Entering the season, Curtis Stewart sensed Eldorado’s boys basketball team had matured to the point where it could compete for a playoff spot.
Set aside the high-level corruption in college football, the hypocrisy of the NCAA and the hideous mess surrounding Auburn quarterback Cam Newton. Try to set it aside for two weeks.
Analysts, casino executives and politicians emerged from opening night at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas with generally positive impressions of the Strip’s newest hotel-casino even as gambling continued early Thursday morning.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Halkyard is optimistic about 2011.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Ben Henderson insisted he was prepared to handle the pressure of fighting in his hometown in the main event of the final World Extreme Cagefighting card for the No. 1 contender spot in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
It’s pretty much all over the Internet that Las Vegas is the brightest spot on Earth when seen from space. Blogs and news reports and writings of all types say so. The legend has become so Internet-y that it’s taken as a given nowadays. But is it a fact?
The Metropolitan Police Department paid $1,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who claimed a prejudicial photo lineup caused witnesses to identify him as a robber.
A former Walmart assistant manager was arrested earlier this week accused of stealing about $250,000 worth of merchandise from his store and selling the items over the Internet, Henderson police said Thursday.
The financial outlook is bleak. Nevada’s measure of academic success is in flux. But the Clark County School District’s new superintendent isn’t flinching. He’s already unpacked his suitcase, launched a search for permanent housing and chatted up Gov.-elect Brian Sandoval about football and school reform.
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas isn’t bringing the lounge act back so much as giving it a new identity via Book & Stage, a novel combination of sports book and music venue that features up-and-coming, mostly indie acts in a fresh setting.
The Playboy Club at the Palms has all sorts of things that set it apart from other Las Vegas nightclubs.
Two competing Las Vegas cupcake bakeries have joined forces to help fight hunger. Anyone who brings a canned good during December to The Cupcakery at 9680 S. Eastern Ave. or 7175 W. Lake Mead Blvd. or Retro Bakery at 7785 N. Durango Drive will get a free cupcake.
Banh mi get off to a good start because the bread used to make them — especially as they’re made at Hue Thai, on Spring Mountain Road in Las Vegas — is the perfect launching pad.
It’s easy to get right to the pointe in “Black Swan.”
