The Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. PR PhotoWhen gambling was legalized in Nevada in 1931, Hearst newspapers described Fremont Street as an endless procession of construction workers, dealers in eyeshades, and gamblers amid the sound of hammers and the clink of money. New casino licenses were limited to a three-block downtown area, with the exception of the Meadows, a plush casino outside the city limits that caught fire in 1942.

The City of Las Vegas has created a walking tour of “Glitter Gulch,” as it came to be known. Important stops are included in a 22×17-inch fold-up Arts Map, available at all of the city’s cultural and community centers and at most Clark County libraries. The map will be featured on artslasvegas.org, which will have instructions on how to request a map by mail.

The Fremont Street Walking Tour takes you on...

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An original sculpture by Renoite Douglas Van Howd graces the entrance to the newly opened Reno Cabela’s. Photo by Charlie JohnstonBraving a brisk Nevada winter day, hundreds of onlookers stood outside the Verdi Cabela’s – a short drive west of downtown Reno off I-80 – to see the work of native Renoite Douglas Van Howd revealed. Behind the cloth was Van Howd’s latest lifelike sculpture, three bighorn sheep (the Nevada state animal) traversing an imaginary mountainside. Since 1988, Van Howd has been commissioned around the world to design wildlife- and Western-themed sculptures in museums, resorts, city sites, and private estates.

“I’m extremely honored to be asked to do the monument for the Reno store,” said Van Howd, whose work can be seen at Reno/Tahoe International Airport, Reno’s Mackay Stadium, and John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks, to name a few. He also told...

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