One of Stavros Anthony’s campaign promises was to oppose a new Las Vegas city hall, and on his first day in office Wednesday he tried to demonstrate he was serious about that promise.
A trio of bands destined for bigger things marks this month’s installment of Vegas music releases:
Comedian George Wallace and cast members from “Stomp Out Loud” will join Skip Martin, lead singer of the platinum-selling funk-pop group Kool & The Gang, as the headlining acts for the annual citywide Juneteenth Festival.
“Get Ready For This” by 2 Unlimited ends just as Jean Francois Detaille does. Green, pink and yellow paint cover his giant black canvas in abstract splotches that appear to be the work of an untrained child. It’s a safe bet that anyone, given the same five minutes, could do equal or better.
Is there a word that’s stumping you? Don’t use an everyday dictionary, whether it’s an actual book — remember those? — or one online. Instead, click on www.wordnik.com. You enter the word, and not only is a definition provided, but also examples of the word in a sentence, real-time use of the word on Twitter, related words, pictures that have that word as a tag on Flickr, how often one can expect to use that word and the best way to play it in Scrabble (by using an anagram, synonym, antonym, whatever scores highest).
Just on the face of it, it’s pretty cool that Clint Holmes, Susan Anton, Domenick Allen and Martin Nievera will perform together this weekend in “Vocal Soup” at the Suncoast.
Beauty is in the eye of the 1080i and 1080p enhanced scan lines and horizontal pixels on a 16:9 aspect ratio of screen width to screen height.
The devil’s in the details is an old saying that means you’re doomed if you ignore the minutiae of anything.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus remains “The Greatest Show on Earth” as it returns to town at the Orleans Arena for a magic-themed show called “Zing Zang Zoom.”
Larry King says that if he hadn’t become the guy we see on CNN every night, he might have been a comedian.
Whether he just added the “father” title to his life resume or if he’s got enough kids to make a TLC show, Dad deserves something special this Father’s Day. We’ve rounded up the best products in fashion and grooming, with a range of price points.
It’s rare an after-school job will produce anything more than gas money, but for Anna Romero it paved the road to a full-ride fashion school scholarship.
Fiscal watchdog Tom Coburn, the Republican senator from Oklahoma, has for years been a consistent and principled thorn in the side of Democratic — and GOP — big spenders.
The catalog sometimes seems as long as the number of government schemes which the suckers — um, taxpayers — are willing to entertain.
The outdoor media company Big Traffic commissioned a study to tell customers what they’re getting for the money it costs to rent a mobile billboard. According to surveys taken in March, as many as 40,000 people are walking on the Strip during peak hours.
A wave of foreclosures is expected to hit Las Vegas as banks lift a voluntary moratorium that was extended from March to the end of May, though nobody has an accurate estimate of how many bank-owned homes will be added to an already bulging inventory.
Developers of the stalled multibillion-dollar Fontainebleau Las Vegas will get a chance to fight in court for the revival of their project.
Local power utility NV Energy could receive less than half of the rate increase it’s seeking from the Nevada Public Utilities Commission, the state agency said in a Wednesday draft order.
Mayor Oscar Goodman talked like a gubernatorial candidate at Wednesday’s council meeting, saying state leaders accomplished little during this year’s legislative session and calling for Nevada cities to have more control over their own revenues.