Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
To most valley residents, permanently closing off F Street to improve a highway might be considered a necessary sacrifice for growth and progress.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A century-old gift shop at the popular South Rim of the Grand Canyon has been converted into a visitor center that incorporates the building’s history.
February is Black History Month. In honor of Southern Nevada’s African-American heritage, we asked Claytee D. White, director of the Oral History Research Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to create a short quiz that will test your knowledge of a few of the people and events that, for good or bad, have helped to make Southern Nevada what it is.
Best-selling author Maeve Binchy‘s new novel is expected out this week. “Heart and Soul” is a story of family and friendship featuring Dr. Clara Casey, who must deal with demanding patients as she tries to establish an underfunded heart clinic in Ireland. In another story of family, “The Sweet By and By” by Todd Johnson centers around five women connected through a nursing home who offer each other friendship and wisdom as well as dignity and respect as their relationships grow.
He’s stingy. Stingy with his loving reassurance. When she needs it is when he’s least likely to offer it. He scolds her for being insecure.
From applying for unemployment benefits to modifying a home mortgage, surviving the economic downturn could become a matter of learning how to work the system.
Users of iPhones beware — state gaming agents are watching you.
GREEN FELT, GREEN EFFORTS: Several major gambling operators have become environmental advocates in recent years; MGM Mirage, Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Harrah’s Entertainment all pursue green building initiatives at their hotel-casinos.
Mounting layoffs and home foreclosures are bringing more people into the nonprofit Consumer Credit Counseling Service in Las Vegas.
A private banking customer of SouthwestUSA Bank ran out of gasoline while pulling his boat to Lake Mead with a new pickup truck. The bank customer was new to Southern Nevada and didn’t know many people here.
Mike O’Sullivan wants the Spring Valley Club to become a new kind of “Cheers,” a place “where everybody knows your name,” but nobody drinks booze.