The weather is perfect for dining outside, and it’s even better up on Mount Charleston, where A Cut Above is a world away in the mountains of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
Burritos have become a staple of the American diet, and the Super Burrito, aka Super B, is a large flour tortilla filled with beans, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, choice of meat and pico de gallo salsa.
‘Tis the season to find a favorite sports pub, and Scooter’s fits the bill with its many flat-screen televisions, arcade games, darts, pool and shuffle board.
The Wild West is still alive, at least in street names in the Black Mountain Ranch subdivision near College Drive and U.S. Highway 95.
Among the grandiose highway plans that teetered and collapsed in so short a time was one that would have widened the 6-mile stretch of Summerlin Parkway from two to four lanes each way. The reasoning was simple, at least it was five years ago, when money was synonymous with confetti, to open up vast areas of the western sector of Summerlin for development and greater economic growth.
At her Ward III Neighborhood Connection meeting, Councilwoman Kathleen Vermillion had three things to highlight: recycling, a proposed pedestrian bridge and an update about Union Village.
After nearly half a dozen meetings between the city of Henderson and Project GREEN, the City Council voted 4-0 Sept. 20 to proceed with a design of an arch culvert at the bottom of Pittman Wash.
When you’re gluten-intolerant, the world is not such a beautiful place. But that’s changing for those in the Summerlin area. The bakery at 2380 N. Buffalo Drive, Suite 110, Beau Monde, means “beautiful world,” apropos as it’s a gluten-free bakery.
A new law went into effect Oct. 1 making graffiti-related offenses committed on any designated historic site in Nevada a category C felony, which comes with mandatory jail time. It allows civil lawsuits to be filed against the parents of children 18 or younger if the juveniles have defaced property with graffiti. The property owner now can seek triple damages, plus lawyer fees. The law also addresses counseling and community service.
Before you buckle up, saddle up to the latest in Centennial Hills roadway upgrades and changes.
The fastest-growing part of the valley could swell farther northwest , but neighbors just want to see it done right.
The Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort is getting ready for its first Oktoberfest. Magic comedy shows are scheduled at 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday in the Nicholas Horn Theatre at the College of Southern Nevada Cheyenne campus. Learn more about these and other upcoming events in this week’s Things to Do.
The Las Vegas Shakespeare Company has chosen to recapture the comedy and magic of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for the 25th anniversary of Henderson’s Shakespeare in the Park. Dan Decker, the artistic director for the Las Vegas Shakespeare Company, said “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is one of Shakespeare’s most accessible plays and features four subplots including the world of the nobles, the star-crossed lovers, the realm of the fairies and the story of the townspeople.
Henderson is set to host Hispanic International Day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, a performance of flamenco music, is slated from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, and “Sweeney Todd” is scheduled from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Friday. Learn more about these and other upcoming art events in this week’s Things to Do.
When I first started dating my husband five years ago, he told me about a conversation he had with a married female friend. He proceeded to tell me that when he spoke to her about me, he reassured her that she was prettier than I was and that she had nothing to worry about.
It takes more than the suspicion of cancer to keep Bill Fayne from show business. He’s pulled together a tribute to Stephen Sondheim, now in his 80s, whose songs graced Broadway.
Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance are scheduled to perform an all-ages concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Red Rock Resort’s Amphitheatre. Learn more about this and other local events in this week’s Things to Do.
Dick Worthen and his wife, LaRue, have not one street named after them, but two. Both are near Westcliff and Buffalo drives. There’s Worthen Circle to the south and LaRue Court immediately north. In 1983, the Worthens bought 10 acres of barren desert land in the Las Vegas Valley for about $150,000. Don Worthen, a general contractor, planned to use lots on five of those acres for all seven of his children.
Nobody knew longtime Clark County School District educator Thomas J. O’Roarke better than his wife, Shirley. The couple had a love affair that spanned more than three decades until Thomas O’Roarke’s death in 2003. It was then that Shirley learned things about her husband that she perhaps never would have known.
Learn more about Vegas PBS’s annual Keeping Kids Fit 5K Run & 1-Mile Walk, Town Advisory Board meetings, an Special Olympics Nevada’s Over the Edge leap off the Rio in this week’s Sunrise/Whitney Neighborhood News.
Wayne Newton’s former music director Scotty Alexander is scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in Roxy’s inside Sam’s Town. The Celebrity City Chorus, part of Sweet Adelines International, is scheduled to perform a free barbershop concert at 7:30 p.m. today at the Community Lutheran Church. Learn about these and other community events in this week’s Things to Do.
Fort Haven Thrift Store owner Michael Huff is a firm believer in second chances. He sells used furniture and other goods at his store. He gives war veterans opportunities to work when no one else will hire them. He even offers food to those who are homeless and hungry.
In the early days of the United States’ involvement in World War II, when many Japanese Americans were being sent to internment camps, Clark County Sheriff Gene Ward brought the newly appointed local FBI agent down to meet Yonema “Bill” Tomiyasu, who had lived in the valley a quarter century by then.
The Cora Coleman Senior Center was named for a remarkable woman who might have gone unsung but for her daughters political office.
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