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Good Trouble

The roots of Black activism in athletics run deep—and now they’re stronger than ever.

Hacking the Feast

How the hippies hijacked Thanksgiving and had a feast that can’t be beat

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7 EDITOR’S NOTE 14 THE LIFE Contributing to your and happiness 8News,THEtips,BUZZand tidbits health MINDFUL BAKING Flour, to keep you in the loop PATHWAYS TO HELP The Collaboration Center Foundation PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT The Capski bottle opener CULTURAL HISTORY

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The fascinating visual parallels of Black activism in athletics PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JOSH CLARK

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EDITOR’S NOTE

Every one of us is impacting the world right now

as we strive for a fresh start. We influence with our voices, posts, likes, follows, emails, digital attendance, texts, and presence. We also need to realize how many outside forces including socials, entertainment and media affect us personally when it comes to hope.

A documentary I watched recently and would recommend is Netflix’s The Social Dilemma. The deep dive explores the impact of social networking on people, society, and the family structure, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations. After viewing this film, I will never post a photo of the dinner I cooked, a selfie with my friends, a political opinion, or how I am feeling without really evaluating how this shapes the reach of socials. You have to watch the documentary to realize social media and the internet is more than algorithms and ads. #BLM has taught all of us that words are powerful. After reading the article “Everyday Words and Phrases that Have Racist Connotations” by Scottie Andrew and Harmeet Kaur, CNN, I learned there are many words with racist beginnings.

For example, the tech fields used to label components (hardware or software) as either “master” or “slave” to describe one component controlling another. In 2014, the terms were changed to “primary” and “replica.” There are also master bedrooms, white lists (perceived as good), and black lists (perceived as bad).

In another arena, Merriam-Webster dictionary added Latinx to identify the Hispanic community without gender labeling, a nonbinary term instead of Latino and Latina. The MTV series, Decoded, explores this world with its most recent episode, What’s With the X in Latinx?

We are here to show the world hope with our new beginnings including the written word, innovative thoughts, and progressive ideas. A big thank-you for joining us on this journey. It is my honor to continue to be part of Sensi Nevada.

We are here to show the world hope with our new beginnings including the written word, innovative thoughts, and progressive ideas.

Yours in the new normal,

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Pathways to Help Individuals and families living with disabilities have to navigate assistance, treatment plans, insurance coverage, and life skills. Collaboration Center Foundation is working to streamline all these aspects to become a concierge-style program for families to receive guidance, assistance, and outreach in Southern Nevada.

“The mission for this project is inclusion,” says Lynda Tache, president of the Collaboration Center Foundation. “This would include developmental, intellectual, and physical disabilities. Many families are dealing with multiple diagnoses. We want to create a community for achievement for all, including family members, caregivers, peers, and grandparents. The center wants 8

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to offer everyone a wonderful quality of life.”

The organization launched earlier this year, closing on a 5-acre ranch, which had previously been used for horse therapy with existing structures. Work is being done to open the center as soon as possible.

Collaboration Center Foundation will be a game-changer for individuals with disabilities and their families—including art therapy, sibling support classes, real-world readiness, and medical concierge services. It will function as a one-stop shop/resource for anyone with disabilities and their support system of family and others.

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Collaboration Center Foundation provides a concierge-style approach for families.

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CULTURAL HISTORY

PJ Library teaches children in Jewish households by giving them free books.

Learning and understanding one’s own cultural history is vital to bridging people together. In this spirit, the Peak Image Designs & Marketing team has chosen to support the PJ Library. This program is operated locally through Jewish Nevada and sends free books to children ages six months through 12 years old in Jewish households.

Peak Image Designs & Marketing is supporting the PJ Library program by donating 1 percent of its sales to the program each month. Founder Brandon Wayne was inspired to give back to his community after trying the program out for his daughter.

“After witnessing the joy on my daughter’s face after receiving her own books in the mail, I knew that I wanted to support this program,” says Wayne. “The books provided by PJ Library instill values that I want our family to honor. Not only that but sharing a book encourages literacy and time with family.”

The Harold Grinspoon Foundation launched PJ Library in 2005 to provide families with children free Jewish children’s books and music.

Jewish Nevada, Nevada’s Jewish Federation, also engages PJ Library families in various types of programming and activities, connecting children to their Jewish community.

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In creating an authentic connection with people, I’m staying curious. My preferred icebreaker is to ask, “What do you love to do?”

Thankfulness and gratitude always come to mind when I review 2020 as I realize how precious life can be and inspiring that within others.

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THE BUZZ

BILITIES

BY STEPHANIE WILSON, EDITOR IN CHIEF

HOPE. In a world in turmoil, I have hope.

A “good time” for a deadly worldwide contagion doesn’t exist, but an election year is the best time as any—because it makes it so much more evident that our elected leaders impact our lives, that our votes have impact, that our choices matter.

By the time you read this, election day almost certainly has passed. We may still be waiting for the results, those results may be being contested, or the foundation of our democracy may be in peril if the occupant of the White House as of this writing is refusing to accept defeat and unwilling to leave.

Still, I have hope. In the face of difficulty, of uncertainty, I have the audacity of hope, to use Barack Obama’s phrase. As our former president once said, “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”

“I’m not talking about blind optimism,” he said, “the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shrink from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”

“Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.”

—Eric Samuel Timm, author, artist, and founder of No One Underground and Painting Hope

THE BRIGHT SIDE

Matt O’Brien expresses hope in his new book

Author, writer, and editor Matt O’Brien has followed up about life in the tunnels with his third book, Dark Days, Bright Nights: Surviving the Las Vegas Storm Drains, due to be released later in the month.

His first book, Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas (2007), detailed the dark side of life living under the streets and buildings of Las Vegas. His second, My Week at the Blue Angel (2010), is a collection of nonfiction stories set in off-the-beaten-path Vegas: storm drains, weekly motels, trailer parks, and seedy strip clubs as well as the centerpiece story, which focuses on The Blue Angel motel.

His latest release expresses the accounts of people who lived in the underground flood channels, found their way out, and reintegrated into society.

In 2002, O’Brien began to explore the tunnels underneath Las Vegas, which are home to many people. He was inspired to start the Shine a Light organization as a way to give back to these people in the tunnels. Part of the sales will benefit Shine a Light that continues its outreach programs.

COVID-19 has impacted all segments of society, including the homeless, who are some of the most vulnerable. “I am not very optimistic about their well-being in a crisis,” he says.

“There are so many myths and stereotypes related to the homeless. I believe the vast majority of people don’t know a homeless person and don’t interact with that population,” says O’Brien. “I wanted to inform people about the homeless, the root causes, and show things people may not expect. Many of the homeless are educated, come from good families, are not addicts, and want to change their lives.”

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Flour, Sugar, and the Flow

My favorite life moments are when I completely lose track of me. I’m chopping toasted walnuts, simmering Jonathan apples with vanilla bean, and working butter, salt, and flour to a consistency only my fingertips can recognize.

Playing with the dough like a kid, I layer the filling over the bottom crust and mess with the upper, my open artist’s canvas. When the kitchen is perfumed and the finished product emerges from the oven tasting like a party and looking like a wrapped gift, a certain kind of bliss envelopes me. When I bake, my noisy brain shuts up for a little while.

According to Kathy Hawkins of Denver’s

Kathy Hawkins Counseling, I am engaged in one of the best wellness-enhancing rituals. In her counseling practice, Hawkins often recommends mindful meditation. “There are many kinds of mindful meditation besides sitting. Walking and doing art can be meditations and baking can be also,” she says. Hawkins knows food psychology firsthand, having owned and managed restaurants in addition to being a waitress and sommelier.

“Baking is a serious way to show people you love them, and there is a lot of reward for both the baker and the recipient,” Hawkins says. You can have your cake and heal with it, too.

How mindful baking heals the baker and spreads buttery bliss.

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This is Your Brain on Baking Research has shown that mindful meditation can be good for heart health, and reduces blood pressure and anxiety.

“Baking creates a flow state where you are enveloped in the moment.

You are not worrying about the past or the future. People who are healthier mentally and emotionally tend to live in the flow state more of the time,” Hawkins says.

Baking can also change brain chemistry. “When you create something tasty, the immediate payoff is a hit of the brain chemicals dopamine and serotonin which improves your mood,” Hawkins says.

Besides butterfat satisfaction, there is the

“Baking creates a flow state where you are enveloped in the moment.

You are not worrying about the past or the future.

People who are healthier mentally and emotionally tend to live in the flow state more of the time.”

—Kathy Hawkins, Counselor

lure of the sweet. “When you eat the baked goods, you get a dose of sugar, which lights up the same area of the brain as cocaine,” she says.

That may partially explain why we celebrate the major occasions of our lives with cakes, pies, and cookies, not salads and nachos. Big festive desserts are designed to be shared—no matter how many guests are on hand—at birthdays, quinceañeras, weddings, and funerals in almost every culture.

The Power of Positive Cooking According to local bakers and pastry chefs, the biggest payoff of baking is feeding the soul. “They say that you cook for yourself but you always

bake for others,” says Jennifer Bush, cofounder of Lucky’s Bakehouse and Creamery in Boulder.

After toiling in basements as a restaurant pastry chef, Bush designed her bakery with an open kitchen. “When people come in, I get to see those eyes light up as they taste something. With cakes, I’m a part of so many people’s lives—their joy, their grief. It never gets old,” Bush says.

It’s almost like a super power, says John Hinman, producer of artisan bread, bun, pastries, and pies at Denver’s Hinman’s Bakery. “When I’m working our booth at the farmers market and I see a sad kid walking by, I always have to give them a chocolate chip cookie. To see that grin makes me know I’ve N OV E M B E R 2020

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake Makes one 9-inch cake ABOUT THE BAKER

Jen Bush, pastry chef and founder of Lucky’s Bakehouse and Creamery in Boulder, shares this gluten-free cake recipe.

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INGREDIENTS For the Cake

6 oz unsalted butter, room temperature ¼ cup granulated sugar 1 cup almond paste 4 eggs ½ cup high-quality unsweetened cocoa powder (I used Black Onyx cocoa powder) Slivered almonds, garnish

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For the Glaze

½ cup heavy cream 2 tbsp honey 1 tsp instant coffee 8 oz semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate INSTRUCTIONS For the Cake

• Cream the almond paste in a stand mixer until all the clumps are broken up.

• Stream in the sugar.

Continue mixing for one minute until sand-textured.

• Slowly add butter, then add eggs one by one until mixture is smooth.

• Sift cocoa to remove lumps and add to mixture. Mix until combined. Remember to scrape sides of bowl.

• Line a 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper or use nonstick spray. Scrape

mixture into pan and bake at 325º F for 20 to 25 minutes, until cake is firm to the touch. Let cool completely before inverting on a plate.

For the Glaze • Gently heat cream, coffee and honey. Pour over chocolate and whisk until combined.

• Pour over cake; decorate with slivered almonds.

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changed the course of their day,” he says.

It’s all about the power of memory. “A muffin or pie or cake can take you back to a happier place and time,” Hinman says.

Desserts—especially those involving chocolate—have a strong association with love. “It can be a real pick-me-up and make the world seem like a good place,” says Genny McGregor, “Cocoa Coordinator” of Piece, Love & Chocolate. The Boulder-based chocolatier offers artisan truffles, candies, pastries, and drinking chocolate.

Sometimes visitors to the shop become visibly, physically moved by tasting a particular confection. “This look comes over people’s faces. They close their eyes. It almost looks like they are…well, they look happy,” McGregor says with a smile.

Salted Caramel on the Right Side of the Brain Bakers are different from other culinary creatives. “There is a balance between science and creativity. I like all the numbers involved, the exact measuring and setting out the ingredients and tools for an amazing dish before you start,” says Jennifer Akina, a celebrated cake artist at Denver’s Azucar Bakery. Akina studied

chemistry and biology in college, a common background among bakers (not to mention brewers and distillers).

Akina is preparing to open Melted at The Source with restaurateur Bryan Drayton (of Acorn, Oak, and Corrida), featuring artisan cookies and Thai ice cream sandwiches on freshly baked French rolls. “I’m doing recipe testing now so I get to play with the millions of flavors in my head,” she says.

Part of what she calls her “therapy” is following defined steps of pouring, proofing yeast, sifting, stirring, and plating. “Working with my hands gets the stress out for me. I have to focus and forget about everything else,” Akina says.

Pastry creation is fundamentally tactile, not unlike massage therapy. “When I am training somebody, I have to show how to do techniques with my hands. I can’t tell them,” she says. “I am the worst with words.

But I can show someone I care without saying anything by baking something for them. They know what I’m feeling.”

Become a Mindful Baker Escaping into baking can help you learn to relax and gain confidence, and it’s a safe way to try

“Working with my hands gets the stress out for me.…I am the worst with words. But I can show someone I care without saying anything by baking something for them. They know what I’m feeling.”

—Jennifer Akina, Cake Artist

something new, according to Hawkins of Kathy Hawkins Counseling. “It also is such a thoughtful expression of affection because you took the time. You didn’t just pick something up at a store,” she says.

Many home cooks are intimidated by baking to the point of being “pastry-phobic” because they don’t bake often enough to feel good at it.

The answer is to begin a mindful baking practice and intentionally create treats for others on a regular basis. First, relax, breathe, and forget about being “gourmet” or making elaborate edible sculptures, Hawkins says. “I think back to my mother. Every weekend she would make Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls with icing from the can. It was her way of showing me that she loved me.”

Don’t bite off more than you can bake.

“Make sure you have a solid, simple recipe.

Start with granola or cookies, not apple pie.

See how happy it makes you feel and then get more complicated,” says Bush of Lucky’s Bakehouse and Creamery.

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about what others need and enjoy the feeling of altruism.” Hawkins says.

If you are a perfectionist, baking could be a source of anxiety. Serious bakers will regale you with self-deprecating tales of burned crusts, sunken souffles, and banana bread baked with salt mistaken for sugar. “You can’t be afraid. It’s not life or death. It’s just cake. We say: ‘No blame, no shame.’

You learn and move on,” says McGregor of Piece, Love & Chocolate.

Consider embracing the Japanese concept of wabi sabi, seeing the beauty in imperfection.

Besides, you can always add more frosting. Encourage family and friends to join you by scheduling a holiday cookie exchange this season. Honor an elder by asking them to teach you how to make a comforting family favorite.

All You Knead is Love Bakers serve as pastry therapists for the rest of us, but those who create sweets need love, too.

Hinman and others in the Denver hospitality industry have formed an organization called Chow, which offers support services to deal with addiction, suicide, and mental illness among cooks, bakers, bartenders, and waiters. The idea

A B O U T T H E AU T H O R

John Lehndorff was the former executive director of the American Pie Council, chief judge at the National Pie Championships, and spokesperson for National Pie Day (Jan. 23). He enjoys making and receiving double-crusted wild blueberry pies.

is to promote work/life balance in kitchens where the prevailing culture has often been quite brutal.

Hinman says he rarely has leftover pies at his bakery, but on a recent Saturday found himself with a dozen or so. “I decided to bring them to

Azucar Bakery because I knew they were working really hard,” he says.

You would think that the last thing a baker wants to eat would be additional baked goods.

“When John [Hinman] brought us pies at the bakery, the whole staff

lit up. Who brings a baker a pie? It was so wonderful,” Akina says.

Ultimately, making the attempt and investing the thought and time is the sweetest part for folks when we show up at the front door with home-baked goodies.

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Let the Fun Begin

Three ways to drink in the holiday season.

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Constellation Spirits Catering (constellationcatering.com) beckons a time of festivities with cocktails made from a selection of winners from the 2019 PR%F Awards Spirits, Wine & Beverage Competition: gold medal winner Embajador-Premium Tequila, gold award winner Pau Mau Vodka, and double gold winner LeDoux Cinnamon Clove Honey Flavored Whiskey.

The 2020 competition will be held at Green Valley Ranch Resort December 1-2. Raise a glass to the joys of the season.

Butternut-ka Smoothie INGREDIENTS

1 cup cooked butternut squash 1 ounce Pau Mau Vodka ½ cup milk of choice 1½ tablespoons maple syrup ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ground ginger

1⁄8 teaspoon ground cloves 1⁄8 teaspoon ground allspice 1⁄8 teaspoon ground nutmeg Splash of pure vanilla extract Ice as needed 1 cinnamon stick

INSTRUCTIONS

CranTeq Surprise INGREDIENTS

7 ounces cranberry juice 1½ ounces EmbajadorPremium Tequila 2 ounces lemon lime soda

2 ounces limeade Slices of lime, raspberries and/ or strawberries for garnish Ice as needed.

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine all ingredients except garnish and ice. Pour over ice in an oversized mason jar and garnish.

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Puree squash. Combine with all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a rocks glass. Add additional spices to swirl and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

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Cinnamon Whiskey Sour

with an Apple Twist / Makes 1 serving INGREDIENTS

2 1⁄2 ounces LeDoux Cinnamon Clove Honey Flavored Whiskey ½ ounce lemon juice 2 tablespoons apple cider ¾ ounces cinnamon simple syrup ¼ cup water ¼ cup sugar Apple slices and cinnamon sticks, garnish INSTRUCTIONS

Add all ingredients except garnish into a shaker.

Shake and strain into a whiskey glass and garnish with apple slices and cinnamon sticks.

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Mona Van Joseph has been an intuitive since 2002. She is an author, columnist, and host of Psychic View Radio. She created dicewisdom.com, which also has a smartphone app. mona.vegas

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NOVEMBER HOROSCOPE What do the stars hold for you?

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ed is telling you to indulge in MAR. 21–APR. 19 ARIES a pricey, high-quality thing You can’t control the world’s you want. You naturally seek Imagine you are surroundevents. However, you can ed by magic. Spirit has held value and have earned the control how you respond to right to that desire. things back from you in rethem. Encouraging people to cent months; that all changes share their stories of prob- JAN. 20–FEB. 18 now. Be delighted about what lem-solving will go a long will be presented. You’ve AQUARIUS way to ease your mind. earned these opportunities.

Loving partnerships and awareness of the people who NOV. 22–DEC. 21 truly care about you are the APR. 20–MAY 20 SAGITTARIUS focus of this month. Inspired TAURUS You’ve taken on burdens Reconnect with those who reenergy flows through you. that shouldn’t be yours. Be- When undecided, ask your- ally care about you. The peoing a team player is one self: “What’s the most loving ple around you are baffled thing; being taken advanby your mood and self-isothing I can do today?” tage of is quite another. lation. You’ve been resistant Speak up about what is fair; FEB. 19–MAR. 20 and assumptive—that’s what if you don’t, the situation is working against you.

PISCES will continue.

Work the political environment around you as though MAY 21–JUNE 20 DEC. 22–JAN. 19 all the energies are support- GEMINI CAPRICORN Plot twist! Delays by othing your goals and dreams.

You’ve been stingy with Ignore anything that would ers have actually done you yourself. The energy present- cause you emotional distress. a cosmic favor. Though you OCT. 23–NOV. 21

SCORPIO

SCORPIO, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR STORIES OF PROBLEMSOLVING WILL GO A LONG WAY TO EASE YOUR MIND.

may have had to regroup, in with the people you really the long run it will be better like. Eat your favorite tacos. for you to move forward and AUG. 23–SEPT. 22 create your own dream.

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Keep telling spirit what you CANCER want. Keep karmic awareThere are so many people ness in your heart and act as around you who love and though all the puzzle pieccare about you. Stop waiting es are falling in the right for them to call you. Initiate places. Keep the faith. Love a gathering or two. Decide will find you and success is to host Thanksgiving this working though you. year—for all your people.

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You have no choice but to follow your heart now. Give yourself permission to do what you really want to do.

No procrastinating. Write that screenplay. Connect

Do what relaxes you and brings you a sense of harmony. Pragmatic and thoughtful wins the day. Discover what allows you to lose track of time and gives you a sense of awareness of the moment.

LEO

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The roots of Black activism in athletics run deep—and now, they’re stronger than ever.

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hen legendary civil rights leader and US Congressman John Lewis passed away in July, the hashtag #GoodTrouble began trending on Twitter in reference to one of Lewis’ most powerful quotes on activ-

ism: “Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”

In 2016, former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality towards Black Americans and became the

poster child for a modern-day athlete activism. Widely criticized for his stance and ostracized by the National Football League (NFL), Kaepernick, it turns out, got into #GoodTrouble.

When George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed in May at the

A HISTORY OF ACTIVISM In the minds of the “shut up and dribble” or “keep politics out of sports” crowd, civil rights issues have no place in sports. In reality, there is a long history of athletes engaging in #GoodTrouble.

JESSE OWENS. His impressive four gold medals in track and field led the United States at the 1936 Olympics in Germany. The fact that he even participated as a Black American was controversial, risky, and heroic.

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competitors and our industry,” NASCAR said in a statement on its website hours before its race in Martinsville, Virginia.

In July, Washington’s NFL team announced that it would change its name following decades of pressure to stop using Redskins, an obvious racial slur. Corporate sponsors FedEx, PepsiCo, Nike, and Bank of America had urged the team to change its name.

Stores, including Wal-Mart and Target, stopped selling team merchandise on their websites. Over a dozen Native American leaders and organizations wrote to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, demanding an immediate end to Washington’s use of the name.

Back in February, #Justice4Breonna became a cause for the NBA in the name of Breonna Taylor, an EMT who was shot and killed while sleeping in her apartment in Kentucky during a botched police raid. When the NBA resumed its season in June after being cut short by COVID-19, it had already

JACKIE ROBINSON. The Dodgers legend is known for becoming the first Black player in Major League Baseball.. He supported the Vietnam War and Nixon, but was also an activist who fought against American racism.

WILLIE O’REE. In 1958, the Black Canadian, the Jackie Robinson of the NHL, got called up from the minor leagues by the Boston Bruins. Today, Black players like Ryan Reaves of the Vegas Golden Knights follow in his footsteps.

MUHAMMAD ALI. Formerly known as Cassius Clay, Ali is perhaps the most famous athlete whose career was intertwined with political protest. Speaking out against the Vietnam War cost him three years of his professional boxing career.

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hands of a white police officer in Minnesota, the incident reignited the conversation about excessive force in policing towards the Black community in America and sparked global anti-racism protests.

Perhaps nowhere has the impact of America’s racial reckoning and activism been felt more than in the world of sports. In the months following Floyd’s murder, sports leagues across the US embarked on nationwide social justice initiatives.

NASCAR announced in June it was banning the confederate flag at all racing events. Darrell “Bubba” Wallace, the only African-American driver on the national race circuit, wore a “Black Lives Matter” t-shirt. Other drivers stood behind him in a powerful show of solidarity at an event following the ban.

“The presence of the Confederate flag at NASCAR events runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our

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decided to protest in support of justice for Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man who was also killed in February by two white men while jogging in Georgia. The murder was captured on video.

NBA teams are also offering their arenas to counter voter suppression and ensure all Americans can exercise their right to vote during

JOHN CARLOS and TOMMY SMITH. Their Black power salute at the 1968 Olympics to bring attention to social injustices is one of the most enduring images in sports history.

Athletes from the NBA, WNBA, MLB, and NFL began another wave of protests for social justice.

They staged a strike that forced the cancellation of games or practices. Even the National Hockey League (NHL), where just five percent of players identify as nonwhite, (compared to 41 percent of MLB, 70 percent of NFL, and 82 percent of NBA players), joined the other leagues in solidarity by striking and missing games in protest.

Despite the current political divide in the US, consumers seem to be paying attention. According to The Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report: Brand Trust this pandemic. in 2020, brands face a fundamenIn August, an unarmed Black man tal reordering of priorities amid a named James Blake was shot seven global pandemic and societal outtimes in the back by a Wisconsin cry over systemic racism. Around police officer. The disturbing video 74 percent say a brand’s impact of the murder that was captured by on society is a reason why brand a witness (police were not wearing trust has become more important. body cameras), sparked national Perhaps people will learn to apoutrage, and became another social plaud players in competitive sports justice protest catalyst. for getting into Good Trouble.

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Reggie Burton is founder and CEO of RB Group – Public Relations. He has over 20 years of public relations experience and provides strategic communications focused on the four pillars of CSR – Diversity, Sustainability, Philanthropy and Community Involvement.

Visit www.reggieburton.com or follow @reggieburton on Twitter.

ARTHUR ASHE and ALTHEA GIBSON. Ashe was the first Black player to win the men’s tennis singles titles at Wimbledon and the US Open, but he’s also known for his activism. He helped create inner-city tennis programs for youth and spoke out against apartheid in South Africa. Gibson broke the color line in women’s international tennis, and was one of the first Black women to play professional golf. She and Ashe paved the way for Black tennis athletes like Venus and Serena Williams.

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HACKING THE FEAST How the hippies hijacked Thanksgiving and had a feast that can’t be beat. TEXT JOHN LEHNDORFF

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ack before football and the Black Friday frenzy came to dominate the day, Thanksgiving was the stodgiest of the big American holidays. The national feast day was mostly a quiet family home meal with the same turkey, boxed stuffing, and green bean casserole. It was traditional, but not necessarily that much fun.

I come from Massachusetts where Thanksgiving was always a big deal. The Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians got together for a three-day harvest feast in 1621 about 50 miles from where I grew up. More importantly, I was just down the turnpike from Stockbridge, the town where folk singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie and a friend dumped trash over a cliff in 1965. That seminal moment sparked a folk song that would change Thanksgiving history.

“This song is called ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ and it’s about Alice and the restaurant, but Alice’s Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant” When Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant Massacree debuted in 1967, the song immediately became an underground hit. For young males like me approaching the age when we could be drafted into the military to fight in Vietnam, the song about questioning authority was a call to action as well as a cautionary tale. It was also about the communal nature of Thanksgiving.

“My friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant” I grew up loving Thanksgiving with our large, overextended family of Austrian, Sicilian, and

Polish relatives who contributed ethnic side dishes. The bird was always filled with mashed potato and Italian sausage stuffing.

However, the title track of Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant album describes a holiday with friends that sounded much more like a party than the sometimes nerve-racking family feasts we knew at home. Because of the epic, 16-minute talking blues track by the son of folk icon Woody Guthrie—the singer-songwriter behind classics such as “This Land Is Your Land”—nondenominational Thanksgiving Day soon became the hippies’ unofficial national holiday.

“Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago” I was an American student at McGill University in Montreal in the early 1970s when our household decided to host the hippest Thanksgiving ever. We recorded a soundtrack on a reel-to-reel tape deck of our favorite songs—some early Springsteen like “Rosalita,” lots of country rock including Emmylou Harris’s “Bluebird Wine,” and, of course, “Alice’s Restaurant.” The tunes were supposed to fit the various stages of the festivities, including digestive tunes for the aftermath. Some of the memories are a tad foggy, but it was a great time.

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Long before it caught up with the mainstream, the counterculture hosted vegetarian Thanksgivings that welcomed dishes of all denominations. What mattered was gathering like-minded members of your tribe. mainstream, the counterculture hosted vegetarian Thanksgivings with a big-tent approach that welcomed side dishes of all denominations. What mattered was gathering like-minded members of your tribe.

Besides, Thanksgiving with friends was also the one holiday bash other than New Year’s Eve when we could enjoy highly illegal cannabis along with beer and wine.

“You may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation” It is a fairy-tale feast complete with unreasonable expectations, because stuff always happens. No wonder folks end up making reservations at a restaurant instead of hosting an elaborate meal. I feel their pain.

“I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o’ mean nasty ugly things”

“And everything was fine, we were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of Turkeys have been overcooked things, until the sergeant came over” and undercooked when I’ve hostOver the years, I’ve hosted Thanksgiving or helped stage the feast dozens of times, but not without combating the prevailing paradigm. Magazine covers and TV shows show perfect birds, oh-so-easy side dishes, and 126 things you can do to decorate your home for the happy feast day. You must remain the relaxed and gracious hostess or host.

ed. I’ve burned dishes that only needed to be warmed. Once the fridge was packed, and I was tired on Thanksgiving night so I left the turkey carcass on the back porch on a near-freezing night. I awoke to a brutally attacked turkey scattered across the porch and back yard after an alley gang of obnoxious raccoons broke in. I mourned the lost meat and soup.

Another year, I knew that slicing the turkey in the aluminum pan was a really bad idea, but I went ahead anyway. I sliced through the pan, and the hot, fatty, delicious collected juices started pouring out on the cutting board, counter, and floor.

The thing is: we all get anxiety over hosting Thanksgiving. I’m getting nervous even as I write this, because this year everybody’s coming to eat at my house. I figure it’ll be worth it for the leftovers.

“Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?”

In a 2017 feature on feast dishes for 50 states in the New York Times, cannabis got special attention. “It’s difficult to assess exactly how much legalization… may have changed the Thanksgiving menu. But it has indubitably increased the snacking that goes on afterward,” the esteemed publication noted.

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We would remind the Times that cannabis and Turkey Day have been intersecting for many decades in many places. And If I’m going to bust my buns pulling off Thanksgiving, then I want enough goodies so I can relax and enjoy the meal in the days that follow.

cubes that I bag for later use in sauces, soups, and such. A month (or three) from now, I’ll dig into the freezer and smile when I find carefully packaged gravy, cranberry sauce, turkey, and side dishes for a comforting, easy dinner.

in the song, that they lived through in the late 1960s to the early ’70s.

It wasn’t all peace and love, either.

“If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud”

Is hosting a Thanksgiving feast really worth the hours of prep, the “You can get anything you want at cleaning, the shopping, the cookAlice’s Restaurant, excepting Alice” “Had another Thanksgiving dinner ing, and commotion of inviting that couldn’t be beat” Ironically, our antiestablishment others into your home for a dining I look forward to turkey breast counterculture ended up creating experience fraught with so many BLT’s, dark meat turkey in French rituals that are followed annually. possible disasters? dip sandwiches with gravy replac- Many radio stations have made it My answer is still yes. What I reing the au jus, and turkey tacos traditional to play the 16-minute member best about Thanksgiving in chocolate-chile mole sauce. I protest song on Thanksgiving Day, dinners is not food or faux pas, polove making waffles out of leftover sometimes several times. litical tiffs or football games. I am bread stuffing, and serving latkes If Grandpa and Grandma get a thankful for the funny, argumentamade from Italian sausage and po- silly gleam in their eye when they tive, and heartwarming moments tato stuffing topped with eggs. hear “Alice’s Restaurant” playing, shared among the folks who filled I turn that precious turkey into a they may have been hippies. There the circle around the table on evehearty broth that becomes frozen were challenging times, chronicled nings in November.

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Frey Ranch Distillery releases inaugural Straight Rye Whiskey

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Frey Ranch Distillery’s (freyranch.com) inaugural Straight Rye Whiskey combines flavor, history, nature, and state pride. The Frey family celebrates their history of farming in Nevada’s Lake Tahoe Watershed, dating back to 1854. Now, Frey Ranch CEO, co-founder, and “Whiskey Farmer,” Colby Frey, alongside his wife and co-founder, Ashley, is continuing the tradition with their craft spirts.

Frey Ranch Distillery is located on the Frey family’s 1,500-acre farm in Fallon, Nevada. Founded in 2006, it is the state’s only distillery to grow 100 percent of its whiskey grains on-site. As a farmer and lead distiller, Colby and his team oversee each stage of the production process, “From Ground to Glass.”

While best known for their Straight Bourbon Whiskey, the couple decided to add rye whiskey to its offerings. Frey Ranch Straight Rye Whiskey (50 percent ABV, $60) holds the coveted bottled-inbond designation. This requires that a single distiller produces a spirit within one season, and age it for a minimum of four years in a bonded warehouse (Frey Ranch Straight Rye Whiskey is aged for five years) and bottled at 100 proof. Batches one (3,000 bottles) and two (2,400 bottles) are in limited release with a batch three scheduled to bottle later this year.

Frey Ranch also offers what it calls “fun” whiskeys, including wheat-based, corn-based, single malt, wheat barley-based, and smoked oat.

“Rye whiskey is typically 100-percent and is more suited for mixed cocktails because of the high spice,” says Colby. “Our rye is also 100-percent but is much smoother, making it great to both sip and mix in cocktails.”

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about rye whiskey because of the heat or spice,” explains Ashley. “It is the nature of the grain.”

“With our quality, our rye whiskey showcases well and won’t burn your face off,” laughs Colby.

“You can’t distill good whiskey out of inferior grains, so we take extra care to mix the best ingredients.”

According to Ashley, rye whiskey is gaining in popularity, especially with “whiskey-curious.

They want to try new whiskeys, and after trying our bourbon, customers now want to try our rye.”

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Tuscan Highlands, the newest multifamily residential development to open in Las Vegas, has accelerated a new trend in luxury apartment

experiences by offering a self-contained social living community. Residents and their guests can enjoy the onsite Esports and events lounge,

not available in other multifamily development in any market, including Southern Nevada.

Tuscan Highlands provides its residents over 70,000 square feet of social spaces, including a 4,500-squarefoot space for Esports tournaments. That comes complete with 12 computer stations; 11-foot-by-7-foot ultra HD LED displays; and a virtual reality multisport simulator with a 15-foot-by-9-foot display for golf, hockey, and soccer. Individual gaming stations are equipped with Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One consoles, and arcade games. There’s also a 9,000-square-foot restaurant that beckons residents and visitors alike to feast their eyes on the incredible views while dining at Becky’s.

Other amenities include include a YouTube/ podcast recording studio, concierge services, the 21,000-square-foot resort hall with a health club, fit-

ness studios, and a wine lounge; a spa and salon; a resort-style saltwater pool with cabanas; outdoor athletics facilities, and multi-use courts.

The developer, Bob Schulman, wanted to design a community for creatives, curators, social-seekers, gamers, and tech enthusiasts alike.

Residents of Tuscan Highlands’ next-generation apartment living engage in social experiences as part of their living space.

“We completed another project before Tuscan Highlands that also focuses on community, lifestyle, and wellness,” says Schulman. “We wanted to bring the [same] experience to our residents, so they don’t have to leave home for entertainment or socializing.”

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is designed for social distancing and allows residents in a multifamily setting to enjoy amenities safely in the comfort of their immediate community. It also embraces the virtual workplace since so many people are now working from home and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Nationally recognized consultants and industry experts lent their expertise on the venue’s development, including Robert Rippee, director of the Hospitality Lab at the International Gaming Institute, and Milo Ocampo, founder of

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UNLV Esports and CEO of 8-bit Esports.

Esports is a sports competition using video games—usually multiplayer contests with professional players, teams, and individuals. Ocampo has been working in the Esports industry for 15 years, beginning in middle school when he oversaw tournaments.

When he entered college, Ocampo had the opportunity to build out a collegiate Esports program.

“My goal was to work with the developer to create an exclusive lounge different from what was developed in

the past,” says Ocampo.

“COVID-19 has given Esports a unique opportunity as one of the only sporting events creating content and attracting new people. I expect that those who have discovered Esports will become loyal fans.”

The team’s goal was

that Tuscan Highlands set precedence in today’s new world with its one-of-a-kind self-contained community. The development showcases one of many pivots to a new kind of space where people can live, work, and play in a postCOVID-19 world.

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Mike B. Davies of Slo-Motion-Arts reaches new artistic heights. TEXT DEBBIE HALL

Before COVID-1 , Mike B. Davies worked as a stagehand on the Las Vegas Strip, while still remaining faithful to his calling as an artist, teacher, and curator. Away from the neon lights, his soul stirred as he painted, sculpted, and created beautiful visual pieces.

Now, Davies is busier than ever with his inspired en- deavors and devoting his time to crafting beauty.

Working in acrylic paint on canvas (with some colored pencil), Davies transforms discarded objects into construc- t ionist and deconstruc- t ionist sculptures via fabrication, assemblage,

and carving. He has also used polymer clay for some pieces with the occasional casting.

“I have always loved doing art since I was a kid,” says Davies. “I made time for my art when I was working my job, but now I can devote myself full time.”

Self-taught, Davies has explored new ways to bring his vision to life. He has been involved with Cirque du Soleil performers who have showcased their artistic sides in several gallery shows. He has shown his work in galleries on the Strip, First Friday, and started his own art

gallery in the arts district. Davies curated two rooms at the Metropolitan Gallery Las Vegas Art Museum with his sculpture and paintings.

His goal is to make his art interactive, inviting, and inspirational so that people engage with it.

Davies’s Dark Gadgets collection of static and motorized, moving, sculptural pieces is made from fabricated and recycled materials that capture intrigue. Dark, thought-provoking, and whimsical, its depicts the digital age longing for the elegant post-industrial era.

Davies’s influences are

fluid and always changing, including faces, architecture, nature, theater, ambiance, or something he has never before seen artistically created. He explores new mediums and subjects without prejudice, preconception, or fear. Davies usually creates in series on a subject or theme using three to 10 pieces to express his vision.

Davies also designs tattoos, commercial art, large-scale outdoor murals, indoor decorative work with interior decorators, and commission work. His goal is to become an all-encompassing artist.

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Practically everyone knows about the joys of cannabis gummies. And their growing popularity is understandable when you consider just some of the reasons for their use. Cannabis gummies can be a healthier option. Because they’re consumed through the digestive system, they don’t adversely affect the lungs like smoking and vaping. Plus, many cannabis gummies are low-calorie, vegan, kosher, and even gluten-free.

Cannabis gummies are easy to consume. Because of their small size, they can be carried practically anywhere and used discreetly, something that can’t be said for smoking and vaping. And each gummie is dose-specific, making it easier for consumers to know precisely the amount of cannabis they’re using.

Cannabis gummies are enjoyable to consume. Of course, we have always insisted that, for something so important when it comes to enhancing our lives, it is only appropriate for cannabis gummies to be enjoyed as a ur industry has changed perception that consumption came in treat. That’s especially easy today with dramatically in the past really just one form—smoking. That old- all the new fruity flavors and gummie decade since cannabis school inhalation method remains solidly varieties—traditional or new fastwas first legalized in popular, but it’s far from the only one acting—coming on the market today. a handful of states. Today, adult-use enjoyed by consumers. These days, both If you have not tried cannabis gumcannabis is legal in 11 states, while recreational and medical cannabis users mies, now is the a perfect time: Wana medical cannabis programs exist in 33. have an array of consumption choices, Brands and Three Wells, an online And this doesn’t count the legality in ranging from smoking and vaping flower cannabis information platform for older U.S. territories or D.C. to using concentrates, topicals, or subAmericans, are uniting to present the While public opinion on cannabis has lingual oils. One of the most prominent first-ever National Cannabis Gummie evolved, so, too, have consumers and choices is cannabis-infused products.

Day on Nov. 19. You might even want to their preferences. And for the first time, Infused products are so popular today ask your local dispensary if it’s running legalization efforts have advanced as that a recent Forbes article, citing New special pricing for gummies that day. far as Congress, as evidenced by the Frontier Data, called the product segment The new holiday will finally put cannaMarijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment “explosive” and forecast legal retail sales bis gummies on the calendar and remind and Expungement (MORE) Act, which of THC-infused products to exceed $21.5 everyone about the multifaceted use the House already has approved, and billion between 2020 and 2025. cannabis can have in our lives today. with the proposed SAFE Banking Act, Of infused products, the most popular which would create legal pathways so is edibles, which come in a lot of that state-licensed marijuana businesses different forms, from baked goods to new The Sensi Advisory Board comprises select industry leaders in a variety of fields, from can engage in legal relationships with beverage products. But no edible form education to cultivation. They are invited to financial services, including banks. has the reputation or allure—or even the share specialized insight in this dedicated section.

In the beginning, it was a common versatility—of today’s cannabis gummies. For a full list of board members, see page 6.

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