Jailed singer’s mother worried

Celebrity impersonator Trina Johnson-Finn, jailed in Suriname, is suffering from dehydration and anemia, but told her mother, “Don’t worry about me.”

Hearings to address budget priorities

CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers start the ninth week of their 2009 session on Monday with more hearings that are likely to produce challenges to deep budget cuts proposed by Gov. Jim Gibbons.

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The $8.7 billion CityCenter development avoided a bankruptcy filing and potential shutdown Friday with a $200 million payment that allowed construction work to continue on the 76-acre Strip site.

Residents welcome fabulously dark Strip

Signs and message boards up and down the Strip — the planet’s brightest spot from space — went dark Saturday to commemorate Earth Hour.

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Making sausage out of ‘card check’

My curious little state of Arkansas, conservative and nominally Democratic, is something of a ground zero in the raging battle between management and labor over whether to allow unions to be formed by the filing of employee cards.

We all have a stake in UNLV

As professors at UNLV’s School of Life Sciences, we are extremely concerned about the budget situation in Nevada. We work hard, teaching several thousand students every semester, training many of them in our laboratories, writing grants to conduct cutting-edge research and publishing our results in prestigious scientific journals as well as in books and textbooks.

Brave new world

In his novel “1984,” George Orwell created the satiric template for the modern totalitarian state, a humorless bureaucracy endlessly changing the very language to disguise its purposes.

3D movies aren’t a gimmick anymore

It’s no secret that 3D movies are enjoying an incredible resurgence. As studios and exhibitors look for ways to keep providing moviegoers with reasons to leave the comfort of their homes and spend money to go to the movies, 3D has once again become a promising platform.

Which books to collect, and what are they worth?

About a year ago, a writer for one of the town’s less-than-every-day papers infamously reported with regret that the Reading Room bookstore at Mandalay Place inside the Mandalay Bay was closing, leaving Las Vegas without any independent booksellers.

Build solar! Build wind! … but not in my desert

A new era is dawning, we’re assured. The dark clouds of industrial pollution (OK, carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and necessary, but let’s not get bogged down in details) are about to be banished, ushering in a glorious new day of hygienic energy cleanliness and perfectly balanced global neither-warming-nor-cooling.

What if all the angels stand on one foot?

Once you begin haggling over the details — it’s OK prior to 60 days before an election but not after, a 90-minute movie might be OK but not a 30-second commercial, this money is good but that money is corrupting — you have lost sight of the fact that the fundamental premise of the whole damn thing is a fraud perpetrated by charlatans against liberty and democracy.

Showgirls endangered species

Nobody wants the showgirl to go away. But nobody knows what to do with her either.

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Time to show off your yard in annual landscape contest

The sun is shining, flowers are popping and that fresh, familiar smell of spring is in the air. After waiting months for those beautiful colors to flourish in your landscape, the time has finally come for your masterpiece to wake up and for you to show it off.

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Here is a listing of events designed for book lovers. Information is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Additions or changes to this listing must be submitted at least 10 days in advance of Sunday publication to Bookmark, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125. For more information, call 383-0306.

Poster newest member of Royal Order of the Gael

Tim Poster, a former owner of the Golden Nugget, was inducted into the Royal Order of the Gael March 19 during the 27th annual Knight of the Gael benefit at the Red Rock Resort.

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