North Las Vegas’ Christmas tree lighting and “MahlerFest” at the College of Southern Nevada are among event highlights this week.
Have you ever wondered why you wear underwear? In the new kids’ book “50 Underwear Questions: A Bare-All History” by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illustrated by Ross Kinnaird, you’ll find out.
This week’s event highlights include a production of “Fallen Guardian Angels,” by Las Vegas playwright Edward D. Padilla, performances of Sarah Ruhl’s “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” and an arts and vintage clothing fair.
Literary highlights this week include events with Andrew Kiraly, Maxwell Drake, Chris Baughman, Oscar Oswald, Brittany Bronson and Carolyn Schneider.
Eric Olsen and Glenn Schaeffer worked together to found the International Institute of Modern Letters, based in Las Vegas, and the City of Asylum program for dissident writers. Schaeffer may be better known to some as the 20-year president of Mandalay Resort Group.
The face of Mount Charleston is ever-changing. Several U.S. Forest Service projects and plans aim to keep the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area functional for its estimated 300,000 annual visitors.
Unresolved grief can lead to a downward spiral and contribute to social issues such as homelessness, high prison rates, alcoholism and drug addictions, said Erin Breen, the program coordinator of Solace Tree, which provides grief support groups. Solace Tree recently teamed up with Family Institute of Nevada, 3663 Sunset Road, which has been offering drug counseling and mental health programs for the past four years.
Question: I have a Washington navel orange which is about four or five years old. The fruit is splitting. What causes this?
Pop artist Manika Ward remembers the surreal moment of driving down the street and hearing her music blasting on the radio. “I was like, ‘That’s not my iPod, it’s the radio,’ ” said Manika, who goes professionally by her first name in a Madonna and Rihanna style. “Then of course I freaked out and was really excited.”
Turkey is still popular in many homes, but for others it’s time to venture out for something other than pumpkin pie. And that means Chinese.
RagTag Entertainment’s plans “Music Can Be Murder: An Interactive Murder Mystery Experience” and a free Off-Road Fan Expo for the Transwest Ford Henderson 250 are among event highlights this week in Henderson.
I am a 60-year-old grandmother in poor health. My 33-year-old son moved back home with me with his 2½-year-old son. My son is filing for divorce and has no other place to go. His credit is shattered by breaking a lease with a local apartment. The crisis is his toddler son has absolutely no manners. He tells me to “(expletive), Grandma.” He throws things at me. If SpongeBob is on and the program goes to commercial, he screams and throws a nuclear tantrum.
You might be a “Twilight” addict if you throw a private premiere party, pay homage to the main characters’ wedding, fly in items from the town the book is set in and rent out a private screening for 76 friends. In that case, that is what Henderson resident Danielle Avila and her friend Alison Memmott are — “Twilight” addicts, also known as Twi-Hards.
The Las Vegas program of the U.S. Paralympics Sport Club, sponsored by the Clark County School District and the city of Las Vegas’ Adaptive Recreation Division, hosted a gathering Nov. 16 at Rancho High School for Clark County School District students with physical disabilities or visual impairments.
Travel around Summerlin with an observant eye and you’ll soon discover that an alarming number of folks still don’t understand it’s illegal to text and use hand-held cell phones while driving. Or, maybe they just don’t give a hoot.
Art and music programs may be diminishing throughout the country, but G. Kim Franz, owner of Goldie’s Studio, 598 S. Decatur Blvd., aims to fill this void in Las Vegas.
This week’s event highlights include : Signature Productions’ “A Signature Christmas,” Silvertones Chorus’ “It’s the Holiday Season a Holiday Concert of Song,” “A Scinta Christmas,” Faith Lutheran Jr/Sr High School Theatre’s production of “A Christmas Story” and a performance of the Watoto Children’s Choir from Uganda.
Don’t tell Jim Wise, “You can’t.” Wise tried his hand at country music, and now he’s opened concerts for stars such as Collin Raye, Joe Diffie, Waylon Jennings and Alan Jackson.
After an eight-year drought in the Las Vegas Valley, water parks are making a comeback. The first phase of Splash Canyon Waterpark includes a 25-acre project with 20 slides, a wave pool, a 1,000-foot lazy river, a play structure, a toddler pool and more. A second phase in the plans would expand the park.
Internet radio station Vegas Kool hopes programs such as “Vegas Unwrapped” will keep residents tuning in and participating.
The holiday lights are on at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, and the lights also are glowing at the Springs Cafe, now operated by the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas.
Seven ponies, two donkeys, one horse, three llamas, five sheep, four pigs, eight goats, 20 chickens, three ducks, seven rabbits and some odd doves and cockatiels, the manager of J.R. Pony Farm lists.
The Insurgo Theater Movement is offering a free workshop from 1 to 5 p.m. every Saturday through March 10, 2012, at the Plaza , 1 S. Main St.