Lenders opened the floodgates by lifting a moratorium on foreclosures in March, resulting in a record number both in Clark County and nationally, a foreclosure expert said Thursday.
Welcome to the busiest entertainment weekend of Las Vegas so far this year. You can’t do everything because some events butt up against each other. But here’s how it shakes out, hour by hour. For extra details, read today’s Neon section.
CARSON CITY — U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said Thursday that whoever surfaces as the top Republican challenger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will get his support and that the race will be “a heavyweight battle.”
CARSON CITY — The economy is down but spending is up for Nevada’s legislative lobbyists, who have forked over $95,975 at dinners, receptions and other events during the first half of the 2009 session.
CARSON CITY — One of the measures needed to ensure Nevada gets nearly $300 million in federal stimulus funding to help jobless Nevadans was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Jim Gibbons.
Las Vegas police identified the mother of an abandoned 8-month-old Thursday thanks to tipsters who called a missing-persons hot line.
Remember the thousands-strong crowd that took to the Strip a few years ago to push for immigration reform that would provide a path to legalization for illegal immigrants?
An initial court decision in the fight between the city of Las Vegas and the Culinary union is expected today, setting the stage for an almost guaranteed appeal while an April 22 election deadline looms ever closer.
CARSON CITY — A bill that sets up procedures that state government must follow before establishing toll roads won approval 15-6 Thursday in the state Senate.
A video of two Miss USA 2009 contestants ranting about a high-maintenance fellow contestant has mysteriously shown up on YouTube.com.
Per the proverb: The geeks shall inherit the Earth.
Oh, how you’ll miss us when we’re gone.
And I’m not (just) talking about the fate of the republic — and how much bad stuff bad guys will get away with when newspapers aren’t around to report it.
I met Paul McCartney in 1984. I was 19 and, shall we say, not a winner in the game of life. (Even McCartney knew enough to ditch his mullet haircut by then.)
Business isn’t just tough for public shows in Las Vegas. Our swanky town has hosted unfathomably elaborate and secretive private concerts. But such corporate gigs have waned during the recession.
Ben & Jerry’s will celebrate its 31st annual Free Cone Day from noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Galleria at Sunset mall, 1300 W. Sunset Road, and at The District at Green Valley Ranch, 2240 Village Walk Drive, both in Henderson. Small cones are free with no purchase necessary, but guests will be invited to donate to the Lied Discovery Children’s Museum (Galleria) or the Nevada Community Learning Centers, formerly Classroom on Wheels (District). …
When Paul McCartney thinks of Las Vegas these days, his mind’s eye becomes filled with mental images of teenage runaways, a sex trade so gritty and foul it’s like snorkeling in sweat and some kid in New Mexico who he fears he may have inadvertently corrupted about a year ago.
U2 brings its “360 Tour” to Sam Boyd Stadium on Oct. 23, with the Black Eyed Peas. Tickets are $33, $58, $98 and $253 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Thomas & Mack box office, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, www.unlvtickets.com and www.livenation.com.
We paid $12.99 for a bottle of wine when we had dinner at Marche Bacchus. Heck, we’ve paid more than that for one glass of wine on the Strip.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees between $10 and $20; $$$ = entrees between $20 and $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
Amidst the strobelike flash of dozens of chattering cameras, Carlos Santa wielded a pair of giant, 3-foot scissors and the floating-on-air Zen of a monk on Percoset.
It’s true that Body English at the Hard Rock Hotel appeals to local club hoppers because of its off-Strip location, says Cory
Twice every day (2 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.), the Sahara draws five must-be-present names to spin the wheel and win prizes including a three-day cruise, a 42-inch plasma TV, $5-$100 cash, show tickets, dinners and much more. Entry tickets can be earned at the machines, in the pit and in the poker room. Winners of the cruise and the plasma TV will be offered a cash option in lieu of the prize. This promotion runs through Aug. 31.
Not even three months into his presidency, Barack Obama already has developed a nasty habit of making grandiose promises and proposals, doing precisely the opposite of what he says and celebrating his hypocrisy and insincerity as a policy triumph.
From his first day in office, President Obama has been in charge. Agree or disagree with his policies, nobody can suggest that he is standing on the sidelines or letting his vice president take the lead. Faced with a daunting array of crises, from the economic collapse to Somali piracy, Obama has been bold and decisive during his first 100 days in Washington.