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Vegas Voices

Tom Rothrock reignites spark of Beck’s record label Bong Load Records

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.

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Every day is like Halloween for ‘Zombie Burlesque’ emcee

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.

Relationship book a natural step for life coach Christal Fuentes

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.”

 
Bellagio Conservatory helps visitors fall into new season

“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.

Chef Dan Krohmer wants to share beauty of Japanese cuisine

“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.”

Terry Lindemann confronts homelessness one family at a time

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.

Comic books more than kids’ stuff to Ralph Mathieu

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.

Dave Loeb brings jazz music to Las Vegas

“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.

Las Vegan’s polling company keeps tabs on Hollywood

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.