The Ultimate Fighting Championship broke ground for their new headquarters at the intersection of Torrey Pines Drive and Raphael Rivera Way in Las Vegas. The headquarters will include a sports training center and a rehabilitation facility that all UFC fighters will be able to use.
Body cam footage from officer-involved shooting on Nov. 24, 2015. (Courtesy LVMPD)
Scenes from Black Friday openings around the Las Vegas Valley. Jason Ogulnik/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Ben Carson speaks to the Review-Journal about his stance on regulation.
Ben Carson talks about what he would do first as president to the Review-Journal.
Ben Carson talks about how we would solve the nation’s nuclear waste problem.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Aaron Kessler give their picks for NFL and college football for week eleven.
UNLV students held a rally on campus to express frustration with the school in terms of inclusiveness for all minorities and the lack of funding for resources that could promote a more diverse student environment.
Ashley Anna Parks, a volunteer at the Gay and Lesbian Center of Southern Nevada, talks about their life as a transgender person.
Between the ages of eight and 14, Clarice Tara lived under an umbrella of mental abuse from her mother’s boyfriend. At 14, she left to live with her father, whose abuse of drugs drove Clarice to forms of self-abuse herself.
After marrying at 20, her husband joined the army, and they moved to Texas. But after his return from a tour in Iraq, he became verbally and physically abusive. Cutting away from him, she set out to find some semblance of peace.
She apprenticed at a tattoo shop for 6 months, where a resident tattoo artist had her sit at a desk and draw human portraits over and over. During that time it became clear she wanted to do art for life.
She credits the Las Vegas art community for allowing her to thrive and grow as an artist.
“This art community seems to be elevating each other instead of there being this competition,” she says.
This fall is her second year at UNLV where she is working on her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts. Her main project is a series of portraits called “The Weight”. She arranges for friends to meet with her, talk about a time in their life when they felt a heaviness from suffering, and then asks them to pose in a way that they feel best shows where they are mentally at in handling the weight of the situation. She then photographs them, and later draws their portrait with pencil or colored pencil.
She recently began putting the portraits on mirrors. “The viewer is just as important if not more important than the artwork itself,” she says. It was important that viewers see the subjects in these drawings as experiencing a “weight” that she believes is universal. Her greatest goal is to connect viewers to that idea and receive some level of peace from that camaraderie.
“We all suffer alone but we’re not alone in that suffering,” she says. “Instead of dwelling on that heaviness, I had to see it as something as this is going to lift me up this is going to give me strength.”
The heaviness, she says, is usually circumstantial, and when you get through it, it becomes a source of strength. In the meantime, connecting with others assuages the pain.
You can find her work on Facebook at “The Art of Tara” and on Instagram @claricetara. Beginning in December an exhibit of her work will be displayed at Jana’s RedRoom in the Arts Factory in Las Vegas.
Fire units and Metro were called to a home near the intersection of Lamb Boulevard and Sherrill Avenue, at 12:22 p.m. on Monday. The house was fully engulfed in flames and firefighters found one person dead inside the home and two people were on the front lawn with severe burns.
Dan Coughlin gets asked a lot why he owns a Thai restaurant.
He says because he’s Thai, but noone believes him. His half-Irish half-Thai ancestry fools his restaurant’s crowd.
But noone can doubt his skills with the cuisine. Coughlin’s greatest goal with opening Le Thai was to throw out the sometimes awkward, stuffy feeling felt at most Thai restaurants and instead have a chill, simple Thai food on-the-street vibe.
After celebrating their four year anniversary this past Nov. 1, Le Thai has proved itself a gem in the downtown dining scene in Las Vegas.
Dave Rice addresses the media after UNLV’s 74-72 win over Cal Poly. (Gilbert Manzano/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
An unidentified man, who police believe had just robbed a Bank of America, killed himself in his getaway car at the 3600 block of Flamingo Road on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015.
On Thursday a fact finding review was held for the Officer Involved Shooting death of 54-year-old John Allen, who was killed by Boulder City police in March 2015.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Tony Miller give their picks for NFL and college football for week ten.
WWII veteran, Americo Benetti recalls his time with the 459th Bombardment Group when he was shot down over Hungary in 1944.
Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke at a rally Sunday night in North Las Vegas on various topics, this is one of them.
Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke at a rally Sunday night in North Las Vegas on various topics, this is one of them.
Looking to add speed, endurance, or a new challenge to your workouts? Try weighted sled pushes.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Tony Miller give their picks for NFL and college football for week nine.
Scientists fire the JASPER gas gun in an earlier experiment at the Nevada National Security Site using a surrogate metal to prepare for one later this year to assess how plutonium behaves as it ages in the nuclear weapons stockpile.
The second day of testimony in the penalty stage of the Ammar Harris trial continued today with family members of the victims. Afterwards the defense introduced forensic psychologist, Dr. Shera D. Bradley, who did a mitigation evaluation for Ammar Harris and discussed his upbringing, the environment he was raised in and factors that influenced his life.
On Monday family members of victims took the stand as the penalty phase began for Ammar Harris, the man convicted of killing three people on the Las Vegas Strip.
Penn Jillette’s former home is now the headquarters for the Church of Bacon.
Over 2 decades after the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, his killer has never been caught while numerous conspiracies still swirl around the murder and the elusive question, “Who shot Tupac Shakur?” (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Matt Youmans, Aaron Kessler (filling in for Kelly Stewart) and Tony Miller give their picks for NFL and college football for week eight.
Over 40 years Lonnie Hammargren has collected over 10,000 different artifacts–from an Apollo space capsule to a roller coaster from the Stratosphere to Nevada history pieces. He will open his home museum to the public for Nevada Day 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 4318 Ridgecrest Drive. Admission is $15 for adults; free for children under 12. Last year, he said 1,500 patrons a day attended.
