Here to tell you all about her “co-dependency rehab” is Lisa Lampanelli — queen of Comedy Central roasts, frequent “Howard Stern Show” comedian, and maybe a co-star of an upcoming HBO show.
On Thursday, one Hard Rock Hotel player will win two leather recliners, a 52-inch TV plus a catered Super Bowl party for 10. Other “Ready for the Big Game” winners will receive a digital camera, Blu-ray player, Sirius radio or free play. Rockstar Club members receive one automatic entry for every 100 points ($100-$600 coin-in) earned on his or her card from Monday through Thursday. Players must swipe their card on Thursday (5 p.m.-6:55 p.m.) to activate their entries and must be present at the 7 p.m. drawing to win.
Movies do love-at-first-sight all the time. But like-at-first-sight? That’s a more uncommon commodity.
Las Vegas, bless its heart, loves a buffet. That’s what came to mind when we saw the crowds at Texas de Brazil early on a weeknight.
Heidi’s Picks are suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees between $10 and $20; $$$ = entrees between $20 and $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
Jay White was doing his Neil Diamond tribute in a Riviera cabaret when the real Neil played the MGM Grand Garden in 2002. And he still was doing it three weeks ago, when Diamond returned.
You remember how to whistle (“The Andy Griffith Show” theme), don’t ya? You just put your lips together and (call up that catchy melody from your memory) blow.
It started years ago, on a Tuesday night in Santa Monica, Calif., where a legend was born in Budweiser. Now in its 11th year, the tournament began at the Gold Coast in 1998 before briefly moving to the now-shuttered Castaways and eventually landing at Sam’s Town.
Tom Jones is on the phone while catching some rays by his pool in Beverly Hills, which even in January is exactly where you would expect him to be.
President-elect Barack Obama’s designee for treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, faces questions about how he could have “forgotten” to report and pay more than $32,000 in self-employment taxes when he worked for the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2004.
When Oscar Goodman was elected Las Vegas mayor in the spring of 1999, his top priority was downtown redevelopment. At the time, he surely believed he could turn things around in just a few years.
In September, Bob Loux, executive director of the state’s Nuclear Waste Project Office — the outfit charged with blocking federal plans to build a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain — resigned from office.
The diminishing supply of land available for industrial development in Las Vegas is going to hurt employment growth and stifle economic diversification, the executive director of Theodore Roosevelt Institute said Thursday.
Two of the biggest hits at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show don’t even exist yet. Talk about optimism.
Troubled technology provider Progressive Gaming International Corp. is headed toward extinction.
To hear recent transplants tell it, Las Vegas is like New York, with more opportunity and warmer winters. Or Boston, without the ticks and the snow. Or Dallas, with mountains. A study by Relocation.com says Las Vegas ranked as the No. 1 big-city destination last year for Americans making long-distance, out-of-state moves.
NV Energy Inc., which has endured criticism from environmentalists over development of the $5 billion Ely Energy Center, confirmed Thursday it is interested in building another coal-fired power plant similar in size to the 1,500-megawatt power plant at Ely.
I was standing on 59th Street in New York City in sweltering heat. My wife, Lisa, rested a clammy hand on my shoulder while a bead of nervous sweat dripped down my face.
With the eyes of a nation on the auto industry, the North American International Auto Show (Jan. 17-25) in Detroit is an indicator of what’s to come.
Local Hyundai dealers Planet Hyundai, Henderson Hyundai and Centennial Hyundai announced the revolutionary Hyundai Assurance program Jan. 2. In an effort to keep consumers at ease about making the investment to buy or lease a new car during the current economic times, the three dealerships will allow customers to return their car if they encounter a life-altering circumstance such as job loss. This program is available to anyone who buys a new Hyundai regardless of age, health, employment record or amount of the vehicle purchased or leased. The initiative includes coverage for people in case of involuntary unemployment, physical disability, loss of drivers license due to medical impairment, international employment transfer, self-employed personal bankruptcy or accidental death.
If there was a Hemi-powered Chrysler on the drag strip in the mid-to-late 1960s, you had better pray to the heavens that you wouldn’t have to square off against it at the starting line.
