When winter storms frost the mountains to the west of Las Vegas, hordes of visitors head for the high country in search of snowy adventures. Following Christmas, visitors don bright new mufflers and gloves, load sleds or toboggans in the car and eagerly aim for the alpine wonderland. The only place in Southern Nevada with enough snow, the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, part of Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, offers a variety of winter activities.
It must have been sneaked onto the air by some conscientious VH1 employee while everyone else at the channel was busy scouring the country for fading celebrities and dozens of young women, with little more than daddy issues and a dream, willing to have sex with them.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
We are, it seems, in the age of the happy hour.
Martin Andrew is an impersonator by trade, but his new gig feels real.
Ah, pierogi. If you’ve ever spent any time in any of the country’s Eastern European enclaves, you know, like Kelly Slade, just how delightful they can be. And her quest for fresh, handmade pierogi in potato-cheese flavor has been answered.
A man (or woman) all alone on a stage, working with no safety net beyond talent, charisma and the good will generated by the effort.
Nevada’s vast regions of public lands contain hundreds of intriguing sites where its ancient human history is written on the rocks. Over several thousand years, various cultures living in what is now Nevada left a rich heritage of rock art in the form of petroglyphs and pictrographs. Visiting some of the most accessible sites provides glimpses at the mysterious past long before European settlers arrived on this continent.
Whatever you may think of “The Jay Leno Show,” it has made compiling a list of the year’s best TV much easier.
You’ve heard about the national obesity problem — and that’s a statement, not a question, because I’m assuming most of you don’t live in caves. You know that portion sizes are one of the big problems with weight control — or at least our inability or unwillingness to reduce them is. You’ve vowed to cut back, eat less, move more.
Gather ’round kiddies, and I shall tell you a magical Christmas tale of a little boy who grew up to be a successful Las Vegas magician. (All the other “magical” tales here involve gambling.)
Joan Adams is looking for large and small — but not Minute — tapioca, and readers have several recommendations.
When I was a kid, I often wanted to crawl inside my TV. Usually around the time “Charlie’s Angels” — and, more specifically, Cheryl Ladd — came on.
A little-known oasis of natural warm springs, meandering creeks and thick stands of palm trees lies less than an hour’s drive from Las Vegas in Moapa Valley. Once a popular destination for swimming and picnics, Warm Springs became part of a national wildlife refuge in 1979, dedicated to the preservation of endangered fish and other unique native species.
