Brooklyn blues rock duo She Keeps Bees will be stinging the Beauty Bar on Wednesday night.
Single-day tickets for the Life Is Beautiful music and food festival, featuring Kanye West, Outkast, Foo Fighters and many others Oct. 24-26, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Tickets are $105 and VIP passes are $249.50.
A high school in California retired its controversial “Arab” mascot last week.
The cable network FXX’s ratings skyrocketed last month after they premiered all 552 episodes of the hit cartoon sitcom, “The Simpsons,” in a 12-day tv marathon.
The Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks started 2014 the same way they finished last season, with a convincing blowout win. Marshawn Lynch rushed for 110 yards and a pair of touchdowns, Percy Harvin had 100 combined yards rushing and receiving, and the Seahawks stymied Aaron Rodgers’ up-tempo offense in a 36-16 win over the Green Bay Packers to kick off the regular season.
Jasmine Moore carded a 9-over-par 81 at Paiute on Thursday to lead Desert Oasis’ girls golf team to victory in a Northwest League match.
After being shut out by Centennial last week, perennial power Palo Verde faces another tough test in No. 3 Green Valley on Friday.
A Metro police officer was struck and dragged in a hit-and-run in the south valley Thursday afternoon. The officer was hit by the vehicle near Eastern Avenue and Windmill Lane about 5:55 p.m. while investigating a separate crash, police said.
A pleasant trip by two Massachusetts kayakers to check out some cute seals turned terrifying as the pair encountered a great white shark.
The state’s public college campuses plan to continue to ban pot even as Nevada is moving toward opening its first medical marijuana dispensaries early next year, the Board of Regents indicated Thursday.
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Mike Miller has drawn his last cartoon for View. He spoke recently from a hospice in Southern California and was in good spirits.
Out-of-towners and locals alike have shown enormous interest in sites connected to the Sept. 11th attacks. More than 700,000 people from all 50 states and 131 countries have been to the National Sept. 11 Museum since it opened May 21. More have come from New York than any other state, but the museum also hosts so many international tourists that you can’t even identify all the languages being spoken.
Follow the link for the 2014 girls tennis capsules, as submitted by coaches.
One of the nation’s largest newspapers says it will no longer use the name Redskins when writing about Washington’s NFL team.
Real rock sound that defies its era is the common bond for ‘Rock of the ’80s’ tour
Comedian hosts two comedy shows and a Kendrick Lamar concert this weekend at The Cosmopolitan.
The Walt Disney Co, creator of Mickey Mouse, is asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to refuse a trademark by electronic music star Deadmau5, who wears a LED-light powered, big-eared mouse helmet during concerts.
Gov. Brian Sandoval will ask state lawmakers next week to approve a deal to bring a Tesla battery plant to Nevada that will result in essentially no taxes being collected from the electric car manufacturer for nearly a decade.
Two men were acquitted of first-degree murder Thursday in the 1998 shooting deaths of two men who supported racial unity. The federal jury sat through a two-week trial in Las Vegas before returning its verdicts in the case against Ross Hack, 42, and Leland Jones, 33.
Follow the link for the 2014 boys cross country capsules, as submitted by coaches.
A new ad promoting IKEA’s 2015 catalog is an awesome parody of Apple’s over-the-top commercials.
Follow the link for the 2014 girls cross country capsules, as submitted by coaches.
Zipcar, which calls itself the world’s leading car-sharing network, has arrived at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas campus and McCarran International Airport’s Rental Car Center — and two campus cars were already checked out Thursday.
The former fiancee of Floyd Mayweather Jr. claims in a civil lawsuit that the superstar boxer beat her during their relationship and later publicly humiliated her by posting on social media a sonogram of her pregnancy and saying they broke up because she got an abortion.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed Thursday that the United States could become the “clean energy superpower” of the world if the nation and states such as Nevada lead in developing renewable energy sources from solar, wind and geothermal power.
The “Bone Game” is the state’s longest standing rivalry. Unfortunately, this one’s not likely to be close.