🍕 Experts in Italy say Vegas’ best pizza is …

🍕 Pizza Real

A respected Italy-based guide to the world’s pizza has put a single local joint on its list of Top 50 pizzas in the U.S.: Pizza Rock. [Review-Journal]

🌊 Three Feet and Rising

The good news: Lake Mead has risen 3 feet this month, and is projected to rise another 6 feet this summer. Thanks, heavier-than-usual snowmelt! Ah, but the bad news: Even then the water level will be lower than when a federal shortage was declared two years ago. [KLAS]

• Also: There might be more water in the river if not for a little-understood process called “sublimation,” in which high-country snow “sometimes skips the liquid phase entirely, turning straight from a solid into a vapor” — and then goes missing. [High Country News]

💳 Eviction Blues

An afternoon at eviction court — a couple months after tenant protections stopped, and following the governor’s vetoes of tenant protection bills — finds many residents struggling to recover from setbacks that put them behind. As well as facing landlords reluctant to cut breaks. [Nevada Current]

🤝 Jacky Rosen on Bipartisanship

U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen uses the word “bipartisan” often enough that one leftish Twitter wag suggested her pay be docked each time. Why does bipartisanship matter to her so much, and how does that help Las Vegas? That’s just one query put to the first-term senator by co-host Dayvid Figler. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

• Pairs nicely with: Our conversation with North Las Vegas Mayor Pamela Goynes-Brown. [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

First, Where Was It? ⤴️

I snapped last week’s challenge photo at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve when I was there logging my 1,500 monthly step count. I’m not the only one who finds the place therapeutic: “I became well-acquainted with this view during the pando lockdown,” writes reader Andrew Kiraly. “The Hendo Bird Plex saved my sanity!”

Feathers in the caps of these readers for answering correctly:

🏆 Vicki Duffy, Stacey H., Andrew Kiraly, Jann Lord, Erica W., and Cindy Wilson.

Now for This Week’s Challenge ⤵️

Ack, just seeing this makes my back hurt. But enough about me — have you seen this flexible statue lady? Where can she be found? Use the button below to send in your correct answers, best guesses, or chiropractic advice. Good luck!

🙏 And big thanks to reader Cherie Plank for providing this week’s photo!

‘Musings of the Mojave’ | Tuesday-Oct. 1 | Gallery hours

These bold plein-air paintings — including images of the local wetlands — attempt to “transcribe” artist Alina Lindquist’s experiences of the desert. [West Charleston Library; free]

‘Vegas Is for Songwriters’ | Wednesday | 9 p.m.

A showcase featuring local songwriters Robert Stokes, Brock Fabrielle, AJ Wyatt, and Dave Cavallo. [The Griffin, downtown; no cover]

Back to School Bash | Thursday | 9 a.m. to noon

Students in need can pick up school supplies, learn about resources available to them — and have fun with games and family activities. [Dollar Loan Center, Henderson; free]

Sen. Jacky Rosen on Bipartisanship and Bean Salad

Today on City Cast Las Vegas, co-host Dayvid Figler talks with Sen. Jacky Rosen about why bipartisanship means so much to her, and what it means for Las Vegas. And (spoiler alert) we learn how her family’s story is intimately connected to that of a certain local podcast host …!

🫘 If, after you listen, you want Bubbie Gussie Goodman’s recipe for her famous three-bean salad, as mentioned on the pod, we’ll have it in Thursday’s newsletter.