I don’t like to say promotional-sounding things like this, but this year’s “Star Trek” convention really does seem like the most promising one in years.
Project Dinner Table will present its next dinner at 7 p.m. Saturday under the lights of the walkway at the El Cortez, 600 Fremont St. The event will begin with a social hour at 7 p.m. in the Emergency Arts Building (formerly the Fremont Medical Center) and proceed to the walkway for a dinner prepared by Jeff Braun, executive chef of The Mirage. Tickets for the six-course dinner and entertainment are $125 per person. For tickets, visit www.ProjectDinnerTable.com.
Hollywood movie stars and Japanese sumo wrestlers — Las Vegas painter Martin Kreloff sees a connection.
They always end their shows in the most literal fashion, soaked in the sweat and sloshed brews of strangers, smelling like a bar fight incarnate.
The break dancers of Knucklehead Zoo were featured in the movie documentary “Planet B-boy,” had their own show in a Broadway-district theater and received a hero’s welcome in Seoul, Korea.
When officer Mike Madland limped up to the lectern during a standing ovation Thursday and shook Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie’s hand, Madland’s boss had some poignant words for him.
A process serving scandal in Las Vegas Justice Court is so extensive it requires a special hearing master to determine if the rights of thousands of civil case defendants were harmed, court officials said Thursday.
Las Vegas City Councilwoman Lois Tarkanian on Thursday joined other Democratic supporters of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid to denounce his GOP opponent Sharron Angle for suggesting it’s more acceptable for one parent to stay home and take care of the children than to have both parents work.
The hard work that’s gone into proposing a new national park to protect Ice Age fossils and rare plants in northwest Las Vegas might be erased if more power lines are allowed to cross the park area, backers of the park said Thursday.
WASHINGTON — As they prepared to recess for the next month, senior Senate Democrats this week proposed new benefits for the long-term unemployed and businesses that might give them jobs.