Norges Rodriguez worked as a telecom engineer and journalist in his native Cuba. But the day I meet him, he’s leaning over a bed at a workforce training academy in Las Vegas, learning how to tuck corners and stuff pillowcases with the kind of precision that passes muster in the guest rooms at Las Vegas’ sparkling casino resorts.

The idea of high fashion on Fremont Street might seem unlikely in the era of souvenir T-shirts and SlotZilla, but Downtown’s most famous road was once home to a variety of department stores and specialty clothing boutiques. None were more exclusive than Fanny’s Dress Shop. For several generations, stylish denizens bought their wardrobes exclusively at Fanny’s under the watchful eye of Fanny Soss, and in later years her son Maury. From prom dresses and cocktail attire to wedding gowns and even furs suitable for an evening out in one of the Strip’s showrooms, Fanny’s dressed the ladies of Las Vegas.

Some people say the great Las Vegas novel has yet to be written. But Writers Imagine Las Vegas: Our City in Fiction, the new exhibit that recently debuted at UNLV’s Lied Library with a reading by local author Laura McBride, may just prove them wrong.

Yvette Williams was 19 when the landmark TV miniseries “Roots” aired over eight nights in January 1977.

Yvette Williams was 19 when the landmark TV miniseries “Roots” aired over eight nights in January 1977.

The small plane shot over Newark Airport, the roar of its powerful engine echoing over the vast airfield as it swept low before pulling around in a tight power turn.

No more 80-hour work weeks. Saying goodbye to years of commuting from Los Angeles to New York.

The word unique gets tossed around without much attention toward its meaning. It doesn’t mean merely rare or unusual. It means singular. In Nevada, Michael Frazier is unique.

When a Stanford University report last month proclaimed that many students could not detect fake or misleading information online, the findings caused a stir.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries has been awarded a $210,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue work on a project to digitize historical Nevada newspapers.

Think of student activism at universities over the years and schools like Cal-Berkeley, Kent State and Columbia might jump to mind. But the University of Nevada, Las Vegas?

Before the world knew Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Terence Crutcher and Keith Scott for how their lives ended — police bullets or brute force — Las Vegas had grieved such deaths.