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Summer Guide
15 Great Weekends
From festivals to bazaars, we help plan your free time
May 23rd, 2013
Summer Guide
A Golf Week From Hell
(Or heaven—if you like hot deals)
May 23rd, 2013
Some people view a midafternoon round of golf here in July as little more than a preview of what recreation is like in hell. Those people are soft. You’re not soft. Which is why you’re wrapping your arms around the dead-of-summer Vegas heat by embarking on a weeklong midday golf excursion. Your mission: Shoot a score that’s lower than the outdoor temperature … oh, and make it to the 19th hole in one piece. Read more »
Summer Guide
The ABC's of Vegas AC
Tips and tidbits about your summer's best friend: air conditioning
May 23rd, 2013
Just a coincidence? It’s the 111th anniversary of modern air conditioning. Las Vegas was founded three years later. Read more »
Summer Guide
Attack of the Ants!
A pest expert offers some surefire ways to fight back
May 23rd, 2013
How’s this for a homeowner horror story: Read more »
Summer Guide
Sun’s a Bitch
Here’s how to counteract its destructiveness
May 23rd, 2013
Although our weather tends to be gentler on homes and cars than the snow and rain of unluckier towns, the sun is our special nemesis. Here are some things to take care of before the relentless summer heat takes care of them for you. Read more »
Summer Guide
Fit and Swim
Pool workout advice from Le Rêve’s coach
May 23rd, 2013
When the soaring mercury sends bikers and runners to the gym, swimming can keep our summer workouts beneath the open sky. But even in Las Vegas, with its profusion of backyard pools, many of us aren’t in tune with what it takes to actually make swimming part of an effective fitness regime. Dacha Nedorezova, a former member of Russia’s national synchronized-swimming team and now the aquatic coach for Le Rêve, has some hints: Read more »
Summer Guide
The Wait Is Over!
Here’s everything you need to know about Wet ’n’ Wild’s dramatic comeback
May 23rd, 2013
The Wet ’n’ Wild water park returns nearly a decade after the original one on the Strip was left high and dry by an unrealized resort dream. The sprawling $50 million sequel, to open May 25 at 7055 S. Fort Apache Road, was spearheaded by an investment team that includes some legendary Las Vegas families and inspired by a sustained outcry from locals. For example, a Facebook page titled “Bring Back Wet ’n’ Wild” drew more than 58,000 supporters. As the site now declares, “The wait is over!” So, without further adieu, here are the details on our new family-friendly, off-Strip summer escape: Read more »
The 2013 Daylife Awards
Our celebration of the other great outdoors
May 22nd, 2013
No longer content with partying from sundown to sunup, Las Vegas found a way to fill the brightest hours with Champagne showers, bottle parades, costumed characters, world-class DJs and all the other shenanigans once reserved for the nightclub. But who needs a ceiling when you have a cloudless desert sky? Indoors is so five minutes ago. Read more »
‘Las Vegas Doesn’t Come Close’ to Macau
A renowned writer takes us into Macau’s streets and gambling pits
May 15th, 2013
UNLV English professor Douglas Unger is an award-winning novelist whose family ties have also made him a frequent visitor to China’s special administrative region of Macau. Although he enjoys time in the resplendent casinos that have cropped up in recent years, Unger says the real Macau is off the beaten path. He shares his street-level view of the place that’s still unknown to many Las Vegans. Read more »
The History of Our Future
Or, how Macau became the Las Vegas of the 21st Century and is about to change Las Vegas forever
May 15th, 2013
Back in the early days—2006 or so—American executives signing on for tours of duty in Macau felt like they were stepping into the Wild West. Street violence had subsided since the island’s 1999 reversion to mainland control, but there was still a sense that this was a frontier, a place where anything could happen. And when strangers rode into town—often from the former frontier town of Las Vegas—they went where strangers always go first: the saloon. In this case, that meant the Embassy Bar at what was then the Mandarin Oriental hotel. It was an admittedly upscale saloon, but for an expat executive it was an oasis, a free-port, a place to make crucial first connections and ease into Chinese life. It offered just enough reassuring familiarity, and just enough tantalizing strangeness. Read more »
