Shortly after Texas Tech learned it would be spending New Year’s Day in Dallas, record-setting wide receiver Michael Crabtree was quoted in a Dallas newspaper as saying, “I’m just not feeling the Cotton Bowl.”
Holiday tournament season continues today with the start of three boys basketball tournaments.
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson says he’s looking ahead, not behind, as he prepares to return to the Octagon on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
Horseplayers from coast to coast will be raring to go today after racing was completely dark the past two days because of the holiday.
A retired executive for a home security firm wanted to give the Clark County School District up to $2 million for gifted education programs.
Now and then you meet someone who has found her calling. Earlier this year I met Jennifer Trupiano.
Lance Bass gives me a shocker of a quote in today’s Neon section: “Every other day, I get called a ‘fag,’ and get threatened to (get) beat up.”
A former North Las Vegas officer accused of money laundering and lying to the FBI is embroiled in a long-running legal battle with the North Las Vegas police union over whether the union should have represented him when he was fired.
Winter weather played havoc in the mountains and the Las Vegas Valley on Christmas.
CARSON CITY — Second-term Assemblyman Ty Cobb insists he and other Republicans cannot remain quiet and watch Democrats ram bills through the Legislature if they ever intend to become the majority party again.
While seated before a heaping plate of turkey, potatoes and vegetables Thursday, Ralph Nutter boasted about his Christmas tradition of coming to the Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada dinner for 25 years, through hard times and not.
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In addition to the normal stuff of dancing and drinking, some Strip nightclubs promise romance, with their nooks and crannies and little hideaways for would-be lovers.
Clearing our entree plates after dinner at the Greek Village Cafe, our waitress offered dessert. Creme brulee, she suggested, but with a twist, in that the crust of caramelized sugar sat atop a rich rice pudding instead of the usual custard.
So, in the same way that the resort towers are reflected in each others’ mirrored surfaces and one building’s roofline swoosh seems to answer that of the other, are we to assume that the restaurants at Encore are but an echo of those at sister property Wynn Las Vegas?
Today is Boxing Day, and it’ll be celebrated in style beginning at noon at the Crown & Anchor British Pub, 1350 E. Tropicana Ave. A dinner of prime rib, roast potatoes, green beans and Yorkshire pudding, plus Christmas pudding with brandy sauce or sherried trifle, will be served for $19.95 per person.
If your plans for New Year’s Eve aren’t special enough for you, try spending the night with a celebrity.
David Copperfield doesn’t need much advertising to fill 650 seats in the MGM Grand’s Hollywood Theatre. But the lack of ballyhoo means that only the bad news goes national.
Bette Midler is relieved she won’t be counting down to midnight. Blame pingpong balls. But Akon is up for the task.
There’s no good reason for people to verbally assault Lance Bass. He isn’t a divisive public figure or a celebrity villain. And yet, homophobes routinely name-call the openly gay ‘N Sync singer and third-place finisher on “Dancing with the Stars.”
It’s rumored to be one of the most expensive nightclubs ever built, its budget in line with that of an effects-laden Michael Bay action flick or double the payroll of your average NBA franchise, if you believe the hype.
While watching “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” — all 167(!) minutes of it — I kept thinking of Joni Mitchell’s song “The Circle Game” and its rueful, poignant chorus:
Beginning tonight, the Silverton is giving away 54 car leases in 37 days. Every night through Jan. 31, the casino will draw nine names. Four will win $100 free play, two will receive $250 cash or free play, two will receive $500 cash or free play and one will receive a two-year Honda automobile lease (or $8,000). Also on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 3-6 p.m., the casino will randomly award a two-year Honda automobile lease (or $8,000) to a Discovery Club member who is actively playing a machine with his card inserted. Players can obtain 10 entries per day by visiting the Discovery Club booth, and additional entries can be earned playing the slots or at the tables. Winners must be present at the drawings.
Mya sounds like a chipmunk, Ol’ Dirty Bastard a street preacher, backed by funeral organ that could have been stripped from some old Vincent Price flick.
Pretty soon, the climactic riff from Metallica’s “One” crashes through everything like a lightning bolt splitting open a redwood, while Lil Mama waxes poetic about her lip gloss.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Her reviews are done anonymously at Review-Journal expense.