Living Las Vegas

Real Life in the Shadow of the Strip

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Top Vegas Hotels: Bellagio, Luxor, Rio

Off-Strip Attractions

Megawatt Cactus

If you ever had the thought that a city in the desert lacks the ability to look suitably Christamas-y, all you have to do is head to the Ethel M Cactus Garden to find out that you’re very, very wrong. For the eleventh year running, the destination best known for delectable chocolate (another thing you don’t expect to find in a desert) has flipped the switch on a quarter of a million Christmas lights…

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Las Vegas Gemütlichkeit

It’s beer season! If, as I do, you happen to like men in lederhosen and oompah music, this is good news. Ever since I spent two years in Germany, I’ve liked autumnal traditions involving oversized mugs and shouting “Hoi! Hoi! Hoi!” I’ve checked out three local Oktoberfests so far.

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Apples and Peaches and Pumpkins, Oh, My!

It’s been years since I first heard about how you can pick your own fruit at the Gilcrease Orchard, but somehow I never made my way up to the northwest corner of Las Vegas to experience it firsthand until yesterday.

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Grande Dame of Grand Dams

Hoover Dam will be seventy years old next year. This means that if it were on the Strip, it would have been blown down at least a decade ago. But if age isn’t beauty on Las Vegas Boulevard, it is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado. Hoover Dam may not be the newest, biggest, or most expensive of its kind, but a million visitors a year don’t seem to care if it doesn’t merit any of those superlatives.

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Vitamin See: The National Vitamin Company’s Factory Tour

Given the choice between touring a vitamin factory and a chocolate factory, I think most people would go for the fudge. I include myself in that number, but here’s some good news. Vitamin factories are fun, too, and chewable vitamin C tablets taste almost like candy. At the National Vitamin Company, they’re each embossed with [...]

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Living in Las Vegas -- what's it really like? Ten local writers share news & views from Southern Nevada.