“This is how I describe my experience with Make-a-Wish: It’s the most selfish, selfless thing you can do for yourself,” volunteer Kady Casullo says.
Vegas Voices
In the early ’90s, Rothrock founded Bong Load Records, the label that put out the first releases from Beck, who Rothrock discovered. After putting the label on the back burner for awhile, Rothrock has moved to Vegas to relaunch Bong Load with a series of vinyl reissues, establishing Vegas as the new home base for the label.
James Robinson produces everything from crime drama to iconic heroes’ adventures in his Huntridge neighborhood home.
English professor Felicia Campbell has spent more than 50 years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, which already makes her career notable in a facts-and-figures kind of way.
World-famous prima ballerina Cynthia Gregory has found a place in Las Vegas, working with dancers in the Nevada Ballet Theatre as well as pursuing her own drawing and painting interests.
In this week’s Vegas Voices, the 43-year-old North Carolina native talks about the offbeat show at Planet Hollywood Resort, childhood Halloweens and his costume closet.
Fuentes is the creator of a popular online relationship coaching platform, The Ladies Coach, or TLC. In September, she released her first book, “How to Be H.O.T.: Your Guide to Becoming Happy, Open and Trusting in Your Relationships.”
“I would just say that when people come to Las Vegas, the word on the street is, you have to come by the Conservatory to the Bellagio, and we live up to that standard every day,” says Jerry Bowlen, executive director of horticulture for MGM Resorts.
“In Japanese culture, each vegetable is used in so many different ways, from the seeds to the skin to the stem. There isn’t a crazy amount of ingredients, like we use in the United States.”
If the sky is falling on the music industry, the roof above 11th Street Records provides ample shelter.
Family Promise brings faith and social service communities together, with Las Vegas entertainers in the mix as well. In this week’s Vegas Voices, we speak with the group’s executive director.
In a retail landscape littered with the never-to-be reanimated corpses of comic shops that have come and gone, Alternate Reality Comics has become a rare commercial survivor and Ralph Mathieu the unofficial godfather of Southern Nevada’s comic book universe.
“I marvel at how jazz musicians create jazz melodies. … It’s an American art form — it’s vibrant and it’s always changing. Some people say it’s a dead art form — no, it’s not,” according to Dave Loeb, director of jazz studies at UNLV.
It’s one of the more influential businesses in Hollywood, but the polling company CinemaScore is run out of a couple of home offices in Las Vegas. We talk with its founder in this week’s Vegas Voices.
Cambrie Littlefield entered her first beauty pageant when she was 2, and she’s been a pageant coach since the age of 14.