It’s time to strap on that corset, kilt or suit of chain mail that’s been hiding in your closet and head to the Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival. But if you head to the festival’s longtime home at Sunset Park you’ll be there alone. The annual event is set to fill Silver Bowl Park while Sunset Park undergoes renovations.
Many assume that Arizona Charlie, of local casino fame, was a character created for corporate marketing purposes like Ronald McDonald or Bob’s Big Boy. The truth is, there was indeed an Arizona Charlie, and he was an epic Western figure, although many of his exploits need to be taken with a grain of salt or maybe the whole shaker. Over the years, Arizona Charlie Meadows rubbed elbows with the great and the infamous. Zane Grey based a novel on one of Meadows’ exploits. He numbered Will Rogers, Buffalo BillCody and Tom Horn among his friends. He met potentates, princes and renowned scoundrels. He lived long enough to see the exploits of his fellow cowboys become a staple of a new form of entertainment, the motion picture.
The Rainbow Company Youth Theatre plans to present “Charlotte’s Web” Friday through Oct. 16 at the Charleston Heights Arts Center. The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, 3800 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is offering free admission to visitors from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. The Atomic Testing Museum, 755 E. Flamingo Road, is hosting “Area 51: Special Projects.” Learn more about these and other events in this week’s Things to Do.
Las Vegas Boulevard is unusual for many reasons, but among them is the presence of two major airports on the valley’s best-known and busiest roads. In any major disaster, the airports would be involved.
The Teach For America program offers recent graduates of all degrees a chance to become educators, placing them at schools in at-risk communities. TFA is a national nonprofit organization that recruits college students for two-year teaching commitments.
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. The Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort, 6725 Lee Canyon Road on Mount Charleston is preparing for its first Oktoberfest. Learn more about these and other activities in this week’s Things to Do.
Through unemployment and an 85-pound weight loss journey, Shelley Fisher gained much more than she lost. The North Las Vegas resident powered through two of her most difficult life hurdles and came out on the other side blinging. Fisher started a program called “Shoestring Bling,” in which she uses her savvy shopping skills to help people find great bargains at thrift stores.
Question: I hope you can help with a small problem with our dwarf peach tree. Something is shredding the leaves, and I cannot see anything after a close inspection. Could this be a nocturnal pest?
With the temperatures in our region finally cooling off, now is a good time to head out to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. There are many canyons to explore in the park but Pine Creek Canyon should be tops on your short list.
Whether she’s writing Silver Sister Mysteries under her own name or penning romantic suspense novels under the pen name Arliss Adams, Las Vegas author Morgan St. James is the picture of prolific. In addition to her fiction, St. James recently released “Writers’ Tricks of the Trade: 39 Things You Need to Know About the ABCs of Writing Fiction,” a how-to book designed to help others pursue the dream she realized at age 68 when her first novel, “A Corpse in the Soup,” was published. For more on the author, visit morganstjames-author.com.
The valley’s water issues are nothing new, and Thomas A. Campbell, who has a pumping station named after him, was right in the middle of them a half century ago,
Edward Gonzalez of Las Vegas and Ajit Kundanani of North Las Vegas received the Agency Hands in the Community Award from The Allstate Foundation for their commitment to helping others in their area.
Clark High School ninth-grader Sara Dula hadn’t seen a dentist in years. Her family couldn’t afford it. Her lack of regular check-ups would have continued had the dentist not come to her. Future Smiles, a nonprofit group that provides oral health care to at-risk students, opened a clinic last month in a modular building at Clark, 4291 W. Pennwood Ave.
Check out this week’s Book Briefs for information about Readings in the Pumpkin Patch, a children’s book event tied to the Vegas Valley Book Festival, and signings for Imani True’s “Strawberries, Stilettos and Steam” and Deborah Wall’s “Base Camp Las Vegas: Hiking the Western States.”
The Family, Fur and Fun Festival is set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Exploration Peak Park, 9700 S. Buffalo Drive, in Mountain’s Edge and the sixth annual Pure Aloha Festival is scheduled for Thursday through Sunday at the Silverton. Learn about these and other arts events in this week’s Things to Do.
POLICE RECORDS BUREAU TO REOPEN SATURDAY AFTER ONE-WEEK CLOSURE
The Metropolitan Police Department’s records bureau is set to reopen at 7 a.m. Saturday at the department’s new headquarters in Building C at 400 S. Martin Luther King Blvd.
“Beep beep’m beep beep, yeah Baby, you can drive my car.” That ’60s Beatles classic you sang as a teenager is finally coming true. Custom choppers and exotic or vintage cars can be found, purchased or driven at Hot Rod City.
Police Chief Phil Arroyo is no longer leading the Clark County School District’s police force.
