SALT LAKE CITY — Opponents of a plan to pipe water from a desert aquifer that lies mostly in Utah to Las Vegas will hold citizens’ hearings on the issue this week in Delta and Salt Lake City.
In a children’s card game called “Aliens vs. Villains,” 8-year-old Nolan scored a rare win against his mom.
Hell hath no fury like a politician who has had his snout pulled out of the public trough by the electorate.
Vice President Joe Biden marked the 200-day anniversary of the administration’s “stimulus” package with a speech at the Brookings Institution Thursday, in which he spent nearly an hour ticking off the supposed achievements of the spending binge, to date.
The main point that probably deserves further mention about last week’s Dead Kennedy Funeral Parade was the behavior of the press, which wept and moaned and gnashed its collective teeth with hardly a dissenting soul to say, “Enough, already,” as though the corpse of a pharaoh was headed for its final hoedown with the sun god. I’m surprised they didn’t decide to embalm the guy so people could troop past and touch the yellowed cadaver like they’ve been doing with Vlad “The Impaler” Lenin in Moscow for the past 70 years.
We need to find a way to blend the three wholly detached components of dysfunctional contemporary American politics, if, that is, we ever really want to do something important and difficult like health care reform.
A little more than a week from now, Brian Sandoval will officially resign his U.S. District Court judgeship to launch a run for governor.
After last Sunday’s column detailing the bullying behavior of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, the outpouring of support for the Las Vegas Review-Journal has been nothing short of phenomenal.
President Obama’s plan to address schoolchildren Tuesday morning is a reminder that this country’s political divide is growing wider by the week — and that his rock-star persona is wearing thin.
The fall season starts early — with a flashy, sexy bang no less — with the return of “Melrose Place” (9 p.m. Tuesday, KVCW-TV, Channel 33), and I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl.
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There’s a startling moral symmetry in the new Quentin Tarantino movie about Nazis. In “Inglourious Basterds,” a group of Nazi-era Germans cheers the brutal deaths of Allied soldiers as they get gunned down one by one. As a viewer, you think, “I hate Nazis.”
It has been too long since hard-core gridiron fans have been able to turn on the TV and catch some of that organized mayhem we know as NFL football. With the season starting this week, we again present the annual compendium of Southern Nevada bars, taverns and restaurants that cater to fans of specific NFL teams.
They’re older, the hair is grayer and, as a fellow alumnus put it, there are more yesterdays than tomorrows for Las Vegas High School’s class of 1954.
Let me introduce you to three families of vegetables to invite into your garden: greens, roots and cabbages. They are easy to grow, especially during our fall weather. Plant them before Columbus Day so they’ll pay for their stay. These veggies add nutrients, fiber and zest to your winter diet.
Jay Haley is amongst my heroes in my chosen profession. I’ve read everything he has ever written. I’ve traveled to hear him speak. He’s brilliant. And I’d like to sorta quote him now. “Sorta quote” means I can’t remember the exact quote, but the gist is: “Divorce might be legally possible, but it might not be actually impossible. You just end up adding another person to the marriage bed.”
The scrotum is sliced. A white orb pokes through. It’s attached by the spermatic cord. This elastic thread will be stretched beyond what appears to be its snapping point, then snipped and, to prevent bleeding, quickly knotted.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
The Broadway Vegas entertainment community and the Liberace Foundation for the Performing Arts presented a gala benefiting the Cabaret Showroom at the Liberace Museum on Aug. 19.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its cultural significance, Parowan Gap in Southern Utah displays a treasury of petroglyphs left behind by several native cultures. A form of rock art created by incising designs into stone, the petroglyphs of Parowan Gap cover many flat faces of boulders at the base of the 600-foot cliffs.
The question circulating in Ohio last week didn’t center on the merits of the state adding 17,500 video lottery terminals to racetracks. Folks wanted to know whether regional casino giant Penn National Gaming was secretly trying to kill the deal.
When is it OK to tweet? If you’re a player or coach in the National Football League, you’d better be sure there’s no time on the clock.