Two years ago, Ashley Vargas was hospitalized after a failed suicide attempt. A piece of paper and a small pencil became her keys to recovery.
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A small crowd gathered Saturday at Lorenzi Park’s Sammy Davis Jr. Festival Plaza to learn about other cultures through a series of dance performances with influences from around the globe during Global Fest, a celebration of folk dance organized by the Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs.
The Kizuna Japanese Society was pleasantly surprised when a much larger turnout than expected attended its first spring festival to share the many aspects of Japanese culture.
Between the ages of eight and 14, Clarice Tara lived under an umbrella of mental abuse from her mother’s boyfriend. At 14, she left to live with her father, whose abuse of drugs drove Clarice to forms of self-abuse herself.
Never underestimate the potential of a good workplace conversation. Gaile Ferguson, Brenda Dumas and Carolyn Hurst are artists who work in the media of, respectively, photography, fused glass art and quilts. But, like many artists, they pay the bills by working 9-to-5 jobs, in education.
Peter Sachs’ father, Hans, went to his grave wondering whether the Nazis had destroyed the renowned poster collection he’d devoted his life to building.
Nathaniel Montague, a former disc jockey known as “Magnificent Montague,” owns a collection of rare African-American artifacts that has drawn the interest of the Smithsonian Institution.