Today's Features

Remember all those little stories grandparents used to tell us when we were little, about the Chupacabra and La Llorona? Well, I do.

I was always fascinated with those stories. I was one of those little kids that believed everything that their grandparents told them. But now that I look back and remember these stories, I start to believe that maybe they’re just an urban legend.

For Halloween, my grandma use to tell me stories about La Llorona and La Chupacabra. My favorites were the ones about La Llorona.

World Beat music. Social Justice. Halloween. Raging Grannies.

Raging Grannies?

What do these things have in common? It could only be the Wagogo halloween fundraiser for the Las Vegas Peace and Justice Center.

Every Halloween for several years, the Albuquerque world beat band Wagogo has come to Las Vegas to raise funds for the Las Vegas Peace and Justice Center.

Kate Alderete, children’s librarian for the Carnegie Public Library in Las Vegas is passionate about writing and youth.

That’s why she created the “Green Light to Write Project,” a program of the Carnegie Library which gives students hands-on experience and professional training in writing in a variety of genres.

“I grew up here, and I write,” Alderete said. “I’ve been writing all my life. I wanted to do something kind of academic, but in a different setting, for kids interested in creative writing.”

Fear can be many different things to people, not just the bogeyman in the closet.

Fear for some people is the doll sitting on the shelf, the darkness of the closet or the unknown.

I was watching this movie where the girl goes to a psychiatric center because she is terrified of the bogeyman. One of the guys there ends up being her really good friend, and he is terrified of the dark. The light in her closet goes out, and he just stands there and won't even help her change it because he is so afraid of what might be in there and what he can't see.