Winchester News

Friends, from left, Briana Toms, 8, Ana Sandoval, 9, and Herlinda Paz, 8, giggle while watching the young male performers of the Mariachi Juvenil Acero sing during the annual Life in Death: Day of the Dead Festival Sunday night at the Winchester Cultural Center and Park.

An ofrenda, or altar, welcomes home the soul of a loved one - in this case, famed artist Frida Kahlo.

A panel fields questions from the group of Las Vegas Valley residents who viewed a preview screening of CNN's "Latino in America" report last week at the Springs Preserve.

26, kicking off UNLV's Performing Arts Center season. Beautiful music will be strummed by Paraguayan harpist Mariano Gonzalez Ramirez on Dec.

LAS VEGAS -- Two men were shot in a confrontation outside the Winchester Community Center in Las Vegas Thursday night, Metro police said.

In a new suit, artist Jerry Misko poses in front a painting for his new show, "Jerry F**kin Misko" at Henri & Odette, in Las Vegas on Wednesday Aug.

We look at the challenges facing the Strip restaurant scene . We talk with CSN Professor Earnest Bracey , author of the book, "The Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas." The Las Vegas-based Senegalese group Bhoutalow , or Black Scorpion, joins us to share their sounds.

Preview What: "Drift" When: 7 a.m.- 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays Where: Winchester Cultural Center Gallery, 3130 S. McLeod Drive Cost: Free The works of Leah Craig, wall at left, and Janet Greek are featured in "Drift," a free exhibit at the Winchester Cultural Center Gallery running through Aug.

Artist Brian Porray stands in front of his centennial mural hanging on the Winchester Community Center, on McLeod Drive near East Desert Inn Road.

Dr. Stephen Andrew Gephardt has listed for sale a two-bedroom, three-bath home at 3020 Bel Air Dr.

A baseball autographed by New York Yankees legend Babe Ruth sold for $3,900 at an auction in Reno on Saturday morning.

John J. "Jack" Veth has listed for sale a three-bedroom, 2.5-bath condo in the Turnberry Towers at Paradise at 322 Karen Ave.

Commemorating a centennial with a public mural creates an expectation of certain themes - history, culture, people, industry, progress.

Las Vegas artist Brian Porray's forceful depiction of the 1995 Landmark implosion, below, is the Friends of Winchester Public Art Committee's choice to represent Clark County's centennial.

Artists Leah Craig and Janet Greek will exhibit their drawings and paintings during the two-person show "drift," which opens June 23 at the Winchester Gallery inside Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.

When he's not driving a taxi, Angel Gadzhev plays Bulgarian folk music on the gadulka.

The Fallon Chapter of The Order of Eastern Star met April 28 to honor club members.

Thu, May 14, 2009 If You Go What: Nevada Jazz Orchestra When: 2 p.m. Sunday Tickets: $12; $10 for senior and members of the Jazz and Guitar societies Information: 455-7340 For the first time in almost a year, the 18-piece Nevada Jazz Orchestra will perform a concert Saturday.

Kim Lamb/LVN photo Nevada Highway Patrol officer Joe Winchester, left, attends to 'mock victim' Kenneth Fasone, while 'mock fatality victim,' Churchill County High School English instructor Rachel Dahl, awaits extrication by members of the Fallon/Churchill County Volunteer Fire Department.