Maybe you can't bound up 20 flights of stairs like a Cirque acrobat - especially while lugging that baggage you acquired during the sugar- and fat-saturated Bacchanalia known as the holidays. What can a mere, out-of-shape mortal do? Two local experts say getting started is easier than you think.
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Community resources for a happy new you
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Bet on the Farm! farmers market
Organized by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich, the Bet on the Farm! market is a foodie's fresh paradise, hidden in a nondescript office park. Just follow the trail of fashionably rumpled suburbo-hipsters and make yourself a dinner to remember.
I'm the last guy you'd expect to try yoga. What I discovered stretched my understanding of the practice - and (pop!) of myself AFTER SPENDING MY YOUTH CONVINCED OF MY INDESTRUCTIBILITY, I'M SPENDING MY MIDDLE AGE IN DENIAL ABOUT MY FRAGILITY I don't bend well.
Your fellow Las Vegans - from police to performers to passionate outdoorsmen - share their secrets to staying in shape
Forget the exercise vids and pricey equipment. Want to eat better and get in shape? Take some advice from your friends and neighbors - your fellow Las Vegans.
Happy New Year! Ready to lose weight? Great! First, let's calculate your Body Mass Index. Take your weight, divide it by your height in inches squared.
The irony of the rise in the stress-relief industry, says Ron Lawrence, director of the Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada, is that many of the same benefits you can get with professional help are available for free by doing things you've had to cut out of your busy schedule. Remember long walks and family picnics?
Whatever type you are, you don't necessarily need a pricey therapist or arcane yoga poses to take back a semblance of sanity.
If the governor wants local government to pay for local needs, fine. Let's secede
Did you know that Nevada has the smallest state government per capita in the whole United States of America? It's true!
It's still too darned big, of course (it was on the news), so Nevada legislators and a new governor will soon be cutting public employee salaries and benefits, curtailing services for the mentally ill, slashing education funding and taking other steps to make state government even smaller.
Many of Southern Nevada's cultural institutions have roots in the historic Mesquite Club, the women's organization that does much more than afternoon tea
Nearly 100 years ago, a group of Las Vegas women gathered for tea. The city hasn't been the same since.
Think accessible housing is just an issue for the "disabled"? Think again. Making Las Vegas livable in the future means making homes more visitable - today
After a year in rehab recovering from surgery that left her without the use of her legs, Marteen Moore wanted to be with her children and to go back to work as an interior designer.
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