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You don’t have to be Greek to enjoy the Greek Food Festival or Italian to enjoy the San Gennaro Feast. So, organizers of the Las Vegas PRIDE festival are trying to get the word out that their festival is not just for the LGBT community, but for everyone.
Las Vegas author Susan Johnson takes readers through her sheltered California childhood and then inside a mind out of balance in “Some Dreams Are Worth Keeping: A Memoir of My Bipolar Journey.”
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Art aficionados know that October is likely to inspire galleries full of spooky and weird paintings, but several venues in the Las Vegas Valley are hosting shows full of art that seems spooky on the surface but is actually a celebration of life through the embrace of death.
Drugs. Alcohol. Prostitution. When life gets too tough, some women seek help at the Walter Hoving Home.
Catherine LaScala and Lilly Fletcher share ingratiating smiles and numbers on a birthday cake. Each woman will soon be celebrating her 102nd birthday. LaScala’s birthday is in December, and Fletcher’s is in March.
The Linq is debuting its first haunted attraction, The Zombie Escape, this October, and to help bring it to life, local haunted house aficionados and North Las Vegas residents Des and Daniel Slatkin were brought on board.
Two years ago, southwest Las Vegas resident Linda Perry was struggling with her then 8-year-old daughter Sara’s behavior at home and in school. Sara was diagnosed with a learning disorder, had trouble speaking, and as a result, became a target of bullying.
So Perry turned to horse therapy at White Horse Youth Ranch, 8390 W. Windmill Lane, a Christian faith-based nonprofit dedicated to helping socially challenged youths ages 5 to 18.
There are no prayers, no preaching or questions about faith. The October Community Day of Service may be coordinated through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the focus is entirely on doing something for others. And the entire community is invited to participate.
Bess Norris was ready to commit suicide. Her mental health issues, which included bipolar disorder and depression, had reached a breaking point.
Tony Toscano, who grew up in the NorthEnd of Boston, shares the story of a bright young boy’s rise in the Boston Mafia in the book “90 Prince Street.”
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Sometimes in life, you have to lose something to find something better. Rosie Mercado knows that statement all too well. She feels like she’s lost a whole person since her weight loss journey began.
Dr. David Henderson doesn’t mind if he’s considered the driving force for pushing for spay and neuter legislation in Nevada.
Las Vegas writer Toni K. Pacini’s “Alabama Blue: A Southern Gothic Memoir” takes readers on a wild ride beginning beneath the tattered wings of a neglectful mother. “I always had to stay awake when Momma drank to make sure she didn’t drop a lit cigarette when she nodded off; it was a survival thing,” Pacini said.
Las Vegas is largely defined by its ability to defy expectations, and recent forecasts predicting a decline in its appeal to younger travelers are no exception. Contrary to these gloomy predictions, which suggest that an aging core visitor base might render the city’s 150,000 hotel rooms less appealing to new generations, the reality is strikingly […]
Speakers at a Board of Regents meeting expressed disappointment in a lack of response from the board and UNLV leadership on a recent commencement speech.
A weak trough passing north of Las Vegas will bring some gusty winds as the only blemish on a Memorial Day weekend forecast, says the National Weather Service.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
Safety while boating at Lake Mead National Recreation Area has long been an issue, leading to several deaths almost every year since 2000.
