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On Oct. 21, Soledad O’Brien will host a panel discussion titled “Race in America" as part of the UNLV Barrick Lecture Series.

If you like your Girl Scout cookies gourmet style, you’ll want to be at Dessert Before Dinner this Saturday, September 27, at Caesars Palace. While mingling, sipping cocktails and bidding in the silent auction, event attendees get to sample desserts that local chefs will make in a baking competition based on a Girl Scout cookie.

Tomorrow, Sept. 20, novelist Tod Goldberg will sign copies of Gangsterland, his new Vegas-set novel, in the gift store of the Mob Museum.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law on Sept.

Rooftop solar has been the subject of a lot of mainstream debate lately, most of it having to do with grid access and the role of individual homeowners in a predominantly investor-owned utility game. But there’s another player that often gets overlooked: Co-ops.

Rob Mrowka near Mount Wilson

In a bittersweet coincidence, the National Climate Assessment was published just as wildfire season made its early debut in California, and, closer to home, the National Park Service announced it was modifying boat ramps to respond to sinking water levels at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. These are exactly the kind of conditions that the assessment, overseen by a 60-member federal advisory committee, warned readers to expect with increasing duration and frequency as the globe warms.

Medical marijuana has occupied a constant corner of local news for months now. The national debate is snagging headlines again too, such as this morning’s report about Colorado’s financial alternative to the U.

Floating in the darkness of an unlit warehouse, Volume Control, Mark Brandvik’s solo show at VAST Space Projects, is both accessible and rigorous. It wouldn’t hurt, for example, to bone up on your Bernini before you behold its wooden phone-booth-style installation piece, though it’s not strictly necessary; I didn’t, and I still enjoyed its interplay of light and shadow.

Before the press published photos of armed militiamen – who’d come from all over the country to stand with embattled Bunkerville, Nev., rancher Cliven Bundy – pointing their guns at BLM officers; before the BLM capitulated and gave back the cattle it had seized from Bundy as punishment for his not paying grazing fees; before Senator Harry Reid called the militiamen domestic terrorists and urged the BLM not to drop the matter … Before all that, there was the First Amendment Area controversy.