You never know who you might see in El Sombrero Café. It serves generous portions to a who’s who type of clientele.
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The Las Vegas Badminton Club is seeing more and more players since it started in 2000. Played at a few locations across the valley, games are open to the public. The fee is $2 at most sites.
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My daughter has epilepsy. Her father and I divorced when she was 2. At age 5, she found our wedding pictures and (said) she really liked the pictures. That afternoon, she had her first seizure.
Anna apples will do better if they are shaded by the eight canopy of the tree and not exposed directly to sunlight all day long.
Playboy comedy at the palms announces July headliners
Memories of 9/11
Tyler McAninch graduated July 1 from Army basic training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
Southwest resident Brian Kitchen, 32, and several other local firefighters recently returned from the cluster of fires in Arizona that broke state records and made national headlines. Other notable blazes he’s helped fight include that state’s once largest Rodeo-Chediski fire in 2002 and San Diego’s 2003 Cedar fire.
Find out what’s going on downtown, from Lied Discovery Children’s Museum, 833 Las Vegas Blvd. North, being named one of 500 finalists in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good program to the Hispanic Museum of Nevada’s day camp program.
According to the National Weather Service, July 2010 was the hottest month ever recorded in Las Vegas since record keeping began in 1937. The high reached triple digits every day that month, with a sweltering average temperature of 96.2 degrees. That’s what happens when you plop down civilization in the middle of a 25,000-square-mile desert. Thanks, Mojave. But there are ways to cope with the oven-esque atmosphere.
While it’s easy to say that the answer to summer workouts in Las Vegas is a simple “no,” the fact is that with a little caution and preparation, you can keep fit and tone up while avoiding heat stroke.
The most obvious rule of thumb for summer workouts is to avoid the hottest parts of the day. Your best bet is the early morning hours. During the day buildings absorb heat and release it when the sun goes down. If you must work out outside in the early evening, you can save yourself a few degrees by keeping away from buildings.