The Las Vegas Adventurer

Take your Vegas vacation way off-Strip – and three miles up!
Skydive Las Vegas offers a unique view of southern Nevada — rather, whatever you manage to take in before the jitters take over! At 10,000 feet you’re all but guaranteed to see the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, the Colorado River, Valley of Fire, Red Rock Canyon, and Mt. Charleston.
A free shuttle picks you up on the Strip (you need to call 1-800-875-9348 to find out where) at 8:00am and 12:00 noon and also drops you off when your day is done. You can, of course, save a bit of …read more

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An exciting 4th of July weekend shouldn’t end with the last firecracker this year!
The AMA/Maxxis EnduroCross motorcycle extravaganza kicks off a six city nationwide championship tour at the Orleans Arena on July 5.
The event will feature off-road motorcycle racing with top racers including the 2007 Las Vegas winner Taddy Blazusiak, Supercross Champion Ricky Dietrich and more from across the country.
Competitors will be on a fully equipped course, jumping across logs, climbing over boulders and racing through mud competing for $11,500 in prize money.
AMA/Maxxis EnduroCross Orleans Arena
Saturday July 5 at 8:30pm
4500 West Tropicana Avenue
Tickets: $37 to $47 for …read more

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The Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) will be sponsoring the 2nd Annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament to be held on Friday, April 18 inside The Venetian Poker Room.
The no-limit Texas hold’em poker tournament will begin at 3:00 pm and all proceeds of the tournament and live and silent auctions will benefit the Nevada SPCA no-kill animal shelter.
Last year’s event raised $130,000 for the Nevada SPCA, a no-kill animal shelter that gives food and shelter to thousands of homeless Las Vegas animals.
The Venetian
3355 Las Vegas Blvd South
414-7657
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28 years ago Mae Fisher started the Las Vegas Easter Classic basketball tournament. Her dreams has grown into an event that now includes over 300 teams, including teams from the Bahamas, Australia and Norway!
The tournament is open to boys teams from 9U through 17U, and girls teams from 11U through the varsity level. Pool play, with all teams advancing to the championship rounds. 4 game guarantee. Games are played at top high school gyms around Las Vegas (Durango, Spring Valley, Chaparral, Western, etc.), UNLV’s McDermott Center, Doolittle Rec. Center, and other top facilities.
Normal high school …read more

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By now it’s probably safe to say that everyone knows corporations are avoiding using the words “Super Bowl” when advertising any kind of get-together involving the Super Bowl, especially parties for “The Big Game.”
Incidentally, the NFL and Las Vegas had a pretty good relationship regarding the Super Bowl up until a few years ago:

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Kendall Tenney, local news anchor and Vice-President of the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern Nevada, will be hosting his 7th annual 5K Run For A Wish on Saturday, February 2 at 7:30 AM at the Freemont Street Experience. Participation fee is $25.
Southern Nevada residents are invited to participate in what is supposed to be the biggest event so far, joining wish children and their families, supporters, avid runners and walkers, teams from various community businesses and organizations, board members and other volunteers.
The event is sponsored by KWNR 95.5 and KVBC Channel 3, and will include raffles, refreshments and an entertaining …read more

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My husband recently joined a bowling league through work and their first meet-up is tonight which has inspired me to write about, what else, bowling in Las Vegas! Spouses were invited to join as well, and while I do like to bowl I’m not terribly good at it unless a Wii is involved, so I decided Thursday nights will be girls-night-in for me and the kids.
Anyway, we’ve taken the girls bowling just once last fall while they were out for a school break. We chose one close to us, the bowling center at Santa Fe Station Casino. One thing that …read more

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Rollergirls fascinate me. Maybe it’s because there’s not a chance in hell I’d ever have the guts to do it, or maybe because the women who participate are such great sports about taking a beating or dishing one out.
Las Vegas’s Sin City Rollergirls present Sunday Slaughter, a three-period practice game most Sundays at 7pm. A $5 donation requested if you want to watch, or you can even participate! You need to bring bring bottled water and a photocopy of your driver’s license or passport and you’ll also be required to fill out a waiver, and sign up for a …read more

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Online shoe superstore (with a location in Las Vegas!) Zappos.com is sponsoring the third annual Las Vegas Marathon this Sunday, December 2. The marathon will take place on the Strip and begins at 6:07am. Participation is expected to be around 17,000 and 18,000 runners, up 15% from last year.
The course will span 26.2 miles (with only 5.5 miles actually on the Strip) including through the Fremont Street Experience and looping through Las Vegas and Clark County. It begins and ends at the Mandalay Bay at the south end of the Strip.
Spectators are welcome and encouraged to watch and numbers are …read more

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I have a love/hate thing with the Review Journal’s Best of Las Vegas that they publish every year.
On the one hand, you can find some really great stuff (you really should try the Bobbie) that you normally wouldn’t have, but on the other hand you have to wonder if the readers even try (Taco Bell was voted best tacos for 12 years. No joke. And P.F. Chang’s apparently has the best Chinese, and Olive Garden has the best Italian. Just… no.). At least the RJ staff manage to scope out restaurants without a dollar value menu.
Some of it’s pretty humorous …read more

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