One of the things I love about Las Vegas is, if you wait long enough, many of the great ones will come to you. That will be the case at the South Point race book at 11 a.m. Wednesday, when jockey Gary Stevens and sportscaster Dick Enberg will do a meet and greet hosted by Ralph Siraco.
Mirage headliner Terry Fator has welcomed Wounded Warriors to his Veteran Day’s salutes for about four years. As emotional as they are, nothing prepared him for what happened in October.
This week, Vegas has a medium-sized schedule of supertalented DJs on the menu. Even Wednesday is strong when Krewella performs at Light.
Food trucks, vendors and live entertainment will be part of LV4PH, a benefit for the victims of the recent typhoon in the Philippines, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Rio, 3700 W. Flamingo Road. Admission is by monetary donation. …
Rice &Company first appeared on my radar because of its innovative fusion rolls. Although most sushi places across the valley make an effort to set themselves apart with unique rolls — often themed to Las Vegas or local landmarks such as Red Rock or Green Valley — Rice &Company goes the extra mile, with some themed to holidays and one for the “Jabbawockeez” show, which, like the restaurant, is at the Luxor.
A few years back, near the end of a lengthy tour, Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman didn’t know when the group would take flight again.
Having replaced Scott Weiland with Chester Bennington, Stone Temple Pilots have gone from volatility to reliability.
Clay O’Brien Cooper is old enough to be the father of many of his team roping peers. Yet Father Time still hasn’t caught up to the 52-year-old, who is competing in his 27th National Finals Rodeo, his 23rd at the Thomas &Mack Center.
Defending champion Tuf Cooper came into the National Finals Rodeo with a big lead in tie-down roping, but he’s being challenged by five-time world champ Cody Ohl, all-around champ Trevor Brazile, Shane Hanchey and Scott Kourmos. Cooper is trying to become the first tie-down roper to win three straight world titles since his father, rodeo Hall of Famer Roy Cooper, won five in a row from 1980 to 1984.
For just a second, it was just like old times. In the front room of the Havana Cigar Co., a small group of us were arguing politics, predicting the outcome of future races and solving the world’s problems as tendrils of steel-colored smoke rose toward the ceiling and dark wine swirled in glasses.
It would be easy to view Urijah Faber’s fight against Michael McDonald as a classic matchup of the grizzled veteran who has seen it all trying to hold off the hard-charging, young up-and-comer hoping to follow his path.
For three quarters Thursday, Bishop Gorman’s girls basketball team got by without a true point guard.
Clark County’s crowded elementary schools already use 1,282 portable classrooms, but new state standards are forcing the district to request $13.5 million from the state so it can add hundreds more.
Airlines will post record earnings next year as a wave of consolidation and streamlining prompted by the global slump helps rein in capacity and support prices, the International Air Transport Association said.
A 24-year-old Las Vegas man on Thursday was sentenced to two to five years in prison for stabbing a California tourist a dozen times during a fight in an elevator at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay in February.
Fellow blind veterans didn’t see tears roll down the cheeks of mourners in Boulder City on Thursday when friends eulogized Navy veteran Sandi Niccuum.
With a nod to successful efforts to protect homes from the summer’s Carpenter 1 fire on Mount Charleston, a panel of Western governors and federal bureaucrats called for more money to be spent on proactive forest management to help blunt the rising costs of fighting wildfires.
A pedestrian was in critical condition after being hit by a car on Boulder Highway and Russell Road Thursday afternoon.
A Montana newlywed pleaded guilty Thursday to killing her husband of eight days by pushing him from a cliff in Glacier National Park while they argued about her second thoughts about the marriage.
Michael Jordan’s shoes from the famous flu game of the 1997 NBA finals were sold for more than $100,000 in an online auction Thursday.
North Korea said Friday that it had executed Kim Jong Un’s uncle as a traitor for trying to seize supreme power, a stunning end for the leader’s former mentor, long considered the country’s No. 2 official.
