The Alzheimer’s Assistance Foundation made its debut on the charity scene with a fundraiser Aug. 17 at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts.
Do you fret about whether you’re raising your child correctly? Not to worry. Even if you’re deeply involved in your children’s lives and happy with their social development, you have an eager partner in rearing your offspring: the Clark County School District.
Say what you want about organized labor in modern America, at least the unions are always there for the little guy who’s just looking for honest work.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Jones ordered the County Commission to reconsider bids for a Las Vegas Beltway project — and then Commissioners Tom Collins and Steve Sisolak said they won’t participate.
On Aug. 20, Kenny MacAskill, cabinet secretary for justice, announced the nation of Scotland’s release on humanitarian grounds of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi. To date, Megrahi is the sole person convicted of a dire act of terrorism — the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of a commercial airplane which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
Sometimes the irresistible force of the press slams into an immovable object — public employee job security.
The most revealing moment in Edward “Ted” Kennedy’s political life came Nov. 4, 1979, just three days before he would officially launch his challenge to a sitting president of his own party, Jimmy Carter. In a televised interview, CBS News correspondent Roger Mudd asked the already stout Massachusetts senator a “giveaway” question, a question about as tough as a quiz show host trying to help break the ice with a nervous contestant by asking, “What color is grass?”
My little southern state of Arkansas is politically reflective of the nation only in an exaggerated and negative way.
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Say what you will about reality shows, and I’ve said plenty — even before some rocket scientist let a maniac with an assault conviction, reportedly involving his then-girlfriend, onto a dating show a few months before he’d be charged with murdering the very next woman he’d get involved with. (I’m no great fan of the show’s star, Megan Hauserman, but that seems a bit lax.)
When Terry Hernandez started a local, gay-oriented social group, there were some casinos he couldn’t even pay to host its weekly cocktail party.
No, in fact, there are not lots of ways to eat a Hershey’s chocolate kiss. There is only one way. If you eat it some other way, something is wrong with you.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
As blazing summer mellows into fall, festivals and fun prevail in Cerca Country. See which event appeals to you.
The debate over the legalization of marijuana in Nevada overlooks one significant detail: It’s already legal.
Many flowers you are now growing for ornamental value can bring lively flavors, colors and textures to your food as well as add a touch of elegance. They’ll also improve your dietary needs. Learn from Springs Preserve’s Cyndi Dixon and Star Nursery’s Frank Rauscher which flowers lend themselves to your dining and how to use them in recipes. The program is at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd. Call 822-7786 to reserve your seat.
Virginia City continues to celebrate its birth 150 years ago in the hills overlooking Washoe Valley between Reno and Carson City. As a year filled with many observances winds down, Virginia City still offers special events in upcoming weeks such as the 50th Annual Virginia City Camel Races, Sept. 11-13, and the first round-trip excursions in 70 years of the Virginia & Truckee Railway between Virginia City and Carson City. The V&T Railfest trains began running Aug. 15, continuing on Saturdays trough Nevada Day, Oct. 31.
Dr. Michael Gunter doesn’t make a habit of haunting the ever-increasing universe of Web sites on which patients rate their health care providers.
The question I hear the most from readers is, “Do I have to buy the new ‘Madden’ football game?” These readers still are playing last year’s “Madden,” and they like it, and they don’t want to spend $60 for the new one.
Only about 15,000 people live in the entire 7,933 square miles that is San Juan County, Utah. That leaves a lot of room for the rest of us to go adventuring there, and the opportunities are many.
There are many causes in this world, and Las Vegas entertainers raise money for lots of them. Everything from Family Promise, sheltering homeless families here in town, to earthquake victims in L’Aquila, Italy.
Clinton Tell hurries through Planet Hollywood Resort with résumé in hand, hoping this day will be different from the others. Tell is an unemployed warehouseman in his late 30s. He is attending a job fair for a chance to be one of 800 hired by the Strip resort for the November opening of its 1,201-room PH Towers.