All summer long, you’ve managed to avoid anything that even remotely resembles school. You get enough of it from now until spring, so why add to the misery, right? And yeah, you’ve been reading all summer long, but that doesn’t count because reading is fun.
CHICAGO — Grammy-winning Blues musician David “Honey Boy” Edwards, believed to be the oldest surviving Delta bluesman and whose roots stretched back to blues legend Robert Johnson, died early Monday in his Chicago home, his manager said. He was 96.
Gianna LoPresti was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2010 and spring 2011 semesters at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah.
Born with spina bifida, a developmental disorder affecting the spinal cord, Steve Morales never imagined a life playing sports. Now 28, he aggressively races down the court as he dribbles the basketball just out of his opponent’s reach.
Pre-festival events for this year’s Vegas Valley Book Festival begin Saturday with a children’s bookmaking celebration in the downtown Cultural Corridor. Events are free with regular museum admission. Children can craft Harry Potter-inspired laboratory notebooks at 11 a.m. and take in Tony Daniel’s Harry Potter Magic Show at 12:30 p.m. at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, 900 Las Vegas Blvd. North, 384-3466.
As owner of Catalyst for Action, a business coaching and training company, Las Vegas author Alexia Vernon draws on her background as an actor and dancer to empower audiences all over the country. Part self-help instruction, part hands-on workbook, her book “Awaken Your CAREERpreneur” encourages readers to move beyond being employees to turn callings into careers. For more information, visit awakenyourcareerpreneur.com.
The owners imagined a flashy ceiling covered in CDs featuring their clients’ signatures for the topside of their mobile beauty salon. Instead, only about a dozen discs speckle the 34-foot long ceiling of their Girls Night Out bus that carts partygoers to their destination after styling them for the event. The mobile salon isn’t taking off in the direction married couple Markham and Stacie Gordon had hoped.
China Ginger Gourmet is beloved for entrees that amplify the joys of Chinese dining, including ginger fish, Hong Kong-style noodles and orange peel beef.
Earl Turner knows a thing or two about putting on an energetic show.
Maybe I awakened some long-slumbering convenience store curse the day I selected a Coca-Cola from the refrigerator case, changed my mind in favor of a Mountain Dew, and arrogantly replaced the unwanted Coca-Cola bottle in the bin containing Monster Energy drink. All I know is that, since then, I have been involved in not one but two fender benders in this very parking lot. What are the odds?
Las Vegas could start seeing a whole new type of tagging. A group of ladies at the West Flamingo Senior Center is working to cover railings, trash cans and park benches with colorful marks of not graffiti, but yarn.
North Las Vegas city officials said they’re unclear how one Little League managed to amass roughly $40,000 in debt for unpaid field usage and lighting costs.
Henderson resident shares her experience coming to the U.S. undocumented, gaining citizenship and working for Immigration Services.
Mother-daughter duo Elaine and Jenni Miller have shared a lot of experiences from having the same driver’s education teacher at Basic High School to working at the same sign company. The number of shared experiences grew when they decided to attend cosmetology school and open a business called Paris to New York Nail Bar, 10890 S. Eastern Ave.
Mobile businesses are growing in popularity across the Las Vegas Valley, and those frequenting the Summerlin area range from a pet groomer who comes to you and doctors who make house calls.
Algobertos Mexican Food is serving up an authentic Mexican menu with personable service in northwest Las Vegas.
Ward 2 Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Wolfson hopes his idea for a faster abatement process to address eyesore issues with abandoned and foreclosed homes will result in empty homes being cleaned up faster.
Grace in the Desert Episcopal Church wants its labyrinth to be open for the community to enjoy, but vandals delayed the project by stealing glass rocks, painted stones and tools in two separate incidents in June.