RENO — A judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging prison and medical staff deliberately withheld medical treatment from the former manager of the Coasters music group, leading to his slow and painful death from gangrene while on death row in Ely.
About six months ago Dr. Jack Copeland cut out Chuck Besen’s heart.
On his last night in Las Vegas, a physically frail and mentally fractured Howard Hughes was carried down the back stairs from the ninth floor of the Desert Inn before slipping away like a ghost on a jet ambulance.
The countdown hit zero, the curtain came down, and there they were — two Oscar Goodmans inside a new exhibit at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas.
When Las Vegas police homicide detectives walked into Room 20 of a Traveler’s Inn on East Fremont Street March 11, they found a crime scene stripped nearly bare of evidence.
When the lights go dark on the Strip Saturday night, it’s unfortunate it won’t be to honor the passing after a half century of the Folies Bergere at the Tropicana.
CARSON CITY — A Nevada Assembly panel voted Thursday to back a plan for a lottery in the nation’s No. 1 gambling state, despite arguments that it would compete with slot machines and other games of chance.
Lavo Nightclub at the Palazzo is a creation of the same people who operate Tao at The Venetian. But, like any other siblings, Lavo and Tao have their own personalities.
There’s been a lot of talk about how arts organizations are in big trouble because of the financial crunch. When it comes to local theater, I like big, budget-busting spectacles as much as any performance-arts geek, but some of the best production environments have been a byproduct of poverty. I regret the recent loss of funds that seems to have occurred across the board. But I wonder: To what degree does lack of money encourage rather than stifle creativity? Some local playhouses have gone easy on scripts that require elaborate staging. You’re more likely than ever now to see one- or two-set shows than ever before.
Gordie Brown has come full circle back to the Golden Nugget, but he’s not quite the same guy who started his Las Vegas career there in 2004.
Celebrities deal with public lies told about them every day. But it’s remarkable how many untrue things have been said and written about Sheena Easton. Some doozies:
Some would say Kelly Monaco has sexy down cold. She’s a soap star. She’s posed for Playboy. But when she’s among dancers and their distinctive kind of sexy? “I felt like a tree. A stump. And they’re the leaves in the wind,” she says with a laugh.
Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch — or dinner? The four local Fazoli’s outlets will provide all dine-in customers with a free order of spaghetti marinara and breadsticks during Spaghetti Stimulus Night from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday. …
I discovered the Florida Cafe not long after I moved here, and as a Florida transplant I loved it immediately. Not because its name reminded me of the Sunshine State, but because it served Cuban food, and great Cuban food at that.
Theme: "It’s Not Easy Being Teen." Not six decades ago, when innocent teens considered their futures. Not now, when armed teens extinguish futures.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Her reviews are done anonymously at Review-Journal expense.
At 8:15 p.m. every Thursday, Friday and Saturday (through April 25) at Palace Station, Boulder Station, Texas Station, Santa Fe Station, Sunset Station, Green Valley Ranch, Red Rock Resort, Aliante Station, Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson, nine people will win $1,000, and one person will win $1,000 plus an entry to win a 2009 Hybrid Cadillac Escalade. One car will be awarded every drawing night among all the Station/Fiesta casinos. Beginning Sunday, guests can earn electronic entries at video poker, video reel, video keno, slot machines, bingo, table games and poker. Chairman/El Presidente tier members receive five times entries, President/Macho tier members receive four times, Platinum tier members receive three times on earned entries. All entries must be activated by swiping your card once between 4 and 8 p.m. on the day of the drawings, and all winners must be present at the drawings.
Meet the Flimflam Ma’am. “She takes the floor and bulldozes over all the other characters,” says Tressa Bern, the affable actress inhabiting the outrageous Alexa Vere de Vere, who puts the “artist” in con artist while conning a slew of artists in “As Bees in Honey Drown,” Las Vegas Little Theatre’s production of Douglas Carter Beane’s galloping comedy whirlwind.
He just may be the first dude to ever describe his band’s tunes with an analogy that involves the gouging of retinas. “It’s like watching someone get their eyeball poked with a needle,” begins Mitch Lucker, singer for nouveau death metal upstarts Suicide Silence.
Those who insist America should have a “free” health care system like Canada’s must still explain why Canadians who can afford to do so often head “south of the border” to pay cash for better and more timely treatment.
It qualifies as an old schoolboy joke, by now, right up there with, “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
The notion of the American Dream isn’t as old as you might think. David Kamp, in an excellent article in the April issue of Vanity Fair magazine, points out that the Founding Fathers never used the phrase. He traces its origins to 1931, when a book called “The Epic of America,” by James Truslow Adams, left an indelible mark on the nation’s psyche.
Commercial real estate hasn’t been as heavily besieged with mortgage delinquencies as the residential sector, but an upward trend shows it’s something bankers are monitoring closely.
Tyler Corder’s looking for a dose of positive economic news.
