Brooklyn, NY, June 19, 2020.
Volume 62, Issue 1
SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK. As mnemonics go, one of the best, as equipment for living, not the recipe we need. Though this issue hits the bookstands the day after we spin the clocks ahead, if springing forward is what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the wrong place. Many things must change, given where we’ve been, yet none of that will happen unless we come to terms with what we’ve learned. And it isn’t the lies, the self-dealing, the rancor, or even, at some level, the damage done, the lives ended, the fortunes ruined, the friends and family lost. All of that still burns, how could it not, and nothing will be forgotten, because how could it be? Yet what is truly essential, what must at last be confronted, was delivered to us drop by drop during this interminable succession of isolated days, a truth that 2020 hindsight cannot not reveal. Though elsewhere there will be other versions, in the US that truth is simple: this co
Las Vegas Weekly
Get rolling at Sushi Ichiban.
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Sparrow + Wolf chef and owner
Brian Howard announced his new company this week on social media, Spaghetti on the Wall hospitality group, created with partners
Emmanuel Chereque and
John Anthony. Howard posted: “We will [be] bringing Las Vegas two new food and beverage brands this year and are assisting multiple clients with menu development and operational needs.” Stay tuned to LasVegasWeekly.com for more info on these projects.
Il Fornaio has reopened inside the New York-New York casino on the Strip. The familiar menu of pasta, pizza, rotisserie chicken and duck, steaks, chops and seafood is available Sunday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. until 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11:30 a.m. until 10 p.m.
You might remember seeing a sneak peek of Anna Tsouhlarakis’s upcoming exhibit.
During the artist’s residency at the Fine Arts Center a year ago, she put up two eye-catching billboards near downtown Colorado Springs. The signs were sparse in design, showing capitalized black letters over white backgrounds. One read, “I really like the way you respect Native American rights.”
Tsouhlarakis, who is of Navajo descent, suspects people walking or driving by had different reactions to the billboards.
“Some people might think you’re talking down to them or you’re being super sarcastic,” she said. “In an ideal world, they’d say, ‘Thanks, because I know I do that. Well done, me.’”
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After the killing of George Floyd, Amelia Brown started a petition to declare racism a public health emergency. She also seeded art.
In just six days, she collected 153 art boxes, filled with paper, paint and handmade pieces, handing them out to children. Each box came with a note: Art helps us connect, it said, in part. Art helps us heal. Art helps us stand together and fight for justice.
Brown believed that. No matter the crisis a hurricane, a pandemic, a police killing she believed that art was the key to responding with force and compassion, knitting together communities and lifting voices not often heard.