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Desert Companion, Spring Valley, NV (2025)

08/07/2025

As senior pastor at the Foundation Christian Center, DeWayne McCoy feeds his community spiritually and emotionally. As CEO and founder of The After Market, he also feeds them physically.

McCoy opened the co-existing grocery store and food pantry at 4337 Las Vegas Blvd. North, next to the church, in 2023. He aimed to address food insecurity issues in the northeastern Las Vegas neighborhood, one of the city’s five food deserts, which was abandoned in 2016 by a longstanding Walmart Supercenter.

McCoy says his model for a joint market and food pantry restores dignity to anyone seeking food assistance, whether they’re coming from the nearby Nellis Air Force Base or as far away as Pahrump.

“After watching people line up (at food pantries) when it’s 105 degrees outside, I started to try to think about a better way to do it,” says McCoy, whose food industry experience can be traced back to his first job at a Louisiana Piggly Wiggly.

“Food pantries ... tend to scream poverty,” McCoy says, noting that many communities are hurting financially. “Here, you don’t have to line up. You can come when it’s convenient for you.”

Read the full story here: https://tinyurl.com/mu9yne3b

08/05/2025

Between the sleek, yet classic spin that N**o Italiano takes on the Italian flavor, To the mediterranean spots you can bring even your pescatarian and plant-based besties to, Lorraine Blanco Moss looks to the chefs, dishes, and spots bringing the heat this summer! ⁠
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Find the full story and more here https://tinyurl.com/4ctyr7f9 or visit desertcompanion.com

Desert Companion magazine is published by Nevada Public Radio.

08/01/2025

⚕️The new Health issue of Desert Companion magazine is available now! ⚕️
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😷How is Las Vegas' healthcare system really doing, and what does it mean for you and your family? Desert Companion's Health Issue takes a deep dive into the state of healthcare while featuring our annual Top Doctors and Best Dentists list with over 400 highly respected local providers. Plus, discover how heart-centered business leaders are proving that doing good can be great for the bottom line.
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📖 Read the published stories here: https://tinyurl.com/3ukfzdyk or visit desertcompanion.com to view the digital magazine now. Pick up a copy at participating locations under the Contact tab.⁠

07/30/2025

Las Vegas Paiute Tribe member Fawn Douglas goes to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area to connect with her ancestors. As an artist, she fuels her creativity there.

On an April hike in Red Rock, Douglas carried water, to***co, and a knife, as she typically does. She uses to***co to give back to the land after foraging for medicine and tea. On the trail, she spotted native plants and herbs that she was looking for.

Today, federal protections, such as national parks or monument designations, keep some significant Indigenous homelands from being developed. Red Rock is one example in Southern Nevada.

Avi Kwa Ame National Monument is another. One that’s proposed for such protection is the East Las Vegas National Monument, located between Las Vegas and Lake Mead.

Yet under the current system, all it takes to undo decades of work to protect these sites is the action of one presidential administration. In a recent example, elected Republican officials proposed legislation to sell off millions of acres of public land across the West, including in Nevada.

That provision was taken out of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But President Trump has made it clear that he wants to open public lands for oil drilling and mineral mining. Some of the sites his administration is targeting is land that Nevada tribes consider sacred.

Read or hear the full story here https://tinyurl.com/ysu63wb8 or visit knpr.org

07/22/2025

After a year of loss, anxiety, and unwelcome change, I’d love a spring getaway — as philosopher Jean Baudrillard wrote in his book America, “Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.” Sounds like he’s advising me to take a road trip, right? To Flagstaff, maybe, then up along Colorado’s Western Slope and over to Salt Lake City before bending toward home. A long, rolling mindwipe through the healing beauty of the West would be good for me mentally, emotionally, even spiritually. Perhaps for you, too.

But what about ethically? After all, we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and we should no longer operate as if blithely unaware of travel’s complicated, adverse impacts: the way fossil fuels worsen climate change; the eco-damage caused by tourists trampling our lovely places to find their selfies; the social stratifications reified by the privileges of leisure travel. Any trip I take is likely to exacerbate some of those problems, however slightly, and it’s time I reckon with that.

Now, I’m not saying I won’t take a trip anyway; like many Springsteen-Americans, I’m a sucker for our national mythology of the road. And travel can certainly dispel our longueurs and rekindle our passion for life. That’s a powerful truth. At the same time, a lot more ought to go into travel decisions nowadays than surfing discount lodging sites and curating your road-snack mix.

Read the full piece here: https://tinyurl.com/ycyrt8vt or visit knpr.org

07/18/2025

Ever wonder how we photograph subjects for Desert Companion?

Take a quick trip with us to photograph tech voice, Ed Zitron, a subject of Desert Companion's upcoming Health Edition, releasing online August 1st. Check out how the final photo turned out by picking up a print copy of the Desert Companion 👀 The art always looks better on paper ;)

Take a trip down memory lane and check out the previous photo issue of Desert Companion at https://knpr.org/may-2025.

07/08/2025

As an urban , Cheyenne Kyle’s daily responsibilities are dependent on Mother Nature. “I’ve had to master the art of the pivot,” she says, shaking her head. It’s one of the better late winter days in a season riddled with windstorms that have destroyed crops and caused impromptu closures. Dressed in black yoga pants and a dark gray Collective T-shirt, her curly purple hair floating on the breeze, Kyle begins a guided tour. Walking through raised beds of chard, mustard greens, arugula, and other winter , she stops to inspect a chunky cabbage. “The rule is: Every time you see her, you’ve got to tell her she’s thicc,” she says between coos and praises.

Kyle began her venture into food through Las Vegas’ kitchens — from hospitals to chain restaurants to fine establishments. “I fell in love with food because of my grandmothers, and the amount of care that they would take to prepare a meal for me,” she tells me after the tour. Kyle turned to the city’s industry knowing that it would give her the level of experience she needed. “The Foundation Room was probably my bougiest (workplace),” she says. Her ultimate goal was beyond the , where her culinary skills were needed most. Doing community service in tandem with restaurant employment, Kyle says, she “fell into food justice work” after completing school.

Hear the rest of Cheyenne's story here: https://tinyurl.com/bdz73j6e

07/01/2025

On the first Thursday night of spring and fall months, the parking lot of Café 86 on South Jones fills with people from all over the Las Vegas Valley. But they’re not just there for the cafe’s popular Filipino-inspired pastries and drinks. They’re showing off their glossy metal steeds at the Sin City Japanese Classic Car Meet.

Its array is endless: from vintage sports cars like Nissan Skylines and Acura Integras to modern, fast luxury rides like Toyota Supras and Lexus IS 350s. The event has truly become an automotive hub for car enthusiasts — and photographers, such as 22-year-old John Villasanta.

Villasanta’s interest in shooting with cameras stemmed from using Snapchat during high school. He didn’t start fiddling with real cameras until his senior year. It remained just a hobby, until one day...

Read the full story at https://tinyurl.com/3p2t42du

05/09/2025

Thank you to everyone who celebrated with us last week! We posted some more photos from the 2025 Focus on Nevada Photo Showcase, along with the winning photos at knpr.org/fon2025.

See you next year!

And thank you again to our sponsors: Summerlin, Nevada State Museum, OmegaMart, Nikon, B&C Camera and Springs Cafe.

05/01/2025

𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗘: 2025 FOCUS ON NEVADA PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS AND HONORABLE MENTIONS

🏆 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗟𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘇, Logandale: Along a Nevada mountain road, passengers gather to look at a woman's just-delivered baby.

We just announced all the winners and honorable mentions of this year's Focus on Nevada photo contest! Check them out at the link below or at instagram.com/desertcompanion + instagram.com/nevadapublicradio.

Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you to everyone who entered this year. We had a record number of submissions from all over our great state! To see more winners and honorable mentions, check out our other posts and visit desertcompanion.com this week for the full May issue of Desert Companion magazine: knpr.org/fon2025

04/30/2025

"Anything I do, I try to do as best as I can, you know, 10 times better."

George Lee, a pioneering ballet dancer who found a second life as a card dealer in downtown Las Vegas, has died at age 90, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Lee was featured in a documentary, "Ten Times Better," which premiered at The Beverly Theater last year.

Ahead of the screening, we spoke with Lee about his life. Read our interview: tinyurl.com/5cu5p3ht

04/08/2025

Delectable food is a love letter to the soul; it feeds in ways far beyond caloric energy. Lorraine Blanco Moss offers these recommendations from my heart to your belly.

Find the full story and more at desertcompanion.com.

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