http://www.sincityliving.com Life in Las Vegas, Nevada Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:26:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This would never happen in LA. Today the Las Vegas Sun reports that the widening project of Interstate 15 will come to complete a full 10 months ahead of schedule. Consider it a Christmas gift — major construction on Interstate 15 north of the Spaghetti Bowl will be finished and all ... http://www.sincityliving.com/i15-construction-ends-early/214/ Here are two fun activities for the wee-little ones to enjoy leading up to Christmas: Magical Forest at Opportunity Village Decorated trees, carousel rides and photo-ops with Santa Claus Open Nightly at 5:30pm $7.50 child $9.50 adult Winter Lights Festival at the Springs Preserve LED light decorations, entertainment, craft activities and food. Open Nightly at 5pm $4.00 child $8.00 adult http://www.sincityliving.com/family-friendly-christmas-activities/213/ This year Las Vegas is home to the tallest Christmas tree in the United States. That's taller than the one at Rockefeller Center in New York and even the one on display on the national mall in Washington DC. The M Resort is displaying a 109' tall tree - the tallest ... http://www.sincityliving.com/nations-largest-christmas-tree/212/ We woke up to beautiful white-capped mountains this morning! It's been very cold the last few days with temperatures in the low 30s at night. Will we see another day of real snow here in Las Vegas? http://www.sincityliving.com/first-snow-of-the-season/210/ A very small percentage of the 160,000 people who applied for new positions at CityCenter got some good news starting today. CityCenter expects to fill some of the positions with employees transferring from within the parent company (MGM Mirage). Of course, not all of the 12,000 positions can be transfers so ... http://www.sincityliving.com/citycenter-fills-12000-positions/203/ Some sobering statistics about people out of work in Las Vegas and Nevada: The unemployment rate in Las Vegas is 13.4% Statewide that figure is 13.2% There are 182,000 unemployed workers in Las Vegas This is double the number we had at this time last year http://www.sincityliving.com/unemployment-figures-soar/202/ The Feast of San Gennaro Festival starts today and runs through this Saturday. Visit the official website to buy tickets and get discount food coupons. http://www.sincityliving.com/feast-of-san-gennaro/199/ When we lived in West LA we would wake up every Sunday and walk across the street to the farmers market just off Santa Monica Blvd. There was always fresh fruit, produce and other neat little vendors to buy from. We just assumed that this activity was a thing of ... http://www.sincityliving.com/las-vegas-farmers-market/197/ There was some excitement in the Southwest part of the valley early this morning. We heard helicopters circling overhead and my initial (sleepy, groggy) thought was that we were back in Los Angeles and that the Ghettto Bird was paying us a visit. Turns out that some homes under construction in ... http://www.sincityliving.com/early-morning-fire/195/ Las Vegas shows up at #39 in this interesting chart on about Job Listings per Capita http://www.sincityliving.com/job-postings-vs-people/193/