What’s being billed as the world’s largest and utterly inefficient cucumber slicer is touring Las Vegas this weekend, and it will make a stop from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Ricky Martin brought some old-school skills to his new production at The Park Theater, while Keith Thompson welcomed more than a dozen singer-songwriters to the stage at Cabaret Jazz on Wednesday.
Metropolitan Police Department officer Darryl McDonald, 37, didn’t always plan to be a cop. He graduated from UNLV with a focus on architecture and sculpture in 2005 and designed custom pools until the economy went downhill.
First Friday in August may bring out a smaller crowd than you’ll see in the cooler months, but there’s still plenty going on.
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While most people are familiar with the role organized crime played in the casino industry in Las Vegas, the connections between the mafia here and in Cuba are often overlooked.
For a bead or glass maker, every day they go to open the kiln, or oven, to see their finished creation is like Christmas, according to bead maker Darlene Hayes. “You get to see what you created for the first time,” Hayes said. “You never know how it turned out.”
The Art Festival of Henderson returns for Mother’s Day weekend offering new entertainment and art vendors.
Event highlights this week include a free photography class led by Diana Peterson, a Centennial Hills Library exhibit curated by Susanne Forestieri of drawings by University of Nevada, Las Vegas students and Wow! That’s Engineering!, a program for girls in grades 5-8.
Event highlights this week include “ABBA The Concert,” an Abba tribute showat the Eastside Events Center, Rick Arroyo’s Latin Jazz Quintet at the Winchester Cultural Center and the “Art in Action: Spring Break Teen Art Camp Art Exhibition.”
Event highlights this week include the final weeks for the Curious George exhibit at Lied Discovery Children’s Museum and the last week for “SPACE: A Journey to our Future” at the Springs Preserve. Also planned are an Indian food, entertainment and cultural festival and canine celebrations in the Huntridge and McNeil neighborhoods.
Event highlights in North Las Vegas include Kiwanis Kite Day and performances by the College of Southern Nevada Concert Band, Big Band, Singers, Chamber Chorale, Jazz Singers and students of the voice classes.
Las Vegas novelist, poet and short story author Dennis Goode grew up in New York City, the setting for his novel “Time Squares.” The book follows the adventures of two young boys curious about the lives and stories of the neighbors stacked in apartments around them, “intrigued by the fact that people lived on top and below one another, and that they could be seen at once in a single swooping glance.”
Super Summer Theatre is ready to kick off its 2012 season with a revamped stage and new productions.
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“It’s just heartbreaking,” said Judy Roman, whose houseboat was totaled and whose security camera recorded the fire.
Members of the Henderson Fire Department demonstrated how they respond to a 911 call about a child trapped in a hot car.
A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
