hen Julie Podolny Lackey made plans to wed her longtime fiancé, Joel Lackey, this summer, she decided it was time to tie the knot symbolically as well as literally.
Hattie Williams of Las Vegas recently had her kitchen remodeled for free as this year’s recipient of the Rebuilding Hope Program.
: I am wallpapering two rooms and in between them is a wall with an archway cut into it. I have done wallpapering before, but never on an arched surface. I don’t understand how to transition from the flat wall to the curved surface. So, how do you wallpaper the arch?
DEAR HELOISE: I am wondering if you have any advice for candle wax that gets spilled on a tablecloth. How do you recommend getting the wax off? — Dede B., via e-mail
Oliver and Mirjana met while playing basketball in college. Many games (and many years) later, they found themselves married, with two kids, in a suburban townhouse. The house was brand-new when they bought it, and instead of going for any upgrades, they decided to stick with the builder’s finishes. But after living there for eight years, they started to get tired of their beige surroundings — particularly the living room. The room was boring and bland, and didn’t have enough functional space for entertaining friends and family (not to mention the whole gang after shooting hoops).
The mark “Haviland Limoges” means fine porcelain to most collectors, but in the 1870s Charles Haviland wanted to expand his company’s offerings. He traveled from Limoges, France, to Paris looking for new ideas and hired Felix Bracquemond to head a new operation in Auteuil, France.
Who would think that washing and drying clothes would become a controversial issue? I have read recently, with great amusement I might add, that in some neighborhoods around the country, folks are giving up their clothes dryers and hanging their unmentionables right out there for everybody to see. It seems that there is a movement afoot to save energy by hanging freshly laundered clothing outside to dry.
As if there was ever any doubt, the summer heat has arrived. While outside temperatures have surpassed the 100-degree mark, your personal comfort should not have to be compromised.
Area design professionals are invited to design a sustainable hotel suite that will be built on the show floor of Hospitality Design Expo to be held in May in Las Vegas.
Come out a join me at the Molto Vegas farmers market. The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Orchard, Gilcrease Orchard, China Ranch Date Farm and growers from Pahrump, Alamo and Moapa Valley will be selling high-quality fresh vegetables and fruit. The public is invited to attend from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thursday at 7485 Dean Martin Drive, Suite 106, located about one-half mile north of Blue Diamond Road. This farmers market is cash only so come prepared and buy some of the best tomatoes you ever had.
ELY — UNLV’s football coaches made no secret of their intent to overhaul the defense this season.
ELY — Omar Clayton had plenty to prove last year when he entered his sophomore season as UNLV’s starting quarterback.
• LAKE MEAD — The recent calm and mild days have made for some good fishing. Top-water lures and jigging methods have been catching stripers from Government Wash to Saddle Island. Anglers reported fair success near scuba beach with top-water lures but no fish near Hemenway. Catfish are being caught with cut anchovies fished on the bottom.
There was a time when you had to travel as far north as Canada to hunt a wolf, but that changed Monday when the Idaho Game & Fish Commission established a harvest limit for the state’s first public wolf hunting season. That season is scheduled this fall and is open to nonresident hunters.
The Nevada Athletic Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to institute instant replay on a limited basis for boxing and mixed martial arts events.
Seeing isn’t always believing when it comes to great feats in track and field, so there was cause for celebration at the news that Usain Bolt and everyone chasing him in the men’s 100 tested clean. The sport not only has a legitimate star in the fastest man ever but, as far as we know, his stunning numbers are legitimate, too.
Stunned by allegations that he sucker-punched an assistant, Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable is denying everything. Is he lying? We’ll soon find out the truth.
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Busch pulled away from Matt Crafton in the closing laps to easily win the O’Reilly 200 NASCAR truck series race Wednesday at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Acting UNLV President Neal Smatresk, a selfless, intelligent, determined, logical sort of guy, will use all of those traits to search for a new athletic director now that Mike Hamrick is returning to the same position at Marshall, his alma mater.
Family finances and his father’s health shaped Bryan Harper’s decision to return to Las Vegas from Cal State Northridge. He, like his brother Bryce, will be attending the College of Southern Nevada.
A reliever for most of his career, T.J. Beam pitched in every possible role this season for the 51s before finding his niche as a starter.
A presentation on what North Las Vegas City Manager Gregory Rose has achieved in the past year won the support of a City Council majority Wednesday night.
Dr. Dale Carrison, head of emergency services at University Medical Center, has read some of the discharge documents that dialysis patients bring with them from for-profit hospitals in the Las Vegas Valley. They instruct the patient, who is uninsured and usually an illegal immigrant, to go to UMC for follow-up care, he said.
At times, the action in the ring resembled a dancing bear trying to corner a chimp.
Former Las Vegas resident Richard McElfresh fought back tears Wednesday as he discussed a jury’s decision to award him about $3.5 million in a personal injury case.