Chanti Evans is used to flying under the radar. Her mother is a vice cop, and in the Denver ‘hood where they live, cops are not cool. Blowing Lana’s cover is not cool, either, so Chanti keeps all that quiet. Not even her BFF since third grade, Tasha, knows the truth.
Downtown
A delegation of Ukrainian judges, translators and others visited the valley from Sept. 10 -17, at the Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Ave., as part of the Open World, Rule of Law Program.
In his office atop City Hall, Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Y. Barlow reflected on the many facets of Ward 5, a place he has lived since 2006, and how he plans to jump-start the community’s economy.
WEDNESDAY DOWNTOWN WALK
CELEBRATEs NATIONAL ACTIVE AGING WEEK
The second annual Slam the Dam event, an open water swim zone championship, is planned for this weekend at Lake Mead’s Boulder Beach.
It takes an assembly line approach to feed the Clark County School District’s 175,000 students who eat school lunches, and it’s a big to-do to feed students in the nation’s fifth-largest school district a healthy meal for $3 or less.
Question: My biggest question is how to rid my raised vegetable beds of the abundance of bugs of all sorts who have made their home there over the past couple years. I love the little “roly poly” bugs but have a thousand of them in my gardens causing problems.
With steely eyes, the two, two-person teams stare at each other across the parquet floor. In the moments before the serve, they size each other up and adjust the grip on their paddles. With a distinctive “pa-thwock,” the ball is in play, and the modern-day gladiators move into the challenge, for this is pickleball.
New York Post television writer Michael Starr plans to sign copies of his new book “Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story” at 1 p.m. Saturday at the 2191 N. Rainbow Blvd. Barnes & Noble.
Festival season is well underway, but there is one that Las Vegas hasn’t seen the likes of yet. The Asian Food Festival and Trade Show will debut on Saturday and Sunday at The Orleans, 4500 W. Tropicana Ave.
Daniel DiRisio, 19, received the Biola University Academic and Service Scholarship for the 2011-12 school year. The school is in La Mirada, Calif.