A NASCAR race is more than a mere sporting event where the action happens only between the flutter of a green flag and the flurry of confetti upon a victor.
Nothing against your San Gennaro feasts or your Columbus Day picnics or your Cinco de Mayo celebrations, but it’s a safe bet that no other cultural celebration rivals St. Patrick’s Day in cross-cultural appeal.
Well, you’ve always said you wanted to run away and join the circus.
The fact that “Veronica Mars” even exists is worth plenty of buzz. But from its humble beginnings as the poster child for Kickstarter success, it’s breaking even more Hollywood rules by being available via video on demand on Friday, the day it opens in theaters.
His voice is as warm and welcoming as the weather outside the enclosed porch in which he sits on this 70-degree afternoon.
Pianist Roman Rabinovich has been collaborating with Israel’s Haifa Symphony Orchestra for almost 20 years, which wouldn’t be particularly noteworthy except for the fact that he’s only 28 — and made his concert debut at 10 years of age.
President Barack Obama and his supporters in Congress have made inequality an election-year focus. In particular, they’ve zeroed in on wage inequality, and offered up a 40 percent hike in the federal minimum wage as a cure for the “disease.”
An arm of the Democratic Party believes Las Vegas is uniquely fertile ground for political hypocrisy.
Not long after last season ended, Mike Moser announced his intention to transfer from UNLV to play his senior season elsewhere. He knows it was the right decision.
Most people outside of Muncie, Ind., and Las Vegas get the answer wrong to the obscure bit of college basketball trivia. Dick Hunsaker is proud to correct them.
While talking with a couple of Lake Mead fishermen recently, the subject turned to gizzard shad. Since they showed up in Lake Mead in 2007, gizzards have displaced threadfin shad as both the primary forage fish in the lake and the live bait of choice for many anglers. But what if the quick-darting baitfish could be more than just another source of bass food?
■ LAKE MEAD — It has been a slow week for fishing out on the lake. Anglers trolling from Vegas Wash to Sand Island reported only a few bites. Live shad or anchovies have been producing some fish. One bright spot is the Callville Bay area, where action has been good for striped bass.
Malaysia’s civil aviation chief says no signs of the missing Malaysian jetliner have been found at a location where Chinese satellite images have shown what might be plane debris.
A gas leak triggered an earthshaking explosion that flattened two apartment buildings on Wednesday, killing at least four people, injuring more than 60 and leaving nine missing. A tenant said residents had complained repeatedly in recent weeks about “unbearable” gas smells.
Station Casinos grew revenue more than 8 percent in the fourth quarter, helped by the opening of the company’s $800 million Indian casino project in Northern California.
Nevada slashed its foreclosure rate in February, but the state still saw above-average default activity.
Faith Lutheran right-hander Brandon Johnson just smiled and shook his head after teammate Erich Uelmen said he threw harder than Johnson.
Maggie Manwarren starts her softball season a few months after most players do.
A movie once was made on the idea that a mirror has two faces, that the relationship between mind and body can take different forms, that what we see on the outside might not necessarily be a person’s true character.
Trappers might be the keepers of an antiquated craft, but they all seem to have Internet access.
Valley’s boys volleyball team is coming off the best season in school history, but it’s not done yet.
Clark County commissioners will hold a public hearing and vote next week on Clark County’s first ordinance allowing medical marijuana dispensaries and facilities for manufacturing, cultivating and testing.
Follow the link for softball preseason capsule information submitted by coaches.
North Las Vegas police released the name of the officer involved in the shooting death of a homeless man early Monday morning. Officer Raymond Lopez shot and killed 38-year-old David L. Robinson after a confrontation about 1 a.m., police said.
Follow the link for the boys volleyball preseason capsule information submitted by coaches.
Faith Lutheran right-hander Brandon Johnson just smiled and shook his head after teammate Erich Uelmen said he threw harder than Johnson.
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