In the personal essay “Shadow Texts,” Mike Smith begins by admitting “one odd thing” he has done: “For six years now, I have kept alive my late wife’s Yahoo account.” The piece, published in the online summer edition of Witness magazine, goes on to chronicle how the widower seeks to preserve his wife’s voice by tending to her emails. It’s both quirky and gently tragic—expertly revealing how we grieve in our technology-drenched era. - See more at: http://vegasseven.com/2015/07/22/witness-good-literature/#sthash.E5knJKfF.dpuf

Ah, the pitfalls of the group art exhibition! The goulash factor looms large. How could it not? Art is valued because it’s fiercely distinctive. So when you assemble works by radically different artists—an expressionist still life, say, by Marty Walsh, and a slick, post-conceptualist abstract by Yek—the risk of mishmash runs high. So how did UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum create a coherent curatorial statement with the terrifically diverse Recent Acquisitions?

Woodworking. Horticulture. Personal fitness training. Hollywood musicals. Cartooning. What do all of these have in common?
Several universities and colleges in Las Vegas offer more than 1000 non-credit or certificate courses every year from which to choose. If you live to learn, I bet at least one of these schools has a course that will interest you.

Nevada ranks dead last in education, according to a national child welfare report released Tuesday.

They were built before the Environmental Protection Agency existed. Now UNLV is poised to regain four buildings it leased to the EPA and predecessors for nearly 50 years.

Fewer teenagers are getting pregnant in Nevada than ever before, that's what numbers from the CDC and UNLV's Kids Count reports says.

If the sound or sight of people swapping spit makes your stomach churn, don’t worry–it would seem that half the world’s cultures agree.

North Las Vegas has a grand vision for its economic future.

The economically strapped city foresees an electric car manufacturer bringing thousands of jobs and spurring billions in economic development.

Its problem, for now, is persuading the rest of the state to help out.

The bankruptcy of Caesars Entertainment Corp.'s debt-heavy subsidiary has racked up nearly $47 million in professional fees and expenses in about 4 1/2 months.