Strip mauled (Las Vegas CityLife)

Mariachi bands. Roller derbies. Wigs. Hookahs. Gay cowboys. Japanese karaoke singers. Golf clubs. S&M harnesses. Thai food. Salvadoran food. Live sex clubs. Pentecostal churches. Diamonds. Kimchee. Elegant past, eccentric present and redeveloped future. All this and more can be found in Commercial Center, the sprawling foursquare strip mall between the Strip and downtown.

Specialized care for older adults (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

The Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York is like no medical clinic I've ever seen. It is brightly lighted and quiet - there is no television blasting. It has wide corridors and plenty of comfortable chairs with sturdy arms, and yet few people wait more than 10 minutes to see a doctor or nurse practitioner.

Tiny science makes socks that don't smell and windows that clean themselves (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

They're tinier than ants in your pants, smaller than specks of dirt on your living-room window.

Chicago Fire Weekly (OurSports Central)

Three Fire players joined the annual U.S. Men's National Team camp on Sunday, Jan. 4 for training at the U.S. Soccer's National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

Ann Jeffery Nabs 834 Fifth's Beloved Buckhantz Listing (The New York Observer)

The late Araxia M. Buckhantz's two-bedroom sprawl at the massively proper 834 Fifth Avenue is the kind of perfect little chunk of New York real estate that can make a very important and normally staid uptown broker cackle with excitement. "I absolutely am wild about this apartment," one agent who auditioned for the listing told The Observer last month . “I’d do anything to handle it." ...