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To Market, To Market!

If you couldn’t scour the endless floor space at Las Vegas Market for the latest and greatest in furniture, fear not. Three of the best in the interior design business did it for you. Kishani Perera, Darryl Carter and Mary McDonald hosted the “Ahead of the Curve” seminar last week at World Market Center to discuss the top trends to emerge from Market. Here’s a look at who they are and some of the trends they picked up during the trade show that always serves as an eye candy buffet for designers.

Here & Now

Proposed Texas newscast worth monitoring locally

Houston, we have a problem-solver. Or so hopes one Lone Star State station as news pros nationwide turn a curious eye toward its drastic experiment.

Some acts to catch at music fest

It’s been 10 years, and a lot has changed — just not the Las Vegas Shakedown.

Yankee-Panky

More ‘Talent’ headed to Vegas

The dog days of August will not end before an “America’s Got Talent” act comes to roost on the Strip, or before Donny Osmond finds himself a more worthy opponent for his nightly dance-off with Marie.

In Brief

The Tropicana Las Vegas suffered a $10.8 million loss in the second quarter, saying its current renovation project caused revenues to decrease.

In Brief

Ten years later, America’s gymnasts from the Sydney Olympics received their bronze medals.

Fishing Report

LAKE MEAD — Striper fishing has been fair to good from 33 Hole to Callville Bay. Anglers have been catching fish using cut anchovies while jigging or trolling as well as throwing the occasional lure into the boils. Boulder Beach has been slow to fair as stripers come in sporadically. But anglers continue to catch stripers and catfish near the tires at Hemenway. Anglers launching from Callville report decent largemouth and smallmouth action in the coves.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT DEL MAR

In odd season, maybe Tiger considers Las Vegas stop

First things first: Tiger Woods ever again agreeing to play in the annual PGA Tour stop here is still more of a long shot than Justin Timberlake arriving on time for a news conference at his own golf tournament or the UNLV football team going 13-0 this season.

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