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Eye of the Beholder
When you’ve been tagged by Banksy—the anonymous, subversive British graffiti artist—you don’t break out the scrub brushes and cleaning supplies. You count yourself lucky, because you’ve provided a canvas for one of the most influential artists working today. And you may have been handed a lot of money. That’s what Las Vegas’ Light Group thought when one of their rather generic Los Angeles billboards was hit last week. The ad depicted a woman in a black bra and jeans tossing her tousled hair to-and-fro with mild abandon. The artist added an inebriated mouse bearing a remarkable resemblance to a certain Walt Disney character groping the woman’s breast with his left hand and holding a martini in his right, while a starstruck Minnie-like character looks on. It’s a definite improvement, if this non-art critic does say so himself.
Read More »Good Vibe, Good Deal at Herbs & Rye
For many years, one of Las Vegas’ quintessential locals joints was an Italian restaurant called the Venetian. The Venetian is long gone, but the same building on West Sahara Avenue now houses Herbs & Rye, which is offering a strong happy hour seven days a week.
Read More »Family Planning
A Las Vegas clinic helps women with cancer have a chance at motherhood
When a woman is diagnosed with cancer, the immediate focus is on recovery. Oncologists don’t always tell their patients that for 40 to 80 percent of women of childbearing age, chemotherapy leads to infertility. One Las Vegas fertility clinic (which also has eight other clinics across the nation) is working with cancer patients to help them have children later in life. Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine’s Fertility Rescue Program will freeze the eggs of cancer patients for free, saving them upward of $10,000.
Read More »Leap of Faith
It’s not often that a CEO becomes a hero by jumping off a building, but most CEOs aren’t like Frank Riolo. And most companies don’t operate observation towers attached to a Las Vegas casino. In April, Riolo’s main charge, the Stratosphere, was putting the finishing touches on its new Sky Jump ride. As part of the opening festivities, he opened up the ride for free to all employees who wanted to try. It looked like so much fun, he joined them.
Read More »Still on Track
<p>Republican governors in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin have turned down a collective $3.2 billion in federal funds for high-speed rail projects since they were elected in November, citing cost concerns and a lack of public interest. Backers of other rail projects are scrambling to claim those funds, plus get their share of $53 billion the Obama administration recently pledged for high-speed rail over the next six years. But developers of the long-awaited DesertXpress train from Las Vegas to Victorville, Calif., aren’t reaching their hands out toward Washington, D.C., for permanent finacing, relying instead on private investments and a $4.9 billion loan from the federal government to fund the $6 billion project.</p>
Read More »A City for Rent
Owner-occupied homes are becoming the exception instead of the rule. Is it “there goes” or “here comes” the neighborhood?
It’s quiet here, as it probably was on most mornings, even during the real estate boom. This is South Pointe, a Henderson subdivision near the intersection of Wigwam and Green Valley parkways built in the 1990s. But, like many other quiet places in the Las Vegas Valley these days, the peace can make you nervous. Is this a good quiet or a bad quiet? One in which real estate signs swinging on a gusty day and the occasional car zooming by whisper “vacancy”? Or is this just a nice neighborhood with a few landscape blemishes as a result of the foreclosure crisis?
Read More »A Whole New Ballgame
Former College of Southern Nevada coach ready to work his magic at UNLV
One week before the UNLV baseball team’s season opener, the players were busy putting the finishing touches on improvements to Wilson Stadium. The infield has been resurfaced, the dugouts rebuilt and painted, and new turf installed in front of them. But the most notable change heading into the Rebels’ Feb. 18 home opener against Maine is the presence of first-year coach, Tim Chambers.
Read More »Life After Oscar?
His Vegasness is leaving City Hall, and he’s taking his gin with him. The whole Valley should ask some hard questions of those vying for the throne.
Wander through a park or a coffee shop in Henderson or North Las Vegas and ask voters to name their mayor. You might get a quizzical look or an uncertain reply, but the names Andy Hafen and Shari Buck are not likely to be consistently heard. Instead, a large percentage of people would probably offer one name—Oscar Goodman.
Read More »And the winner is … Las Vegas!
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Proving yet again that Mel Brooks was on to something—indeed, it is good to be the king—the categories for the 2011 Nightclub & Bar Awards reflect Las Vegas’ dominance of the nightlife scene nationally. So complete has been our rule over the annual awards lineup that this year, Las Vegas has been elevated to a category unto itself.
Read More »A Sign of Hope
Local rape counseling center is the first of its kind in the nation
The first counseling center in Nevada devoted exclusively to providing support for victims of sexual assault opens Feb. 19, thanks to a collaboration between the Rape Crisis Center, UNLV and Nevada Women’s Philanthropy.
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