Charlie Daniels has been coming to Las Vegas since 1959, when he met one of his heroes, lounge legend Louis Prima.
The defining principle behind “L.A. Now,” which opens today at the Las Vegas Art Museum?
At 8 p.m. each day from Saturday through Dec. 24, The Orleans will have its $57,000 “12 Days of CASH-MAS” drawings. Players earn tickets by playing slots, video poker, or table games. On the first night of the drawing, 10 winners will receive $200. That amount increases by $50 every night until it hits $750 the last night. Players must be there to win, and may win once per night. Tickets remain in the barrel throughout the drawings.
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.
Angled through a cultural prism, the opening chapter of The Greatest Story Ever Told — and retold a couple millennia later — looks like this:
With tax collections lagging due to the sluggish economy, times are tough for local governments.
President George W. Bush’s handling of the war against the Muslim extremists who destroyed the World Trade Center seven years ago — murdering 3,000 civilians — must await the judgment of history.
Some members of the left are restless. They’re anxious, ill at ease, angry even. They worry that their hero, their knight in shining armor, may not be who they thought he was.
I love getting new gizmos, especially when they work exactly as billed and are as useful as the Radio Bookmark I recently received from my public radio station.
While two Nevada banks have gone belly up this year, no Nevada credit unions have failed or been forced into a merger because of financial woes. But Nevada credit unions are starting to see what one chief executive calls a “scary number” in the nonperforming loan category.
Embarq Corp., the dominant local exchange telephone company, said Thursday that it has restored service to many customers who lost service a day earlier.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. plans to lay off 216 workers from the Venetian and Palazzo resorts today, a company spokesman confirmed late Thursday evening.
Southern Nevada’s economic recession is expected to worsen from mild to bad in the next couple of years, though most indicators are forecast to show growth relative to a weak 2008, UNLV economist Keith Schwer said Thursday.
