Celebrity impersonator Trina Johnson-Finn, jailed in Suriname, is suffering from dehydration and anemia, but told her mother, “Don’t worry about me.”
The atmosphere onstage resembled a family reunion, albeit a family with lots of tall, glamorous women in heels.
These are hard times for the corporate casino racket, but as I stepped into Emilio Muscelli’s home at the Las Vegas Country Club I was reminded of just how far this gambling town has risen from its notorious roots.
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.
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.
Signs and message boards up and down the Strip — the planet’s brightest spot from space — went dark Saturday to commemorate Earth Hour.
Overtime costs for Clark County firefighters keep flaring up like a stubborn blaze.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nobody wants the showgirl to go away. But nobody knows what to do with her either.
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.
In the town with probably the most sexy servers in the world, one stands head and shoulder straps above the rest.
I want to begin with a rare change of heart. Previously, I gave “Resident Evil 5” a three-star rating. I think it deserves three and one-half stars.
Musically speaking, the cold days of winter are over, and the sunny days of summer have arrived.
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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.