What does County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani know that we don’t?
The Gallup polling organization does an annual survey on public confidence in our nation’s institutions. The results last month show our most esteemed institutions are the military, small business, organized religion and the police.
When — in the name of heaven, I demand to know — are those responsible for enforcing the Endangered Species Act going to do something about remediating the habitat devastation and starting to recover the minuscule remaining population, before it has dwindled past the point of no return, of that brave and noble beast, the poodle?
On Wednesday, a lawsuit was filed in a New Jersey court, seeking to require hot dog manufacturers to place health warning labels on their products.
Democrats took back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006, mainly by seizing an opening arising from Republican excess and corruption.
Summer in Big Bear Lake, Calif., always offers cool mountain air and perfect temperatures for hiking, mountain biking, fishing, and water sports. But this area also offers one of the most unusual outdoor experiences in the West — a night in a fire lookout tower with an unsurpassed view of the San Bernardino Mountains and every star in the Southern California sky.
A ghost, a vampire and a werewolf walk into a bar.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
It’s an amazing thing for oldsters to fathom: An entire generation of Americans has reached motoring adulthood without ever experiencing the perverse thrill of watching packs of service station attendants descend, like locusts in name tag-bedecked work shirts, upon their cars.
Here are some topics brought up to me at the Springs Preserve.
If you’re one of those people who believes weddings should be picture-perfect occasions with the only hitch happening at the altar, you should familiarize yourself with Murphy’s Law.
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.
tan Budlak, a 44-year-old retail salesman from Saylorsburg, Pa., strolls into Hart & Huntington. Adorned with granite countertops, recessed halogen lighting and mirror-embedded flat-screen TVs, the tattoo shop frequently is mistaken for the beauty salon next door.
In a few weeks, everyone will be remembering Elvis Presley on the day he died, Aug. 16. On Thursday, Las Vegas should pay more attention to the day he was reborn, one that changed things around here for keeps.
One of the best preserved of vintage Nevada mining boom towns, Eureka remains a good place to explore the state’s colorful past and a nice town to visit. Born of a silver-lead boom in 1865, Eureka still benefits from mining in a county with some of the biggest gold mines in the world. Although its population, presently about 1,900 people, grows when mining thrives, the sedate county seat will never again become Nevada’s second largest city as it was in the 1870s with a population of nearly 11,000.
Pioche had a terrible reputation. It was one tough town, wilder than Deadwood, Tombstone, Dodge City and Bodie,” Jane Humphrey, tour guide at Picohe’s “Million Dollar Courthouse” said.
The new Harry Potter movie has earned top reviews for being, as Variety critic Todd McCarthy wrote, “quite grown up” with “heavy issues of mortality, memory and loss,” and “dazzlingly well made.”
Hot days are followed by hot times throughout Cerca Country to the end of August and beyond. Pick music, science, or a chili cook-off; there’s something in this calendar for every taste.
Staff members of the Las Vegas Review-Journal received four national awards in the 2009 American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors Excellence in Feature Writing contest.
Everyone’s heard all those stories about having the worst boss in the world, or about co-workers stabbing each other in the back, or about bosses who expect you to work 20 hours a day.
A keyboard player offered sultry songs as people sauntered in and out to pay their last respects. It was not a person’s death that brought mourners together. No, it was the very public closing of a business.
In 2006, there were nearly 105,000 construction jobs in Las Vegas and 176,000 hotel-casino and gaming jobs, and many of those workers were leaving lots of tips in local bars and casinos. Now there are an estimated 76,700 construction jobs and 155,000 hotel-casino and gaming jobs. But thousands are still hustling drinks, flipping cards and dispensing charm to customers in exchange for tips in an economy in which there is just less money to go around.
Building runs in the family, so it’s just a matter of time before Jack Breslin exits the business he founded nearly 30 years ago in Las Vegas and hands the reins to his son, Ryan.
The future has arrived. OK, maybe not the entire future, but the part about true high-speed, broadband, wireless Internet access can be checked off the list.