There will be an embarrassment of rich races to bet on in our race books on Saturday. Three tracks — the Fair Grounds, Gulfstream Park and Meydan in Dubai — will each host a festival of racing at their venue.
Palo Verde’s softball team wasn’t exactly set up for success Thursday.
UNLV stands in 25th place with 10 points after the first day of the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships in Bloomington, Ind.
Brigham Young’s season opener at Virginia is months away, but football will be back at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday.
It’s Friday and time for a street story straight from the Boulevard.
A complaint I hear often is that Henderson — and Summerlin, so I guess it’s a ’burb thing — has a surfeit of chain restaurants and not enough of the mom-and-pops. It’s a valid argument on the whole, and comes into focus whenever another good spot closes.
It’s pool season, so the dayclubs are open across the Strip. They will start amping up soon. For now, the big-hitter DJs are still mostly at nightclubs.
Legendary Josh Wink has been around the music scene so long that he started DJing 25 years ago, and he’s only 42.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with New American restaurants this week. Restaurants are rated on a letter-grade scale, from A to F. Opinions by R-J critic Heidi Knapp Rinella (H.K.R.) are indicated by initials. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees between $10 and $20; $$$ = entrees between $20 and $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
Whisk(e)y Wednesdays at Andre’s at the Monte Carlo, 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South, now is a weekly event, showcasing different flights, pours and whiskeys each week. In Andre’s Cigar Lounge on the restaurant’s second floor, it runs from 7 p.m. to closing. The unlimited tasting for two hours is $25 in advance or $35 at the door. Call 798-7151. …
As franchises go, “G.I. Joe” was less a fixer-upper than the sort of thing you burn to the ground for the insurance money.
Tiger Jam returns with Kid Rock at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on May 18. Tickets start at $60.75 and go on sale at noon Saturday at Ticketmaster outlets.
A few years back, Tiger Army frontman Nick 13 released a solo album of country tunes as overcast as a mass of angry storm clouds.
Jewelry recovered from the Titanic is on display at the Luxor.
The Oak Ridge Boys are on the road celebrating their 40th anniversary, and Sunday’s stop at the Eastside Cannery is essential because so many of their years are directly tied to Las Vegas.
Welcome to The D, where the bar is long but the stage is short.
The due process rights of a Las Vegas man who cooperated in a major mortgage fraud case but later was charged were not violated during his trial, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Clark County commissioners disagree about how quickly to move forward on appointing a replacement for Steven Brooks, who was expelled from the Assembly on Thursday.
Firefighters contained a four-alarm blaze that caused $4.5 million in damages at the vacant Key Largo casino building on Flamingo Road near Paradise Road on Thursday afternoon.
Calling retired Judge Jackie Glass: The city of Henderson and the two defendants in the city’s lawsuit against disgraced developer Chris Milam need your mediation skills.