Cortney S. Warren, an associate psychology professor at UNLV, has written a book about the lies we tell ourselves — the ways in which we deceive ourselves, sometimes consciously but usually not — and the havoc self-deception can cause in our lives, our relationships and our careers..
“It was an extravaganza.” That’s how Antioco Carrillo, executive director of Aid for Aids of Nevada, popularly known as AFAN, describes the three days of parties last month that raised money for adults and children affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Nevada.
Dear Savvy Senior: How can you know when someone has a gambling problem? Since my father died a couple years ago, my 76-year-old mother spends a lot of time at an Indian casino near her house playing slot machines. — Troubled Son
As I ride the express elevator down the back nine of my life, I do what a lot of middle-age baby boomers do: I seek, treasure and cherish regular doses of nostalgia. Nostalgia is what finally takes me to see the film version of the Broadway hit “Jersey Boys,” a jukebox musical telling of the band the Four Seasons.
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On Monday, in Courtroom 1 of the James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse on Seventh Street in San Francisco, the final steps in repealing Nevada’s 12-year-old ban on gay marriage are scheduled to begin.
Southern Nevada local governments so rarely enact money-saving efficiencies that it’s tempting to applaud even the slightest spending reduction. But a well-intended attempt to consolidate some administrative functions is such a missed opportunity, it makes us wonder whether officials understand the problem they’re trying to address.
Leave rattlesnakes alone. They don’t want to bother you anymore than you want to bother them. Pretty good libertarian rule.
Las Vegas starter Logan Verrett had 11 strikeouts in five innings Saturday night in Game 4 but also threw three wild pitches and allowed five runs (two earned) to the Aces in a 7-3 defeat before a crowd of 5,420 at Aces Ballpark.
A west Texas kindergartner was sent home from his first day of school this year because his hair was too long.
U.S. President Barack Obama reversed course on Saturday and delayed taking executive action on immigration reform until after November congressional elections, bowing to concerns it could cost his fellow Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.
When you’re going up against a team that has lost 11 straight football games and you have the talent at wide receiver that UNLV has, you can’t allow yourself to continually stall out.
UNLV senior defensive tackle Brandon Willis was a disruptive force in helping the Rebels hold off the pesky Bears, 13-12, in front of an announced crowd of 17 ,289 at Sam Boyd Stadium. He had five tackles, a sack and broke up a pass as UNLV evened its record at 1-1.
The senior free safety intercepted Sean Rubalcaba’s third-down pass and returned it 21 yards to the Northern Colorado 20. The Rebels were able to get points out of the turnover on Jonathan Leiva’s 35-yard field goal and went on to survive, 13-12, Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
UNLV found itself in quite a fight at Sam Boyd Stadium, and even though the Rebels won 13-12, the rest of the season is beginning to look way too much like so many previous years.
The morning bell won’t ring until 9 a.m. at the earliest for any Nevada middle or high school if one state lawmaker has his way.
In the days leading up to the SLS Las Vegas opening, Sam Nazarian’s phone was ringing off the hook. Nazarian, 39, the visionary behind the SLS, quickly learned he had support from the competition for the $415 million renovation of the Rat Pack-era Sahara.
A rare three-day flash flood watch has been issued for Southern Nevada starting Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
The doubles teams of Mike Fiscus and Damon Phillips, and Jonah Grepke and Quinn O’Sullivan both went 1-0 Saturday to help Faith Lutheran’s boys tennis team to an 11-7 win over Bonanza at Durango.
A rural Northern Nevada county will send a message the old-fashioned way to Washington about what it calls federal overreach on public lands: by horseback.
UNLV beat Northern Colorado 13-12 on Saturday for the team’s first win of the year, but it may have come at the cost of player Marcus Sullivan, who was hurt in the closing seconds.
Vince Farrow began visiting the city in the mid-1990s to see friends who lived here. He grew to love life off-Strip, so when the Governor’s Office of Economic Development posted an opening in 2012 for an industry specialist to recruit new health care businesses and practitioners to the state, Farrow jumped at the opportunity.
Car sharing, a transportation model used all over the world, has finally landed in Las Vegas in the form of Zipcar, an offshoot of the Avis Budget Group.
On Tuesday, hundreds of items producer David O. Selznick saved, including dresses worn in the film, scripts, story boards and other things, will go on display at the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center as part of a 75th anniversary tribute, “The Making of Gone With the Wind.”
A man was hospitalized and at least one more was on the run in North Las Vegas after a Saturday morning officer involved shooting, police said.
A Northern Nevada gay couple are eagerly awaiting Monday’s appeals court hearing on a challenge to the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
