Mystique about alien spaceships and little green men at Area 51 took a back seat Thursday to the real men who worked there for the CIA and the spy planes they flew during the Cold War.
The doctor at the center of an investigation into Michael Jackson’s death might face arrest and could lose his medical license after missing a hearing to explain late child support payments.
Imagine my surprise to learn a Southern Nevada elected official is being inducted into the prestigious George Washington Spirits Society – and it’s not Mayor Oscar Goodman.
Las Vegas police mourned one of their own on the Internet and in public Thursday, but few details of the Wednesday night crash that killed one officer and seriously injured another have been released by Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie.
A felon has been ghostwriting legal documents for former strip club owner Rick Rizzolo, who says his probation officer has approved the relationship.
Every day this month, players 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 get one free swipe to win up to $10,000 in cash, free meals, free room nights, free slot play, point multipliers and entries into drawings that take place every Friday and Saturday at 8:15 p.m. At each drawing location there will be one $25,000 winner, 10 $5,000 winners, 10 $2,000 winners and 30 $1,000 winners.
An Italian festival is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 17 and 18, poolside at M Resort, 12300 Las Vegas Blvd. South in Henderson. The event will include Italian food (with all items priced at $7 or less), wines, entertainment and more, and is a continuation of the festival first begun by the Marnell family at the Rio 17 years ago. Admission is free. …
R&B great Stevie Wonder headlines the MGM Grand Garden arena on Nov. 28.
The annual Beckett Festival is apparently no more.
HORSE the Band’s metallic geek-core is the embodiment of cartoonish chaos, a breathless blitz of frantic, screaming keys that apes the sounds of vintage video games, disjointed thrash riffs and extremely raw vocal chords. The nerds have officially had their revenge. See HORSE the Band at 6 p.m. Monday at The Farm, 5597 S. Rainbow Blvd. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of show; call 233-3276.
It wouldn’t be all that surprising if, more than a half-century later, today’s high school students would imagine the Holocaust to be as ancient as the Peloponnesian War.
Juliette Lewis speaks of rock ‘n’ roll the same way a clergy member might reference a sacrament.
The cliche is “Don’t give up your day job.” And Kevin Skinner’s? Whether it was empathy, comedy or a likely combination of both, America found it funny to be a chicken catcher. And the day job helped make a million-dollar Cinderella story of the Kentucky singer on “America’s Got Talent.”
On a clear night, the most striking feature at Moon, the exclusive penthouse nightclub atop the Palms, is the actual moon.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
If you’re Ashton Kutcher, there’s no chance you’re ever going to post the most brilliant thing you’ve ever thought of on Twitter.
Can we get that cool-guy TV mentalist to come and explain these Las Vegas mentalists so we can move on?
The news story growing out of Nevada Sen. John Ensign’s extramarital affair with a campaign staff member — who was also the wife of his close friend and senior aide — still has “legs.” New developments keep pulling the story back into the headlines.
Harry Reid is majority leader of the U.S. Senate, meets regularly with the president in the White House and controls the fate of bills coursing through the world’s most powerful legislative body.
While the Ensign affair (pun intended) makes national news, it barely registers on a scale of ethical transgressions when compared with the problems of Rep. Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat.
Maybe Monty Python was correct.
The judge overseeing the Fontainebleau Las Vegas bankruptcy case Thursday decided to appoint an examiner to try to sell the stalled project instead of converting the case into a Chapter 7 liquidation.
State Labor Commissioner Michael Tanchek on Thursday said he doesn’t expect to issue a decision on whether Wynn Las Vegas’ tip-pooling policy is legal until early next year.