The 16-year-old driver of a speeding pickup that crashed and killed a classmate was sentenced Thursday to a juvenile youth camp and community service.
Lately politicians have raised the issue of legalizing prostitution for the purposes of raising much-needed tax revenues, but they won’t find an ally in Sheriff Doug Gillespie.
The party hard Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band return to the MGM Grand Garden arena on May 16. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
It took more than two years to make the new stop-motion animated feature “Coraline,” which opens in theaters today.
The timing couldn’t have been better last summer when Gordie Brown was offered a chance to play sports arenas as Celine Dion’s opening act.
The Silverton is giving out a total of $322,000 this month. You can win on any night in February when the casino draws 10 winners (who must be present at the 8 p.m. drawing) to receive various amounts of cash or free slot play, including a $10,000 top prize. Discovery Card members can earn entries into the nightly drawings playing slots, video poker or video keno. The casino also is giving out a Snuggie (blanket with sleeves) to all players earning 250 daily points on slots ($250 coin-in; no point redemption required) or 500 points on video poker ($500 coin-in).
This sounded pretty easy. Go see "Folies Bergere" to give readers a two-month head’s up on whether they should bother to catch the venerable showgirl revue one last time before it closes March 28.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Danny Gans tunes his act with the fine touch we used to give a radio dial. And he knows what stations he is looking for.
LeAnn Rimes said recently, “People are just waiting for you to self-destruct because that’s what happens.” That’s a true statement. People love seeing the downfall of a celebrity. But Rimes hasn’t provided any real fodder for tabloidian implosion.
Origin India Restaurant & Bar, 4480 Paradise Road, has planned a menu of aphrodisiacs for the celebration of a sensuous Valentine’s Day. The five-course menu of vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes includes an entree of roasted wild Atlantic halibut, Rajasthani-style braised baby lamb shank, chicken breast with cardamom and mace, or spinach kofta stuffed with dates and ginger. It’s $70 per person with seatings at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday. For reservations, call 734-6342. …
In Texas, Memphis — any of the old-time barbecue capitals — the legendary ‘cue venues have these great big stone or brick or other-fireproof-material pits, where they burn hickory or mesquite or other woods of choice. The pits usually are coated by decades-long accumulations of smoke and grease and we-don’t-really-want-to-know-what-else, and they and the hardy soul who gets up at 3 in the morning to stoke the fire and smoke the meat produce the stuff of which legends are made.
In the 1960s, tabloid newspaper editors discovered a great new way to build circulation: the “welfare queen” exposé.
From sports apparel company Speedo to luxury Swiss watchmaker Omega, corporate sponsors who have signed up swimming phenomenon Michael Phelps to tout their products don’t seem much concerned about the Olympian’s current dope scandal.
A massive Hard Rock Cafe — the chain’s second local outpost — is nearly complete, and scheduled to open July 9 with more than 500 employees.
Station Casinos has been asked to temporarily run day-to-day operations of the Thunder Valley Casino by the American Indian tribe which owns the casino, the tribe and casino company confirmed Thursday.
Casino operator Penn National, which quashed rumors last month that it was buying The Mirage, said Thursday it was still interested in owning a casino on the Strip.
The dream of the most optimistic solar power advocates soon will be reality, analysts said Thursday.
What birthday present do you get a 45-year-old automotive icon that seems to have everything?
After more than 100 years, it appears that the internal-combustion engine is about to lose its fire.
The fourth annual Cadillac Through the Years car show is set for Sunday at The District at Green Valley Ranch, and it won’t be hard to find John Bergler’s pink ’59 Cadillac in the throng of vehicles on display.