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Saturday run to spray participants with color

Runners can paint the town Saturday with the Color Run set to roll into Las Vegas. Participants arrive wearing a clean, white T-shirt and leave as a unique masterpiece.

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n The Feste Fantini III trumpet festival is set to take place Friday and Saturday in Doc Rando Hall in the Beam Music Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. The festival is slated to feature professional trumpet players, including soloist Mark Gould, former co-principal of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. High school clinics are slated from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday and middle school clinics from
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, with a grand finale concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The event is free. Call Steven Trinkle at 895-1996 or visit festefantini.com.

Dining pick of the week: The Barrymore

The 1940s Hollywood era is alive and well at The Barrymore, a classic dining room evoking a time we occasionally relive while watching old black and white movies.

Living through loved one’s suicide involves many layers of hurt

Hello Steven: I read your two articles on suicide. The first was not only wrong but extremely hurtful. I don’t think judging or generalizing about people being in rages will lower the rate (of suicide) or help the relatives. Inadequate medical care for the terminally ill, schizophrenics, bipolar, clinically depressed is a big cause (of suicide). Violence to spouses and children is another reason for it. Bullied gay children also. Victims are in nonsurvival states emotionally and mentally and escape hopelessness, not in rages.

Museum features Latin American culture from around the globe

Las Vegas residents and visitors don’t have to travel far to see the culture and history of South American and other Latin American countries. These elements can be viewed at the Hispanic Museum of Nevada, which celebrated its grand opening in January.

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