Small trees perfect for today’s little home lots

One of the most challenging design features today is home lot sizes shrinking to postage stamp proportions. If you are looking for a small tree, here are a few suggestions:

‘Terminator’ star still calls Henderson home

Bringing a pop-culture icon to TV is full of so many pitfalls, “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” star Thomas Dekker could be forgiven had he opted for something simpler. Like theoretical physics. Or explaining theoretical physics to Brooke Hogan.

OUT THERE

HIKES

Sons must endure feelings of discomfort, limits to grow into men

If you’re just tuning in, this is Part Two of our discussion about male rites of passage into adult manhood. We’re examining the universal themes of these rites across time and place and culture. Last Sunday, we explored the necessity for radical separation from the mother. Today, The Ordeal.

Hard Times Hit Home

Their lives couldn’t be any different.

NFL bar listing being compiled

The Review-Journal again is compiling a directory of Las Vegas Valley bars that cater to fans of specific NFL teams.

OUTDOOR BRIEFS

GROWING POPULARITY

The Water Cooler

Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.

COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS

MODEL AIRPLANES: Allegiant Travel Co. is defying the odds: The Las Vegas-based airline is making a profit despite a bad economy and rising fuel costs, something almost all other airlines aren’t able to do.

Echelon shutdown getting rave reviews

Boyd Gaming Corp. continues to receive accolades from Wall Street for putting the brakes on its $4.8 billion Echelon project. The company hopes to resume construction on the Strip development sometime next year.

BIOTECH BOOM

As New Jersey stumbled through one of its episodic bouts of dysfunctional state budgeting two years ago, the Nevada Development Authority sensed a chance to pounce on a wounded animal.

ONLY IN CHINA

Pop of summer color adds seasonal cheer

After nearly two decades of living with off-white sofas, I was ready to spin the color wheel and welcome some brighter, bolder hues to my living room when I reupholstered some furnishings this spring.

HOME BRIEFS

Master gardener training to begin

Hope for green future springs eternal at Preserve

Last week, I was sitting on the outdoor deck of a second-floor restaurant in the 100-degree-Fahrenheit heat of early evening. A group of 20 green building professionals were in town to discuss regional coordination among chapters of the U.S. Green Building Council. The setting was appropriate; we were at the Springs Preserve Café, enjoying healthy food, a great view and a light breeze that kept everyone surprisingly comfortable.

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