Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman re iterated downtown’s resurgence during a May 31 press conference in which representatives from the Downtown Las Vegas Alliance and businesses announced the Rediscover Downtown initiative, a social media campaign designed to attract locals to the area.
The line between colleagues’ work and personal lives is sometimes blurred. But for the El Cortez’s father-daughter duo Alex and Kenny Epstein, such a line doesn’t exist.
William Ramirez was honored by his son Jordin, along with some friends, who wrote letters recognizing Ramirez for Father’s Day.
Want to remove the temptation to use your cellphone while driving? There’s an app for that. Several mobile carriers offer apps that allow smartphones to auto-reply to texts, alerting the senders that you are driving, and send incoming calls to voice mail.
Northwest Reiki Circle and Station Casinos’ Metal Month top the list of this week’s Centennial event listings.
Getting pushed around only propelled Lily Stolar forward. The 19-year-old Centennial Hills resident took aim at bullying and received recognition for it.
Sixteen-year-old Samantha of Centennial Hills is set to celebrate Father’s Day in triplicate Sunday. The men who were lifelong father figures and “uncles” – Lloyd Ziel and his housemates, couple Tony and Scott Arias – took in the teen.
Small neighborhood pizza joints are friendly and cozy, serving up tasty pizza at neighborhood prices.
This school year the Clark County School District tested financial literacy programs at 12 high schools around the Las Vegas Valley, including the $mart Program, a series of web-based educational lessons by Washington, D.C.-based developer EverFi.
Event highlights this week include ongoing entertainment in the South Padre nightclub inside Texas Station and shows at the College of Southern Nevada Planetarium.
The West African country of Cameroon is a bit closer to North Las Vegas thanks to artist Angu Walters. The 30-year-old painter is a splash of color in a din of poverty and political unrest, said Chuck Cavanaugh, the Southwest resident who helped put Walters’ name on the lips of Las Vegas artists.
Chris Gellner enjoyed his job so much, he spread the wealth, and his reach was fairly familial.
Some men don’t deserve just a regular necktie this Father’s Day because some men aren’t just regular fathers. Meet two North Las Vegas dads who fit the description.
East Timor is a small country plagued with poverty in Southeast Asia. Clark High School student Nicolas Vaughn is trying to spur its economy by forming a club at the school that serves as a microbank, providing small loans to East Timorese.
Question: I often enjoy your pieces, and your suggestion of replacing rock mulch with wood chips caught my attention. I have an 18-year-old velvet ash in a small (20 feet by 20 feet), rock-covered front yard. Does this tree do better with rock or wood chips around its trunk?
With school finally out for summer and a long stretch of hot weather looming, Southern Nevada families have both the time and good reason to seek more distant and cooler climates for hiking or sightseeing
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For Father’s Day, Family to Family Connection, a nonprofit organization with the goal of building stronger families in the community, is offering fathers (and mothers) and their children the opportunity to participate in an arts and crafts class.
Former Las Vegas showgirl Vicki Pettersson has launched a new series on the heels of her hit Signs of the Zodiac novels. The Celestial Blues series follows rockabilly reporter Kit Craig and fallen angel Grif Shaw. Kit loves the ’50s, Grif is from the ’50s. It would be a match made in heaven, if either of them were there. Instead the unlikely team is on a search for a killer loose in Las Vegas.
This week’s event highlights include “Crazy for You” at Super Summer Theatre and Bass Pro Shops Family Summer Camp.
Father’s Day takes on a whole new meaning when dear ol’ dad is the boss. Mordechai Yerushalmi started his business, The Jewelers of Las Vegas, 2400 Western Ave., in 1976 with his wife Vicki. Since then, the couple, originally from Israel, have raised four children.
