The cold look in the eyes of the man who held the gun to her face is what Erica remembers.
What happened in a Rome nunnery didn’t stay there. It ended up in Las Vegas, along with Jim Murren‘s stories about the “nuns’ buns.”
I know this is going to sound self-serving, but whatever: One of the best places to find ticket deals for shows on the Strip is right here in the Neon section. Every December, you never know what Cirque show or headliner suddenly will start advertising half-price tickets for locals.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Angelica Bridges was about to sing “Fever” for the very first time as the new star of “Fantasy.”
Is the Nevada Conservatory Theatre going to survive?
Bill Engvall has spent 11 Decembers in Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo. To him, one image sums up the strange confluence of cowboys and casinos.
Toss some ha-ha-ha in your ho-ho-ho. Unwrap the gag gift called “A Forbidden Broadway Christmas.”
Celtic rockers Flogging Molly storm into the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay on Jan. 2.
Terrible‘s is celebrating its ninth anniversary on Sunday with free cake and champagne (4-7 p.m.), hourly $99 hot seat drawings (5:09 p.m.-8:59 p.m.), a nine-winner $99 hot seat drawing at 9 p.m., and everyone earning 90 base points ($90 coin-in; no point redemption required) will receive a ninth anniversary T-shirt.
It was the rare encore that marked a beginning rather than an end.
Whatever floats your pervy boat, buddy — say, a sex fetish involving Barbie heads, until your wife catches you, ya know, in flagrante de Barbie …
Paymon’s Mediterranean Cafe & Hookah Lounge, 4147 S. Maryland Parkway and 8380 W. Sahara Ave., has introduced Las Vegas’ longest happy hour for locals from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tuesdays. It includes half-price hummus, baba ghanoush, pizzas and appetizers, including the signature Athens Fries, plus $1.75 domestic beers, $2 imported beers, $4 well drinks, half-price signature cocktails and $7.50 hookahs. On Thursdays, Paymon’s will have drawings for free hookahs. The regular happy hour continues from 5 to 7 p.m. daily. …
In everything, there are pioneers. And, in that not-all-that-clearly-defined-but-know-it-when-you-see-it niche of nightlife known as the ultralounge, Tabu is a Las Vegas pioneer.
The squandering of federal taxpayer dollars continues unabated. After the government’s $3 billion “Cash for Clunkers” program did nothing more than shift and concentrate economic activity while increasing the deficit, the Obama administration is finalizing an all-new stimulus giveaway, “Cash for Applilances.”
In olden days, a Las Vegas megaresort had one opening night. We circled the date on the calendar, and everybody lined up for the doors to open.
With near-unanimous support Wednesday, the Las Vegas City Council approved a plan to tear down its perfectly good City Hall in hopes someone will buy the cleared lot and build a casino there.
Keith Schwer, 66, director of the Center for Business & Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas died Thursday morning of esophageal cancer.
The National Council on Compensation Insurance is recommending a 7.6 percent decrease in rates for workers’ compensation insurance, the Nevada Division of Insurance announced Thursday.
The Nevada Secretary of State’s securities division on Thursday announced that it ordered Sierra Mining Group, Durango Partners, David Kaplan and Mitch Menk, all of Clark County, to stop offering unregistered securities in gold mines.
As he has almost every year for the past quarter-century, Marty Jandreau trekked to Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo.