Ne-Yo‘s musical career has been a rocket ride. Next on the horizon, another opportunity to test his wings as an actor.
President Barack Obama has been shockingly upfront about his heavy-handed plans to govern energy production across the country from Washington, D.C. His plan is known as cap-and-trade, but it amounts to a new national energy tax that will be detrimental to consumers’ pocketbooks at the worst possible time.
It’s always tempting to report that minimum-wage hikes, such as that scheduled to take effect in Nevada July 1, will “give the state’s lowest-paid workers a 12 percent” (or whatever) “raise.”
I’m very lucky. Despite what our energetic young bankers-turned-derivative-peddlers have done — are still doing, that’s the amazing part — to our economy, I still have a job, which means that every month I still sit down and pay my bills.
If the whispers are right and Nevada is, indeed, in a $3 billion hole, then all hands on deck — this is a crisis.
Democrats and Republicans infected with tax-hike fever in Carson City should take a look at the election results which came out of Illinois last week.
Faye and Dr. Leon Steinberg were the honored guests at The Venetian on March 29 when they were presented with the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson In Pursuit of Excellence Award at a gala ceremony.
Maybe it was MTV back in the day with its three-minute bursts of Cyndi Lauper and Lionel Richie. Or it could be the fact that the meat we eat has been injected with more questionable substances than Barry Bonds during his prime. But somewhere along the way, our national attention span has come to rival that of a fruit fly on spring break after its fourth beer bong.
You can’t find two games more psychologically different than a shooting game, where you blast holes into cops’ faces, and a kiddie game, where a main purpose is to endearingly smash crates. So that’s what we’re doing this week. It’s “The Godfather II” vs. “Monsters vs. Aliens.” Let’s go to the movies!
On Saturday, you can see award-winning landscapes, irises, roses, cactuses and succulents.
So, I’m bored on a Saturday morning. Should be exercising. Instead, I’m channel surfing. And I stumble on the movie “George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead.”
A college graduate pursuing a high school teaching career posted a photo on her social-networking profile with a caption suggesting she was drinking heavily.
ohn Ivanoff sat in his nun’s habit backstage at the Chippendales Theatre, contemplating his future: Would he fall and make a spectacle of himself while wearing his nearly 6-foot-tall Easter bonnet?
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Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Clark County marks its 100th birthday with special observations and programs throughout this year with emphasis on its colorful past and a century of phenomenal changes. Clark County presents special historical exhibits at the Clark County Museum and the county government center. Nearly a dozen roundtable history panel discussions appear on the county’s television channel. The Review-Journal has featured historical photos and print material from county archives. Special events dot the county’s 2009 calendar.
It might be the cheesiest overnight bag in existence, a PVC and satin duffel splashed with a photo of Liberace taking a bubble bath.
Movie stars go to Hollywood. Actors move to Broadway. For the men and women who make us laugh, the top of the world is the Las Vegas Strip.
Michael Greco understands the challenges he faces as the new point man for entertainment at one of Las Vegas’ highest profile niche properties.
MISSING LINK: Hoover Dam was built during the Great Depression from 1931 to 1935, drawing more than 5,000 workers to the Nevada desert. Now, as the country faces its worst economic slump perhaps since the Depression, work near the dam is back. The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, 1,500 feet downstream from the Hoover Dam, is the longest concrete single-arch bridge in North America.
When former marketing executive Mark Brown heard about a social networking Web site proposal that would feature poker and be able to target ads to specific partners, he thought it sounded like a good — and potentially profitable — idea.