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On the Road Again: Highway 190 Reopens

The road between Death Valley Junction and Furnace Creek is open again! This may not sound like headline news, but if you are (a) someone who lives in Death Valley or (b) someone (like me) who loves Death Valley, this is far more important than the opening of a new casino.

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Our Lady of Cheese: The Virgin Mary Sandwich Comes to Las Vegas

It may be a little hard to explain why a 10-year-old cheese sandwich with a bite out of it would sell for $28,000. Okay, it does have a face on it, and it does look like a woman, but still. $28,000 is enough to buy a fairly nice new car, and no official mouthpiece of the Pope is confirming the claim that the face is the Virgin Mary’s.

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Apples and Peaches and Pumpkins, Oh, My!

It’s been years since I first heard about how you can pick your own fruit at the Gilcrease Orchard, but somehow I never made my way up to the northwest corner of Las Vegas to experience it firsthand until yesterday.

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Legendary Johnny Mac’s

It’s easy not to notice Johnny Mac’s. Sandwiched in between a beauty supply store and a hair salon and overshadowed by a giant Smith’s grocery store, Johnny Mac’s Bar & Grill looks like one of a thousand neighborhood watering holes in the Las Vegas valley. A popular one, though, I thought as I looked for [...]

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All Charged Up

The idea of powering a car with electricity is nothing new. As far back as the mid-nineteenth century, inventors were motorizing carriages with batteries. Even back when the word “smog” had yet to be coined, the advantage of electricity over petroleum-based fuels was obvious. Electric cars were cleaner, quieter, and a lot easier to start [...]

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