Free speech and ‘Hillary’

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case Citizens United v. FEC — “Hillary: the Movie.”

RESTAURANT REPORT

Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop, Aliante Station, 7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, received 20 demerits June 29. Violations included front make table not maintaining proper temperature. GRADE: B

The Grotto Red

Wine: The Grotto Red

Readers come through with HP steak sauce

In the prime (har!) of steak season, reader Terri Hohl is looking for HP steak sauce, and HP steak sauce she shall have.

Back in Vogue

The vagaries of fashion — the ups and downs of hemlines and heel heights, the way colors and coiffures shift in and out of style — got nothin’ on the culinary world.

IN BRIEF

Las Vegas Sands Corp. executive promoted

Nevada banks facing merger

A New York investment company led by former casino analyst Jason Ader has agreed to buy the Nevada deposits and some assets of Colonial Bank of Montgomery, Ala., and North Las Vegas-based 1st Commerce Bank, the company said Tuesday.

LVCVA votes to continue R&R pact

Las Vegas boosters approved a new deal Tuesday with the makers of the “What happens here, stays here” ads that have become ubiquitous in the last seven years — but at a lower cost than previous pacts.

Simply red, lots of cred

Dennis Phillips isn’t a poker circuit regular and he doesn’t own a World Series of Poker individual event champion bracelet. … Yet, to the legions of poker fans who crowded the Rio’s convention pavilion over the past six weeks to watch the 2009 World Series of Poker, Phillips is a hero.

FADING BY DEGREES: Valley residents know the difference when it’s 110

Temperatures might have soared to 110 degrees on Wednesday in Las Vegas, but one local golfer stood defiant. “Heat? What’s heat?” Bob Blackman said between practice shots Wednesday afternoon. “The heat don’t bother me.”

Picture this

Main event field now at 18

It took more than three-and-a-half hours to eliminate nine players Wednesday and cut the World Series of Poker’s main event field to 18.

Adams’ delayed debut is brief

As a UNLV star, Wink Adams always was in the middle of the action. As an
NBA rookie, he’s buried on the bench, and he says his butt is “a little”
sore from all the pine time.

Heller raised $166,000 in last three months

Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., raised $166,000 in the second quarter of 2009, according to his report filed today with the Federal Election Commission.

Al Gore and more coming to Las Vegas for renewable energy summit

Former Vice President Al Gore and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu will appear in Las Vegas Aug. 10 to participate in the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said today. It’s the second year that the national summit will come to Las Vegas.

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