Manuel Mathis’ second-grade classroom at Challenger School’s Silverado campus is colorful and welcoming.
John Przybys
Former Lifestyle Reporter
It may trace its lineage to South America, but Henderson Stroll ’n Roll probably still will feel like a good old homegrown Southern Nevada street festival.
It should be called something hip and funky — The Silver State Boutique, maybe — this website where adventurous pre-holiday shoppers can score potentially great deals on cool, retro, maybe even one-of-a-kind jewelry.
When Winfred Henry Asa Pike went off to fight in World War I, he surely knew that he might not return home to his family.
Wonder Woman and James Bond. Would that be an awesome team-up or what?
Sure, it’s about books. Lots and lots of books. But the Las Vegas Book Festival could just as well be named the Las Vegas Ideas Festival.
Southern Nevada members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say the revised Sunday meeting schedule, announced last weekend, is receiving strong support.
Property Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott’s first book for children offers encouragement, and even a home DIY project.
On Oct. 12-13, members of Rancho High School’s Class of 1958 will gather for their 60th reunion. They’re inviting members of Rancho’s classes of 1957 and 1959 to join in.
Las Vegas area museums and archivists have spent the past year collecting and preserving artifacts related to the Oct. 1 shooting and its aftermath, along with stories of those affected by it.
Sure, they’re lanterns rising into the nighttime sky. But for RiSE Festival participants, each lantern is a blank canvas that carries into the heavens messages, in the form of drawings or words, that express joy, pain, regret, gratitude, sorrow, hopeor any other emotion they need to feel, and share, in that moment.
A daylong event on Oct. 5 will connect volunteers with projects at area schools and nonprofits.
The hardest thing about creating “Love and Courage?” Not its size (more than 6 feet tall). Not its weight (almost 3,000 pounds, including its base). Not even the incalculable artistry and physical labor required to transform two massive slabs of fossilized New York bluestone into ethereal angel wings.
Bordalo II’s work is playful and often thought-provoking. It’s not unusual for his pieces to elicit an initial chuckle, followed by a thoughtful “Oh … ”
Rabbi Sanford Akselrad never really harbored a burning desire to become a Las Vegan.