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Las Vegas native Jessica Galindo (left) was the featured artist on July 19 at the monthly Artist Showcase Series held at Mandarin Oriental’s Mandarin Bar. Galindo, a self-taught artist, works in acrylics, ink and mixed media. The show featured her abstract heart-and-wine series.
Gallery: Artist Showcase at Mandarin Bar
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On the Case
Unless you live in a cave with poor Internet service, you know that Apple gave case makers a very big gift in the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4’s antenna wraps around the outside of the phone, so if you touch it in the wrong spot, the signal weakens significantly. Admitting the problem, Apple is providing iPhone 4 buyers a free “bumper” to wrap the phone. Problem solved!
Read More »Diva in the Kitchen
What could possibly be more appetizing than Las Vegas female impersonator Frank Marino in drag? A cookbook featuring Marino’s favorite recipes along with pictures of him in drag, of course.
Read More »More Than Just Talk
Sometimes all-talk can lead to action, and for the fifth year in a row, ESPN Radio 1100 is hosting The Longest Radio Show Ever to support people living with cancer. Listeners have already helped support the cause by bidding on one-hour co-hosting slots, and the 24-hour live broadcast gets under way at 10 a.m. July 30 at the Palms.
Read More »Well-Heeled
Women walking barefoot as they leave a nightclub, high-heel shoes in hand, are a common sight in Las Vegas. Sometimes they’re crying, sometimes they’ve lost their friends and sometimes they are looking for a lost phone, but almost always their feet are killing them.
After years of witnessing this smirk-worthy sight, four Las Vegans saw an opportunity. Their new invention, Afterheelz, won’t cure a broken heart, find lost friends or locate a missing phone, but it will save girls from the barefoot walk of shame.
Read More »WSOP U
Poker is a game that’s easy to learn, yet difficult to master, which is why poker schools have become a popular way for amateur players to hone their craft. Enter the game’s most prestigious tournament, the World Series of Poker, which is going online with the debut of the World Series of Poker Academy.
Read More »The Last Moderate
In an age of partisanship, Kenny Guinn practiced old-fashioned Nevada pragmatism
Former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, who died on July 22 at the age of 73, was the last of his breed.
If the state ever had a moderate, establishment, Eisenhower Republican who charted a middle course, it was Guinn. When he came into office in 1999, Republicans had lived in the governor’s mansion just eight of the previous 40 years. Guinn won partly by being non-ideological. He ran only after carefully lining up broad business and party support; he became, as Jon Ralston’s book on Guinn’s campaign called him, The Anointed One (Huntington Press, 2000).
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Art on the Runway
Art and fashion mixed it up at Nu Sanctuary in Town Square for the Fusion for a Cause on July 15. The event was a fundraiser for two good causes: the Tim Bombard Memorial Scholarship and Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and featured art-inspired runway shows by local artist Oryan.
Gallery: Fusion for a Cause
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Caught in the Web
Liberty and property in Old Media and New
I refuse to be tarred with the accusation of coddling bloggers. So before I say what I have come to say, let me first say this: I love my unalienable rights. Life. That’s a good one. Liberty. Can’t be beat. The pursuit of happiness. Hey, that’s the right to pretty much everything! But let’s get back to original intent: Jefferson just stuck the happiness bit in there as a politically correct code for Locke’s real deal: property. Didn’t he? And I love my property. In particular, as a writer, I love my intellectual property.
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