I was driving north on Martin Luther King Boulevard when I looked in the rearview mirror to see three teenage girls in a silver Mercedes sedan motoring behind me.
Bad childhood memories — that was my first reaction to Sen. Joe Biden promising us that a President Barack Obama will be “tested” with an international crisis, just like President John Kennedy was “tested.”
John McCain has offered “little more than willful ignorance, wishful thinking, and outdated ideology” to cope with the nation’s financial crisis.
The final presidential debate revealed both candidates agreeing on something: charter schools as a solution for public education in America. Nationally, more than 4,000 charter schools are fostering competition and providing public school choice to families.
Since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored housing enterprises (GSEs), were taken over by their regulator early in September, a lot of Monday-morning quarterbacks claim to have been members of the team trying to reform these two gigantic companies.
Here we go again in our never-ending quest for your right to know. Up against the gale force of obstreperous bureaucrats and their arsenal of obfuscation, dalliance and outright deception.
You’re a doctor. You need to bring in $3,000 apiece for your most common procedure. But Medicare and Medicaid — which pay for about half your patients — have just told you they’re only going to pay you one-third of what they’re billed. What do you do? You don’t need to be a CPA to know the answer is to start billing everyone $4,500 for your procedure. The half of your patients who pay full price thus pay $1,500 extra, covering the shortfall for each Medicare/Medicaid-covered procedure.
The ticking time bomb that is Joe Biden’s mouth went off. There was a reason I’d been covering up every time he started talking.
Not surprisingly, the roster of celebrities who have played Las Vegas at some point in their careers is incredibly long.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in an occasional series of stories highlighting performers who played an interesting role in the history of entertainment in Las Vegas.
Over the years, it’s been pretty easy to marginalize the fantasy genre. After all, aside from the occasional Hollywood blockbuster, the closest the sword-and-sorcery set usually gets to the mainstream is the songs of Ronnie James Dio and the murals on the sides of custom vans.
The man and the woman are engaged to be married. But I don’t think they’re gonna make it. And they’re gonna blame it on their children.
Even if it happened in Vegas a hundred years ago, it apparently stays here.
The Las Vegas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Freedom Fund Banquet on Oct. 18 at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Las Vegas Academy is ranked in the top 10 and Foothill High School in the top 20 of a contest to promote the release of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.”
Readers can look forward to books from two big authors to hit shelves this week. Nelson DeMille‘s “The Gate House” is the long-awaited follow-up to “The Gold Coast.” Also, Danielle Steel‘s “A Good Woman” tells the story of a socialite whose life changes after the sinking of the Titanic.
Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture we’ve been talking about lately.
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The first time I played “LittleBigPlanet,” I got the same feeling I had when I first saw “Beetle Juice,” “Amelie” and “Pushing Daisies.” With each of those, I thought: Wow, this is truly fresh — a fantasy artwork that looks like it’s for kids, but adults will eat it up.
When the weather cools down, the action picks up in much of Cerca Country. There should be an experience on this list well worth your time and gasoline.
When her first article was published on the R-Jeneration page, Liberty High School senior Christina Houge (then a junior) was thrilled.
Typically balmy autumn days in the Southwest invite vacationing Southern Nevadans to explore scenic and historic regions such as the Four Corners area of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Among the many treasures of the past preserved in state and national parks and monuments in that region, hautingly beautiful Hovenweep National Monument stands out.
With Death Valley National Park so close, Las Vegans can enjoy highlights even on a day trip, but those spending a day or two can sniff out hidden rewards.