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Neon Museum receives $425K grant for major expansion

For the first time since opening in October 2012, the Neon Museum has purchased additional land to allow for the nonprofit’s first significant expansion.

Trumpet great Pero’s night ends on a sour note

Joey Pero’s night was befitting a sad trombone solo as he was knocked down and suffered a broken leg after the first rehearsal of “Bandstand” in New York.

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Mob Museum speakers celebrate heritage of Las Vegas building

Every picture tells a story, the saying goes. Sometimes, a building can too. On Sunday, a panel described how the building that today houses the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas helped put the then-young city on the map.

And one to crow on: Las Vegas festival marks the end of Chinese New Year celebration

The Chinese New Year Celebration and Asian Food Festival, held at Chinatown Plaza, 4255 Spring Mountain Road, was packed with people Sunday. The festival, marking the Year of the Rooster, which started Jan. 28, took up half of the parking lot in front of Chinatown Plaza and celebrated its 23rd year.

Optical illusion murals on the Las Vegas Strip put guests in the art

People who create art tend to be touchy about the people who view art becoming too familiar with it. That’s why velvet ropes and humorless guards are fixtures at art museums and why taking a photograph of a painting is considered almost as forbidden as spitting on a van Gogh.