The Review-Journal again is compiling a directory of Las Vegas Valley bars that cater to fans of specific NFL teams.
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
MODEL AIRPLANES: Allegiant Travel Co. is defying the odds: The Las Vegas-based airline is making a profit despite a bad economy and rising fuel costs, something almost all other airlines aren’t able to do.
Boyd Gaming Corp. continues to receive accolades from Wall Street for putting the brakes on its $4.8 billion Echelon project. The company hopes to resume construction on the Strip development sometime next year.
As New Jersey stumbled through one of its episodic bouts of dysfunctional state budgeting two years ago, the Nevada Development Authority sensed a chance to pounce on a wounded animal.
I recently spoke to a group of young designers and told them that I believe that design, like any of the talents we are endowed with such as singing, dancing and painting, are innate — born within us. And so I plainly stated that I was born a designer.
A retrospective of the best in Italian design from 1956 through today is being showcased in the Las Vegas Design Center at World Market Center Las Vegas.
It is exhilarating to take on any design and decorating project, but it also can be terrifying. We all know how things can go wrong, resulting in disillusionment and, of course, a depleted wallet. Whether I am decorating my own home or working along with homeowners (some unsuspecting) for my TV shows, I have learned the hard way that an overall plan is very necessary.
Most of us buy antiques we can live with — comfortable chairs, dishes that go in a dishwasher, desks that can be used with a computer and vases for flowers. But great wealth allows collectors to buy antiques to look at, not use. They can afford the high prices and the hidden costs of insurance, huge rooms, security systems and loss of interest on the money that was spent on a work of art.
I’m always perusing new books that can help my readers better see some of the many possibilities for designing a personal interior. And I’ve just come across one book that not only offers lots of detailed information but is beautiful to look at.
It’s rare that I end up ahead of a trend, but that was the case six years ago when I embarked on a frustrating search for a particular sort of cabinet for a corner of my open kitchen/dining room.