Clark County has shelved, for now, plans for a large parking lot on Charleston Boulevard that nearby residents feared would lead to high traffic and commercial encroachment in the Scotch 80s, one of Las Vegas’ oldest neighborhoods.
Fritz Reese has been trying to make a difference in kids’ lives since he got a job as a teenager at the Boys & Girls Club of Las Vegas.
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Police in the Cayman Islands have called off a search for a 60-year-old tourist from Las Vegas who went missing during a diving trip.
For my money there has been no wilder, crazier casino promoter in Las Vegas than Bob Stupak.
Las Vegas police are searching for a man who attempted to rob and sexually assault a woman earlier this month in the area of Tropicana Avenue and Pecos Road.
Some Nevada religious leaders say they want the debate over health care reform to move from a political to a moral plane.
A 13-year-old Nevada boy was killed Wednesday night in a crash in southern Utah, the Utah Highway Patrol said.
Dane Cook just breathed a sigh of relief after reading Twitter’s latest user agreement, which does not claim ownership of his or anyone else’s Twitter posts. He may or may not use such posts in a future book, he says.
The eighth annual scholarship fundraising gala of the Epicurean Charitable Foundation is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9, poolside at the M Resort, 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. South in Henderson. The evening will feature food prepared by a number of local chefs, plus wine and spirits. Tickets are $500 per person; for donations of more than $15,000, groups can obtain a meal prepared by their own dedicated chef and private bar and wait-staff service. Call 932-5098. …
Saturday is a night of cheesy pop and first-name divas. Do you go with the young star in transition to legal sex object? Or the tabloid queen who decided to choose “comeback” over that ultimate career move, the tawdry death?
Q: What if Las Vegas magicians ran Wall Street? A: “I know what’s coming, Mr. Funny Reviewer Hack: ‘Your money wouldn’t disappear as fast.’ “
On Sunday, players can begin earning entries at Gold Coast, Orleans, Sam’s Town and Suncoast for this year’s Coast Casinos Pumpkin Patch Pick. Every Friday and Saturday in October, each casino will choose 10 winners, each of whom will drop a puck on a special game board and win $250-$5,000 cash. Players receive one electronic entry for every 100 points ($100-$200 coin-in) earned on their cards or for every hour of $10 average bet table play. Please note that there are two drawing times at each casino, and the times as well as the number of entries drawn at each time varies, so check the rules carefully as winners must be present.
Plenty of nightclubs around town like to tout how their guests easily can make an evening of their night out.
Looking at the list of shows recently opened and still playing, I’m surprised at how many different good reasons there are to go to the theater this weekend.
Perpetually polarizing hip-hop star Kanye West headlines the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Nov. 13, with Lady Gaga.
From Julius Caesar to Elvis Presley, plenty of legendary characters have turned up in Las Vegas.
Liza Minnelli, arguably one of the toughest survivors in the annals of showbiz, brings her concert-style show to the MGM Grand’s Hollywood Theatre through Thursday.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
How important is texture? That depends on the individual, of course. I love tofu if it’s prepared well, but I know a lot of people who don’t like its resilient texture. And I am not a big fan of escargot, which too often is poorly prepared and ends up tantamount to a garlicky Goodyear.
In his keynote address at the Nevada Press Association’s annual convention in Winnemucca last weekend, retired state archivist Guy Rocha summed up the current economic crisis with an ominous assertion.
ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — is stinking up Washington.
President Obama pushed all sorts of new health insurance regulations in his address to lawmakers this month. He said insurers “will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime.” He said Congress would “place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses” and require insurers to cover “routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies.” All this on top of a federal mandate that every American purchase health insurance or pay a steep penalty tax.
Consumers kept their wallets clamped shut in July and forced an inauspicious start to the state’s new fiscal year.