A La Carte, Aug. 6-12

Read about dining-related events and promotions across the Las Vegas Valley.

Solving the housing puzzle

Making sense of the complicated Las Vegas housing market can be a bit like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. There are a lot of pieces that fit together, and others await in the box to find their place in the picture.

Our instinctual selves do not define our true selves

I’m in the seventh grade, in music class, singing a stanza. My couplet is “Powdered wig, big fat pig.” My problem is that Mano is standing next to me, whispering in my ear, “Powdered wig, big fat Denise.”

Sales tax increase vote looms for county commissioners

Clark County commissioners face a critical decision Tuesday about whether to enact a sales tax increase aimed at propping up the ranks of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Clang like music to horseshoe pitchers

I have a pal named Chip who lives near here and has a nice view. When I told him I was coming up for the World Horseshoe Tournament, he drove out there before I even arrived.

Local boxing/mentoring club deserves miracle

If you click on the website, you immediately hear the theme song from “Rocky IV,” one that talks about there being no easy way out, no shortcut home, that some things are worth fighting for, that giving in can’t be wrong.

Political Notebook: GSA’s blowout still poster child for waste

There have been other questionable government meetings. Like the $4.1 million small-business conference the Internal Revenue Service held in Anaheim, Calif., in 2010. Or the $6.1 million the Department of Veterans Affairs spent for two 2011 conferences in Orlando, Fla.

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