Vegas Girl

A newcomer to Las Vegas might think that the desert's dry environment protects our homes from mold. Heck, I'm not even a newcomer, ...

Two weeks ago, the Salvation Army's thrift store at 4196 S. Durango held its grand re-opening. Don't call them a thrift store anymo...

Las Vegas has been criticized over the years as a water-wasting community, and with good reason. For many years, our community landscaped li...

Fresh tomatoes from the garden are one of the best things about summer. Last year, our garden went south due to neglect, but this year my h...

A Las Vegas parent faces two dilemmas in summer. First, there’s the universal parental question that arises when a child is out of school fo...

Looking for some family-friendly Las Vegas activities? Visit the Old Mormon Fort , which is located in downtown Las Vegas's Cultural ...

Times being what they are, I decided it would be a good idea to look into getting a part-time job. The Las Vegas recession-depression has hi...

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed protestors at Fort Apache and Charleston. They were protesting the pet shop that operates in Boca Park beca...

Here's Ben Southall, the lucky guy picked for that six-month dream job in Australia . What can I say? I'm speechless with envy.

The past month has flown by without a post from the Vegas Girl because I’ve had family in town. I spent most of the month of May cooking, cl...

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 ...