Here are a few pop culture tidbits that caught our eye last week.
The character first appeared as a giant head made from smoke and fire, demanding the little girl and her friends kill the Wicked Witch and bring her broomstick to him in return for granting their wishes.
Nate Dooley and his fiancee came to Las Vegas earlier this month for a pre-marriage honeymoon.
After a series of close calls with its helicopters, the Metropolitan Police Department’s top brass ordered an audit last year with the hope of uncovering the problems plaguing the air support section. But seven months into the review, the plug was pulled on the investigation.
A judge has granted permission for owners of the CityCenter development to demolish a flawed, half-built hotel tower on the Strip.
I absolutely believe that within the next 80 or so years, perhaps around the time Bobby Hauck’s great-great-great grandson is arm wrestling elks in Montana, UNLV will navigate through a schedule unscathed. Here’s why it could happen this season.
Maybe someday people will come to Las Vegas not to get married, but to visit local wedding chapels as a sort of “matrimonial tourism.”
Brenda Priddy has been in the automotive espionage business for the past 20 years. She has photographed thousands of vehicles in development, many of them in and around Death Valley.
Hundreds of Las Vegas African-Americans marched to the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, almost 50 years after the civil rights leader gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to tens of thousands of people marching in the nation’s capital.
A chain-link fence separates Forbuss Elementary School from the desert at Las Vegas’ southwest edge. The absence of students wrapped the school in silence. But every teacher was present Wednesday, quietly preparing their classrooms for a whole new kind of school year, which begins Monday.
UNLV’s frontcourt suffered a major loss Saturday with the announcement that sophomore forward Savon Goodman will not play this season.