The air in Family Court Judge Sandra Pomrenze’s courtroom Thursday morning buzzed with a ticklish anticipation. Children’s laughter mixed with casual adult conversation.
Some conservatives say that the over-long, technologically indulgent and story-rich Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” justifies President Bush.
Say what you will about Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere” boondoggle. At least taxpayers and federal budget watchdogs screamed loud enough to keep the thing from being built.
Who says Las Vegas is last on every quality-of-life list? While the wet nurses on the Los Angeles City Council were plotting to block the construction of new fast-food restaurants, Reason magazine rated Sin City the best metropolitan area in the country in personal freedom. (Chicago brought up the rear as the nation’s foremost combination of Nanny State intervention and Big Brother regulation.)
Mark Swed, classical music critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a great column recently in which he challenged the negative connotation associated with the word “elitist,” especially as it relates to the arts.
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture that people — not necessarily you but, you know, people — were talking about last week:
Las Vegas’ Ronald McDonald House, 2323 Potosi St., celebrated its 10th anniversary with a fundraiser “Christmas in July” party at Studio 54 at the MGM Grand.
Master gardeners are dedicated community volunteers who offer advice to valley gardeners and participate in many worthwhile service projects.
This is a summer when most local entertainers could use a break. Gordie Brown got a big one.
You get the feeling that it’s only a matter of time before the Palms becomes thE! Palms.
The white man is no friend to the Polynesian culture. His arrival on the Pacific Islands in the early 1800s precipitated a chain reaction of misery that decimated virtually all indigenous language, religion and art.
He sits by the fire in a canvas camping chair. In the daylight, he’s all zits and peach fuzz and knock-knees, but here in the mystery glow of the flames he looks older. Intense. He’s waiting to be born.
The Games of the XXIX Olympiad begin Friday in Beijing, and that means sports fans around the world are preparing to spend the next 21/2 weeks watching a multinational cast of athletes compete in games (Badminton? Table tennis?) they’ve forgotten even exist outside of a company picnic or family reunion.
There’s still time to submit works of art to our summertime modeling clay extravaganza.
Visa restrictions imposed by the Chinese government that curtail mass-market visitation to Macau hurt Las Vegas Sands Corp. more than any other casino operator.
These days, there’s no question whom Rose McKinney-James supports for president. On a recent afternoon she stood flanked by “Obama ’08” signs and banners in the Democratic Party’s campaign office on Martin Luther King Boulevard.
The recent story of the Riviera on the Strip could be told like this: often a bridesmaid, not yet the bride.
