The valley’s three public housing authorities this week took another step toward merging into one of the largest agencies of its kind in the country.
In a time where the sounds of Friday night football seem more magical each fall — marching bands playing, cheerleaders cheering, fans clapping, coaches screaming, players shouting words of support — Adam Finlayson of Faith Lutheran hears none of it.
The divide between red and blue America was a few yards of asphalt and a yellow parking stripe Thursday at Green Valley High School in Henderson.
A mom waiting for her children to get out of school was suspicious of President Barack Obama’s plan to give the nation’s K-12 students a back-to-school speech at 9 a.m. Tuesday through an online and C-SPAN broadcast. “I think it’s a leftist tactic to get kids to talk to their parents about the issues,” said Sue Blackwell. “It’s underhanded, to be honest.”
Another mom, Brenda Joyner, was incredulous that a president’s desire to speak to students about the importance of education was even a controversy. “It’s the Fox News people again,” Joyner said. “Every time I turn on the news, they’re bashing him.”
A little-seen national wildlife refuge about an hour from the Strip will once again open to visitors on Saturdays starting this weekend.
The fireworks fizzled, but after repeated mistrials, it appears we’ll finally have an end to the “Mafia Cops” drug case.
Out of luck pretty much sums it up for an untold number of prospective college students this semester.
Last week, Neil Diamond told the London newspaper Metro he would “love to do something with the Beastie Boys,” especially since they’ve shared producer Rick Rubin.
Three casinos, Eastside Cannery, Cannery and Rampart have joined in the “$1.5 Million Cashball Giveaway,” which is three promotions rolled into one. All C.A.N. Club and Club Rampart members have one free swipe to win up to $15,000 and can receive additional swipes (one per day per casino except Saturday) by earning 50 one-day base points on their card. (That translates to $18 coin-in on slots, $25 coin-in on video poker at the Eastside Cannery and Cannery; $100 coin-in on slots, $200 coin-in on video poker at the Rampart.) The casinos are also having cash drawings on Friday (7 p.m.) and Sunday (4 p.m.) where players can win up to $15,000. On Sept. 28, all three casinos will be giving away a minimum of $28,000. Players receive one entry for every 100 points earned on their cards, and winners must be present at the drawings.
His music pulses with a vitality that his name suggests a dearth of. Deadmau5 (pronounced “dead mouse”) comes with more multihued, heart palpitating electronica on his sophomore disc, “For Lack of a Better Name,” a slightly more diverse, immediately digestible effort than his acclaimed 2008 debut, “Random Album Title.”
M Resort, 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. South in Henderson, will have a poolside food festival, including Mexican and American food, barbecue, gelato, pastries, a fresh lemonade stand and a watermelon-eating contest, from 3 to 8 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free to the public. …
Hard rock stalwarts Skid Row play Club Madrid at Sunset Station on Nov. 6.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Those who market Las Vegas can decide whether it’s family friendly or Sin City. None of it changes what Bill Cosby has done on the Strip since 1963.
The Beatles Revolution Lounge in The Mirage offers guests a club experience with a few unique twists.
A little more than 20 years ago, Phil Collen discovered a nifty way to squeeze an extra two hours out of each day.
Las Vegans are once again invited to view the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon in person at the South Point. Admission is free, although not guaranteed.
It lies beneath a section of the Gulf of Mexico where the water is 4,000 feet deep.
The Internet turned 40 this week. But while some of us feel middle-aged when reaching that plateau, the Internet remains young at heart.
Environmentalists have a lot of tools at their disposal in trying to block development and improvements in mankind’s quality of life. The Endangered Species Act is their hammer.
Las Vegas resort operators aren’t expecting weekend to be the tourism market’s savior.
Panattoni Development, a major commercial developer and landlord in Las Vegas, has acquired a bank-owned office and industrial project in the southwest valley near the Las Vegas Beltway and Buffalo Drive, a company executive said Wednesday.
Station Casinos’ board of directors is looking into some of the concerns raised by creditors about the buyout transaction that took the gaming company private 22 months ago.
CARSON CITY — A governor’s committee recommended Thursday that power companies spend about $3 billion on transmission lines to carry renewable energy potential available in rural Nevada to existing transmission lines.
Construction on an American Indian casino in Michigan that will be managed by Station Casinos will break ground in two weeks, the tribe building the casino announced Thursday morning.