Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Thursday she will drop the criminal case against Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, despite maintaining that he committed felonies and that her job is to make “elected officials be accountable to the public.”
One of Andrea Bocelli‘s coolest moments as a father came during a trip to Las Vegas. The classical singing sensation recalled the time he brought his two children for a concert a few years ago.
RENO — Washoe County is considering cutting more services and jobs as it faces a drop in property and sales taxes.
Miguel and Naomi and Danira, Milton and Ashley and Jaime and Brian, they all shot books. Books in the library and books in a bucket. Books as murals and books about scary things. Books are what helped them, and so that’s what they photographed.
WASHINGTON — Another work weekend is keeping Sen. Harry Reid off the campaign trail.
Nevada Supreme Court justices heard arguments Thursday in the case of a Las Vegas doctor who was convicted of murder in the overdose death of one of his patients in 2005.
Heather Graham and director Todd Phillips are in town, promoting the DVD launch of this year’s big Vegas movie, “The Hangover.”
The district attorney’s office will seek the death penalty against five defendants in four separate murder cases, Clark County District Attorney David Roger said Thursday.
“I want to kill myself,” Kristine Freshman said in the middle of an argument Sunday afternoon, husband Walter Freshman told police. “I want you to shoot me.”
SAN DIEGO — A California judge on Thursday tentatively invalidated a landmark pact to curtail the state’s overuse of water and allow other Western states to claim their fair share.
The state of KNPR-FM, 88.9 has changed now that the host of its “State of Nevada” morning program has left the station.
A construction union consortium was negotiating with the developer of a new Las Vegas city hall at the same time City Councilman Steve Ross, who is an officer of the consortium, was voting to move the project forward, according to testimony Thursday before the Nevada Ethics Commission.
A pimp from Chicago was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison for transporting prostitutes, including a teenage girl, to Las Vegas.
During The Orleans‘ “12 Days of Christmas” (Sunday through Dec. 24), players receive a $25 Macy’s gift card for every 5,000 points ($5,000 coin-in; no point redemption required) earned on their Club Coast cards, up to a maximum of 10 cards per player.
Christmas may come but once a year, but “A Christmas Celebration” is coming twice: 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday to Artemus Ham Hall.
The Beatles Revolution Lounge in The Mirage offers guests a club experience with a few unique twists. First, there’s the Beatles theme, something you’d expect from a lounge named for the Fab Four and the band’s famous song.
Like a lot of us, Bill Engvall wishes he could take a time machine back to golden-age Vegas: “I would have loved to have been at the level I’m at now back in the ’50s and ’60s,” he noted recently. But it’s Engvall’s Blue Collar Comedy pal, Ron White, who unquestionably would have run with the Rat Pack. White understands that if it was once a matter of course to smoke and drink on a Las Vegas stage, times have changed so much you get laughs just by doing it.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
I understand your concerns about the terrible skill levels of our reality show culture. What has Paris Hilton ever done skillfully? Or, for that matter, Spencer and Heidi, from whatever stupid show they’re on? But many dedicated performers continue to work their butts off to get where they are.
What the eye immediately beholds, the brain doesn’t necessarily absorb. Not until the third, fourth or 11th viewing. That is the maddening miracle of art. It makes you work for it.
Country singer LeAnn Rimes performs at the Eastside Cannery on Jan. 29.
Dreams really do come true. At least for those of us who’ve been wishing on a star for the return of traditional, hand-drawn animation — and anybody else who loves classic Disney animation.
Long before fronting a storm-cloud-of-a-rock band that helped define an era and sell more than 14 million records along the way, William DuVall was having Henry Rollins over to sleep on the floor of his parents’ house.
We love the look of Bollywood Grill — the theater-esque red-velvet curtains on the windows, the filmy draperies between booths, the black linen cloths and napkins, the faux-starlit ceiling and especially the continuous loop of Bollywood classics, which were unendingly entertaining, on the big plasma screen. The owners have taken an old ’50s-style diner and done their best to camouflage its stainless-steel origins, and they’ve done pretty well.
The Pellegrino family, owners of Rao’s at Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South, were victorious in its recent challenge on the Foot Network’s “Throwdown With Bobby Flay.” In the wake of its victory Rao’s has added the “Throwdown” Feast of the Seven Fishes to its holiday menus.
