Oscar Goodman and Jim Rogers are what we in the media like to call “good quotes.”
Michael Jackson is dead, and it probably doesn’t matter how. Men in their 50s can and do die of natural causes. Their hearts can simply stop beating with zero heart history and absent any known symptoms. Men in their 50s also can spend years loading their bodies with enough medication to glow in the dark, to euthanize a Budweiser Clydesdale, to anesthetize unimaginable psychic suffering taking up residence in all manner of physical symptoms.
Looking back on it, the summer of 1969 was pretty interesting.
My mother would be proud of me. She always told me not to hit girls, and not one of my punches is landing against Melinda Cooper.
Here are a few things from news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Here’s how things go when I play my most addictive game so far in 2009, “Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’10.”
If a stranger said you could live in his vacant condominium for six months, absolutely free, you might not believe it.
Meaghan Martin is one good Nickelodeon appearance away from cornering the market on tweens.
Nature creates bountiful gardens in Southern Utah’s high country during the short summer season, usually peaking in July. Springtime arrives late atop the 10,000-foot plateaus. Plants hasten to produce flowers and seed for future years in the brief weeks between the last of snow melt in May or June and the return of autumn in September.
Here is a listing of events designed for book lovers. Information is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Additions or changes to this listing must be submitted at least 10 days in advance of Sunday publication to Bookmark, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125. For more information, call 383-0306.
The American Culinary Federation Chefs of Las Vegas and the ACF Associate Members had their annual Chef of the Year Dinner on June 28 at the Palms.
The much-awaited Palm Pre is a bit premature. I really wanted to love this smart phone, but I only like it.
An evening of men punching each other in the face in an eight-sided fenced ring has become one of the area’s top business ventures and tourist drivers, according to a new study by a local firm.
More than three years after it closed — and two years after it was originally supposed to reopen — the Lady Luck is still a dark, empty shell in downtown Las Vegas.
Jay Fennel is starting over at age 42.