Public land planners released their preferred path Thursday for a 30-mile paved trail for bicyclists, joggers, skaters and hikers that will run along state Route 159 from the western outskirts of Las Vegas and beyond the community of Blue Diamond.
A convicted accomplice in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery who testified against the fallen football star has been jailed and could be sent to state prison for failing a drug test, his lawyer said Thursday.
Jimmy Fallon is doing stand-up tonight at the Hard Rock Hotel, because “Saturday Night Live” honcho Lorne Michaels advised him to sharpen his comedic chops. Fallon needs to be on his game when he takes Conan O’Brien’s place on late-night TV later this year.
Unlike most local nightclubs, Blush at Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, tries to impart a residential mood, giving guests the feeling that when they walk through the door, they’re walking into a party in someone’s living room.
Life after “Mamma Mia!” began with a deep breath for Carol Linnea Johnson, followed by an emphatic “yes!”
R&B popster Ne-Yo headlines The Pearl at the Palms on Feb. 5, with Jazmine Sullivan. Tickets are $49, $59 and $69 and go on sale at noon Saturday at The Pearl box office, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
Headlines scream of a land that affects the world politically. Gallery walls whisper of a land that explores itself artistically.
Is 22 years long enough to go from “pop” to “classic”?
“Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular” trimmed quite a bit of running time from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster “Phantom of the Opera” when it launched in 2006. It already had shed a lot of baggage along the way.
The Eastside Cannery is having drawings at 5 and 7 p.m. every Saturday until Jan. 24 in its “$1,000,000 Royal Flush Challenge.” Fifteen must-be-there-to-win drawing winners will select an envelope; 10 winners will receive $100-$250 cash and five will get to draw five of 20 possible cards (10s through aces of all four suits). The least you can receive is drawing a pair (worth $250), two pair (worth $500) — or up to a royal flush worth $1,000,000. Players club members earn one daily entry (except Saturday) with a card swipe, and additional entries may be earned by playing slots, video poker, table games, keno and poker.
Barack Obama gave Bette Midler a rapid induction into Las Vegas.
Campaigning for Obama took the entertainer into places off the Strip it might otherwise have taken her a long time to discover.
Heidi’s Picks are suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = less than $10; $$ = between $10 and $20; $$$ = between $20 and $30; and $$$$ = more than $30.
These are scary times for restaurants. The economic downturn has left way too many of us with less disposable income to dispose of, which means we’re eating out less, which means tables are going empty and hours are being cut. I honestly fear for the financial survival of restaurant owners — especially those of the mom-and-pop persuasion, who tend to have less capital on which to rely.
If the prospect of Clint the Squint growling “Get off my lawn!” while staring down a rifle barrel at some scummy young punks makes your day, then “Gran Torino” will get your motor running.
Speaking with her is a bit like sitting on a tack.
She’s brash, buoyant, opinionated and as pulse-quickening as a nose full of smelling salts.
The International Consumer Electronics Show is delighted to be back in Las Vegas — 2009 marks our 30th year together. The International CES is an exciting time for the global technology industry, with attendees pouring into this great city from 140 countries on the promise of a first look at innovations that will revolutionize the way we live. Looking back, the VCR, camcorder, DVD player, CD player, and HD radio all debuted at CES. This year, we expect Las Vegas to be the site of the same level of game-changing innovations.
President-elect Barack Obama hasn’t even taken the oath of office, and already he’s trying to have it both ways on government spending.
Immigration officials deported 28 foreign-born Clark County jail inmates during the first month of a new partnership with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Home sales nearly tripled in December from the same month a year ago, though median prices declined 32.7 percent, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Thursday.
The latest new-home community from Pulte Homes includes solar-power systems as a standard item in every home at Villa Trieste in Summerlin.
Two-thirds of the nation’s nonresidential construction companies plan to cut their payrolls, the Associated General Contractors of America reported Thursday in its employment and business forecast.
In 1962, Carroll Shelby envisioned building a lightweight roadster with a powerful American V-8 under the hood. That vision became the Cobra sports car.
A Western-themed event to benefit Miracle Flight for Kids will take place Friday, Jan. 23, at Findlay Cadillac Saab in the Valley Automall.
By the time this column hits the newsstand it will likely be days or weeks into 2009 and I will probably have already abandoned about half of the automotive resolutions I am about to put forth.
There was very little sleep that autumn night, maybe a few hours. But it was worth it since I was having such a great time with an old friend I hadn’t seen in years.
