Even though the Fourth of July is in the middle of the week, some venues have chosen to honor the holiday with events on the actual day while others have moved the celebration to the weekend.
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Downtown Las Vegas businesses are booming from the Fremont East Entertainment District to the 18b Arts District and beyond. Meanwhile, new trends are afoot regarding residential options and preferences.
Event highlights this week include Downtown3rd’s free screening of “Honeymoon in Vegas,” the Lied Discovery Children’s Museum’s “Torn From Home: My Life as a Refugee” exhibit and Red, White and Tunes at the Springs Preserve.
With a recent wave of businesses opening downtown, ones that have been around for decades seem few and far between. Le Gardia’s Flowers and Gift Baskets is one business that has been in existence longer than most in its area.
The Clark County School District’s new chief of police says he wants to rebuild relationships with the community that have suffered in recent years.
SHADOW LANE IMPROVEMENTS START BETWEEN ALTA AND CHARLESTON
Highlights this week include signings for local author Lindsey Leavitt’s final Princess for Hire book “A Farewell to Charms” and information about the Black Mountain Institute’s 2012-13 Diana L Bennett Fellows.
If you have a few days and dollars this summer to invest, you can get much for your money and time at Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks in California. In these adjacent and jointly managed parks about six hours from Las Vegas, you can wander among the largest trees on earth, hike some of the 850 miles of maintained trail, swim in cool snow-fed mountain streams, and maybe see a black bear or three.
Question: Last fall, we planted an olive tree that was certified to be nonfruit blooming. Now, it is full of olives! I just want it to grow. So, should we pluck the little olives off the tree so it can put its energy into growth?
The woman found dead in a hot tub Friday has been identified as Kara Jarman, 79, of Las Vegas.
North Las Vegas police on Monday continued to investigate a weekend shooting that put two 18-year-olds in the hospital.
Celebrity stories hang like stale cigarette smoke in the dusty, dead Atomic Liquors lounge in downtown Las Vegas.
Entertainers Barbra Streisand, Burt Reynolds and Tom and Dick Smothers are said to have graced the squat, brick hut just a few blocks east of Fremont Street’s flashy casino lights.