Students from the Clark County School District’s mariachi and ballet folklorico programs are slated to participate in the 2012 Latin Chamber of Commerce Mariachi Festival starting May 22.
Despite setbacks causing Cowabunga Bay Water Park to postpone its scheduled opening on Memorial Day weekend, the company is anticipating its slated debut in spring 2014.
It starts with the rhythm. Fingers tap on a tightly stretched drum skin. Heads sway in a larger pattern. The dancers don’t come out on stage so much as they sashay gently out of the wings dressed mostly in white, festooned with beads and jiggling jewelry. The outfits seem calculated to enhance the notion of motion, to amplify each sway of their bodies.
Among messages from “Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas — Only In America,” written by former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman with George Anastasia, are: Everyone has the right to the protections of the Constitution; and the courts, the FBI and the police were not opposed to “allowing abuses to take place in the ‘interest of justice.’ “
Honor Flight Nevada recently provided a free trip to Washington, D.C., for Summerlin resident Hank Gargano, who served in the First Allied Airborne Army in World War II.
Mediterranean cuisine is a composite of many cultures and countries, including Algeria, which is in North Africa. The Baladie Café has that Algerian influence and presents several classic dishes.
True Mediterranean food starts in Greece and brings in flavors of surrounding Mediterranean and Middle East countries. You will find those tastes here beginning with homemade hummus.
Even Michael Beaman’s mother calls him Banger. It’s a nickname Beaman has had since middle school. So when Beaman convinced four longtime friends to open a brewery, it seemed only natural to name it Banger Brewing.