The secret to great date style: Tease the senses -- then indulge them[him]Men have it easy when it comes to date outfits, insofar as male sartorial standards have fallen so low that just showing up in something other than shorts will be considered progress, and that just going for something modest, classic, and well-fitting will be considered dashing.But why stop there? Rely on texture and contrast.

Do You Believe in Love First Sight? It's not our question - that's the actual name of this gift set. Buxom has in the past reeled us in with their mini plumping lip gloss sets, all full of sparkle and tingles, and now they've once again tempted our predilection for miniature versions of things we like with this affordable six-pack of tote-able eyeliners.

What do professional clowns do after hours? Create edgy mayhem off the Strip. At the 1230 Clownshow, vaudeville goes 2.

How does musician King Ibu create his rich, soulful, authentic Senegalese songs? In a curiously modern manner: Via e-mailWhen King Ibu needs to add a sabar drum to a song on his latest album, he logs onto a Mac in his Las Vegas home and sends a digital file of his vocals and electric guitar halfway across the world to Aziz Faye in Dakar, Senegal. The song is as likely to be in English as in French, or even Pulaar, an ancient African language.

Me: Transplant who's over the fake Vegas. You: over it too.

Should we scold tourists for crawling on our Strip sculptures? No. Instead, let's give them the interactive art they wantYou may have read accounts about tourists climbing over the elaborately detailed, six-foot-tall, cast-plastic woman's high-heeled shoes on the second floor of The Cosmopolitan, posing and mugging inside the outsized footwear.

My poor brother. He had barely stepped off the plane from Chicago, still shaking off jet lag, before the whirlwind began.

Flashlight, the monumental site-specific sculpture on UNLV's campus, is this city's most significant public artwork. And I might say the same if Flashlight were in Los Angeles, Seattle, or any number of other cities with reputations for fostering public art.

WHO ARE WE to decide what's the best in food, arts, entertainment and more in Las Vegas? Glad you asked. We're native Las Vegans burning to tell the world about the hometown favorites we grew up with.

Cartoon turtle Mojave Max and his kangaroo rat sidekick have a hook-up in Washington: the Endangered Species Coalition. The league of conservation organizations says that Nevada's Mojave and Great Basin deserts - home to desert tortoises, rodents and many other animals - are among the top 10 ecosystems in the United States whose endangered species needs saving.