Las Vegas attorney Noel Gage has spent more than two years trying to stay out of prison.
Greetings “Star Trek” nerds and welcome to the annual Trekker/Trekkie convention at the Las Vegas Hilton. I remember you all from last year, with your zesty costumes and computer-speaking patterns. You were a blast to drink with, and I’m not even kidding.
A 5-year-old Las Vegas boy was killed when the pickup he was riding in blew a front tire and spun out of control while pulling a recreational trailer, Nevada Highway Patrol officials said.
Before I get started, I’ve got info for those who ask me about (increasingly rare) places that have live music during dinner: Ibo does, Tuesdays through Saturdays (which are the nights it serves dinner).
The Hostile Grape cellar and tasting room at M Resort, 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. South in Henderson, is hosting weekly tastings of four wines for $15, from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. …
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees between $10 and $20; $$$ = entrees between $20 and $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
Here we go again. I asked to interview the singer for The Sounds, because I dig this little-known, neo-new wave band from Sweden. And tonight at the Hard Rock, they’re opening for No Doubt and Panic at the Disco.
Let’s see now. Magician Rick Thomas is back, in a Sahara theater once used by “Matsuri.” And so is magician Scarlett, in a Riviera showroom that also hosted “Matsuri.”
The Cannery, Eastside Cannery and the Rampart are giving away more than $1 million in cash and prizes this month in the “CCR Cash n’ Cool Getaways Swipe and Win Giveaways.” Tuesdays through Sundays this month, players earning 50 daily points are allowed one swipe, and every swipe is a winner. (Additional swipes can be earned on various days; check the rules.) At 7 p.m. Saturdays and Sunday, all three casinos draw for a total of $10,000 in cash and trips, including a $5,000 top prize. Players receive one electronic entry per 100 base points earned during the qualifying period, and all entries must be activated (after 5 p.m.) the day of the drawing.
Barry Manilow seems bored by repetition, judging by the first half-hour of his current Las Vegas Hilton run. That’s why, when it takes a crazy left turn, you wonder if he has completely lost his mind. And you applaud him for it.
In a nightclub, dancing shouldn’t be confined to a small wooden floor in the center of the room.
Cuchi and Cugie.
Translation: Charo (let’s double that to “cuchi-cuchi”) and Xavier Cugat (“Cugie” to family, friends and four wives), who occupy a pair of photos in the modest but striking “Viva Las Vegas: A Photographic Retrospective of Images of Latino Entertainers” at the Sahara West Library. The collection of mostly performance portraits is culled from archives of the Las Vegas News Bureau.
He remembers not sleeping very much, getting awakened in the middle of the night by a sound that soon would galvanize longhairs the world over.
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled last week that a Las Vegas gambler can amend his civil complaint, charging two state Gaming Control Board agents with violating his constitutional rights when he was detained nine years ago at the Imperial Palace.
You’ve probably been to Town Square. The shopping, dining and entertainment complex at the south end of Las Vegas Boulevard has been open for a year and half now, and legions of locals have checked it out.
In a free market, we’re so familiar with how prices are set — how manufacturers decide how much of a thing to make and what they can afford to pay for labor and raw materials — that we rarely even think about it.
The Nevada Development Authority has mounted a $300,000 ad campaign claiming the California business climate, compared with that of the Silver State, has gone to the dogs.
Private real estate lenders in Southern Nevada are still struggling with the effects of the national mortgage crisis.
A group of locals casino operators are planning to pool their sports book bets so their operations can handle bigger bets.
Again I woke up covered in sweat, feeling hot, feverish and scared. As I tried to determine my whereabouts, a series of irregular loud bangs caught my attention. I had heard plenty of electronic buzzes, beeps and squawks during the previous few days, but there was something very different going on now. Between bangs I could hear laughter, mature at times, but mostly from young people.
As a member of the Internet sales team at Towbin Dodge Superstore in the Valley Automall, Bo Simmons works around the clock. Although the car business is intense in all avenues, it’s especially demanding in the Internet department where sales are handled seven days a week, 24 hours day.
Drive your floppy-wheeled cart in front of someone at the shopping mall and you’ll likely say, “Oops!” and then sheepishly smile and apologize and maybe even comment on the weather.
Michael Craner and Maddy Gunawardana, organizers of Renew America Roadtrip, stopped in Las Vegas on July 28 as they made their way from New York to Los Angeles during “America’s first green charity drive coast to coast in an all-electric sports car.”