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‘Variety Live’ to include magic, music and more

“Variety Live” is set to bring back the format of old television favorites such as “The Ed Sullivan Show” to the Starbright Theatre Saturday.

Water conservation rebate reversal is head-scratcher

A water conservation program offering a rebate encouraging property owners to remove grass in favor of desert landscaping has come under attack in some quarters for permitting one property owner to renew his love affair with a lawn.

Book Briefs

Literary highlights this week include events with Jason Wright, Betty Bunch, Deborah Howell,Joy Harjo, Michelle Huneven, Glenn Schaeffer, Doug Unger, Eric Olsen, Srikanth Reddy, Mark Ribowsky, Carrie Townley Porter, PJ Sheldon, Angelica Ganea-Mileto and Mickey Frazier Sr.

City councilman says new challenges have emerged in Ward 3

The problems facing the city of Las Vegas’ Ward 3 are different for first-term Las Vegas City Councilman Bob Coffin, who spent almost 30 years as a state legislator and has lived in the ward since 1951. The neighborhoods were designed decades before he took office when times were different.

Things to do in Paradise/Downtown

Event highlights this week include productions of Las Vegas Academy’s “Big River,” “Max And Ruby Bunny Party,” and “Listen” a new play by local writer Dave Surratt.

Commercial Center tenants bounce back after blaze

An Oct. 20 fire may have destroyed a former thrift store in the Commercial Center shopping complex, 953 E. Sahara Ave. , but nearby business owners feel fortunate not to have experienced the same level of damage .

Student charmed by snake becomes boa’s campus caretaker

Jessica Godwin is a college student, a soccer player and an animal enthusiast. But unlike her peers at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, Godwin is the caretaker of the largest cold-blooded creature on campus : a 9-foot, 25-pound, red-tailed boa constrictor named Naven.