I bet you didn’t even know there is a new “Tiger Woods” golf game on the market. “Tiger” used to arrive with a roar every year. Now its arrival seems as quiet as a golf gallery.
Dress for Success, a group of volunteers committed to helping women along paths to professional and economic independence, raised funds with a reception and silent auction followed by “Springtime in Paris” luncheon and fashion show at Paris Las Vegas on April 5.
If you’ve never been to a Garbage Tree show, here’s what to expect: intricate instrumentation, heavy metal riffage and a mane of blond hair whipping you straight in the face.
Knelt down in a runner’s stance, eyes closed, mind clear, you’re only thinking about the race ahead, praying that it’s good and clean.
You can lead a 16-year-old kid to a 5k race, but you can’t make him run it.
Here are a few items in pop culture that caught our eye last week.
Sixty-two-year-old Doug Franck studied history in college. Upon graduation from California State University, Northridge, his work life included nearly everything except his original goal: teaching history.
The single weightiest and greatest predictor of outcome is the starting point. That’s what all the social scientists say. And they are correct. Statistically and otherwise.
The Cactus and Succulent Society of Southern Nevada and Moon-Sun Cactus & Koi Gardens are hosting the Cactus Show and Art Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and April 21 at Moon-Sun Cactus & Koi Gardens at 6430 McGill Ave. in Las Vegas.
Anyone who knows certain blinged-out magicians in Las Vegas also knows their blinged-out manager.
Last week, The Center opened a new $4 million building in downtown Las Vegas. The 16,000-square-foot Robert L. Forbuss Building is The Center’s first freestanding building in its 20-year history.
Depending on which decade you grew up in, high school prom can conjure up images of chiffon dresses swaying back and forth to The Supremes or doing your best running man with a pager clipped to your tuxedo cummerbund.
Bill Weidner has put his 14 years as president of Las Vegas Sands Corp. in the rear view mirror. Last month, Global Gaming Asset Management, which Weidner operates with former Las Vegas Sands executives Brad Stone and Garry Saunders, opened the first phase of Solaire, a planned $1.2 billion hotel-casino at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
Long before she moved to Nevada, Dilek Samil marveled from afar at NV Energy.
The UNLV men’s golf team was 12th after two rounds of the 54-hole Morris Williams Invitational in Austin, Texas.
Out of the mouths of 8-year-old athletes sometimes come pearls — including the word “apparatus.”
Sierra Vista’s Tyler Burdett took a 1-and-2 curveball that just missed ending the game. But when Zach Rickard came back with another breaking ball, Burdett jumped all over it.
The hints this would be an unusual baseball game came early when UNR starter Tyler Wells seemed to make as many throws to first base as he did to the plate.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: Sky Sox, Drew Pomeranz (1-0); 51s, Darin Gorski (0-1)
It’s nothing new for Adam Scott to be in position to win a major tournament on the final day. But the last time Scott had a shot to be a closer, he collapsed.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch was just trying to maintain the pace behind Martin Truex Jr. while waiting for his chance.
En route to the biennial UNLV Athletic Apparel Sale on Saturday morning, I couldn’t help but notice the giant billboard blocking out the sun in the manner of a solar eclipse.
CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Mo Denis wants to pass bills next month to provide adequate funding for education and state government.
Banners honoring 22 active-duty service members may soon adorn Henderson streets.
Clark County Department of Family Services officials hope to get a $3 million consulting contract approved by county commissioners Tuesday.
the Silver State has a new tourism slogan: “Nevada — A World Within. A State Apart.”
