Clark County School Board members remain dubious about allowing alcohol to be served at special events at the new Vegas PBS facility.
It’s scoundrel time, Nevada.
Ten years after passage of the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act, the senators who laid the foundation for it marked the occasion Thursday, saying it will still provide funding for parks, trails, habitat and education despite the state’s economic downturn.
In the wake of one of the most high-profile kidnappings in recent memory, Las Vegas police Thursday encouraged cell phone users with text-messaging capabilities to sign up for a free system that would notify them of newly posted Amber Alerts.
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will hold a rally at Las Vegas’ Bonanza High School on Saturday.
Barbara Adams, who in 1961 co-founded the Tony-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival with husband Fred C. Adams, died Wednesday at her home in Cedar City, Utah. She was 76.
On one side of Las Vegas Thursday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean was all smiles as he gave an “attaboy” to Democratic campaign workers. On the other side of town, former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer took a grave tone as he warned a group of Jewish Republicans not to trust Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
EAMore than 113,000 people cast ballots in the first five days of early voting in Clark County, with Democrats continuing to go to the polls at more than twice the rate of Republicans, according to the Clark County Election Department.
Former boy band heartthrobs the Backstreet Boys headline The Pearl at the Palms on Nov. 22, Tickets are $48, $58 and $78 and go on sale at noon Saturday at The Pearl box office, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
One of the greats of Las Vegas, Debbie Reynolds, has cracked a lot of jokes about the cop-slapping socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor, but Zsa Zsa’s name got lost with time. Here’s the good news: Zsa Zsa is Paris Hilton’s great-aunt, so now Reynolds jokes about Paris.
Norman Rockwell Lane, the address is, and to turn onto it from Farm Road is to step into a bit of Americana, or at least a faux version along the lines of Town Square or The District at Green Valley Ranch: trees filled with twinkling lights, a sort of village green with a statue (we couldn’t make it out in the darkness, but we’re assuming it was Norman himself), independently owned shops with upstairs offices or apartments, contemporary jazz coming from a speaker somewhere. It didn’t look much like the streets of New York, but Streets of New York fits right in.
Wanna make a Chris Cornell fan shriek like his impossibly high-voiced hero, a man capable of wailing like his manhood was caught in a car door?
That noted cinematic critic Dirty Harry Callahan once decreed that “a man’s gotta know his limitations.”
Max Green saw it coming, the way the sky darkens ominously before some violent thunderstorm.
The daily slot tournament at Terrible’s is now giving away more than $800 per day in prizes, including a $500 first prize. All Players Club members are entitled to one free entry. Those earning 250 points ($250 coin-in; no point redemption necessary) the previous day receive one additional bonus entry; players earning 500 points the previous day receive two bonus entries. The tournament can be played anytime from 12:01 a.m.-11:59 p.m. The top 10 point earners will receive $10-$500 in prizes and will have 24 hours to redeem their prize. The casino also awards the top weekly scorers (based on their best seven rounds from Tuesday-Monday) $10-$750 in cash and free play.
Donny and Marie‘s pearly whites are putting smiles on management at the Flamingo Las Vegas.
As part of Taste America Las Vegas, a six-course winemaker dinner by James Beard award-winning chef Luciano Pellegrini is scheduled for 7 p.m. today at Valentino at The Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South. With an entree of buffalo medallion with white truffles, the six-course dinner (with white truffles in nearly every course) is $350 per person inclusive. For reservations, call 414-3000. …
Thanks to voter-imposed term limits, the seven-member Clark County School Board will feature at least three new faces next year — and that’s good. The district, now the fifth-largest in the nation and suffering from the usual pathologies, including dismal test scores, is in dire need of reform, which will require new blood on its governing body.
At first I wondered whether John McCain understands what socialism is. After all, he’s completely off base in calling Barack Obama a socialist.
Southern Nevada voters will choose three members of the State Board of Education this election.
ATLANTIC CITY — Claiming to be a different company with better management, the former owners of the Tropicana Casino and Resort formally requested Thursday that New Jersey casino regulators return control of the property to them.
NEW YORK — Shares of some casino operators slid to new lows Thursday as the sector swooned from investor anxiety about the softening economy and an analyst said MGM Mirage’s heavy Las Vegas concentration leaves it vulnerable.