This week’s book event highlights include a new media expert’s lecture on the ethics of digital ditching, the All-Stars Slam of Poetry and readings by UNLV students at NeonLit.
Downtown
Here’s your guide to downtown and Paradise event highlights including First Friday, Bite at the Museum 2: Back for Seconds, holiday happenings and more.
The Cultural Corridor Coalition is preparing for another holiday-filled December to Remember , with events such as a statue dedication, arts and crafts and the addition of the Las Vegas Shakespeare Company.
Have you ever wondered why you wear underwear? In the new kids’ book “50 Underwear Questions: A Bare-All History” by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illustrated by Ross Kinnaird, you’ll find out.
Literary highlights this week include events with Andrew Kiraly, Maxwell Drake, Chris Baughman, Oscar Oswald, Brittany Bronson and Carolyn Schneider.
Eric Olsen and Glenn Schaeffer worked together to found the International Institute of Modern Letters, based in Las Vegas, and the City of Asylum program for dissident writers. Schaeffer may be better known to some as the 20-year president of Mandalay Resort Group.
Question: I have a Washington navel orange which is about four or five years old. The fruit is splitting. What causes this?
Turkey is still popular in many homes, but for others it’s time to venture out for something other than pumpkin pie. And that means Chinese.
I am a 60-year-old grandmother in poor health. My 33-year-old son moved back home with me with his 2½-year-old son. My son is filing for divorce and has no other place to go. His credit is shattered by breaking a lease with a local apartment. The crisis is his toddler son has absolutely no manners. He tells me to “(expletive), Grandma.” He throws things at me. If SpongeBob is on and the program goes to commercial, he screams and throws a nuclear tantrum.
The Las Vegas program of the U.S. Paralympics Sport Club, sponsored by the Clark County School District and the city of Las Vegas’ Adaptive Recreation Division, hosted a gathering Nov. 16 at Rancho High School for Clark County School District students with physical disabilities or visual impairments.
Art and music programs may be diminishing throughout the country, but G. Kim Franz, owner of Goldie’s Studio, 598 S. Decatur Blvd., aims to fill this void in Las Vegas.
The firm that created the award-winning slogan “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” is turning its attention to bullying, and it hopes this idea won’t stay in Las Vegas.
The Insurgo Theater Movement is offering a free workshop from 1 to 5 p.m. every Saturday through March 10, 2012, at the Plaza , 1 S. Main St.