President Barack Obama didn’t apologize Wednesday because he had no reason to, despite demands for an apology from Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and Gov. Jim Gibbons.
Rita Rudner‘s 7-year-old daughter, Molly, not only got to meet her first president, but she might be meeting the first kids.
Despite the Legislature’s passage of a law forcing the city of Las Vegas and the Nevada Department of Transportation to come up with funds to reopen F Street, don’t expect it to happen anytime soon.
An Iraq War veteran who was acquitted of murder last year was indicted this week on multiple charges of sexual assault.
A mother of two young children told jurors Wednesday that she was lured into smuggling drugs to imprisoned members of the Aryan Warriors.
He’s beginning to live up to his name, in more than just physical terms.
The Women’s Spirit Celebration and Family Health Fair will run from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at MonteLago Village at Lake Las Vegas, 30 Strada di Villaggio, Henderson.
Want to amaze your friends with no musical training required, just some basic typing skills? Check out buttonbeats.com. Choose from a variety of songs, ranging from Metallica’s “One” to the “Star Wars” theme. Type in the letters given, and it will sound just like you’re playing it on a piano.
A fixture in the local hip-hop scene for a decade now, DuWop Rose is one of Vegas’ best and most ballsy DJs. A true turntablist, she doesn’t just spin records, rather, she cuts deep, diverse grooves like few of her peers. Normally, she lets her hands do the talking, but today, she tells us what she’s all about in her own words.
David Alan Grier might be everywhere, but you can’t accuse him of overexposure in Las Vegas.
Luciana Hudson has been spending a lot of time lately with 10 or so unique personalities.
Few jobs in a Las Vegas casino are more important than stand-up comedian. Ever since Rose Marie was hired to tickle the opening-night crowd at the Flamingo in December 1946, it has fallen almost entirely on this person’s talent to reverse negativity — to make the guest forget all about that recent bet on 13 red that effectively condemns junior to community college.
It’s a rare person without an imprint on the Internet these days, especially when you’re Googling a prolific artist, longtime university professor and a pioneer in Las Vegas’ forever-burgeoning artistic community.
Since becoming a mom, we’ve noticed a few alterations to Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s style. And we like them. She’s reverted back to the edge she first greeted us with when the pop star launched her first album. In taking a step back, however, she’s taken huge steps forward thanks to the drop of sophistication the pop singer has introduced into her wardrobe.
The summer of ’07 brought with it the Beckham bob, the short little ‘do Victoria “Posh” Beckham inspired a bevy of women to mimic. It was hotter than the Vegas sun, but come September everyone realized that growing it out was about as awkward as puberty itself.
The one attribute just as recognizable as Stevie Nicks’ sweet sand paper voice would have to be her wardrobe. The dark and drapey garments she’s known for may look plucked off the pages of an Anne Rice novel, but one L.A.-based fashion designer knows exactly where they derive.
• Fashion Talk: The International Academy of Design & Technology invites members of the local fashion and retail communities, along with the general public, to attend its Design Series Friday, 7-8 p.m. This month’s presentation will be lead by local fashion writers Colleen Smiley, deputy editor of Vegas magazine, Leslie Frisbee, editor of Las Vegas Magazine and Xazmin Garza, fashion reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The event is free and open to the public.
Despite giveaways designed to win votes from coal-mining states and others likely to be heavily stomped, “Many environmental groups” still support the 940-page greenhouse gas permitting bill that was endorsed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 21, because “it still creates a ‘cap-and-trade’ system,” The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Democrats in the Legislature love to talk about creating “green” jobs. So they passed SB152, designed to train some Nevadans to help weatherize homes and the like.
BOSTON — Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced Wednesday that organizations working in 33 states would receive $1.5 billion in business tax credits fueled with federal stimulus money and aimed at creating and saving jobs in areas hit hard by the economic downturn.
Peter Eastgate did the math. The odds aren’t in his favor.
WASHINGTON — Buyers who were brave enough to dive into the market for a bargain-priced house helped provide a modest boost to sales last month.
Community Bancorp, a $1.9 billion-asset holding company based in Las Vegas, and its key subsidiary, Community Bank of Nevada, signed a regulatory agreement to limit their loan concentrations in development and commercial real estate and to address several other regulatory concerns, the company said Wednesday.