IN BRIEF

LAS VEGAS SHOOTING

Day care had state, city licenses

A North Las Vegas day care where a toddler drowned Tuesday was licensed with both the city and the state and passed a July inspection, officials said Wednesday.

THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

There’s no place like home.

MISSING LINKS

You’ve probably been living under a rock if you haven’t seen Shepard Fairey’s iconic print of President-elect Barack Obama. Now your own photo can get the same treatment at obamicon me.pastemagazine.com. Just upload a picture and choose the word you’d like to be underneath it. There is a gallery to browse others’ creations, or you can e-mail it to a friend.

Clifford The Big Red Dog to visit museum

For most kids — for most adults, even — the arrival of a 25-foot-tall dog to Las Vegas would be horrific, something out of a Stephen King novel.

Trojan Source

Beware of Greek plays bearing gifts.

Artists combine efforts in Springs Preserve gallery exhibit

Las Vegas artists Linder Alterwitz-Mizrahi and Heather Protz have teamed up to exhibit their photography in a show that opens Saturday at the Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd.

Sex star may give burlesque a try

The new marquee stars of 2009? Rest assured that in an austere season, we’re not talking about the likes of Bette Midler and Cher anymore.

Fairness Doctrine would hurt talk radio

Paraphrasing the pop song: “You talk too much right-wing propaganda, you worry me to death. You talk too much conservative ideology, you even worry my pet.”

Style Scoop

Haute Home: Starting today, Robb & Stucky Interiors will host in-store design seminars at 2 p.m. every Thursday through the end of the month. Topics range from Designonomics: Make Every Design Dollar Count, Furniture Fashions for 2009: High Points from High Point and Warm, Cool — Powerful: The Emotional Quality of Color Colors Your World. Robb & Stucky is located at Town Square. To make a reservation for the seminars, RSVP at 531-0531, option 4.

HERE & NOW

SHOE ON THIS

SHOW US YOUR PURSE

Who? Katie Kelley of Henderson

Taking a Risk on Fashion

Only a few celebrities at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards missed the white out memo.

Workin’ It

A job interview these days is on par with a lottery win. If you’re fortunate enough to secure one, we suggest pulling out all the stops. Embellished resumes aside, we’d like to address what to wear to meet your potential next boss.

‘Spending unabated’

As Gov. Jim Gibbons prepares to deliver his State of the State address tonight, it’s fair to say that his two years in office have been eventful, if not tumultuous.

Tax plan from ‘PLAN’

Nevada liberals have offered lots of reasons (and lots of euphemisms) in their carefully waged campaign to — ahem — “overhaul” taxes. They’ve talked of tax “restructuring” and tax “stabilization,” of “reducing abatements” and “enhancing revenues.” They’ve somberly warned that the 144-year-old state must “grow up” and demonstrate “progress,” that its citizens must embrace higher tax burdens as evidence of “sophistication” and “compassion.”

IN BRIEF

Casino on Strip gets new president

Local foreclosures triple in ’08

In one of the more ominous signs of Las Vegas’ crumbling housing market, foreclosures nearly tripled in 2008 from the previous year, Sacramento, Calif.-based Foreclosures.com reported Wednesday.

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