Whoa! Looks like somebody got a suh-weet pair of scissors for Christmas — because Bobbie Ann Howell has been snipping up a storm. Her photo collages and cut paper works blend landscapes, cultures and shapes into a tasty visual smoothie your eyeballs will wanna slurp up.

UNLV President Neal Smatresk shocked most of Las Vegas when he announced, just months after signing a four-year extension to his original four-year contract, that he was leaving to take a presidential post in Texas.But a look at history might have lessened the surprise: The 12 people who have led the campus have stayed, on average, for five years.

A new UNLV program aims to train the next generation of nuclear safety experts. Competitive salary, love of plutonium a plusThe delicate and dangerous operation was called “tickling the dragon’s tail,” and someone made the dragon very angry.

Maybe it's some kind of ectoplasmic spillover from the let-it-all hang out hedonism promised by the Vegas brand - or maybe it's a testament to the personalities who built that image - but power doesn't exactly try to speak softly in Nevada. Oh no.

For those about to share a pie, we salute youIt’s proclamation time: Pizza Rock could be the first true dinner hit of the downtown culinary revolution. Oh, downtown already has hits when it comes to breakfast and lunch — Eat and MTO Café come to mind — but Pizza Rock is in the perfect position to become a solid nighttime draw.

Linda Alterwitz’s ghostly photos explore the intersection where science and soul meet — and sometimes clashIt was 14 years ago that Linda Alterwitz began suffering from the excruciating headaches. These lasted for three years, during which time doctors discovered a small tumor on her pituitary gland.

Maybe it’s some kind of ectoplasmic spillover from the let-it-all-hang-out hedonism promised by the Vegas brand — or maybe it’s a testament to the personalities who built that image — but power doesn’t exactly try to speak softly in Nevada. Oh, no.

Nevada-born composer Eric Whitacre talks Godzilla, Grammys and being mistaken for a ‘Game of Thrones’ actor.It’s cold and raining in London, but the weather doesn’t darken Eric Whitacre’s demeanor.

This Sun rises weeklyOver the past several months, the Greenspun clan has been embroiled in a civil war over efforts to dissolve the Las Vegas Sun’s longtime Joint Operating Agreement with the Review-Journal. Hammered out in 1989 and tweaked in 2005, the JOA keeps the Sun on corporate life support.

Mountain doA guide to keeping things slopacetic on Mt. Charleston, whether you’re a bunny or a downhill dominatorBefore you go: Stock up on warm stuff at locally owned McGhie’s.