Green Valley softball coach Lauren Taylor refused to consider the possibility that her team might lose Thursday.
In the NBA, reputations are made in the playoffs. Carmelo Anthony is an exception because he entered the league with star status and never has lost it despite rarely winning in the playoffs.
Synth pop stalwarts the Pet Shop Boys hit The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel on Oct. 11. Tickets start at $45 and go on sale at 10 a.m. today at The Joint box office, 4455 Paradise Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
The annual Epicurean Affair sponsored by the Nevada Restaurant Association is scheduled for 7 to 10 p.m. May 23 at The Pools at the Palazzo, 3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South, with almost 75 restaurants and purveyors participating. Proceeds benefit the educational programs of the Nevada Restaurant Association and NvRA Educational Foundation. Tickets are $105 for general admission, $155 for early admission (at 6 p.m.) and $190 for VIP. For tickets, visit NVRestaurants.com or call 414-9000. …
I’m not sure what surprises anybody could have expected from the Economic Forum meeting Wednesday.
Can you say, “Busiest club weekend ever”? I mean, really. Look at this starry DJ lineup at nightclubs and dayclubs on the Strip.
Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay is offering teachers free admission for Teacher’s Appreciation Week.
Paramore singer Hayley Williams’ Doritos-orange hair is more subtle than the singer is on her band’s latest self-titled record, where she addresses the acrimonious split with a pair of former bandmates, who ditched the group and essentially labeled them record company automatons.
Comprising a majority of the Las Vegas City Council’s recommending committee, Councilmen Stavros Anthony and Bob Coffin on Tuesday voted against a proposal from Councilman Bob Beers to get rid of a mandate that 1 percent of the city’s capital improvement budget be spent on public art.
When Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval called for yet another study of the Nevada Public Employees’ Retirement System — one that won’t wrap up until the current legislative session is over — he signaled he had no appetite to take on the issue before his re-election campaign, if ever.
Elton John sits relaxed at the piano, talking about meeting Nelson Mandela and watching Honey Boo Boo.
A local family living in a decaying home in a neighborhood behind the College of Southern Nevada’s Cheyenne campus was recently the beneficiary of A Brush with Kindness, a program recently adopted by Team Ford Lincoln through Habitat for Humanity.
The 2014 Porsche Cayman will make its debut with a Porsche driving experience May 8 and 9 at Spring Mountain Motor Sports track in Pahrump.
Thousands of dads train their kids to fight, strapping on a pair of oversized boxing gloves and showing them the rudiments of the sport in the garage, the backyard or a gym. From that, a handful have the aptitude to take their sons to the professional level. And from that number, a select few are able to guide their prodigy to a world title.
One child was killed and another injured in a Las Vegas house fire Thursday.
Louis Prima Jr. is drinking vodka in the back of a PT’s pub, and I ask him to tell me about his tattoos. On his right arm, there’s sheet music to Nine Inch Nail’s “Hurt” (“I hurt myself today to see if I still feel”). Left arm: Radiohead’s “Creep.”
Three dozen couples took the plunge in the name of symbolism Thursday in a quickie wedding chapel on the Las Vegas Strip. None of the ceremonies were legally binding, but the participants insisted they weren’t pointless, either.
Good news for NBA player Jason Collins, the first male athlete in a major U.S. sports league to declare his homosexuality: If a company signs him to a sponsorship deal, consumers will likely view him just as effective a product endorser as a straight athlete.
State officials on Thursday placed a full-time psychologist at University Medical Center to help deal with the overflow of mentally ill patients coming through the emergency room.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Rick Pitino became a Hall of Famer and an NCAA champion on the same day. Now the Louisville basketball coach is positioned to become a Kentucky Derby-winning owner if Goldencents wins on Saturday.