CARSON CITY — Complaints that charged Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and state Sen. Mike Schneider with using their influence to restore the license of a homeopathic doctor were tossed out Thursday by the Nevada Ethics Commission.
If you were holding off on seeing Danny Gans until he moved across the street to Encore, good call.
They receive none of the glory, but often perform most of the work — contorting their bodies to appear sawed in half or vanished into thin air, flipping secret levers at just the right moment.
Guitar legend Eric Clapton teams up with Steve Winwood to air Blind Faith tunes and more at the MGM Grand Garden arena on June 27. Tickets are $55, $89.75 and $175 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.
This weekend and next all four Coast Casinos (Sam’s Town, Orleans, Suncoast and Gold Coast) are each giving away $100,000. The drawings (winners must be present) will take place at 8:15 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and each features a $10,000 top prize. Please check out the rules regarding how to earn entries.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
The culinary traditions of Spain will be celebrated during the World Vibration Concert Series/World Cuisine event at noon March 8 at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive. The cooking demonstration begins at noon, with flamenco music following at 2 p.m. The fee for the demonstration is $14; a combination ticket for both is $25. For tickets and more information, call 455-7340 or stop at the center. …
When guitarists were known as wizards and axmen (1988), a collective of traveling musicians roamed the land calling themselves the Monsters of Rock Tour — but the marks of these beasts were more dangerously known by their phylum shreddings: Metallica, Van Halen, Scorpions and Dokken.
When VooDoo Lounge opened atop the Rio about 12 years ago, it was the first area nightclub to offer Las Vegans the killer combination of a great off-Strip view and sophisticated clubbing.
I still remember the first tamale I ate as a child, back before authentic Mexican food reached the little corner of the white-bread world where I grew up.
If you don’t buy a concert ticket, you can always be hungry at a strategic hour.
Getting an independent movie made — and getting it into theaters — is always a crapshoot.
The discussion about cutting Broadway shows to 90 minutes for the Strip and the behavior of those shows’ audiences continue to be emotional topics.
Audience advisory: No intermissions. If there were, though, they’d arrive at 4 1/2-minute intervals and last a minute. Ten times.
Remember when tour buses were sex on wheels, a rolling series of "Almost Famous" moments, synonymous with good times and bad judgment, free love followed by trips to the free clinic?
When M Resort lights up a dark corner of the southwest valley on Sunday, it will be with nine restaurants and a decided emphasis on value, and not just because of the current state of the economy.
Poetry, Chicago-style. Comedy, New York-style. Cultural observations, Las Vegas-style.
They say that to be a big-government liberal you have to be able to believe two mutually exclusive things at the same time.
So, we have the real estate crisis, the bank crisis, the automaker crisis, rising unemployment and severe state budget deficits. It’s not a pretty picture.
Prior to engaging in their spending orgy (see above), the Democratic House leadership did one thing right: They allowed a vote on a congressional pay freeze.
Boyd Gaming Corp. executives repeatedly told analysts during Thursday’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call they would not answer questions about the company’s interest in spending $950 million to buy a large portion of rival Station Casinos.
A small Minnesota bank made a successful $730 million bid to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for performing and nonperforming residential loans made by failed First National Bank of Nevada, the chief executive officer said Thursday.
An ailing housing market slashed customer growth for Southern Nevada’s natural gas utility by nearly 80 percent in 2008.
“Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?” was the question posed by General Motor Corp.’s up-market division years ago in its advertising copy.
“So you have had quite a history on the road setting all of these driving records,” said the cheerful BBC Radio host, directing his questions with enthusiasm. “And now you are here in Glasgow doing what?”
The second annual Las Vegas Sporting Clays Classic recently raised more than $200,000 for the area Boy Scout council, and a local gun enthusiast won a two-year lease of a new Range Rover Sport courtesy of Land Rover Las Vegas.