With the fall season at hand, nonprofit groups across the Las Vegas Valley have been busy preparing for their upcoming holiday and craft bazaars.
The missile has been launched. It is angry, dog-shaped and increasing in size in my field of vision.
And now from the Department of Yuck, here comes a game — and no, you’re not even ready to deal with this news — starring a simulated human baby, where you grow a tot from scratch, feed it, and change it, and waaahh.
FLIERS’ REMORSE: The downturn has hit home, sending local economic indicators plunging back to earth and turning what was once a tourist surplus into a tourist shortage. Therefore some people, particularly airline officials, are questioning the wisdom of continued expansions at McCarran International Airport.
Maybe we’ve become jaded in Las Vegas. Or maybe Midwest residents are little uptight.
A major local publisher of niche newspapers and magazines laid off as much as 10 percent of its staff this week, industry sources said Friday.
Once the personal shock of Bob Gripentog’s death in an ultralight plane crash 16 years ago began to wear off, the shock to the business he built began to take over. Although the Las Vegas Boat Harbor on Lake Mead and its related entities were transferred smoothly to his widow, Betty Gripentog, the family realized it had not prepared for a generational transition.