Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe probably was just thinking out loud when he said it, but he made Internet headlines when he mused that he could make a lot of money if he changed his last name to “World of Warcraft,” after his favorite video game.
If not for the versatility of Rene Rougeau, UNLV would be a basketball team with a soft middle that is easily exposed.
Despite a tumultuous final week of 2008, Garrett Gomez showed above all that he is a good sport.
Las Vegas is not just a place where people are born and live. It is an enterprise.
Sports stars led the way in our annual recap of celebrities who made headlines in Las Vegas, usually for out-of-bounds behavior or finding trouble.
It’s official: this year’s New Year’s Eve celebration was “average,” by Las Vegas standards, anyway.
The father of the young girl killed in their home Wednesday night while playing with a handgun was arrested on felony firearm and child abuse charges, police said.
He shaved the mustache, styled the hair and became a new old(er) man.
He entered a world of song and sequined jumpsuits that sparkled like his muse’s surname.
It started in 1978 in Detroit.
The theater community received a jolt just before Christmas with the suicide of Barbara Ann Rollins.
Several of the downtown casinos are offering premiums to new players club members. At the Golden Nugget, all new 24 Karat Club sign-ups will play a promotional slot machine to receive $5 to $1,000 in free slot play. New players club members at Fitzgeralds will receive a Fitz logo drawstring backpack after earning 50 points ($250 coin-in on slots, $500 coin-in on video poker; no point redemption required). Four Queens customers receive a free deck of cards upon sign-up and a canvas tote bag after earning 40 points ($200 coin-in on slots, $320 coin-in on video poker; no point redemption required) within 24 hours of sign-up. Across the street at Binion’s, new members also receive a free deck of cards at sign-up and a T-shirt after earning 100 points ($150 coin-in on slots, $300 coin-in on video poker; no point redemption required) within 24 hours.
Indigo Joe’s Sports Pub & Restaurant is the quintessential sport bar.
Let’s be honest: During its heyday in the 1970s, you — and, for that matter, everybody we know — never would have been admitted into New York City’s legendary Studio 54.
Kathleen Madigan is a top comedian in her own right. But she may be secondarily known for dating two other comedians, Lewis Black and Ron White.
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.
Stand clear, post-adolescents — a Lean, Mean, Tween Machine is about to steamroll Vegas. …
A number of Las Vegas celebrities are making arrangements to attend Barack Obama‘s inauguration festivities later this month.
They sit backstage and face off, the heckler and the heckled, looking equally uncomfortable as the camera rolls.
Love” was the easiest of Cirque du Soleil’s six missions on the Strip, except for that one detail: living up to the expectations of everyone who grew up with the Beatles.
On Monday evening at the West Las Vegas Library, leaders of the local African-American community gathered to talk strategy concerning the impending closure of F Street at Bonanza Road.
As state archivist, Guy Rocha is a walking reference guide to Nevada history. No one has more familiarity with the people and events that shaped Nevada’s rise from rough-and-tumble cow country to international tourist destination, with the characters and skirmishes that forged an independent streak hundreds of miles wide.
