The comeback continues. Las Vegas made solid progress in its economic recovery in the third quarter, according to the Brookings Mountain West Mountain Monitor, a report that tracks the economies of 10 cities in the Intermountain West.

As you peruse the wares at UNLV’s Barrick Museum—where a new exhibit called Art for Art’s Sake opens on January 30—it’s somehow stirring to know that the very floor you’re walking on is itself a museum piece, preserved from the university’s infancy. The hardwood is a holdover from the days when the building served as the school’s gymnasium, back when UNLV was still known as Nevada Southern University.