Not-So-Neon Terroir

Vegas Brews ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 67-108
Author(s):  
Michael Ian Borer
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Dominant Logic ◽  
Video Poker ◽  
Craft Beer ◽  
Las Vegas Valley ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City ◽  
Craft Beers ◽  
Key Nodes

Chapter 2 emphasizes the importance of both ongoing gatherings and the places that host and play a part in them. The chapter traverses the “aesthetic ecology” of the local Las Vegas craft beer scene, highlighting the key nodes that provide the stages the scene needs to express itself. These nodes are sprawled across the Las Vegas Valley, whereby each place needs to compete to draw people to it outside their respective immediate and nearby neighborhoods. As such, some places, even breweries themselves, have continued to follow the dominant logic of Las Vegas by including video poker atop the bars where they serve their locally and translocally brewed craft beers. This common practice, however, is changing, and some have banded together to help create—through the elevation of taste as an act of resistance—a new cultural logic and aesthetic demeanor for the city

Whose Beer? Whose City?

Vegas Brews ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 241-258
Author(s):  
Michael Ian Borer
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Us History ◽  
Craft Beer ◽  
The People ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The concluding chapter moves from tragedy to triumph. During the time of writing, the worst mass shooting in US history happened in Las Vegas. It was an event the riveted the nation and shocked the city. It didn’t change the author’s analysis; instead, the way the local craft beer scene responded reinforced what he had found during his time empathetically engaged with the people, places, and things that define the scene. The last chapter ties the strings together and makes a final argument about the socially significant roles of scenes in cities as expressive, voluntary, and public entities.

Vertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, and paleohydrology of Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, Nevada (USA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 55-98
Author(s):  
Kathleen Springer ◽  
Jeffrey Pigati ◽  
Eric Scott
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Local Fauna ◽  
Climatic Oscillations ◽  
Las Vegas Valley ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Desert Wetlands

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument (TUSK) preserves 22,650 acres of the upper Las Vegas Wash in the northern Las Vegas Valley (Nevada, USA). TUSK is home to extensive and stratigraphically complex groundwater discharge (GWD) deposits, called the Las Vegas Formation, which represent springs and desert wetlands that covered much of the valley during the late Quaternary. The GWD deposits record hydrologic changes that occurred here in a dynamic and temporally congruent response to abrupt climatic oscillations over the last ~300 ka (thousands of years). The deposits also entomb the Tule Springs Local Fauna (TSLF), one of the most significant late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate assemblages in the American Southwest. The TSLF is both prolific and diverse, and includes a large mammal assemblage dominated by Mammuthus columbi and Camelops hesternus. Two (and possibly three) distinct species of Equus, two species of Bison, Panthera atrox, Smilodon fatalis, Canis dirus, Megalonyx jeffersonii, and Nothrotheriops shastensis are also present, and newly recognized faunal components include micromammals, amphibians, snakes, and birds. Invertebrates, plant macrofossils, and pollen also occur in the deposits and provide important and complementary paleoenvironmental information. This field compendium highlights the faunal assemblage in the classic stratigraphic sequences of the Las Vegas Formation within TUSK, emphasizes the significant hydrologic changes that occurred in the area during the recent geologic past, and examines the subsequent and repeated effect of rapid climate change on the local desert wetland ecosystem.

scholarly journals A Simple Method for Evaluating the Bioactive Phenolic Compounds’ Presence in Brazilian Craft Beers

Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (16) ◽  
pp. 4716
Author(s):  
Marcelo Coelho Silva ◽  
Jeancarlo Pereira dos Anjos ◽  
Lilian Lefol Nani Guarieiro ◽  
Bruna A. Souza Machado
Keyword(s):  
Phenolic Compounds ◽  
Caffeic Acid ◽  
Good Accuracy ◽  
Limit Of Detection ◽  
Coumaric Acid ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Craft Beer ◽  
Extraction Step ◽  
Satisfactory Precision ◽  
Craft Beers

There are a significant number of analytical methodologies employing different techniques to determine phenolic compounds in beverages. However, these methods employ long sample preparation processes and great time consumption. The aim of this paper was the development of a simple method for evaluating the phenolic compounds’ presence in Brazilian craft beers without a previous extraction step. Catechin, caffeic acid, epicatechin, p-coumaric acid, hydrated rutin, trans-ferulic acid, quercetin, kaempferol, and formononetin were analyzed in fifteen different craft beers. The method showed good linearity (R2 ≥ 0.9966). The limit of detection ranged from 0.08 to 0.83 mg L−1, and limits of quantification were between 0.27 and 2.78 mg L−1. The method showed a satisfactory precision (RSD ≤ 16.2%). A good accuracy was obtained by the proposed method for all phenolic compounds in craft beer (68.6% ˂ accuracy ˂ 112%). Catechin showed higher concentrations (up to 124.8 mg L−1) in the samples, followed by epicatechin (up to 51.1 mg L−1) and caffeic acid (up to 8.13 mg L−1). Rutin and formononetin were observed in all analyzed samples (0.52 mg L−1 to 2.40 mg L−1), and kaempferol was less present in the samples. The presence of plant origin products was determinant for the occurrence of the highest concentrations of phenolic compounds in Brazilian craft beers.

Vertical axis rotations in the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone, southern Nevada: Paleomagnetic constraints on kinematics and dynamics of block rotations

Tectonics ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Sonder ◽  
Craig H. Jones ◽  
Stephen L. Salyards ◽  
Kathleen M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Shear Zone ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Kinematics And Dynamics ◽  
Las Vegas Valley ◽  
Southern Nevada

Puccini's La Bohème

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
La Boheme ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

La bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? Drawing on an extremely broad range of sources, Alexandra Wilson traces the opera’s rise to global fame. Although the work has been subjected to many hostile critiques, it swiftly achieved popular success through stage performances, recordings, and filmed versions. Wilson demonstrates how La bohème acquired even greater cultural influence as its music and dramatic themes began to be incorporated into pop songs, film soundtracks, musicals, and more. In this cultural history of Puccini’s opera, Wilson offers a fresh reading of a familiar work. La bohème was strikingly modern for the 1890s, she argues, in its approach to musical and dramatic realism and in flouting many of the conventions of the Italian operatic tradition. Considering the work within the context of the aesthetic, social, and political debates of its time, Wilson explores Puccini’s treatment of themes including gender, poverty, and nostalgia. She pays particular attention to La bohème’s representation of Paris, arguing that the opera was not only influenced by romantic mythologies surrounding the city but also helped shape them. Wilson concludes with a consideration of the many and varied approaches directors have taken to the staging of Puccini’s opera, including some that have reinvented the opera for a new age. This book is essential reading for anyone who has seen La bohème and wants to know more about its music, drama, and cultural contexts.

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