Great Basin National Park offers a dramatic landscape lush with mystery and wonder (and that's just the sky) The mountain ranges of Great Basin are only half the story — the dramatic clouds complete the picture. Dusk If you’re coming from Las Vegas, I recommend that you drive into Great Basin National Park as the sun is setting.

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Thali at Rani’s World Foods You may not expect to find fresh Indian cooking hidden inside a supermarket, but that’s exactly what’s happening at Rani’s World Foods. This cafeteria-style spread is best sampled with a thali, an Indian mixed plate consisting of two vegetarian dishes from a rotating selection, dal (lentils), roti (Indian flatbread), basmati rice and pickles.

Q: Where was the hot shopping spot in the Las Vegas of yesteryear? A: For most of the 20th century, Fremont Street was the historic, commercial and economic center of Las Vegas. It was the place where people shopped, gambled, caught a movie — and even the train.

John McClain’s eureka! moment arrived during a children’s birthday party a couple of years ago. The collected toddlers shunned a stack of more traditional presents in favor of a game-changing piece of technology freshly unleashed on the world: the iPad.

You would expect the cards who populate Las Vegas to put their own spin on Halloween, wouldn’t you? Halloween parties have become an important part of the Strip scene in recent years, but Halloween celebrations have been an attraction for visitors for decades, as this Las Vegas News Bureau photo shows, and a key part of Las Vegas life from the community’s beginnings. Soon after the town’s founding in 1905, local groups like the Ladies Aid Society and various society leaders hosted annual Halloween parties as a means of bringing the small population (320 according to the unofficial 1906 census) together.

If you've ever gone half-mad navigating the cavernous aisles of a crowded big-box warehouse outlet, you know shopping can be a chore. But with the right store, the right people and the right price, shopping can be a pleasure.

A playground for her Henri Bendel has arrived in Las Vegas, and now it’s painting the town brown and white. The iconic luxury retailer, known for its trademark brown and white stripes, recently opened its doors at the Fashion Show Mall.

UNLV’s new digital archive of casino architecture reveals the evolution of the modern all-in-one megaresort Las Vegas’ casino architecture has been called a lot of things — kitschy, iconic, gorgeous, outrageous. Now add “historic” to the list.

Vegas is ever-changing: casinos get razed and rebuilt, transients move in and out, people get rich and go bust. So when Thrifty’s ice cream left town, its devoted Vegas,cult following briefly mourned the loss and accepted a new tradition of fancy gelatos and ultra mod frozen yogurt emporiums.