It’s kind of like a supermodel mating with an Orc.
Zumba lovers and charitable people, unite! On March 20, you can join in on the Zumbathon at Mandalay Bay. From 7 to 8:30 p.m., people are invited to dance to raise money for MDA’s Augie’s Quest. This is a cure-driven initiative to find treatments and cures for Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Participants will get the chance to win a meeting with Beto, the creator behind Zumba. For more information and to register for the event, http://www.zumba.com/aqlasvegas.
Spinal Tap had a mini Stonehenge, but “we have a Mayan jungle onstage,” John Payne says.
Claude “Mego” Lemay, as musical director for Celine Dion, is a gatekeeper for the most coveted player’s job on the Strip: the singer’s Colosseum at Caesars Palace shows with a 31-piece orchestra, which bring back the good ol’ days of Las Vegas as a working musician’s paradise for at least 70 nights per year.
A day after a mediation session went nowhere, both sides in the taxi drivers strike ratcheted up the pressure amid indications that another cab company also faces labor difficulties. Yellow Checker Star Transportation’s chief operating officer said the company, with the second-largest fleet in Las Vegas, would take a couple of days to identify drivers who walked out and replace them.
Eduardo Sencion, who killed four people in a Carson City IHOP restaurant in September 2011 before killing himself, passed a background check and legally purchased firearms, a state senator said Thursday.
Two Las Vegas sports bettors have been charged in a federal complaint alleging they engaged in illegal chip transfers between their Cantor Gaming accounts at Strip casinos to avoid filing currency transaction reports.
Custom Motor Creations is requesting a special-use permit for a proposed indoor auto sales business at 10050 Banburry Cross Drive in Summerlin, a business that will likely be opposed by the community’s developer at Tuesday’s planning commission hearing.
A 23-year-old former U.S. Army soldier earlier this week pleaded guilty to the 2011 shooting death of a cabdriver.
An inmate died Wednesday at University Medical Center after a Feb. 25 struggle with jail guards left him unconscious. Police said 38-year-old Luis Solanowas was uncooperative before the struggle at the jail ensued.
A Nevada Senate committee voted unanimously Thursday to add offenses committed against people based on their gender identity to the list of hate crimes that can be punished with increased criminal offenses.
A Las Vegas police officer pulled a woman from a fire early Thursday morning.
Nevada Senate Judiciary Committee members expressed general support Thursday for a bill that could force smokers under age 18 to pay minimum $25 fines and complete tobacco cessation courses.
A man was shot while checking on his son’s house early Thursday morning.
MGM Resorts International terminated its agreement to manage a hotel-casino development in Vietnam that is partially owned by Pinnacle Entertainment.
As the winds of change swirled around college athletics last year, Brigham Young basketball coach Dave Rose shielded his program and rode out the storm inside the cavernous Marriott Center on the school’s Provo, Utah, campus.
On the day Gonzaga was ranked No. 1 for the first time, it was reported that coach Mark Few had gone fishing. Maybe that was true.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has ordered the Legislature to respond to claims by troubled Assemblyman Steven Brooks that lawmakers cannot prevent him from serving in the Assembly.
Existing home sales in Las Vegas continued to decline with 2,640 escrow closings in February, a 13.5 percent drop from the same month a year ago, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Thursday.
Make it. Sew it. Solder it. Laser-cut it. Hackerspace. DIY. Vegas Jelly. SYN Shop. Robotics. Rick’s Restorations. The Beat Coffeehouse. Steampunk. Burning Man.
Audi Henderson sales consultant Joe Sirna is not afraid of hard work. Sirna, who’s now 63, has been working since he started mowing lawns in Kansas City, Mo., in the 1950s.
In its ongoing support of the community, Mercedes-Benz of Henderson awarded an Apple iPad to Beth Naef during a Super Bowl event at Anthem Country Club.
After moving to Southern Nevada from Palmer, Alaska, Jerry and Sondra Carter found themselves in the market for a new vehicle. They found just what they were looking for, a 2011 2.0 turbo Hyundai Sonata, at Planet Hyundai Used Car Super Store at 7100 W. Sahara Ave.
Land Rover Las Vegas was recently presented with a 2012-2013 Land Rover Pinnacle Club Retailer Excellence award by Land Rover North America.
