Q: Have you ever heard of adding vinegar or citric acid when fertilizing indoor plants in our area? We collect rain water and use it for our indoor plants.
Q: The screens on my windows are tattered and look terrible. I would like to change them, but I’ve never done it before. Please give me the basics so that I don’t pull my hair out.
“It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.” Homer (circa 850 B.C.), ancient Greek epic poet, “Odyssey” (ninth century B.C.)
Would you like Steve Aoki to throw a cake in your face? Because he will throw a cake in your face. In public. He’s good at it.
A story about hotel art in Sunday’s Skills That Pay the Bills special section incorrectly stated the amount of money MGM Resorts International spends on art at its Las Vegas properties. MGM Resorts plans to spend $350 million in capital expenditures in 2013, which may include art purchases. Also, in a photo accompanying the story, a sculpture outside Vdara is not part of the CityCenter Fine Arts Collection.
In the months before the start of the 2013 Legislature, there appeared to be some political momentum behind a plan to build a domed stadium — described by its backers as a “mega-events center” — on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. Legislation to create a special taxing district promised to be one of the more important bills of the year.
Las Vegas is a town known for separating willing tourists from their money with games of chance. But a new legislative audit has found some companies are taking tourists’ money by outright fraud.
Ballet is big, serious business generally. Pirouettes and leaps are always perfect, always in sync. Dancers show the emotion appropriate for the piece and no more.
They never anticipated signing a record deal with the dude in the blond wig and skirt, bashing out punk rock covers of Britney Spears tunes.
Given the prevalence of smartphones, tablets and those screens in the back of every other minivan, watching a movie in your car isn’t the novelty it once was.
We’re all familiar with Mother’s Day. Father’s Day, too. We mark our calendars for the holidays, remind ourselves to get gifts, and always make the phone calls.
Veronic DiCaire was coached on her Celine Dion impression by a true expert.
When it comes to the Vegas Indie Film Fest! less is most definitely more.
■ LAKE MEAD — Competitive and recreational anglers alike found good action for smallmouth and largemouth bass over the weekend. Windy conditions stirred up the water, but anglers casting dark plastics found success. Anglers are catching striped bass from Vegas Wash to 33 Hole; however, most are on the small side. Gizzard shad can be found in the back of the wash.
While many of us have personalized license plates on our vehicles that tell the world what we would like to do, Larry Brinker’s license plate tells the world what he actually does, which is catch bass. You might even say his truck is just “4bassin.”
I’m not sure even Justin Timberlake could bring sexy back to this year’s NFL Draft. Wouldn’t matter, anyway. He would be late to the news conference honoring his achievement.
The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline will be looking for a new general counsel and executive director when David Sarnowski retires June 30, and the pay is a not-to-be-sneered-at $137,145, plus state benefits.
A 28-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a joint campaign by Las Vegas police and federal investigators against suspected pimps.
WASHINGTON — Las Vegas attorney Jennifer Dorsey fielded her first official questions on Wednesday in a bid to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a federal judge in Nevada.
Clark County commissioners are considering a proposal to increase the county’s property tax to generate as much as $45 million more in annual revenue to support University Medical Center.
Leaders from the largest nonprofits in the Las Vegas area convened Wednesday morning to find ways to better deliver their message to the community.
WASHINGTON — Nellis Air Force Base may be rocked by the sequester, but planning continues for upgrades to base housing and projects to support the arriving F-35 fighter jets.
Dipak Desai is once more faking the extent of his strokes and there is no need to delay his criminal trial to examine questions about his competency, prosecutors told the Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Richard Suen spent Wednesday afternoon on the witness stand recounting more aspects of his consulting work for Las Vegas Sands Corp. as the company’s lawyers again tried to highlight more perceived changes in his story.