Thursday was Gail Fahy’s birthday. But she didn’t celebrate it and hasn’t on Sept. 11 since one of the hijacked jetliners slammed into the Pentagon seven years ago, killing her best friend and co-worker at Palo Verde High School, Barbara Edwards.
George Sidney’s name was misspelled in a Thursday Review-Journal story about the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Hall of Fame.
CARSON CITY — Las Vegas attorney Joel Hansen on Thursday asked the Nevada Supreme Court to temporarily prohibit from taking effect a lower court ruling that kicked a proposed 2 percent property tax cap measure off of the November ballot.
District Judge Jackie Glass refused Thursday to release copies of completed juror questionnaires in O.J. Simpson’s armed robbery and kidnapping case.
Should Nevada Nuclear Projects Agency chief Bob Loux step down in the wake of questions about pay raises swirling around his long-held post, former U.S. Sen. Richard Bryan said Thursday the state’s sights will remain on defeating federal plans to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
RENO — A veteran Washoe County sheriff’s deputy has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
I always forget Billy Idol helped give birth to punk rock. As a follower of the Sex Pistols in England, he played in an early form of Siouxsie & the Banshees, then Chelsea, before co-founding Generation X, a punk champion in its own right.
Every Sunday through Thursday (through Oct. 2), More Club players at Jerry’s Nugget can earn next-day cash rewards at any slot, video poker or video keno machine. Players earning 1,000-1,999 base points in one day ($1,000-$1,999 coin-in; no point redemption required) can pick up $5 the next day. Those earning 2,000-2,999 get $10, 3,000-3,999 get $15, and players earning 4,000 or more points can pick up $20 cash the next day. Check out the promotion rules at the More Club for complete details.
Enrique Iglesias will be singing at Mandalay Bay on Saturday during Mexican Independence Day weekend. But if his career had followed his boyhood fantasies, he wouldn’t be singing. He’d be playing soccer for a living.
It sounds like a director’s cut of some of the best ’70s rock jams: purring organ that throbs in your temples, a singer who packs the gooseflesh-cultivating howl of a garage-rock Joe Cocker, long, slowly unfurling tunes that amble by like they were floating on some mild breeze, guitars fuzzier than the memories of a long night of whiskey and nicotine.
Talking with a chef about food trends recently, he confirmed what I’ve been seeing: exponential growth toward the casual-but-upscale in restaurants across the board, whether they’re celebrity-chef-driven, chain links or mom-and-pop ethnics.
Siegfried & Roy will kick off the annual Oktoberfest celebration at the Hofbräuhaus Las Vegas, 4510 Paradise Road, at 7 p.m. Saturday by tapping the ceremonial first keg of Oktoberfest beer. The celebration continues through Oct. 31. …
R&B crooner Maxwell headlines The Pearl at the Palms on Oct. 31. Tickets are $50, $75 and $100 and go on sale at 1 p.m. Saturday at The Pearl box office, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
If their name sounds like it was cribbed from some dodgy, low-budget horror film, it’s because it was.
Paul Rodriguez figures, “The hardest thing to be right now is a white comedian from Iowa. You’ve got nothing. Everybody can talk about you, but you can’t talk about them.”
Producers owe it to their playhouses to be concerned about a healthy box office, but do producers owe anything to the community? — especially an artistically hurting community like Vegas?
The trouble that Democrats and other “progressives” face in selling their economic theories is that they don’t seem to really believe them, themselves.
A federal judge has ruled in favor of International Game Technology in a patent infringement dispute with rival gambling equipment maker Bally Technologies.
The owners of the New Frontier site on Wednesday settled a multimillion-dollar lawsuit involving the property’s sale just a day before they went to court for a trademark dispute over the company’s proposed name for a new resort on the property.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — The prolonged housing slump has prompted a change in the development strategy of a Las Vegas couple working to establish a master-planned community in northwest Arizona.