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.
The bondholders in the Station Casinos bankruptcy could be trying to position themselves to bring lawsuits in the 2007 multibillion-dollar buyout.
Republic Services says it terminated about 30 Hispanic employees because they were illegal immigrants, but union officials say it was over organizing efforts.
When the Eastside Cannery opened a year ago today, the cracks in the economy were beginning to show. … But even during the recession, the $250 million hotel-casino on Boulder Highway has been able to attract a loyal customer base, principal owner Bill Paulos said.
Certified public accountant Michael Moore and his Las Vegas firm, Moore & Associates, agreed to pay $320,000 relating to allegations that they issued false audit reports on 300 public companies, the government announced Thursday.
Fontainebleau Las Vegas’ dispute with banks over the stalled multibillion-dollar project resort will go to trial, a federal judge has ruled.
Businessman Stan Chomer of Vegas Strip Transportation took his 40-foot motor home to Findlay Customs with an idea, and six months later received a revamped high-end custom bus that can accommodate up to 25-30 people wanting to tour the southwest in style.
A lonely road sign proclaims that the border with the Canada’s Northwest Territories is less than 100 miles away. It has been two days since we left Vancouver, 1,000 miles to the southwest, and we finally had evidence that our destination was at hand.