All you can say is Ow! “Freaks” sets new standards for toughness in Las Vegas entertainment. I no longer feel sorry for 52-year-old David Copperfield doing four shows on Christmas Day.
Here’s the nightmare that haunts many single men’s souls. You hook up with a woman. Some time later, she tells you she’s pregnant. Congratulations, Daddy! This happened to David Spade. But he pushes back against me calling his experience a “nightmare.”
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Golden body wall sculptures, mosaic chandeliers and alligator skin booths.
Spring has sprung in Las Vegas, which means the season for doing good by eating well is heating up. Some upcoming opportunities:
They wanted to give George Strait a big award on a network-TV special, but decided they ought to check with him first.
The people have spoken. And they spoke louder than Kenny Chesney, at least in terms of the ratings.
Metal heavyweights Metallica slam into the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Dec. 5. Tickets are $54.95 and $75.95 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ticketmaster outlets.
Effective April 1 — we didn’t pick the date — employers have been instructed by the IRS to deduct a little less out of the coming year’s paychecks. For everybody. The average American worker will probably notice an extra $11 to $13 per week.
The environmental movement thrives in a fantasy world where economic realities don’t apply. The concept of weighing costs against benefits is anathema to their doctrines — the greens won’t move from the position that no cost is too great to impose on American taxpayers and consumers to realize the smallest perceived benefit.
May “you live in interesting times.” Many assume this saying is an ancient Chinese curse, or blessing, depending on how you look at it.
Riviera Holdings Corp. let another deadline slip by Thursday without making a $4 million loan payment but said it is still in talks with Wachovia Bank about restructuring its debts outside of bankruptcy court.
Businesses with good credit say they are having trouble getting loans because of the credit crisis. So it’s not surprising that companies operating with the protection of bankruptcy court are being left high and dry, too.
Officials at the Las Vegas Valley’s local electric utility credit Earth Hour for a noticeable drop in power use Saturday night.
A day after reports that Los Angeles-based Colony Capital might be the financial savior of the $8.7 billion CityCenter development, the project’s partners remained relatively quiet.
The Injured Police Officers’ Fund will host a free car show Sunday at Sunset Park on Sunset Road and Eastern Avenue. The show will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 4 p.m., with awards presented at 3:30 p.m.
In your town, it’s probably common to hear the thumping bass from a stereo that’s vibrating a little two-door compact (with big wheels, decals, spoilers and a loud-for-no-apparent-reason muffler) down the street. Hey, it’s just what the kids drive these days.
Of all the successful sports cars ever created, the 356 is, hands down, the most unique, as well as one of the most desirable.
I had driven nonstop down the autobahns from the German port of Hamburg on the North Sea into Austria.
It’s fitting, perhaps, that George Rice “Joie” Chitwood would be remembered as the first driver to have ever snapped a seat belt together during a trip around the famed Indianapolis 500 Speedway.
In danger of falling behind the times in the large-and-in-charge department, Lincoln has decided to literally “go big” instead of “staying home.”