Is Joe Jonas still a thing? I’m assuming so, since the Jonas Brothers singer (remember, the Jonases were the ones who wore “purity” rings, uh-huh) and actor Alan Ritchson are filming a talent show.
People who work in nightlife circles are hard at work in boxing gyms lately, because they’re going to punch each other in the ring on Tuesday for something called Vegas Nightlife Fights.
The Latin Grammys will return to Las Vegas, live on Univision from the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Nov. 19, but we don’t know yet who will host and who will be nominated.
Las Vegas has embraced hardcore naughtiness in recent decades, welcoming porn awards, porn conventions, foot fetish storefronts, cam girls, and porn, porn, porn. But if you’re one of those people who likes old-school sexiness?
There’s a great scene in the classic movie “Caddyshack,” in which graduating high school senior Danny Noonan, while caddying a round of golf for Judge Elihu Smails, laments his college prospects in an attempt to butter up the wealthy jurist.
The Nevada Legislature moved quickly at the start of the 2015 session to solve an urgent problem. Then, at the very end of the session, lawmakers repealed some of that fix to ensure part of the existing problem continues.
With the 2015 Nevada legislative session safely over, now we await the unintended consequences of just-passed legislation.
This month, the footprint of First Friday’s closed-street portion will shift as only areas north of Charleston Boulevard will be closed to traffic.
Former UNLV star Shawn Marion is winding down what has been an impressive NBA career. Marion, a reserve for the Cleveland Cavaliers, will retire after the NBA Finals after 16 seasons in the league. He has career averages of 15.2 points and 8.7 rebounds.
One night after making a splashy major league debut, Joey Gallo became the first player in Texas Rangers history to homer in his first two games when he hit a solo shot 411 feet into the upper porch at Globe Life Park in the ninth inning on Tuesday night.
All athletes under contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship will be subject to random out-of-competition testing and in-competition screenings from a period of six hours before weigh-ins until six hours after a fight, beginning July 1.
Game 1 of the NBA Finals will be played Thursday, with the Golden State Warriors a minus-210 betting favorite to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers and win their first championship since 1975. Here’s some of the bets offered at the Westgate Las Vegas sports book.
“A Sky of Diamonds” explains the basic grieving process through the eyes of a little girl who’s suffered a big loss.
Las Vegas literary happenings this week include the launch of library summer reading programs and a reading by Clark County’s First Poet Laureate.
Jack Jurek of Lackawanna, N.Y., stumbled a bit in the third round Wednesday in the Suncoast PBA Senior U.S. Open, but recovered to top qualifying for the third straight day. Jurek finished qualifying with a 4,042 18-game pinfall total at the Suncoast Bowling Center.
The Golden State Warriors are favored to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals and win their first championship since 1975. Six members of the Las Vegas Review-Journal sports staff and six handicappers predict the outcome.
Local high school history, English and government teacher David Bryant Perkins carved time out of his day between classes during lunch to work on “Hitler’s Astrologer.”
Cleveland and Golden State form the perfect NBA Finals pair. The feud features two big-time stars and will play well on TV, blow up Twitter and energize Las Vegas sports books. The Warriors, as a minus-210 series favorite, seem to be the wiseguys’ side. The betting public is backing the Cavaliers.
As the last-ever days of seven-digit dialing in Clark County approached last summer, apprehension about the addition of a new 725 area code grew. More than a year later, we’ve gotten over it.
Lack of playgrounds and shoreline access kept Lakes Mead and Mohave off the list of America’s top 100 family fishing and boating spots as compiled by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation.
Texas Rangers phenom Joey Gallo went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs in his first game in the major leagues. That’s a better start than a host of other Las Vegas players, including Greg Maddux, Bryce Harper and Kris Bryant.
This isn’t to suggest what the United States did in handing down those indictments last week is wrong. But before we decide to police the world, it might be smart to understand our own skeletons when it comes to sports and corruption.
Lance Garcia, a 25-year-old from Houston, won the largest poker tournament in history Wednesday, capturing the World Series of Poker’s “Colossus” No-limit Hold ’em event at the Rio Convention Center. Garcia took home $638,880.
A 54-year-old Northern Nevada inmate serving time for drug possession died Wednesday, the Nevada Department of Corrections wrote in a release the same day.
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Asian grocery store looks to add new location near Summerlin
Poker star falls short in pursuit of record 18th WSOP victory
Wynn’s plans to build a third tower on Strip still alive
Woman arrested after police say she climbed on Reno craps table, threw chips at people
Southwest Vegas food hall closing only a year after opening