Here are a few of the things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a film about a man who is aging in reverse. He is born with the metabolism, skin, cataracts, arthritis and relative vitality of a man in his late 80s. His life ends some 90 years later as a newborn.
Your computer files say more about you than you probably want said. And identity thieves are listening closely.
2009 is 11 days old, and that mist you see hanging over the valley is the dust of thousands of ambitious, and now disintegrated, New Year’s resolutions.
Crazy Benny. Sounds like a used-car dealer. And with his red fedora, he looks like a guy who hawks them on TV.
Buzzwords are the “in” thing these days, especially if you’re hanging out at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics show. That’s CES for those in the industry, and probably the buzziest of words if you have a product and you’re looking for coverage and exposure.
BATTLE AHEAD: The Employee Free Choice Act, a federal law that could come before Congress this year, would make it easier to certify unions. Observers say the law would drop barriers to organization that made it tough for unions to pursue smaller companies. Some small-business leaders are concerned.
The departure of Progressive Gaming Chief Financial Officer Heather Rollo may be the final nail in the coffin of the casino technology provider.
The owner of a rough-and-tumble downtown Las Vegas casino is expanding his reach to the bucolic, alpine environment of Mount Charleston, and he’s betting his customers will follow.
Mark Kalmback worked for 21 years in grocery stores before he met his true loves.
