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The monthly First Friday downtown Arts District festival is scheduled from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday. Many area galleries also open for Preview Thursday openings. This month’s theme is the Art of Romance. Scheduled activities and gallery shows include:
Clark County Museum is scheduled to ope an exhibit about the facts and myths of cowboys and American Indians.
— The Cockroach Theatre inside Art Square, 1025 S. First St., plans to continue its run of “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” a play by Rajiv Joseph, at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 17. Tickets are $15 and $18. Visit cockroachtheatre.com.
Stephano’s has been a popular restaurant near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for 15 years because of its good food, quick service and large selection of Mediterranean food and imported beers.
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Question: For many years, my family has had access to wild, abandoned quince bushes in the east San Francisco Bay area. We have since moved from there and see that you list this fruit as a tree that may survive here in the Las Vegas area with the proper soil.
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts hosted the 14th annual Youth Concert Series Jan. 11, providing free symphony orchestra performances to more than 13,000 fourth- and fifth-graders from about 115 local schools.
If you ever find yourself in need of the staff and volunteers of Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada, chances are it will be at a bad time in your life. When it’s all over, you’ll know you were lucky to have them there.
Forty-year-old Paul Balikian did not know what kind of business he wanted to open, but he knew where he wanted to open it.
Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones unveiled a website designed to make the district “one of the most transparent large school districts in the nation.” A breakdown of the district’s $2 billion budget is at ccsd.net/district/open-book.