😬 Are Nevada’s inmates being fed properly?

🚀 What’s This Creature Hugging My Face?

If all systems are indeed go, local real estate investor Ken Baxter will whoosh into space Friday aboard the first Virgin Galactic space launch. Baxter, dubbed “Rocket Man” by friends, paid $200,000 for his ticket in 2004. [KLAS]

🫢 Hunger Shames

Gov. Joe Lombardo, Attorney General Aaron Ford, and other members of the Nevada Board of Prison Commissioners got an earful from inmate advocates the other day about the scarcity and quality of food served to Nevada’s incarcerated. Some of the imprisoned have allegedly resorted to eating toothpaste or wet toilet paper to curb their hunger. [Nevada Current]

🏈 Leaving the Field

The football team you didn’t remember we have, the Vegas Vipers, which plays in the league you’ve forgotten was revived, the XFL, won’t play next year in the venue you rarely go to, Cashman Field. And maybe not in Las Vegas, either. [Review-Journal]

💬 ‘We Need to Talk With Muslims of Southern Nevada’ | Wednesday | 2:30 p.m.

Moderator Claytee White leads a panel of Islamic community leaders in a discussion about fear, hostility, and dismantling stereotypes. [UNLV’s Greenspun Hall; free]

🖼️ ‘Art Heists: Inside the FBI’s Pursuit of Stolen Masterpieces’ | Wednesday | 7 p.m.

Former FBI special agent Robert Wittman discusses the highlights of his 20-year career leading the agency’s art crimes unit, including solving a $500 million theft. [Mob Museum, downtown, $16.95 admission for Nevada residents]

Out of Your Bubble, But on Your Turf

The staycation is a great Vegas move — being a local means never having to leave town to become a tourist. And what if you build that staycation around an event like the upcoming Life is Beautiful festival? Host Dayvid Figler gets tips — about staycationing and the festival itself — from entrepreneur, LiB merchant, and seasoned in-town vacationer Jen Taler.