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Theme of February’s First Friday: ‘From the HeART’

The First Friday arts festival is set for 5-11 p.m. Feb. 3 at throughout the 18b Arts District, near Charleston Boulevard and Main Street. The event includes live entertainment, artists’ booths, food vendors, the artisan bazaar, music and a live painting exhibition. The streets surrounding the block that includes Art Square, 1025 S.First St., are set to close.

Warehouse offers low-cost building supplies to those in need

Framing Hope Warehouse products are used for repairing and maintaining facilities. Arnold Stalk, founder of Veterans Village, has used them to renovate an old motel into state-of-the-art housing for veterans in need.

Big Apple Coaster operations manager dreamed about working for attraction

For two and a half years, Wendy Ellebrecht’s morning routine involved careening down a hill at 65 mph, being turned upside down and whipping around a tight, stomach-churning spiral before coming to a quick and decisive stop three and a half minutes later.

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Breakfast & Grill Cafe aims to be many things to many diners

A sign on the wall at Breakfast & Grill Cafe states that the restaurant’s seating capacity is 60. It fell 59 diners short of that during two recent dining-review visits — one in the afternoon, the other shortly after it opened at 7 a.m.

SeaQuest Aquarium opens at Boulevard Mall

For a desert, the valley has a lot of odd aquarium features, but you can’t pet the fish behind the registration desk at The Mirage, you can’t feed the trout at Bass Pro Shops and you can’t swim with the sharks at Shark Reef.

Detective work helped Las Vegas museum present Les Folies Bergère items

When the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas acquired more than 8,000 costumes and other items from Les Folies Bergere, they came with a mystery. Two women have been unraveling it with the help of photographs, first-person accounts and a little dancing.

Small theaters provide culture in east valley

In a town where you can see circus performers, superstar musicians, and the topless undead, it can be a challenge for thought-provoking productions — based on subtle wordplay and nuanced acting — to get noticed. Several of the valley’s most interesting theaters, productions and spaces are in east valley.

Sessions throughout valley focus on various types of art

Many art educators contend that drawing from life and, in particular, drawing from the figure is the foundation of all other arts. Others say life drawing is not a means to an end, but an end in itself. Either way, those interested in life drawing have weekly and monthly options in the Arts District.

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