Dennis Oppenheim, the artist behind the neon paintbrushes downtown, died Saturday. He was 72. The Las Vegas paintbrushes sit unlit on Charleston Boulevard at the intersections of Casino Center Boulevard and Fourth Street. They were one of Oppenheim’s final projects but went unfinished as he quietly battled liver cancer.
CHICAGO — An emotional Oprah Winfrey says that one of the most impressive things about a Milwaukee woman’s discovery that the two are half-sisters is that the woman never tried to take advantage of her or sell her story. On “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that aired Monday, Winfrey announced that she was related to a woman identified only as Patricia. She says Patricia had known the two were related since 2007, but never went to the media or otherwise publicized her discovery.
LOS ANGELES — Jack LaLanne was prodding Americans to get off their couches and into the gym decades before it was cool. And he was still pumping iron and pushing fruits and vegetables decades past most Americans’ retirement age. The fitness fanatic ate well and exercised – and made it his mission to make sure everyone did the same – right up to the end at age 96. LaLanne died Sunday at his home in Morro Bay on California’s central coast. The cause was respiratory failure due to pneumonia.
Defense and goaltending have carried the Wranglers to the ECHL’s best winning percentage (.679) heading into the All-Star break.
A mysterious knee injury and an allegedly weak heart have left Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler tagged as a quitter. His reputation was not the best to begin with, but there’s nothing worse than this.
We’ve come to the point in our Best of Las Vegas banquet where it is time for dessert. And we promise it will be satisfying.
Paul Oesterman, a professor of pharmacy at the University of Southern Nevada, urges residents to clean out their medicine cabinets every six months. He lauded Las Vegas police for offering residents a place to bring their unused prescription medication.
Tara Pike is UNLV’s Solid Waste and Recycling Manager. She’s the founder and driving force behind Rebel Recycling. Part of her job is getting people to buy into a turf-reduction program that has ripped out a million square feet of grass from the 332-acre campus and replaced it with desert plants.
A Review-Journal survey conducted online in December and early January found that 55.5 percent of local businesses, most of them smaller operations, said they’ll keep staffing at current levels in 2011, while 21.1 percent said they’ll hire additional employees. Another 10.3 percent said they might cut workers in the year.
