NETWORK PROGRAMMING: Social media strategies are spreading for local businesses. Some observers say Twitter, Facebook and others have become channels for 21st century word-of-mouth advertising.
After seven years in the wedding business, Cliff Evarts took a big step in August 2008 by opening a $3 million multivenue building designed to look like an English country church dropped into downtown Las Vegas.
Edgar Saul jolts when he hears the siren. He chose this spot on the pedestrian walkway between the Tropicana and Excalibur specifically for the vantage point it gave him of the Strip. He’ll see the cops coming, and he will have a chance to run.
Las Vegas is a little less down in the dumps these days. The trash dumps, that is. The recession that knocked Sin City on its heels has spared few businesses. Not even trash disposal.
Oscar Goodman has many options for his post-mayoral life, but he has ruled out one suggested by his wife.
With some fanfare and public notice, the FBI announced this past week it had taken Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger into custody after 16 years on the lam.
It was a homicide case that baffled detectives for nearly three months: no witnesses, a shaky motive, few leads.
In a green pocket of northern Clark County where the Muddy River springs to life, some residents wonder where their oasis went.