The life of comedian Kathleen Madigan is bizarre enough to be turned into an HBO comedy co-starring her friends Lewis Black, Carrot Top, Ron White, Dr. Phil and Larry the Cable Guy.
The band’s buoyant, dimension-less pop works in both discotheques and dive bars. Phoenix’s latest record, “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,” finds the group tightening the screws on its sound.
Las Vegas’ Playboy Club possesses all sorts of amenities that distinguish it from other nightclubs around town.
On Jan. 29 and February 5, the Hard Rock Hotel will be drawing for a big screen TV, Pink Taco catering for up to 15 people, free play and a VIP Super Bowl party. Players can earn entries Monday through Jan. 29 and Jan. 30-Feb. 5. Winners must be present at the 7 p.m. drawings.
LEGION: In this futuristic chiller, the archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) teams up with some folks at an isolated desert diner to battle for humanity’s survival. Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson and Kate Walsh co-star for visual effects veteran-turned-director Scott Stewart (“Iron Man,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”). At multiple locations. (100 min.) R; strong bloody violence, profanity.
Michael Laygo, in a gleaming white blazer, sings “The Impossible Dream” and stretches “the un-r-e-a-c-h-able star” until the audience can hold its breath no more.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
MISS AMERICA COMPETITION
There she’ll be, Miss America, no doubt with a plan to deflect questions about gay marriage. The preliminaries run from 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday in the Theatre for the Performing Arts at Planet Hollywood, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $75. (The big show is at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 30. Tickets are $150.) Call 785-5000.
The Blue Man Group founders often quote Penn & Teller’s Penn Jillette, who once told them, “You guys did the one thing we never could: You were able to clone yourselves.”
An inspirational, fact-based drama that simply radiates nobility, “Extraordinary Measures” ranks as a very nice movie — sometimes too nice for its own good.
“Las Vegas has become such an international community that you really don’t have to go outside Las Vegas to find fabulous artists representing virtually every cultural community on Earth — they are here,” says Patrick Gaffey, cultural program specialist for Clark County, about the globe-spanning World Vibration concert series at the Winchester Cultural Center.
We figured we’d have to wait to get into Spicy Tuna Sushi early on a recent weeknight. As it turned out, we figured wrong. There was no wait at all, and I’m mystified as to why that was the case.
Recent election results in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia should send a message to the White House and Congress: America is going in the wrong direction.
Last March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving “Hillary: The Movie” — a conservative attack on Hillary Clinton.
I’d like to say it was fun while it lasted but, honestly, it wasn’t all that fun.
Unionized Clark County employees packed Tuesday’s commission meeting to show solidarity against an advisory report that calls for cuts to their ever-growing wages.
The number of passengers using McCarran International Airport in 2009 fell 8.2 percent compared with 2008 — the single-largest one-year percentage drop.
Look for this year to mirror 2006 with zero percent appreciation and home prices skipping along the bottom, housing analyst Larry Murphy said Thursday at his quarterly Crystal Ball presentation.
What was to be a routine item on the Clark County Zoning Board’s consent agenda Wednesday turned into a discussion about urban blight and what kind of message all the unfinished projects around town are sending.
Wyndham Vacation Resorts received a three-year extension until May 2013 to resume construction on its Desert Blue project, which includes a gaming overlay.
International Game Technology’s cost-cutting efforts more than made up for reduced revenues from slower-han-expected first-quarter slot machine sales.
Indictments issued over foreclosure rescue scam
Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announced on Thursday indictments against three people who operated a foreclosure-rescue scam in Las Vegas under the business name of Rescorp.
If top-line automobiles are all about providing the stuff that dreams are made of, the new Infiniti M will have you talking in your sleep.
Imagine heading down to your Ford dealer and picking out a new Fusion or a Taurus model.
How many times have you seen a building on a corner lot being cleared out to make way for a filling station? It seems like they’re popping up everywhere. Did you blink? Oh! There’s another one.
More than 800 drivers and their classic cars from 15 states, including Hawaii and New York, converged on four Mesquite hotel properties this past weekend for the annual Mesquite Motor Mania 2010 car show.
Let it snow, let it snow! That was the battle cry heard from people sledding at Lee Canyon today. About 30 people used the day to take advantage of several feet of snow the week’s storms dumped on Mount Charleston.
