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Can protecting your hearing reduce dementia risk?

While experts don’t fully understand the connection between hearing loss and dementia, there is a “clear association,” Dr. Dale Bredesen says.

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Cards, notes sent after Las Vegas shooting are on display

The messages — plaintive, defiant, encouraging, empathetic — appear on a poster sent to Southern Nevadans by, the poster says, “the Pulse family and all of Orlando” during the weeks following the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.

Co-founder preaches the importance of Burning Man

At his camp, called “The Outback,” at the outer edge of Black Rock City, Michael Mikel cradles his plastic yellow mug on an overcast morning at this year’s festival and reflected on how it all began.

First Friday to debut tweaks to street closures

This month, the footprint of First Friday’s closed-street portion will shift as only areas north of Charleston Boulevard will be closed to traffic.

Familiar faces frequent Composers Showcase at Smith

Too bad Cole Porter already has dibs on the title “Anything Goes.” If only Porter hadn’t written it in 1934, “Anything Goes” would be a perfect title for the Composers Showcase of Las Vegas.

Smith Center ready to remake Las Vegas culture

Live from Las Vegas … Culture. Even as snobs and elites chuckled and snickered from long-distance perches in faraway cities, we knew we had it — though culture here was diffuse, flung around the city and suburbs, and in a larger sense, homeless.