Do the folks at the Internal Revenue Service think we’re stupid? They must if they believe Americans will buy the agency’s increasingly suspicious explanations for its lack of cooperation with congressional investigators.
Speaking of IRS arrogance, a pair of agents proved agency overreach extends all the way to Las Vegas. At last week’s Bank Secrecy Act Conference, put on by the State Bar of Nevada, Josh Bottjer and Adam Steiner ordered the media out of a conference room at Red Rock Resort. According to a person present, the men then delivered to lawyers, gaming executives and regulators a heavy-handed presentation regarding the kinds of “suspicious activities” casinos are obligated to report. Among them: any customer who expresses distrust of the government.
It was unsurprising to read the news this week that Sharron Angle’s latest political venture — a pair of malodorous ballot initiatives aimed at further sullying our state constitution — had failed to gather sufficient signatures.
Four Las Vegas-area motocross riders qualified for the Amateur National Motocross Championships next month in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.
We may have missed National Bourbon Day, but what the heck … we can still celebrate.
One of the worst-kept secrets in racing was the leaking of the rotation of Breeders’ Cup sites in coming years.
Las Vegas Review-Journal sports writers Adam Hill and David Schoen have been given $5,000 fantasy bankrolls to bet during the World Cup on either sides, totals or props. Below are their bets for today, with an explanation of their picks:
Whether you want an old stand-by or something really special, we’ve got your Italian craving covered. Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Italian restaurants this week.
Every minor league baseball player covets a call from the majors, but getting called up to Triple A was a special moment in itself for Chasen Bradford.
The Las Vegas Academy’s “Of Mice and Men” will hit the road soon — but not before a final showcase Friday at the academy’s home theater.
Two of the major plot turns in “The Signal” — a good-looking sci-fi thriller with more fashion sense than brains — hinge on misdirection involving simple arithmetic and spelling.
With plans underway for Nevada public schools to receive more state dollars for students in poverty or who are English language learners, it should come as little surprise that the CCSD put its support in writing for the new funding formula.
The crowds of people, the displays of stuffed animals, flowers and candles on the sidewalk all said one thing: the two children who died in a northwest valley house fire early Thursday morning were loved.
Indie dance pop troupe Grouplove joins Portugal. The Man at Brooklyn Bowl at The Linq on Aug. 16. Tickets are $35 in advance, $40 day of show and go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Brooklyn Bowl box office, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and www.ticketfly.com.
You may not think that actors have much business making records, but, to quote one Jeffrey Lebowksi, “That’s just, like, your opinion, man.”
On “Rent I Pay,” the first single from Spoon’s new album “They Want My Soul,” due in August, frontman Britt Daniel sings of losing sleep while not sounding drowsy in the least, his voice fraying at the edges as he pushes it and his band as hard as a schoolyard bully.
Since you can’t hold your breath for the movie, you might as well see the man on stage where he belongs.
What does Rita Coolidge share with past Las Vegas headliners Tom Jones, Sheena Easton, Gladys Knight and Shirley Bassey?
Steel yourself for “A Vegas Punk/Ska Takeover,” with Happy Drunk Cartel, Los Brigands and Alter Boys, at 10 p.m. Sunday at Double Down Saloon.
They are two guys with a self-described “deep and strange sense of humor,” doing a stage show which champions science and critical thinking while shooting things and blowing stuff up.
Atlantic City’s Revel warned its staff Thursday that it will shut down this summer if a buyer can’t be found in bankruptcy court.
A 29-year-old Las Vegas woman has been arrested and charged with four counts of arson after a fire this morning that started in an alley behind several businesses in the 1800 block of East Charleston Boulevard and spread to two vacant buildings in the 1800 block of Lewis Avenue, according to the Las Vegas Fire Department.
A Las Vegas plastic surgeon plans to offer free help to reconstruct the face of a 3-year-old Mississippi girl mauled in a dog attack.
On orders from Congress, airline passengers are about to pay more for security screening.
Nevada’s small manufacturing industry is failing, according to a Ball State University report, but local industry professionals sharply disagree.
A 63-year-old Las Vegas man who sprayed another man with gasoline and set him ablaze was cleared Thursday of an attempted murder charge.
The man killed in a shooting at a Rebel gas station late Tuesday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
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