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Seven Days
A curated guide to this week in your city
May 15th, 2013
Time for another installment of Helldorado Days, Las Vegas’ longest-running civic event. This one’s big: a daily carnival, the Whiskerino beard contest Friday, a parade Saturday and professional rodeo stars doing their thing daily. The fun happens in and around Downtown. Read more »
Found Material
Nevada Has Plastic Priorities
May 15th, 2013
Las Vegas is often chided for its inauthenticity, so is it any surprise that our state’s highest paid public employee is a plastic surgeon? Read more »
Real Estate
Will Any of Those Out-of-Town Buyers Wind Up Living Here?
It might take time, but out-of-towners could be thinking retirement to Vegas
May 15th, 2013
Las Vegas has long been a popular second address for out-of-towners. And with so many out-of-state cash buyers these days, the civic-minded Las Vegan can only hope that some of these investors will want to actually live in these homes someday. Read more »
The End of 'Vegas'
May 15th, 2013
Vegas has crapped out. Based on a fictionalized version of the career of former Clark County Sheriff Ralph Lamb (portrayed by Dennis Quaid), the 1960s-set drama has been canceled by CBS after one season. Read more »
Editor's Note
The Green Hour
May 13th, 2013
At a time when—politically, economically, culturally—so much seems so wrong to so many of us, it’s easy to forget about the environment. It’s the ultimate peace-and-prosperity issue, the thing we think about when everything else isn’t on our mind. Read more »
Firefly Fiasco Doesn't Slow UNLV Ad Team
May 8th, 2013
Lisa Coruzzi was fighting cold sweats, noodly legs and stabbing abdominal pain when she and four fellow UNLV students took the stage April 24 at the University of California Fullerton’s Titan Student Pavilions. Read more »
Seven Days
A curated guide to this week in your city
May 7th, 2013
Let’s start off the week with a little theater, shall we? In this case, the Las Vegas Little Theatre, which is a little more than a week into its run of Good People, a show set in South Boston where everyone is scrambling to catch a break. Read more »
Three Questions: Shade Tree
May 7th, 2013
Since 1990, women and children have found refuge from abuse, poverty and other dangers 24 hours a day at the Shade Tree shelter. Director Marlene Richter says the facility’s 364 beds are full every day of the year, but Mother’s Day—when ideals of maternity take center stage—is especially difficult. Read more »
