If any country music singer exemplifies fortitude and tenacity, it is Tanya Tucker. While a lot of country artists have retired or packed it in, this talented women is making some of the best music of her long-time career.
In late November she received four Grammy nominations, including Song of the Year, Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for “Bring My Flowers Now,” and Best Country Album, While I’m Livin’. The record is her first Top Ten debut and tenth Top 10 album.

Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” is a holiday tradition in Laughlin many look forward to each and every year. It allows people to experience live art, with the classic tale told through dance. It makes appearances in theaters across the country, often in venues not given to ballet.
Such is the case when the Anaheim Ballet brings its production of “The Nutcracker” to the stage of Don’s Celebrity Theatre within the Riverside Resort, Thursday-Sunday, Dec 5-8.

The First Friday Comedy Series returns to the Avi Resort & Casino for the last time this year on Friday, Dec. 6 (8 p.m.). The evening is full of comedy with a lineup that includes the return of funny guy Steven Briggs as the headliner, along with Jeremy Bassett as the emcee and feature comic Bob Johnston.
All of the talent comes from the comedy organization called The Comedy Machine, which has been supplying venues across the country with some of the funniest clean comedians around.

The annual Run Laughlin event was slightly missing its mark in the past with its tagline, “Two States, Two Time Zones – One DAM Great Race,” but this year’s race remedies that. The fifth installment this time, called the “Run Laughlin Half Marathon, 5K and Conquer the Dam 12K,” presented by the Mercury Events and the Laughlin Tourism Commission takes to the hills, scenic trails, and byways of the area on Saturday, Dec. 7.