Johnny Tocco’s Ringside Boxing Gym isn’t very glamorous or flashy like the rest of Vegas, but within the humble walls you can feel the authenticity of the place.
Rachel Aston
Patrick Marinelli is the main star ArleQuin in Circus Vargas, a family-operated dynamic show of acrobatics, aerials, trapeze and daredevil like stunts.
He is passionate about his vision for the aquarium to help save the world’s oceans and adamant that sharks are the animals that will accomplish this goal more than any other sea creature.
Between the ages of eight and 14, Clarice Tara lived under an umbrella of mental abuse from her mother’s boyfriend. At 14, she left to live with her father, whose abuse of drugs drove Clarice to forms of self-abuse herself.
Ricky Lee Cole has lived off and on in the flood tunnels beneath Las Vegas for 20 years. He recently was placed in an apartment through HELP of Southern Nevada, but still has great difficulty finding a job.
The group BARS, or “Brothers Are Radically Superb,” combine turfing, bone breaking, popping, and anything that inspires them to put on a improv-based theatrical show of raw self-expression.