas,” Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said in a news release. “These gorgeous signs will continue to elevate Las Vegas’ image as a world-class travel destination.” They weigh 6,800 pounds each and are roughly twice the size of a pair they replaced, which were removed in the wake of severe weather. Those showgirls will be rehabilitated and moved to the corner of Fourth Street and Las Vegas Boulevard, in front of a busThestop.city said the project costs $631,334 to complete.
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Rick and Morty character pop-up on view in front of the Golden Nugget on Fremont Street through September 11, bridges the two worlds: It’s both an ad (for Samsung’s latest Galaxy phone), and a story that leads into the new season. “We call it a ‘living episode,’ ” says Tricia Melton, chief mar keting officer for Warner Bros. Discovery Kids, Young Adults and Classics group, adding that this is easily the most ambi tious promotional push the show has ever done. Previous chapters of “Wormageddon” have appeared on every conti nent (“except Antarctica”), but Vegas was a lock for the climax, Melton“Whatsays.city in the world is more receptive to a spectacle?” she asks, just as a tourist tries to make off with some of the set pieces and is chased away by security. Rick Sanchez would be proud.
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BY THE NUMBERS Rick and Morty drops into Las Vegas often enough to earn points. The animated comedy, the sixth season of which debuted on Adult Swim on September 4, has visited as a marketing pop-up (most re cently for Wendy’s, last March at Resorts World) and in its storytelling (the climactic bat tle of season 5 episode “Rickde pendence Spray” takes place at the Strip and media-friendly“Wormageddon,”Tropicana).asocial
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“The middle class built America. Everybody knows that. But unions built the middle class.”
That’s how many teachers the Clark County School District was short at the start of the fall school year. CCSD has taken local steps to recruit, retain and plug holes, including upping the minimum pay for teachers by $7,000 a year and increasing day rates for substitutes working in high-poverty schools.
–Geoff Carter
The Las Vegas Aces won Game 3 of their WNBA playoff series against Seattle in wild fashion, with three baskets scored in the final four seconds of regulation before Las Vegas came away with a 110-98 win in overtime. Here, Las Vegas Aces center Kiah Stokes (41) blocks a shot by Storm guard Jewell Loyd in the extra session of a game heralded as an instant classic. Wasson/Associated(LindseyPress)
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ocals should start noticing changes in the Las Vegas Medical District soon.Established by the City Council in 1997, the 674acre area west of Downtown and I-15 is slated for renovations detailed in a $130 million infrastructure upgrade plan that was presented August 23 at City Hall to Gov. Steve Sisolak, members of the medical community, Downtown business owners, residents and developers. “The medical district is very much part of the Downtown area, we just don’t know it yet,” Las Vegas Coun cilman Brian Knudsen said. “[We] in the [surrounding] neighborhoods call ourselves ‘Downtown adjacent.’ We don’t need to do that anymore. We’re going be able to walk to Down town to spend money.” Knudsen’s pitch to stakeholders was followed by a presentation from city staff outlining updates that will take place over the next two years, plus panel discussions with medical professionals and business represen tatives about how those updates will benefit area residents, businesses, and ultimately, the quality of care available in Southern Nevada. As the councilman for Ward 1, Knudsen has been working for years to grow the medical district, which has $358 million of projects current ly underway, according to the city’s director of community development. Knudsen says the challenges he encountered when getting care for his son, who at one point had to stay in a local hospital for more than a month, drove him to develop a local medical district, and eventually, get more professionals to work and live in the “[Westate.have] great physicians, great nurses—but this system of care is really underdeveloped. The challenges that we faced in coordinating multiple specialists for my son became overwhelming. We ended up going to an out of state hospital,” he tells the Weekly, adding that he had the resources and access to do so. “A lot of our community really can’t do Accordingthat.”to 2020 data from the American Association of Medical Colleges, Nevada ranks 45th among U.S. states in number of doctors, with 219 active physicians for every 100,000Knudsenresidents.saystaking his son to Johns Hopkins University in Bal timore and observing their model made him want to bring that level of care and medical infrastructure to local families. Creating an “academ ic medical community” is one key strategy, he says.
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“It’s kind of shifting our current thinking from the Las Vegas Medi cal District to an academic medical district. And I think that [means] that it’s a place of learning, a place of teaching,” he says. “I kind of look at it as younger people—dental, medical, nursing students—[hav ing] a much more prominent role in that Developmentarea.” of student hous ing and community amenities on Charleston Boulevard and in the medical district will “infill” the spaces between some of Las Vegas’ most historic neighborhoods, like the Scotch 80s enclosed by Rancho Drive and Oakey Boulevard.
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“In addition to seeing apartment complexes in the area … you’ll see walkable streets and easier access to the Downtown core,” Knudsen says, referencing impending Charleston Boulevard interchange renovations, which will make it smoother for pedestrians to get from the medical district to the Arts District. Land scaped sidewalks and medians, im proved access to storefronts and the Regional Transportation Commis sion’s Maryland Parkway bus rapid transit (BRT) project are all part of theTheplan.Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is positioned as a central part of the academic medical community in the revamped
Kahn says he hopes the school, which has admitted 240 students (60 per year) since opening, will be able to increase its annual enroll ment numbers to 90 in the next few years, pending approval from the accrediting body.
Councilman Knudsen says he expects growing the academic medical community will yield better health outcomes for Nevadans. “We increase that chance that, when you meet with a physician, you’re not just meeting with one resident or one physician; you’re meeting with a team of people,” he says.
Renderings of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV (Courtesy/Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV)
LAS VEGAS WEEKLY 33 I9.8.22 district—a boon to the burgeoning school, which earned full accredita tion in 2021. Adjacent to facilities like the county-run University Medical Center and the new Optum Care cancer center, UNLV’s medical school and other health institutions can expect to be a part of the mis sion to deliver better care to South ern Nevada patients, says School of Medicine Dean Marc Kahn. “We’re creating an academic health center—a collection of the academic health science schools,” Kahn says. “It’s the schools, in conjunction with the hospitals and clinics in which we practice, [that would] really provide the best level of care for our community.”
With UNLV’s $150 million, 135,000 square-foot medical edu cation building on Shadow Lane slated to open in October, Kahn says there’s potential to change the “paradigm of care” and break down barriers to access for people in the community. One of the first steps is launching more residency programs in the “It’sValley.notjust having a medical school and medical school classes,” Kahn says, adding that residencies for many specialties and subspe cialties are limited or not offered in Southern Nevada. “We really need residency spots to keep people here in the state.” To help expand those opportuni ties, the Nevada Interim Finance Committee in August approved $30 million for the school of medicine to set up a new pathology lab and $40 million for an ambulatory care clinic, which will offer outpatient primary and specialty care includ ing surgery, oncology and mental health services, along with a phar macy, Kahn says.
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In response to Nevada’s shortage of medical professionals, admis sions takes into account students’ likelihood to stay in Nevada. “Near ly all of our students are Nevada res idents, and the few that aren’t are in neighboring states with close family or other ties to Nevada,” Kahn says.
“It’s going to be a one-stop shop, I hope, for people who need care on an outpatient basis,” he says of the ambulatory clinic, adding that the school intends to designate space in the pathology lab for “basic science research.” Kahn says he also expects the pathology lab to improve test turnaround times for local patients. Rather than sending samples to Northern Nevada to be processed, the school’s lab “will allow people in Southern Nevada to get more timely access to results and, therefore, more timely diagnosis,” he says.
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The inaugural event boasts an award-winning line up of Latin stars, headlined by Colombian mainstay Maluma and also featuring bachata artist Prince Royce, genre-bending singer Omar Apollo, reggaeton royalty Ivy Queen, rapper Natanael Cano and Dominican-Italian sing er-songwriter Yendry. “The biggest thing about Latin culture is feeling like you belong to a community,” Yendry says. “I think this festival is going to really feel like that, plus it’s going to be my very first festival gig in the U.S., first time in Las Vegas, so it’s amazing to represent my culture.” The 29-year-old shines as one of Latin music’s most promising rising artists, having collaborated with superstar J Balvin and earned nominations at the prestigious Premio Lo Nuestro Awards. The Weekly caught up with Yendry ahead of her 5:30 p.m. Rumbazo set to talk National Hispanic Heritage Month, embracing identity and more.
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I read books about the Dominican Republic, about the history of it, about colonization, about a lot of stuff I want to know about my culture. … I celebrate it every day, even by cooking myself some sancocho. … But this month is really about getting other people to know our culture and to develop that inclusivity we’ve wanted for a long time. I’ve been talking about Hispanic Heritage Month with Oprah [Daily], [and] I’ve done Tiny Desk at NPR for Hispanic Heritage Month, so these are moments where I can actually highlight my culture and topics that are part of my culture, like immigration [and] empowering girls, Latin girls who are outside of their native countries, and they’re struggling to find their identity. That’s a big deal for people like me. It feels like Las Vegas’ entertainment options are multiplying by the day, and Rumbazo, a one-day Latin music and culture festival set for the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center on September 10, is a strong recent addition to the scene.
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Rumbazo Festival is a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. What does that month mean to you and how do you honor it?
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Your music is very con nected to your family’s past; for example, “Nena” is about your mom immigrating to Italy. Are there more stories like that to tell? We don’t talk about it enough, but there’s a lot of peo ple who have the same story. … My story is very common in the Latin community, but not only for us, honestly. In Italy, a lot of African people who come over have the same story. … If I’m actually sharing my music with other people, I want to share my story. I am who I am be cause of this, and I’m very proud of that. I want people to feel proud about where they come from and what they’ve been through, and to celebrate it instead of hiding it.
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Would you say Latin music is getting more mainstream attention? Lat in music is getting way more understood. There are differ ent artists bringing something new and fresh to the table, like Omar Apollo ... or The Marias. It’s good to have this new wave of people abouttransparentbeingwhat they’re doing. They’re sharing their own stories, and they’re making different music, but it’s still very accessible. You still enjoy it. It’s still commercial. I feel like this is the right moment for me, as well, to open up, because I used to sing in English before, and I started to sing in Spanish because I had a reconnection to my roots. I started to sing in Spanish and I got goosebumps, like, “OK, there’s something there, and I want to express it in this language right now.” It’s definitely become a wave, and it’s becoming bigger. Do you feel like your music can be a gateway to Spanish-language music, for people who might not listen to it? I feel that with “Nena,” “Barrio” and even “El Diablo,” which is half Spanish, half English. A lot of people from different countries who are not Spanish speaking, like in Turkey, Japan or Denmark, Switzerland … they were like, “Listen, I don’t know what you’re saying, but I love the vibe, and I started to translate your lyrics, and I’m learning a little bit of Spanish.” (Laughs). It’s amazing. What should we expect from your new album, coming in October? I’m trying to mix two different worlds, and I’m trying to make my music more experimental, to have less boundaries. … I think for me, it’s more about stepping into the idea that I’m free to jump into other genres that are not necessarily from my culture, but I can bring my culture into them. I’m trying to cross cultures and trying to make it in the right way. It’s taking more time, but I’m very sure it’s gonna be saucy. What do you hope people take away from your performance at Rumbazo?
With the band, you really get the live music experience, the sort of experience you have when you go see artists like Erykah Badu. … But I love when people go to see a concert, and they have a different experience from the music that they’re listening to on digital platforms. I’m really trying to give that. For more of this interview, visit lasvegasweekly.com.
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The upcoming brunch on Sep tember 11 will pay tribute to the victims, families, first responders and volunteers of the 9/11 Pennington,tragedy.who started with Gospel Brunch 17 years ago as a backup singer and now coordinates the talent, says attendees—both loyal locals and tourists looking for some communion and spir ituality on a Sunday in Las Vegas—want more than food and a show. “They want to be fed spiritually. You don’t know when people are at their break ing point,” she says, recalling a past guest who shared with emcees after the show that she had been contemplating suicide. “By the time we get through minister ing to them through song and re ally having some church and touching their soul … they’re not the same as when they
D o we have any believers in the house?” If you’re not a believer, Sharon Smith and the Sons of Soul will do their best to make you one. Their performance at the August 7 Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues was no spectator sport. After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the line to get in the door stretched past slot machines and onto Mandalay Bay’s gaming carpet. The “only gospel show on the Strip” is celebrating more than two decades of church and “sangin’” with Sin City locals and visitors alike. “Not sing, saang! How many witness es here know the difference?” Smith asked the audience, which sat ban quet-style in front of the raised stage and at smaller tables toward the back of the room. “I want you to put your forks and spoons down, stand up and clap your Betweenhands!”buffet bites of fried chicken and waffles, biscuits and gravy, Creole dirty rice and other lujah.”ing,chiefs,andcollectiveandgregationstaples,Southerntheconstoodraiseditshandshandkerproclaim“Amen,halleThoselike me, who need a little more help letting the holy spirit in and moving to the music, can be baptized in the fire of a spicy Bloody Mary from theDirectorbar. and emcee Patti Pennington says the long-running event has an “opendoor policy”—all are welcome to join in the non-denominational gathering.
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AroundlikeperformartistsandPenningtoncame,”says.“You’recomingtoexperienceajourneyofhealingthroughmusic.”Backedbydrums,keyboardbass,rotatingandgroupsstandards“EveryTimeITurnHeKeepsBlessingMe,” and Kirk Franklin’s “Why We Sing,” along with more contemporary numbers like Marvin Sapp’s “Never Would Have Made It.” At the August brunch, the Sons of Soul performed a rendition of 2Pac’s “California Love,” retrofitted with more church-friendly lyrics: California/Knows how to praise him. “We have fun. We take you on a ride, open up your soul, get a little emotional and then take you back up,” Pennington says. “We want everybody to leave and know that they’re feeling good.” 9.8.22 BY SHANNON MILLER
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“It’s … where everybody can come eat,” she says. “The bible talks about [compel ling] them to come, where they want to be a part of it. It’s not always about, you know, ‘The Lord said this.’” And come, they have. After selling out monthly shows in its initial pandemic comeback, the event recently added twice-monthly shows October through December.
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A group of local survivors and organizers have been creating different events to mark the anniversary of the October 1, 2017 Strip shooting in a meaningful way every year since 2018. For next month’s fifth anniversary, the group has solidified into a nonprofit organization known as the Country Strong Project, and the event has blossomed into the Remember Music Festival, an even stronger way to bring the community together again for music and healing. Texas group Midland will headline the daylong festival—a partnership between the nonprofit, Stoney’s Rockin’ Country saloon at Town Square and Clark County—on October 1 at the Clark County Amphitheater. Proceeds will benefit the ongoing effort to create a perma nent memorial recognizing One October, and after tickets were initially made available to the community of survivors and families of victims, they are now on sale to the general public via Eventbrite.“Everyyear we’ve taken on a different need,” says Connie Long, who co-founded the Country Strong Project with fellow survivor Shawna Bartlett. “The first year we called it the Route 91 reunion, and it was only survivors, families of the 58 [victims], first responders and those impacted, and we had about 2,000 people. “In the second year, people were still needing to come together, but we found we didn’t like the words ‘anniversary’ or ‘reunion.’ So we started calling it a remembrance, a celebration of life forTheeveryone.”pandemic slowed the annual event to a gathering of a few hundred people in a park in 2020, and then organizers connected with Stoney’s last year to bring more musical ele ments into the plans. A focus on that theme of remembrance also laid the groundwork for this year’s“Wefestival.werelooking for that one word that em braces everything, and this stuck,” Long says. “We hope it continues as the Remember festival going forward. It really is one word that encom passes who we were, who we are, and who we want to be, to remember to keep living through love and music, and to remember the 58.”
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Stoney’s Marketing Director Jeff Higginboth am has been booking talent at the prominent country bar since four months after it opened in 2007. He was at the Route 91 Festival in 2017 and says the upcoming event “obviously hits home for me. Every year we’ve done something [at Stoney’s] from fundraisers for [charity group] Love Wins to raising money for the families af fected. This just made sense for five years, so we made some phone calls and got some big bands.”
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“It was time for us to be on our own,” as a nonprofit organization, she says. “The plan was to be able to get bigger with sponsors and we’ve been getting help from our survivors, too, who are reaching out and asking how they can help. We knew it was time to start the Country Strong Project and make it an ongoing thing people can give to.” BY BROCK RADKE Midland
The Remember fest isn’t in any way intended to be a replacement or new version of Route 91, which brought the genre’s biggest stars to the Strip for four years. But it was important, Long says, to bring back a band that played Route 91 in 2017 in Midland. It reinforces the connection to the community that has dealt with the trag edy, and it also helps build a strong foundation for this new event.
Chef and owner Sonia El-Nawal holds a photo of herself at age 27 in Brussels, Belgium. (Right) Brisket and eggs, matzo ball soup and the Lower East Side from Bodega Bagel (Wade Vandervort/Staff)
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“In 1992-93, I had a coffee shop in Belgium, and that’s when I started making bagels. It’s a process I’ve been working on for years,” she says. That process intensified when El-Nawal lived and worked in New York City, which inspired the Bodega Bagel concept that has blossomed from that popular pop-up to a full-fledged brick-and-mortar restaurant, which opened this month near St. Rose Dominican Hospital on Eastern Avenue, in part nership with the Lev Group.
A re you a Downtown foodie who found your new favorite bagel in Las Vegas at Sonia El-Nawal’s Bodega Bagel pop-up at Vegas Test Kitchen last year? Or does your devotion go back further, to when the Libyan-born, Leb anon-raised chef transformed her Rooster Boy Cafe in Desert Shores into a pick-up bagel and pastry shop during the uncertain times of 2020? Guess what? El-Nawal has been boiling and bak ing bagels for much longer.
“When the pandemic hit and I closed Rooster Boy as a seated restaurant, it became a store, and [bagels] really took off,” El-Nawal explains. “But I already knew I wanted to open Bodega Bagel and Bodega Bagel finds a permanent home in Henderson BY BROCK RADKE
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The new Lamaii has an inviting interior, set behind a glass wine wall (the place has a lengthy wine list, like its Chada ancestors) and hung with imported light fixtures. But when the weather cools down, the covered patio, home to several tables and half of the double-sided bar, will be the prime place to gather. Like Chada Street before it, Lamaii works best with a hungry group, so you can pass around plates of ceviche ($15), garlic green beans ($11) and the show-stop ping filet mignon steak tartare with chili lime dressing ($25) as you decide what comes next. But don’t be afraid to do it solo, too. I certainly have, with a beer and a dish or two … or three. Welcome to the neighborhood, Lamaii. –Spencer Patterson had been planning it in my head. That’s how it happens for me: I start feeling what I want to do and what the brand should be.”
“I’m so excited to see the vision come to life, to make a place that feels and tastes like New York,” El-Nawal says. “It just has great energy.” Her popular shakshouka from Rooster Boy—eggs baked in a spicy tomato sauce—will return to action along with other signatures like brisket and eggs, challah French toast, a chopped chef salad and the Decker Special sandwich with house-cured gravlax plus the classic combo of cream cheese, tomato, red onion and El-Nawalcapers.essentially wants you to come for break fast and grab something to take home for lunch, like hot or cold borscht, mushroom barley soup or the Hudson River whitefish salad sandwich. And she’s just as excited about the cute merch, the beer and wine list and the La Colombe coffee as she is about the food. But it mostly comes down to the bagels, and El-Nawal always has enjoyed making them. Despite the wonderful culinary evolution in this and most other Valley neighborhoods, amazing bagels are still hard to find.
The brand is a bagel shop that has other really good things for lunch, not a Jewish deli per se but certainly an ideal place for egg salad or a pastrami sandwich or latkes.
“For me, it’s the recipe of the dough, and the way they are shaped. It makes a huge difference when they’re artisanal and hand-shaped, as opposed to ma chine-made,” she says. “It’s the attention to detail. I really love making bagels. It’s such a satisfying thing, and when you eat one, it’s always, Damn, this is pretty good. And you’re happy.”
n An old friend moved to my neigh borhood a few months back, and we’ve been spending lots of time together. I head over to hang out after work, on weekends and even during my lunch break, since our relationship centers on food. And I can truly say, having Lamaii close by has made my lifeForbetter.those unfamiliar, Lamaii is an upscale Thai restaurant that opened on Spring Mountain in 2019 and recently expanded to Henderson, near the curve where St. Rose Parkway becomes Pecos Road. My love of this food actually dates back much further, to owner Bank Atcharawan’s days op erating twin Chinatown powers Chada Thai and Chada Street. Those spots are gone now, but Lamaii scratch es my same itch for elevated Thai cuisine, in part because much of the old menus’ best stuff has survived and moved over. That means I can now get the killer panang duck ($28), loaded crab fried rice ($18) and my favorite papaya salad anywhere ($14), without driving across town. Being close means I can also experiment more, with the super-fresh loui suan (ground pork and herbs wrapped in green leaves and rice paper, $11), the spicy kua gling (ground pork with Southern Thai curry paste, $15) and the complex kao soi (egg noodles and braised beef in Northern Thai curry, $22).
ELEVATING THE SOUTHEAST SCENE LAMAII 2645 St. Rose Parkway #150, 702-405-0086, lamaiilv.com. Daily, noon-10 p.m. LAS VEGAS WEEKLY 43 I9.8.22 Lamaii’s kao soi and Pinotwithservedtartare,steakaLiocoNoir Staff)Vandervort/(Wade BODEGABAGEL 10075 S. Eastern 702-527-7663,Ave.,bodegabagel.com.Tuesday-Sunday,7a.m.-3p.m.
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“Policing liquor deliveries would be challenging for resort security teams and would divert them from other areas of crime prevention,” Valentine said. “Deliveries would also exacerbate traf fic congestion in the resort corridor.”
Valentine said the association be lieves delivery to homes is reasonable, but she said liquor delivery to resorts can cause problems, such as weak ening safeguards against underage drinking at hotels and other possible security issues. The law, as it stands, does not prohibit delivery to resorts.
“A lot of these local jurisdictions created these limited privileges of delivery during the pandemic and customers got used to that,” Saxe said. “Now, those privileges have expired, but customers are still calling busi nesses asking for delivery.”
In the interim, each jurisdiction operates independently. In the city of Las Vegas, a business that holds a liquor license is allowed to apply for a special “internet sales license” that green lights delivery with some restrictions.
Ryan Saxe, an attorney with local firm Saltzman Mugan Dushoff, has been working with a number of national brands, including Instacart and Whole Foods Market, a subsid iary of Amazon, that want to see a retail-friendly code for liquor delivery in Nevada established.
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She said a uniformed allowance of liquor delivery along the resort corridor—generally thought of as the south side of the Strip up through Downtown Las Vegas—would also “undermine” the value of liquor licenses held by the resorts and their business partners.
Having alcohol delivered to your front door was well-received, pav ing the way for lawmakers during the 2021 Nevada Legislature to pass Senate Bill 307. The bill, signed into law by Gov. Steve Sisolak, allows for liquor retailers and third-party ser vices—like Instacart or Grubhub—to makeStipulationsdeliveries.for the legislation— such as a minimum age requirement for delivery drivers and a require ment of the purchaser to show proof they are at least 21—were released on September 1 by the state’s Depart ment of Taxation, which is charged with defining the regulations.
LAW M any jurisdictions in Nevada expanded alcohol delivery privileges during the early stages of the pandemic to liquor stores and restaurants on a temporary basis.
“Our clients are trying to meet their customers’ demands,” Saxe said. “Customers in Nevada are looking at their friends and family in other states around the country who are able to get alcohol included in their deliveries and they’re wanting that convenience, too.” In a metropolitan area with multi ple municipalities and even juris dictions within
“We believe deliveries should not be allowed to resorts with nonrestricted gaming licenses,” Valentine said.
Under Clark County code, only a grocery store is allowed to deliver liquor. In Henderson, according to a city spokeswoman, the same is true.
theThrowpremises.”inthe fact that Las Vegas welcomes tens of millions of visitors annually—many staying in hotels at the resorts that dot the Strip—and the issue is made even more complicated.
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Saxe said consumers were interested in the concept of liquor and grocery delivery before the pandemic, but the pandemic would come to “supercharge” some of those expectations.
Virginia Valentine, president and CEO of the Nevada Resort Associ ation, which represents Southern Nevada’s casino resort businesses, said the organization “supported temporary deliveries of alcoholic beverages to residential homes and certain commercial locations during the pandemic as a way of assisting small businesses and residents who did not feel safe venturing out.”
A city spokesman said in an email that only a small handful of busi nesses in Las Vegas have that license. That list includes Total Wine liquor stores, Chili’s and BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse.Todate,the city has not licensed any of the third-party services.
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to treat a top performer differently from other employees in the context of Generalmisconduct.examples of misconduct potentially warranting immediate termination include, but are not lim ited to violence or threats of violence in the workplace; harassment or unwanted touching of a sexual or oth erwise unlawful nature; fraudulent or intentionally dishonest conduct, including theft of company proper ty; use of alcohol or illegal drugs in the workplace; violations showing reckless or intentional disregard for health and safety; and major breaches of company policy, with particular respect to ethical obligations or confidentiality of trade secrets and intellectual property. Whether circumstances justify im mediate termination depends on the specific workplace and industry.
While progressive discipline will often be warranted in singular instances of misconduct or poor performance, appropriate disci plinary action depends on the specific workplace and industry. Generally, situations that can be addressed with counseling or coaching warrant progressive discipline, rather than immediate termination.
At worst, inconsistent discipline can lead to incorrect assumptions that an employer has discriminated against employees on an unlawful basis. Maintaining an appropriate work place environment starts and ends with consistently enforcing standards for workplace conduct. At-will employers in Nevada have wide latitude to fashion strict or le nient disciplinary policies depending on business needs and the particular industry.Whileappropriate disciplinary polices can vary based on the needs of an employer, such policies should always be applied to all employees in a consistent and objective manner, including documenting in writing all incidents of discipline or misconduct and maintaining confidentiality of any investigation into misconduct.
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All can spell disaster for an organi zation’s bottom line. Management and human resourc es must make difficult personnel decisions on a daily basis. While there is not a “one size fits all” approach to employee discipline, addressing poor performance or misconduct raises universal questions for employers, particularly when termination is involved.Threeof the most common and challenging situations employers face are determining when employee mis conduct potentially justifies immedi ate termination, determining when and how to administer progressive discipline, and evaluating whether BY DANIEL AQUINO
However, whether a single inci dent of poor performance warrants an immediate termination can vary based on the industry and needs of theGeneralemployer.examples of singular incidents warranting progressive discipline include, but are not limited to tardiness or absence; failure to adequately perform job duties due to inexperience or lack of training; offensive or disrespectful language or other violations of company policy.
As opposed to misconduct, a single incident of poor performance—per haps an unintentional mistake or failure to perform—can often be an opportunity to coach an employee on appropriate performance standards.
Employers also should account for regulations and standards of conduct applicable to specific professions, which may include heightened safety standards, duties of care (possibly for healthcare providers), or licensing requirements.Generally,immediate termination may be appropriate where an employ ee demonstrates such disregard for safety, professionalism or employer policies that the employee cannot be allowed to remain in the workplace.
Daniel Aquino is an attorney in McDonald Carano’s employment and labor law group. LAW
Stated differently, an instance of misconduct severe enough to justify immediate termination—such as an act of violence or sexual assault— means that the employee is harmful to the business, even if the employee is a top performer.
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