Shelter adds health clinic

Until recently, The Shade Tree shelter had to call ambulances to transport residents to hospitals an average of six times each day.

Beatlemania revisited with release of remastered catalog

Even the deep recession couldn’t keep Fab Four fans in Las Vegas and around the world from spending big bucks on box sets of digitally remastered Beatles classics as well as “The Beatles: Rock Band” video game, puzzles, books, pins and more.

Confess feelings with local tunes

Heartache and longing by the dump truck full is what’s in store for the latest roundup of Vegas music releases:

‘Deal’ may not be good news for all

Let’s Make A Deal” could be the best thing to happen to the Tropicana since, oh, a new operator came onboard in July to helm a $125 million face-lift.

Ethnic groups team up for annual CultureFest

The fourth annual Las Vegas CultureFest, one of the city’s largest multicultural gatherings, is set for downtown’s Fremont Street Experience Friday through Sunday.

The Show Must Go On

Jobs are coming to Las Vegas!

Autumn brings a full arts slate to Las Vegas

Grip a paintbrush. Grab a camera. Recite a passage. Clutch a baton. Seize an instrument. Lift your voice. Hit the downbeat. Raise the roof.

MISSING LINKS

Deemed a gallery of regret, ugliesttattoos.com features some pretty bad examples of ink. For instance, there’s a tattoo of a dolphin smoking out of a bong, the face of Linda Blair’s character in “The Exorcist” and a logo for a Canadian baseball league that lasted less than a season. (And it’s paired with amateur drawings of Disney characters, making for one hot mess of a tattoo.)

Deep Discount Designing

If you think redecorating requires a professional home designer, you’re mistaken. If you think it means spending more than you can afford, you’re wrong. If you think it takes time you don’t have, you’ve officially struck out on the home design quiz.

Coloring Outside The Lines

Fall ’09 beauty challenges your comfort zone. It dares you to burst out of that natural look shell and emerge somewhere between the set of “Twilight” and a Cover Girl ad from 1983. Before you do that, however, you must pucker up and smooch the number one beauty trend: red lips. Not near red. Not deep red. We’re talking the same red that distinguishes a Christian Louboutin from any other old shoe. Yep, that red.

Style Scoop

Hot Home: HGTV’s “Small Space Big Style” interior design expert, Libby Langdon, will do a design seminar and book signing Tuesday at Barnes & Noble in Henderson to promote her new book, “Libby Langdon’s Small Space Solutions.” The Barnes & Noble is located at 567 N. Stephanie St. in Henderson. For more information, call 434-1533.

HERE & NOW

WHAT A GEM

Book banners?

When it comes to the unusual Supreme Court rehearing Wednesday in the case involving campaign finance reform, free speech and “Hillary: The Movie,” the crux of the issue was laid bare during the original arguments in March.

Cracks in the welfare state

Those urging America to adopt more collectivist, government-run approaches usually fall back on some reference to the European model. “We’re the only major industrialized nation that doesn’t have …” state-run medicine, whatever.

IN BRIEF

Executive tries anew to take Landry’s private

Gaming regulators looking into Hard Rock arrests

State gaming regulators and county Business License Department officials confirmed Wednesday that they are looking into the incidents that led to the arrest of eight people on drug and prostitution charges at the Hard Rock Hotel’s Rehab pool on Sunday.

New York investment firm to buy Service1st Bak

The New York investment company led by former gaming analyst Jason Ader on Wednesday announced plans to acquire Service1st Bank, a $200 million asset, privately held Las Vegas bank in a stock transaction.

Profit rises for Shuffle Master

Table game provider Shuffle Master, saying it was able reduce expenses during the challenging economy, saw its profit jump 87 percent in the third quarter.

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