Strip performers to unite to help those living with HIV/AIDS

Las Vegas Strip entertainers are scheduled to unite at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Paris Theatre at Paris Las Vegas , 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South, to increase awareness and raise funds for those living with HIV/AIDS.

Pick of the Week: Harry’s

When Casino MonteLago opened last month, Harry’s was added to the Lake Las Vegas dining scene, and it’s a welcome addition.

A La Carte

Marie Callender’s selling fresh fruit pies through June 30

Renaissance relocation: Renovations send annual festival to Silver Bowl Park

Thousands of locals and tourists strap on a tunic, clothing you can stick magnets to, several cows worth of leather or squeeze size-15 bosoms into a size-three corset to attend the Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival. For most of its 18 years, the festival has circled the lake at Sunset Park, 2601 E. Sunset Road. This year the event will make a temporary move to Silver Bowl Park, 6800 E. Russell Road.

Recreation briefs

The Red Rock Raptors soccer club announces tryout and registration opportunities for boys and girls from
5:30 to 8 p.m. June 29 at Crossings Park, 1111 Crestdale Lane. For more information, call Jimmy Gabany at 526-7317, email info@r3soccer.com or visit r3soccer.com.

Fine art museum struggles for citywide recognition

The Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art has struggled for community recognition since its inception in 2003. Maybe it’s the economy. Maybe it’s poor marketing. Maybe it’s the location on the second floor of Neonopolis — the near-empty $100 million entertainment and retail complex located a stone’s throw from the Fremont Street Experience.

Las Vegas neighborhood is home to numerous species

Whitney and Paradise area man saves his neighborhood water area by having it certified as a backyard wildlife habitat.

Residents sound off on Interstate 15 and Cactus Avenue interchange in Las Vegas

Southwest Las Vegas resident Charity Waxen hates sitting in traffic.
In the next few years, however, that is likely change.
People like Waxen got some good news June 9 when the Nevada Department of Transportation held a public meeting at John R. Hummel Elementary School, 9800 Placid St., to get the word out about the department’s Cactus Avenue Interchange project, a component of the improvements under way in the southwest part of the valley via the I-15 Interchange project.

Pick of the Week: BFG Chicken Strips

The three most popular ways to cook chicken are to bake it, fry it or grill it. BFG stands for baked, fried or grilled, which means you order your chicken strips the way you like them, sit back, watch a little TV and enjoy.

A La Carte

Marie Callender’s selling fresh fruit pies through June 30

Things to do

‘Seussical The Musical’ is coming
to Summerlin performing arts center

Hawaiian group aims to preserve island heritage

Las Vegas has been dubbed the “ninth island” of Hawaii, and a number of residents are spreading the aloha to an ever-growing number of transplants in a variety of ways.

Favorite Sons and Daughters

Aaron Jacobson graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

Literary Las Vegas

Summerlin writer Lacey Miller follows the plight of a family of elephants on a desperate quest to find safety in South Africa in the novel “I, Elephant.”

Book briefs

Learn more about book signings, author visits and literary events in Las Vegas.

Have fun with biology in ‘Totally Human’

The other day, you were outside playing and you hit your head.
Ouch! It hurt so much that you started to cry, both eyes watering. Your ears rang and you cried so hard, you started to hiccup. But you were fine, you felt better later and you even managed a laugh when your dad tickled you a little.

Letter to the editor

Few will notice that the half-mile stretch of waterway running east-west from Lamb Boulevard to Boulder Highway, part of the ambitious system of interconnected washes and trails leading to the Las Vegas Wash area, is gone. Like other areas, the Regional Flood Control District has determined that this small ecosystem — alive with small fish, frogs, crawdads, visiting egrets, ducks and more for decades — must be cement-encased.

Passive tolerance is wrong way to address abuse

My interest was piqued by the question from D.G., Las Vegas, the last part regarding “managing psycho-emotional wounds from the past by drinking and verbally abusing you.” I was looking forward to an answer on this problem, since I also share it. The only difference is that I am married, so the red flag response does not apply. If I were single, I would run like crazy, but I am stuck in this cycle because I don’t believe in divorce.

Education Notebook

Neighborhood news

Las Vegas belly dance center offers more than just classes

The beat thumps, and an exotic, melodic voice fills the room. The jingle of coins being struck together in time with the music crescendos, and it is a sound Golden Nugget retail assistant manager Carol Deberardinis finds very soothing.
Ten women stand in the next room, each eager to learn the art of belly dance.

Area briefing

Robert Sean Bennett, a longtime federal law enforcement official, has been selected as the new court security director to oversee security for Clark County courts.

A Day in the Life: bookstore ownership is filled with more than just reading

A mellow Nat King Cole song wafts gently throughout the small used bookstore at 2101 S. Decatur Blvd. It’s just after 9 a.m., and the store is already brimming with customers anxious to pick up the next great read.
Owner Myrna Donato has been here since 7:30 a.m. She smiles and chats with customers while grabbing books tucked behind the front desk.

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