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Dining Pick of the Week: Cafe Modena

When the craving for Italian hits, the menu at Cafe Modena satisfies. It has just about everything, including pizzas with all the traditional toppings and specialty pies.

Discipline and corporal punishment are entirely different

The following reader comment is a response to my Jan. 12 column: reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/steven-kalas/parents-always-botch-some-aspect-child-rearing.

Town Square Las Vegas welcomes new additions

Not long after Town Square Las Vegas, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South, opened in 2007, the economy took a turn for the worse. That hasn’t slowed it down much.

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Project Neon highway project in Las Vegas gets state go-ahead

A plan to issue $100 million in bonds to buy the right of way for the mammoth Project Neon highway improvement project in Las Vegas won quick approval Tuesday from the state Board of Finance.

Summerlin Lions partner with medical community to test for diabetic foot problems

A simple test that involves poking the feet of people with diabetes in predetermined, nerve-sensitive areas of the foot can help avoid future problems, including amputation. The painless test is done with a special nylon filament that resembles a short piece of fishing line. The layperson might call it “Poke a Foot, Save a Leg.”

 
Cosmopolitan tries new effort to set itself apart

Over the last three years, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has emerged as the luxury Strip resort known for its sexy and edgy advertising — a corporate philosophy that has set the property apart in a crowded gaming landscape.

Councilman wants to end ‘reprehensible’ work card spectacles

A program Las Vegas once considered a method to weed mob associates out of booze sales and other risque businesses has outlived its usefulness and should be pared back, according to a city councilman.

Las Vegas Improvisational Players focus on good, clean fun

The Las Vegas Improvisation Players create on the spot scenes, songs and poems in a format similar to the popular TV program “Whose Line is it Anyway?” They tend to keep the comedy swift, fun, clean and family-friendly. They often perform once a month at the American Heritage Academy. This will be a feature on the performers.

Literary Las Vegas: Frank August Romano

When American Coin was seized and closed by the Nevada Gaming Control Board for allegedly rigging programs in 1989, company partner Frank August Romano’s life was forever changed. He details his fall from grace and the journey to recovering from financial and professional loss in the book “American Coin: A True Story of Betrayal, Gambling, and Murder in Las Vegas.” Romano wrote the book in an effort to set the record straight. In it, he shares his account of the scandal and the fallout of the investigation including the events surrounding the murder of Larry Volk, a slot technician who confessed to programming gaming machines to cheat players.

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