In the current economic miasma in which we find ourselves, I take consolation in one thing: we’re all in this big mess together. Whether you...

A great deal of conversation around Las Vegas these days centers on one question: Have we hit bottom? Reading our local newspapers isn’t muc...

Now that the construction business in Las Vegas has fallen to pre-Anasazi levels, we have a surplus of heavy equipment around town. One ente...

Last week, the Las Vegas Sun won journalism’s highest award, the Pulitzer Prize. Sun writers Alexandra Berzon, David Clayton, and Matt Huf...

When you’ve lived in Las Vegas your entire life, you eventually learn that the things you accept as normal are often scandalous to people fr...

Finding positive things to write about Las Vegas these days requires concentration. Here are a few of the topics I considered for posts and ...

Have you discovered Twitter ? Good grief, it's addicting and frustrating, all at the same time! It's the new micro-blogging phenomen...

Animal lovers were appalled in January when the City of Las Vegas’ animal pound erroneously euthanized a pet (Puddles the cat) after it had ...

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...