Fifteen years ago, when Tim Bavington started exhibiting his blurry stripe paintings, he packed loads of visual dissonance — and jolts of emotional turbulence — into their fuzzy bands of synthetic color by using an airbrush to make hard-edged compositions.

I hate matinees, but I'm a sucker for a musical, and this is a game-changer. Doing what an educational system should be doing, Nevada Conservatory Theatre, with UNLV, is really hitting a sweet spot.

Gavin Isaacs (pictured), president and chief executive of lottery manager and casino equipment supplier Scientific Games Corp will be one of the industry leaders at a ‘CEO Roundtable’ discussion to be held at Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2015 in Las Vegas.

Two weeks ago Nevada’s Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller introduced Senate Bill 1825, which, if passed, will require the Secretary of Energy to obtain the consent of any affected state and local governments before establishing a nuclear waste repository. The senators have dubbed it the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act.

Gamblers are spending less at the casino tables. Now, a new program aims to reverse that trend and bring new ideas to the casino floor.

This summer, real estate agents have been encouraging Southern Nevada homebuyers to jump into the market, dangling historically low—but soon to rise—mortgage rates as the carrot. The consensus among real estate experts is that 30-year interest rates, which have been hovering between 4 and 4.5 percent for the past year, will likely climb to 5 percent this fall.

THE cosmos may have good and bad neighborhoods. Life is most likely to evolve in giant elliptical galaxies, whereas dwarf galaxies are thought to be the least hospitable – with the spiral Milky Way falling in between.

Up until now, efforts to create the Las Vegas Medical District have been limited to sidewalk expansions and beautification efforts near existing buildings on Shadow Lane.

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