Looking for fun in Southwest and Spring Valley? Consider An Evening of Cabaret with singer/ actress Lainie Kazan or a concert featuring Osmonds brothers Wayne, Merrill, Jay and Jimmy.
The Las Vegas Grille, with its outdoor patio, is a comfortable smokehouse-style restaurant that has become the place to enjoy wood-roasted meats, poultry, fish and vegetables.
Officials throughout the Las Vegas Valley are taking measures to ensure safety during Halloween this year, alerting residents of suggested trick-or-treating hours and hosting events to promote alternative ways of celebrating.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ University Forum lecture series is in its 28th year, and its purpose of providing engaging presentations to the local community still holds true since its inception.
At 25 years old, Overton native Meagan Brammer is fighting a battle that few people her age face. After graduating from high school in 2004, Brammer was diagnosed with Stage 3 malignant melanoma from a mole on one of her toes. Brammer had her toe amputated, and the cancer spread to her left leg.
Current southwest resident Shelly Plotkin began his career as an iceman, hauling blocks and bags of ice in the days before refrigerators became a common household appliance. Today he’s working in another vanishing occupation. He owns and operates Sunrise Glass & Hardware, an independent hardware store at 1482 N. Nellis Blvd.
This busy, unassuming family restaurant is popular for its traditional dishes but especially for its special $3.75 dishes.
The city of North Las Vegas’s slice of the federally-funded Neighborhood Stabilization Program hopes to set a new scene in zip codes riddled by foreclosure and abandonment.
The shortest stop of a recent two-day Seniors on the Go bus trip to Arizona fulfilled a lifelong goal for one valley resident. This June, Joan Crooks had about 30 minutes and 30 extra pairs of eyes in Tombstone, Ariz.’s Boothill Graveyard helping her locate her grandfather, Glenn Efrom Will, a turn-of-the-century rodeo star and gun-slinging cowboy known as Bronco Bill.
You might be impressed when Jan VanTuyl tells you he’s been teaching in the Clark County School District for 40 years, but that pales in comparison to the 60 years he’s been coaching overall. He was the inspiration for the first gymnastics team in Henderson and is currently building a new tennis team at Desert Pines High School.
NorthGate Christian Church recently marked its 70th anniversary with a weekend celebration, or “family reunion” as it was dubbed, in which friends reunited, voices lifted, visitors from 15 states attended and former pastors were represented. The decades were filled with name and location changes when leadership swapped and the congregation swelled. It had a humble following in 1941, and now its roughly 250 members await a new building planned for Washburn Road and Donna Street.
With his legal defenses and funds largely exhausted, Marcel Taylor had no choice but to end his 22-year run as the owner of Ruth’s Chris Steak House just east of the Strip.
