It’s 2010. Brace yourself. I have some good news and bad news.
Welcome to the New Year, when resolutions flow as freely as champagne.
WHEN A SWEETS SHOP AT THE PALAZZO HOTEL let the media in to watch the creation of a $750 cupcake, it might have been a good idea to cover up the label on some of the ingredients.
Bantamweight fighter Z Gorres won his fight at Mandalay Bay’s House of Blues in November. But he paid a steep price for it. He collapsed right after the fight and needed emergency brain surgery at University Medical Center. Gorres’ medical bills total $500,000 to date, but fight promoters are required to put up only $50,000 for medical insurance.
Ah, the nanny state. Is there anything left from which our legislative masters will not endeavor to protect us?
This startling exchange between a reporter and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano illustrates the profound wrong-headedness of the Obama administration in prosecuting the war on terror.
I wish I could offer some cheery prognostications for 2010.
Editor’s note: Today John L. Smith begins a new feature column devoted to people, places and events from around the state and the region.
Public education — where all is supposedly “for the children” — has a dirty secret: Its real organizing principle is jobs for adults.
Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Growing up, many kids dream of becoming firefighters or police officers. Others see themselves flying into space, rocking out onstage or teaching children how to read. But for some, becoming a professional mixed martial arts fighter is the ultimate job.
New Year’s resolutions. We all make ’em and we all break ’em.
Love relationships follow observable trajectories. They are dynamic. They evolve. If not, then, to be sure, they devolve. True love will not for long stand still or remain silent in the face of inertia. Especially a stubborn, willful inertia.
Here is a listing of events designed for book lovers. Information is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Additions or changes to this listing must be submitted at least 10 days in advance of Sunday publication to Bookmark, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125. For more information, call 383-0306.
Yanking them out of water isn’t the only fish job there is. In Nevada, people get paid to put them in, too. Every Friday, the Nevada Division of Wildlife stocks them in lakes and urban ponds across the valley for fishermen to catch.
Bird lovers from much of the Southwest will flock to St. George, Utah on Jan. 28-31 for the seventh annual St. George Winter Bird Festival.
Pruning is like taking your plants to the beauty parlor. The hairstylist thins, trims and balances your hair. Pruners clean out deadwood, thin out branches and bring trees into balance.
It pays to be a renter these days, especially if you’re in the market for an apartment.
It must have been sneaked onto the air by some conscientious VH1 employee while everyone else at the channel was busy scouring the country for fading celebrities and dozens of young women, with little more than daddy issues and a dream, willing to have sex with them.
When winter storms frost the mountains to the west of Las Vegas, hordes of visitors head for the high country in search of snowy adventures. Following Christmas, visitors don bright new mufflers and gloves, load sleds or toboggans in the car and eagerly aim for the alpine wonderland. The only place in Southern Nevada with enough snow, the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, part of Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, offers a variety of winter activities.
Here at the turn of the year, there are no exciting new games to review. So I’m going to turn my attention to a good game I overlooked a few months ago called “Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter.”