The Vegas Girl is not alone in her opinion of the daily news--namely, that it contributes to Prozac sales. But I like to be informed, at lea...

If you want to understand Las Vegas a little better, plenty of authors have written books to enlighten you. I’ve been working on a reading l...

As I was sorting old Vegas Girl posts from 2008 into categories (known in Blogger-speak as labels), I noticed that the News category was pre...

Like many streets in Las Vegas, the Vegas Girl is under construction. I’ve re-designed the blog’s look so you can cruise thru categories (ak...

A few months ago, I got an e-mail from a gal who was wondering if she could hike at the Dumont Sand Dunes . No. It’s an ATV area (aka OHV Ar...

When the Mojave National Preserve was created in 1994, I remember being a little unsure about what, exactly, we were preserving. (This wa...

Christmas in Las Vegas Is the weirdest time of year. You see Elvis in a Santa suit And the elves are drinking beer. Christmas in Las Vegas I...

Have you had enough snow yet? You may have heard this before, but no one has seen snow like this in Las Vegas in over thirty years. Henderso...

More of my pictures from our snow day today. These were taken right before three o'clock. Big snow flakes stopped falling between 3:00...

Snow has been falling ever since I got up! Here are pictures I took around my house at noon.

If you’re an off-road enthusiast, Southern California abounds with OHV (Off Highway Vehicles) areas, many of them a short drive from Las Veg...

This year, my family went out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday. I had a couple of places in Southern California I wanted to ex...

In the Las Vegas Review Journal's Sunday edition a couple of weeks ago, reporter Corey Levitan (that guy who writes a Las Vegas-based, ...

Last month I heard from my friend Valerie that she’d been taken in by a phone scam run by inmates. In her case, she was thrown off guard by ...

Are you an OJ follower? If so, you’ve probably heard of my friend, Paul Connelly, the jury foreman on the Las Vegas robbery case. The OJ Tea...

I took a trip to Texas a few weeks ago. Two days of driving eastbound on I40 takes you directly into Amarillo, Texas, but I’m a scenic route...

Last year, a strange combination of events helped me learn to accept the New Las Vegas: the glittery, MTV-loving, over-populated, traffic ja...

Newcomers to Las Vegas tend to complain about a lack of non-gambling things to do. If you’re waiting for friendly advice from your neighbor...

If you remember duck and cover, mushroom clouds, and bomb shelters, you’ll definitely want to visit the Atomic Testing Museum at 755 E. Flam...

My husband was in heaven at Henderson’s Super Run Car Show last weekend. “Ah, the smell of racing fuel,” he said when a hot rod cruised by. ...