For the past two weeks I’ve been in Northern California visiting a unique spa and workout center.
A town hall meeting on a controversial new partnership between Las Vegas police and federal immigration officials drew a bitterly divided crowd Thursday evening.
It did not take long for the Minnesota Vikings to realize what they had in Adrian Peterson — arguably the best running back in the NFL.
A man in his mid-70s died last week from injuries he suffered in an Aug. 1 fire in his garage.
It’s a fight that has been anticipated several times before with a great deal more on the line.
No matter what you think of Oscar Goodman, you’ve got to admit that the Las Vegas mayor is pretty good at being indignant.
Personal injury attorney Noel Gage joined some 200 friends and associates last year for a victory party after his federal fraud case was dismissed.
Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the case of two men charged in a 2007 fatal bombing at a Luxor parking garage.
Erich Bergen plays Four Seasons songwriter Bob Gaudio in “Jersey Boys,” but he knows a lot more about Michael Jackson.
There are so many local theater productions in the course of a year that it’s easy for the good work to get lost in the mediocre. Next week, I’ll list what I consider the year’s best in Vegas dramatics. Below is a brief (and painfully incomplete) mentioning (in no particular order) of some the highlights in the academic playhouses.
Your own private Woodstock. That’s the inspiration for “Taking Woodstock,” Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s latest foray into the sometimes mysterious, always fascinating territory of the human heart.
Joan Rivers has found a potential boyfriend. She was filming “How’d You Get So Rich?,” her new TV Land show about entrepreneurs, when she met Norm Zada, the subject of an episode.
During Las Vegas Restaurant Week, which runs Monday through Sept. 6, more than 50 local restaurants will offer special menus priced at $50.09, $30.09 or $20.09, with a portion of proceeds benefitting Three Square Food Bank. For restaurants and menus, visit www.threesquare.org. …
Scarlett and her Seductive Ladies of Magic." They’re so … 2005.
Meth for breakfast. Spousal scrums ending in swollen noses and bloody carpeting. The kind of kinky sex with anonymous women normally reserved for dubious, skin flick plot lines.
“Growing old is not a bore,” Kitty Duarte says, running her lines to a nearly empty rehearsal hall inside the East Las Vegas Senior Center.
Not every nightclub aficionado is seeking out palm trees, bikinied waitresses and a St. Tropez vibe.
Pop crooner Justin Timberlake brings another installment of his “Justin Timberlake and Friends, A Special Evening Benefiting Shriners Hospital For Children” event to the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Oct. 17, with TLC, Alicia Keys, Ciara and Taylor Swift.
There will be 100 drawing winners at Station and Fiesta casinos every Friday and Saturday night through Sept. 12. At 7:15 p.m., 10 names will be drawn at Palace Station, Boulder Station, Texas Station, Sunset Station, Santa Fe Station, Green Valley Ranch, Red Rock Resort, Aliante Station, Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson for a chance to win $250-$10,000 in cash. Winners earning 1,000 same-day slot points ($1,000 coin-in) or 2,000 same-day video poker points ($2,000-$8,000 coin-in) before the drawing will receive double their cash prize, and those earning 2,000 same-day slot points or 4,000 same-day video poker points will receive triple their cash prize. Plus, anyone playing with their card that evening will receive at least $10-$20 in free play.
Las Vegas residents tend to have a few "tours" for their visiting friends and relatives, taking in the high spots that tourists frequently overlook.
Candidate Barack Obama vowed to “change” the kind of Washington politics as usual that saw important spending needs go unmet, while lower-priority projects in the home states or districts of powerful congressmen got lavished with cash.
It looks like a bit of blatant partisan politics might come back to haunt Massachusetts Democrats.
The acclaimed television drama “Mad Men” is set in Manhattan in the early 1960s. The focus is a fast-paced Madison Avenue advertising agency. The suit-and-tie ad execs quaff hard liquor at work, smoke constantly and utter sexist comments about their secretaries. It’s a great show, extremely well done, depicting a bygone era that at once sickens and evokes nostalgic feelings.
New North Las Vegas Mayor Shari Buck is rolling out her plan to guide the city through the recession. In her first major speech as mayor Thursday, Buck gave businesspeople what they desperately needed: reassurance.