Here is a listing of events designed for book lovers. Information is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Additions or changes to this listing must be submitted at least 10 days in advance of Sunday publication to Bookmark, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125. For more information, call 383-0306.
Marisol Martinez works as a custodian for the Clark County School District and, like many Southern Nevadans, is interested in broadening her collection of job skills.
HOSTEL MAKEOVER: With traditional tourists growing scarcer in Las Vegas, several local hotels and motel chains are positioning themselves as hostels. In this niche hospitality segment, rooms are cheap and dorm-style and customers are mostly backpackers, typically young international travelers.
REI is a highly successful co-op. Local entities, from a national retailer to a small school in North Las Vegas, seem to benefit from the camaraderie the cooperative business model provides.
Donna Webster has an unabashed description of many distressed properties she finds in Las Vegas for her investor clients, typically homes that have been thoroughly trashed out of anger and despair before owners surrendered them to the bank.
At least once a month, Wyleaner Springfield makes the rocky, winding drive up Black Mountain to dump programming into the server attached to the television transmitter she leases.
Although the Las Vegas Monorail runs daily along its 3.9 mile route just east of the Strip, there are telltale signs that suggest the monorail’s ills extend well beyond a spastic escalator.
