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Henderson author L. M. Smith started crafting stories and poems as a child and has always been fascinated by mythology and the paranormal. She embraces both along with a bit of sci-fi in her novel “The Citizens.”
Old-fashioned pizza is served here, and that means chemical-free foods, be they organic veggies, hormone-free meats or all-natural cheeses.
In “The Newsroom,” actor Jeff Daniels plays Will McAvoy, news anchor and journalist. In the clip, he’s sitting onstage, apparently between a liberal and a conservative. The panel is taking questions from a roomful of college students. Jennie, a sophomore, comes to the microphone and asks, “Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?”
University of Notre Dame student Caitlin Crommett started DreamCatchers, a nonprofit group that grants final wishes for senior citizens in hospice care, in California as a high school student. Now she’s looking to expand the club to schools and hospices in the Las Vegas Valley.
With summer temperatures at their highest, the nighttime is the right time for recreational activities in the Las Vegas Valley, including night hikes at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
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California-based WorldBed donated 200 mattresses to The Salvation Army of Southern Nevada’s Lied Social Services Campus as part of WorldBed’s efforts to provide 2,000 beds to Las Vegas Valley nonprofit groups.
More than five years of planning and construction went into The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Symphony Park Ave., a project many city officials, residents and president/CEO Myron Martin believed would be a catalyst in the revitalization of downtown.
Downtown Las Vegas has long been known for its appeal to tourists, notably with nightly light shows and live concerts along the Fremont Street Experience. Beyond the historic street’s neon lights, however, are venues and nighttime activities often lesser-known to tourists and frequented by locals.
Teens and children younger than 18 and their parents need to be aware that there are curfew laws in the valley, but they aren’t enforced haphazardly, valley police officials said.