This summer, Vegas’s soon-to-be stars will have a chance to work with performers from a bevy of the Strip’s biggest shows, including “O,” “Le Rêve” and “The Lion King.” This is no summer camp.

Booooring! That much-loathed byword is what propels Co-Op Elementary Homeschool Group, founded three years ago by Gina Morrello. “Growing up, school was boring for me,” says Morrello, 31, who didn’t become interested in learning until she discovered the practical applications of physics.

Made in the shade Jim McMichael, senior marketing manager for the Fashion Show Mall, knows all and sees all when it comes to the trends that make it into stores. Here’s the best of his summer style advice.

For those of us who toil in offices, the idea of actually, you know, learning about a subject or figuring out how to actually do something other than Facebook or Minesweeper becomes increasingly intimidating and remote the more time we spend in our cubicles. Thank goodness for all the new online educational opportunities that don’t cost a dime — and require only a little time.

Minimal footwear is all the rage. Pediped is turning the trend into kids’ stuff The human foot is a marvel of Darwinian engineering — 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments of one-of-a-kind ambulatory innovation, the very advancement that enabled Homo erectus to erectus and stand head and shoulders above primate peers.

Brews and Blues Festival June 4, 4 p.m.

When we arrived from Cali, Colombia to live in Green Valley in 2001, my older son, Jesse, was only 4, and Dylan was due in seven months. Our life in schools was just beginning.

While you’re hitting the snooze button between 5:30 and 6:30 a.m.

Watch for Lied Discovery Children’s Museum to step up its profile in the community in coming months. Why? A move.

No, Dinosaurs & Roses is not the name of the next Cirque show (though we’d totally go see that). The quirkily named Dinosaurs & Roses (6029 W.