The chief operating officer of Las Vegas’ second-largest taxicab company says striking drivers are affecting his operations. Bill Shranko says Yellow-Checker-Star Transportation was only able to fill two-thirds of its 600 cabs the first shift after the strike took effect early today.
Cee Lo, if you were on my team as a TV talent-show contestant and I was your coach, I’d have some advice for you. And it starts with this:
Entertainment times being tough, Britney Spears’ camp reportedly is encountering resistance to a deal that involves more than 20 shows a year.
Their latest album is titled “Small Fires,” and that’s what San Francisco’s Stone Foxes will be setting downtown with their combustible blues rock at 7 p.m. Thursday at Backstage Bar & Billiards, 601 Fremont St. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of show; call 702-382-2227.
Kindergarten is one of the biggest issues of the legislative session. Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval wants to expand full-day programs into more schools at some expense. The Legislature’s majority Democrats want to expand full-day programs into all Nevada elementary schools at far greater expense.
You want proof that close proximity to government causes brain damage?
In the finale of season three of “Downton Abbey,” the aging matriarch of the popular show’s aristocratic family, Dowager Countess of Grantham, finds herself uncomfortably out of her element on a picnic in the Scottish highlands.
Voters in Las Vegas Ward 6 can’t be blamed for choosing small businessman Steve Ross as their councilman back in 2005. Mr. Ross was running against a secretary for the police union who would have been out of her depth at City Hall.
Casino magnate Steve Wynn called me Friday to lodge his objections to my column on the tip-pooling policy he implemented at his eponymous hotel in 2006.
Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley National Park offers a glimpse into an opulent era in history, continuing to draw curiosity seekers much as it has since construction began on the Spanish-style mansion at Death Valley Ranch in remote Grapevine Canyon in 1924.
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In the new game “Metal Gear Rising Revengeance,” you kill a lot of evil people in amazingly bloody, mutilative ways. To justify this bloodlust, the game has created terrorists so evil they are … harvesting children’s organs!
Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Dana Vollmer was the keynote speaker during the 10th anniversary Go Red Luncheon on Feb. 22 to raise funds for the American Heart Association.
“Nerd.” “Ugly.” “Dork.” “Loser.” “Loner.”
When a little girl hits the only home run during third-grade coed PE, jaws drop. Not in awe of her athletic prowess, but in disbelief and, in some cases, resentment of it.
Too bad Cole Porter already has dibs on the title “Anything Goes.” If only Porter hadn’t written it in 1934, “Anything Goes” would be a perfect title for the Composers Showcase of Las Vegas.
When Sigmund Freud presented his life’s work to Western civilization, everything changed. A cultural savant, Freud’s psychoanalytic theories rewired our world view of individuals, relationships and especially child-rearing.
Tomatoes are popular in Las Vegas gardens. Along with being popular, they are also finicky.
It took James Bond, or at least two of his songs, to set the ship right at the Oscars, a reminder that the secret agent’s 50-year reach extends well into Las Vegas.
He isn’t the typical fan Disney is counting on to see its flashy “Wizard of Oz” prequel. He even predates the Judy Garland masterpiece. But when it opens Friday, it’s hard to imagine anyone in Las Vegas, if not in the entire country, with more of a vested interest in “Oz The Great and Powerful” than the man schoolchildren call Mr. Oz.
Southern Nevadans already know Jud Wilhite, Benny Perez and Randall Cunningham as three of the valley’s most high-profile pastors. But, during the next few weeks, Southern Nevadans can get to know them as authors, too,
COVER STORY: Airport retail comes with its own set of headaches — construction complications, higher rent, regular evaluations and unforeseen disruptions.
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Nevada’s gas prices could soon skyrocket. Blame it on a new California law
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