An in-kind donation In 2009, 12-year-old Josh Stevens was killed in a golf cart accident in Henderson. But from that tragedy, his parents created a powerful gift in his memory — powerful because it’s so simple.

The discomfort: Hey! He’s a lover, not a fighter The zone: He takes lessons in the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga So there I was, eating a Cool Mint Chocolate Clif Bar, anxiety forcing my heart into thumping beats, unsure if it was nerves, the green tea in the Clif Bar, or the three cups of coffee (decaf, but loads of sugar) I consumed sitting all day in a social media marketing seminar. I was 15 minutes away from leaving the comfort of my home office to drive to Krav Maga Las Vegas’ Henderson location for my first, free, drop-in class.

It’s more than a Brazilian drumming class. It’s a (very loud!) community Words can’t capture the sheer wall of sound of a samba bateria live, but they’ll have to do.

Keeps on giving Some of the best gifts can’t be wrapped We’ve all had the joy of shopping for a kvetcher moaning about the wasteful nature of human beings, the coming apocalypse courtesy of peak oil and the moral outrage of importing plastic goods from China. As for that purist who eschews the notion of all material goods, consider the gift not of a thing, but of an experience.

News item: Continuing the trend of rock ‘n’ roll eateries, an R.E.

Saving room The Barrymore is a throwback to old-school gourmet rooms, but the flavors live in the now The restaurants of the Block 16 Hospitality Group are casual, bold American eateries with obvious mass appeal – the all-encompassing burger universe of Holsteins in the Cosmopolitan, the rambunctious LBS Burger in Red Rock Resort and the iconic L.A.

new and notable Walls could talk Have you, like us, been thinking: I would kill to paper my exercise room in vintage Soviet-era art? WALLS 360 is a locally based business that specializes in stickable wall graphics—er, make that high-resolution, Ultrachrome digital ink prints on “premium self-adhesive re-positionable fabric paper.” That means everything from rose decals for a princess bedroom to life-size Star Trek characters for your socially awkward friend.