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.

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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.

The tragedy: Four years ago, Las Vegan Kelly Thomas-Boyers lost her 21-year-old son Adam due to injuries suffered in a car crash. A state legislative intern and student at University of Nevada, Reno, he'd been a car passenger for less than five minutes when the driver swerved to miss someone.

Once upon a time, before bar-hopping, before imbibing and ingesting various other substances to the point of hospitalization became au courant, culture was integral to romance, not just part of it. If culture is your own ecstasy, Vegas does not disappoint.

SHOPS + SERVICES Veggie delivery Make a contribution to the Bountiful Baskets Co-op at the beginning of the week, and by week's end, a basket full of produce arrives at your designated pick-up location. Although not as local, organic and sustainable as other community-supported-agriculture options (e.

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.

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.