Vegas Girl

The Las Vegas Strip will go dark tonight at 8:30 p.m. in honor of Earth Hour , proving once again that the city people love to hate has some...

On March 12, 2009, the Las Vegas Art Museum ceased . LVAM was 59 years old at the time of its death. LVAM is preceded in death by droves of ...

In case you haven’t heard, the media has pronounced the daily newspaper dead. Last month, Time proposed that newspapers charge for their on...

Today has turned out to be a beautiful spring day here in Las Vegas, as you can see from these pictures taken in my backyard. I’m not sure w...

When I worked on my Australian Job Application video, I looked at a lot of pictures before I picked the shots that made it into the video. S...

No, The Australian Job is not the new Mark Wahlberg movie or a euphemism for activities that might take place in a Nye County establishment....

My son and husband are getting ready for their end-of-the-season trip to the Dumont Sand Dunes, that place where ATV lovers of all types co...

When my writing group moved from the Northwest Senior Center to Derfelt in Lorenzi Park , I noticed two things about our new home in histori...

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...