Happening This Week... 

New Year’s Day, January 1, 2010
New Year’s Day is the first day of the year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome (though other dates were also used in Rome). In all countries—except for Israel—using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, it is a public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts... [read more]

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New Friday Flyer Newsletter Format!

Please take some time and read what other Las Vegans are saying about Las Vegas—the city we all love! With this new look for the Friday Flyer Newsletter, we ask for your comments on our new look. Good or bad we want to hear from you. You just might see your comment in the next Friday Flyer Newsletter. E-mail us at [email protected].

Thank you all for sticking with us after our long absence due to the loss of our founder, publisher and dear friend Marleen Marino and thank you all for your e-mails and expressions of sympathy.

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This Week's Featured Column:

 

Looking Back, Seeing Forward

by Parker Philpot
Community and Human Interest Writer

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Nevada Government 

Governor Jim Gibbons
Weekly Update
This Week’s Update Contains:
>> Governor Gibbons Appoints New Member To Public Utilities Commission Of Nevada
[read more]


U.S. Congresswoman Dina Titus
Weekly Update
This Week’s Update Contains:
>> Titus Statement on Attempted Terrorist Attack
[read more]


City of Henderson, NV
Weekly Update
This Week’s Update Contains:
>> Whitney Mesa Trail and Trailhead Public Meeting Set for January 21, 2010
>> Downtown Recreation Center Hosting Wii^® Bowling Tournament January 16, 2010
>> City of Henderson Parks and Recreation Department Spring Flag Football
[read more]

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Las Vegas Government 

Las Vegas Neighborhood Services
City Of Las Vegas Scheduled To Open New Stupak Community Center On Monday, January 4, 2010
It is out with the old and in with the new, in 2010, as the $7.5 million, 34,183-square-foot Stupak Community Center is set to open at 5 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 4. City of Las Vegas Mayor Pro Tem Gary Reese is hosting a ceremonial grand opening... [read more]

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Monthly Astrology / Horoscope

Michele Avanti, CAP EFT-3
January ’10 Astrology / Horoscope
As you read your sun and moon sign, you will note each section is broken into Focus, Test, Key & Action. Focus defines what you will find yourself focused on during this time. Test is the issue or experience which will test your focus. Key is a little gemstone which can help you pass the test if you will use it. Action is the outcome of what you do at this time... [read more]

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Arts

Audrey Roberts ¦ Las Vegas Art Scene
An Interesting Year for Arts in Las Vegas
The state of the arts in Las Vegas has been quite interesting this year. Most emerging artists are perpetually in a recession, so this year it seemed like a depression from where they are sitting in the downtown 18b Arts District... [read more]

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Entertainment

Victoria Alexander ¦ Viewpoint on Vegas
January 1, 2010
This Week: Holiday in Central America & Returns January 25, 2010, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Winners, “240,000 People Go To Hell Every Day,” Russian Bank Robber Used Hypnotism, Jacques Vallee on Boing Boing, The Nobel Prize of War, and more... [read more]


Nikki Artale ¦ Vegas Stars Interviews
Brian Hoffman as Red Skelton
Brian Hoffman has finally put a show together to pay tribute to Red Skelton at the Royal Resort Hotel. The hour-long show “Remembering Red” brought back many fond memories of our beloved Red Skelton with his wacky routines, funny jokes and his pantomime classics... [read more]


Jackie Brett ¦ Vegas View
January 1, 2010
>> ‘VIVA ELVIS’ Has Opened At Aria
>> Lisa Lampanelli Will Perform At The Pearl At The Palm
>> Las Vegas Rocks Café Starts Sunday Jazz Brunch
And much more... [read more]


Chick Hughes ¦ Chick’s Chicks
This Week Partying Around Town For The Holidays!
With naughty hypnotist, Anthony Cools starring at Paris Casino and his sexy assistant Natalie. At the SAG holiday party, I ran into some pretty friends, models Saundra and Arleen Gibson... [read more]


Kid Cary ¦ The Boss Asked Me Too...
Christmas Day, It’s NOT Complicated
I was standing in line at the movies Christmas Day, and someone in the box office announced the 1:10 p.m. show of “Sherlock Holmes” was sold out. By the time we got to the box office... [read more]

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Community

Paul Carpino ¦ Career Curator
New Year’s Career Shape-Up
I hope you had a wonderful holiday, full of happiness, joy, goodness and blessings. Now that you are back at the gym, shedding those extra holiday pounds, you can begin to shape-up your career development path for the New Year... [read more]


Parker Philpot ¦ From Parker’s Pen
Looking Back, Seeing Forward
A year’s end is a logical time when we reflect, review and reminisce, slowly looking back. In contrast, many will have a full-throttle rush into 2010, technologically speaking: emailing, blogging, texting, cell phone videotaping... [read more]

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Home & Family

Susie Isaacs ¦ Ms. Poker
The Girls’ Night, Pastry and Poker
To me, the best part of the holiday season is to hear from friends and loved ones we may not have heard from for the whole year. To catch up with them and what is going on in their lives gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling... [read more]

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VCO Artist of the Month—January 2010

 

                ANTHONY COOLS

          

Anthony tours the country bringing sold-out rooms to tears from fits of laughter. Anthony’s high energy performances have left more than one person coming back to finish off the whole dinette set.

Anthony Cools has taken the art form of comedic hypnosis and soared into an entertainment dimension untouched by his peers. As others cautiously test the outer limits of adult comedy, Calgary-born Cools has already taken the plunge into an outrageous vat of raw, boiling humor... [read more]

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