Project Sunshine of Nevada continues its year of benefit dinner parties with “Fooling Around with Foods & Liquids” at 6 p.m. April 1 in the Carmel Room at the Rampart Casino, 221 N. Rampart Blvd. Tickets are $195 per person (in advance or at the door); for tickets or more information, call 434-3699 or visit www.projectsunshineofnv.org. The series continues Sept. 9 and Oct. 28. …
This is the first weekend of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — otherwise known as “March Madness.” (And similar to the Super Bowl, casinos are forbidden to use the term “March Madness” in their advertising.) Many of the casinos will be hosting special parties — some by invitation only, others, including the El Cortez, Excalibur and Sahara, are open to the public. At the Las Vegas Hilton‘s annual “Hoop Central” through Sunday, college basketball fans will be able to watch the games on giant screens in the Hilton ballroom (in a smoke-free environment). Besides food and drink specials, players buying a $25 parlay card will receive a free “Madness” T-shirt — limit two per person while supplies last.
Risque at Paris Las Vegas is trying something a little risky for a local nightclub.
There the dude is, dropping rhymes about Helen Keller and dry humping a buffalo in a loin cloth.
No, Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, but I think it’s safe to say Hubert Keller invented the upscale burger restaurant.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has recommended to the White House that it reappoint Daniel Bogden as U.S. attorney for Nevada. The Bush administration fired Bogden two years ago in a political purge of nine federal prosecutors perceived as not sufficiently supporting the Republican Party cause. Reid believes Bogden, registered nonpartisan, was terminated unfairly and should get his job back.
Swept up by widespread assertions that “something must be done,” many Americans doubtless responded to Wednesday’s announcement that the Federal Reserve Board would purchase up to $300 billion in long-term U.S. Treasury bonds with a relieved “Well, at least they’re doing something.”
As Nevadans suffer hard times, they’re earning less and spending less, reducing tax revenues.
Despite an increase in Las Vegas home sales, pricing pressure continues downward and doesn’t appear to be letting up, a local housing analyst said Thursday.
The number of passengers flying in and out of McCarran International Airport fell 15.2 percent in February to about 3 million.
CARSON CITY — A proposal by Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons to merge commissions on economic development and on tourism in this tourist-dependent state bogged down Thursday in a Senate-Assembly budget panel whose members agreed it’s a bad idea.
Most tourists who see the $9 million Boulder City Aerocenter will do so en route from the excitement of Las Vegas to the wonder of some of the world’s greatest natural features.
Phil Ruffin is doing MGM Mirage a favor, and it only cost him $100 million.
“Street Customs,” a TV show about car customization on the The Learning Channel, recently came to Las Vegas to visit Josh “Chop” Towbin, co-owner of Towbin Dodge and the star of A&E channel’s “King of Cars.”
As a patriotic automotive enthusiast with a love for old American muscle cars, it warms my heart (and my right foot) to see the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 pictured on back-to-back issues of Motor Trend magazine, several months after a Motor Trend cover story on the 2009 Dodge Challenger.
The last piece of graffiti we spotted approaching the Ukrainian border proclaimed, “James Brown is free.” It was scrawled across the front of a dilapidated sun-bleached cottage. A few hundred yards down the pot-holed road, a heavy blonde lady in a bulky uniform welcomed us to her country. Her icy blue eyes stared right through me.
In the small city of Emporia where the Kansas Turnpike intersects with State Road 50, they talk about tornado season, the latest election and the days when the Tyson Foods plant once employed everyone in the area.
Behold the 2010 SRX, otherwise known as the incredible shrinking Cadillac.
The 1960s ushered in an era of made-to-order cars, expanded selection and ferocious competition for sales. And the intermediate 1966-’67 Ford Fairlanes were smack in the middle of the fight.
