Since a nightclub is a fairly straightforward affair — booze, music and dancing — the Vegas club scene must rely on nuances to set one apart from another.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic is doing something unique for an orchestra: giving audience members the chance to get onstage with them during a live concert.
Hard rock mainstays Kiss return to The Pearl at the Palms on Nov. 28.
Do you? He does. And she does. But he doesn’t. (As in "Take this man/woman to be your lawfully wedded whatever …")
Chazz Palminteri’s life was guided by words of wisdom on a card in his wallet. We might not know them if he hadn’t consulted it in a bathroom one day.
“Peepshow” really is more of one now. How much more? The singer gets topless before the famous Playmate.
Food and Hunger: Eating in America” will be the topic of a discussion from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Student Union Theatre at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Alice Waters, executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley; Raj Patel, author of “Stuffed and Starved;” and David “Mas” Masumoto, an organic peach and grape farmer, will discuss the slow-food movement, sustainable agriculture and fighting hunger in America, in partnership with Three Square. …
In honor of its 45th anniversary Jerry’s Nugget is offering several promotions including giving away $10-$100 gasoline cards every day in October. All players earning 1,000 points on slots, video poker or video keno ($1,000 coin-in – no point redemption required) or 140 points (two hours and 36 minutes at $5 average bet) on any live table game can return the next day and play the Gas Card Giveaway (located at the More Club Kiosk) to receive their card. Limit one card reward per day.
On a recent road trip to the Midwest, I kept noticing something new on the horizon: windmills. In state after state, wind farms were almost as ubiquitous as cornfields.
President Obama dismisses as unfounded any fears that his administration hopes to nationalize more and more of the private economy.
The U.S. Census Bureau — hardly a partisan outfit — has issued some new numbers showing what happened to Nevada tax revenue from 2002 to 2007.
The reorganization plan for the bankrupt Rhodes Cos.’ 32 related companies gives developer Jim Rhodes an option to buy the Rhodes Ranch Golf Course for $5.9 million after eight years, which could leave the course in limbo in the meantime, analysts say.
While a national trade group predicts Halloween sales will be slow, a couple of local fantasy merchants disagree.
HalloweenMart, at 6230 S. Decatur Blvd., has enjoyed a small increase in sales rather than the slump that was expected, Vice President Heather Siegel said. “I have actually been scrambling now to purchase more product,” she said. Manufacturers are trying to increase costume production.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A two-year undertaking to dismantle a coal-fired power plant that has been idle for nearly four years in Laughlin will become highly visible this month.
Every sector of commercial real estate in Las Vegas showed continued weakness in the third quarter, although there are some indications of stabilization, a research analyst for Colliers International said Thursday.
The economy has crushed the net worth of some of the gaming industry’s titans.
I’m not sure how true the story is, but by father once told me that his uncle, a well-to-do businessman during the time of the Great Depression, would order a new Packard automobile every three years or so.
“With any internal combustion engine, the lower the temperature and pressure of the exhaust gases, the more thermally efficient the engine is operating. That is, the more the energy of the combustion process has been captured as mechanical energy, rather than being exhausted out the tailpipe as heat.”
