Musical advances warm the heart

Hard candy hearts and chipped teeth. Ahh, it’s the season of love. Here’s who I’m sending my Garfield valentines to this year:

On the Move

It’s not Broadway. But it might be better.

SHORT AND SWEET

What’s in a name? In the case of the Dam Short Film Festival, pretty much everything you need to know.

Nevada Opera Theatre to perform ‘La Boheme’

Nevada Opera Theatre will present Puccini’s “La Boheme” at 2 p.m. Sunday in Artemus Ham Hall at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway.

MISSING LINKS

If you’ve ever been looking for something new to listen to and don’t want to pay to do it, check out radiotuna.com. At this site, you enter a genre of music you’re interested in, and a list of free Internet radio stations that feature that genre is provided.

Living the Dream

Winning “America’s Got Talent” is one thing. But doing it by singing an operatic aria — a musical form not likely to be found on most Americans’ iPods — is something else entirely.

Santana considers Vegas address

Carlos Santana isn’t even moved in yet — he’s still just house-hunting in Las Vegas — but already proving a model citizen.

ROARING IN

If you want to get an idea of how important Chinese New Year is to Las Vegas, just visit any major Strip resort on Sunday.

Runway Ready

‘Check’ out the print of the moment

WSA introduces next fall’s shoe trends

Think of the World Shoes and Accessories trade show at Mandalay Bay Convention Center like a fashion crystal ball. It’s the best forecast Las Vegas has for the shoes and accessories we’ll be wearing six months from now. The trade show whirled through town last week and picked up several new trends with it.

Show Us Your Purse

Jasmine Trias, former American Idol contestant and star of “Society of Seven and Jasmine Trias” at Gold Coast

HERE & NOW

Dating a chocolate lover? Qua Baths & Spa has a special couples treatment through February that will indulge both you and your partner.

Sweets for Your Sweet

You have three days to act like you’ve been putting a lot of thought into her Valentine’s Day present. In case you’re not sure exactly how to do that, we’ve come up with 15 items that should make it much easier on a guy like you.

Green jobs

Remember all those “green jobs” President Obama and the Democrats were going to create by taxing struggling employers and out-of-work private-sector Americans and funneling the resulting loot to politically favored outfits developing “clean, energy-efficient” technologies?

If we all just dig deep, state deficit will go away

It is very disturbing to hear our state politicians talking in generalities about our budget shortfall, how we have to make cuts in services, and how we can’t raise taxes to pay for essential services in today’s business climate. But when asked to define “essential services,” one Republican lawmaker laid out every program that we now fund. Clearly, cutting services is not going to work.

Providing format allows for real alternatives to be aired

The long-debated federal takeover of the nation’s medical industry appeared on the verge of becoming law until Republican Scott Brown won a special Senate election in Massachusetts last month — capturing the seat of Ted Kennedy on a platform that nakedly vowed to defeat Obamacare.

No right to criticize a teacher?

Last summer we hung a colorful two-story-tall banner in the atrium of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. Sewn into the tapestry are the 45 pithy words of the First Amendment to the Constitution. Our goal was to likewise engrave the words on the minds of future journalists.

IN BRIEF

American Pacific Corp., a Las Vegas-based chemical manufacturer that sells to NASA, on Wednesday reported a first-quarter loss, reversing year-earlier income.

Strip clubs’ cabby tips on agenda

Clark County commissioners have expressed little desire to referee the contentious debate over strip club owners who pay cabdrivers to shuttle business their way.

Planet Hyundai to be sold

John Staluppi Jr., owner of Planet Hyundai, once the biggest seller of the Korean brand in the United States, has agreed to sell the store to an unidentified buyer, a spokesman said Wednesday.

NRC nominees won’t stand in way of Yucca Mountain shutdown

WASHINGTON — Three officials nominated to fill seats on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission indicated this week that they would not stand in the way of a shutdown of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste program.

Plan to close youth prison questioned

Legislators questioned Wednesday whether Gov. Jim Gibbons’ plan to close the maximum-security Summit View Youth Correctional Center in Las Vegas would save money or just lead to problems at wide-open rural centers where offenders would be moved.

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