Need a good cry? Well, gird up your tear ducts for this high-intensity workout: Musical artist Mariza is a renowned performer and interpreter of fado, Portugal’s notoriously sad folk music that’ll turn your heart into a wailing smoothie of inconsolable lament. Enjoy! Mariza performs 7:30p Nov.

Scott McCombs has perfected a method for turning glass bottles into concrete. It’s clean, it’s green, it’s revolutionary.

World Food ChampionshipsNov. 7-10.

During its peak as a silver-rich boomtown in the 1870s, Pioche was a rough place marked by frequent gunfights, fistfights, you-name-it-fights. Its infamous Boot Hill cemetery is a testament to its trigger-happy ways.

Whether it’s clothing, knickknacks, furniture or toys, the post-recession abundance of thrift stores means you can find sweet vintage stuff in some unlikely spots — and for some unlikely prices. Tip: Visit in the mornings for first crack at each day’s new merch.

A top-shelf holidayRepeal Day commemorates the official end of Prohibiton on Dec. 5, 1933.

Who was Helen J. Stewart? What was it like to survive the PEPCON explosion? Read about our first (and worst) treasurer ever, the loneliest governor, and tales of impeachment, murder and more! Enjoy all the great (and not so great) moments in the history of the Silver State by reading about them in Issuu.

Whether you're shopping for co-workers, tykes, tweens or the love of your life, this season's gifts will please with a blend of function and style. The office coffee may not taste the best, but your co-worker will look fabulous drinking it in a Henri Bendel I Heart HB coffee cup.

UNLV’s Claytee White not only collects oral histories about life in Southern Nevada. She empowers others to do the sameOn the third floor of UNLV’s Lied Library, tucked in the northwest corner, is Special Collections.

The remote Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in central Nevada is filled with slumbering fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago. But in recent years, this sleepy paleo-park has become a flashpoint of scientific controversy — and now it may just be ground zero for a new understanding of aquatic life in the ancient sea that once covered Nevada.