Many slot machines on casino floors bear images of faded but recognizable movies or TV shows such as "Sex and the City," "Ghostbusters" or the still-running "Wheel of Fortune," appealing to an older generation of players who reliably play the random games of chance.

The field at Sam Boyd Stadium always felt claustrophobic, the seats so close to ground level that it looked like the fans were in sideline meetings with the players. That won’t be the case anymore.

The voice on the black and white film is hear on screen.

The smile on Jereka Hunt's face hides something happening to the new mom.

How else do you beat the heat of a Las Vegas summer than by finding the nearest swimming pool to lounge by?

How does $27 million become $8.3 million and then revert to $27 million? Penn & Teller?

In the personal essay “Shadow Texts,” Mike Smith begins by admitting “one odd thing” he has done: “For six years now, I have kept alive my late wife’s Yahoo account.” The piece, published in the online summer edition of Witness magazine, goes on to chronicle how the widower seeks to preserve his wife’s voice by tending to her emails. It’s both quirky and gently tragic—expertly revealing how we grieve in our technology-drenched era. - See more at: http://vegasseven.com/2015/07/22/witness-good-literature/#sthash.E5knJKfF.dpuf

Ah, the pitfalls of the group art exhibition! The goulash factor looms large. How could it not? Art is valued because it’s fiercely distinctive. So when you assemble works by radically different artists—an expressionist still life, say, by Marty Walsh, and a slick, post-conceptualist abstract by Yek—the risk of mishmash runs high. So how did UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum create a coherent curatorial statement with the terrifically diverse Recent Acquisitions?

Woodworking. Horticulture. Personal fitness training. Hollywood musicals. Cartooning. What do all of these have in common?
Several universities and colleges in Las Vegas offer more than 1000 non-credit or certificate courses every year from which to choose. If you live to learn, I bet at least one of these schools has a course that will interest you.