The Tap House normally caters to its neighborhood along West Charleston Boulevard, but one night a week it’s a throwback to a northeastern supper club with old Vegas charm.
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Las Vegas was built on characters who were larger than life, much like the city itself. Sadly, we now have one fewer such character.
Las Vegas certainly knows conferences and conventions, hosting more than 22,000 of them in the past year alone. This week, from Wednesday through Saturday, the City of Lights is hosting a different kind of gathering, a political summit where some of the best minds in free market principles will further ideas geared toward advancing liberty. As the promotional materials proudly state, “The World’s Largest Gathering of Free Minds” is “an intellectual feast in the entertainment capital of the world.”
One of the crazier new things in Las Vegas is the just-opened Adventure Combat Ops, a sort of live-action “Call of Duty”-type military course for civilians, created by top U.S. forces, some of whom raided the homes of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein’s kids.
Holly Madison and her husband, Electric Daisy Carnival founder Pasquale Rotella, turned to the cast of Animal Planet’s “Redwood Kings” to build them a “luxury chicken coop mansion.”
UFC “Octagon Girl” Brittney Palmer claims in a police report her husband threw her headfirst into their bedpost, and put his knee in her back while she was face down on their bed, struggling to breath for two minutes.
A young slugger from Las Vegas having a breakout season in the big leagues will take part in the Home Run Derby, which will be shown at 5 p.m. Monday on ESPN.
Find things to do across the Summerlin area.
U.S. District Judge Robert Clive Jones received a double whammy the other day. In two unrelated cases, his actions on the bench were overturned on appeal, the court essentially telling the judge to stop marching to his own drummer.
Dilson Herrera and Cory Vaughn each had two doubles and two RBIs to pace a balanced offense as the 51s outslugged the Salt Lake Bees 10-5 in a Pacific Coast League game Wednesday at Cashman Field. Herrera finished 3-for-5 with a stolen base.
The South Carolina legislature passed a bill early Thursday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds after an emotional 13-hour debate over the controversial banner.
Amar Anand of Shrewsbury, Mass., was the unofficial leader of the World Series of Poker Main Event with approximately 500,000 chips Wednesday at the 10:15 p.m. break with one level of play remaining during action on Day 2A/2B at the Rio Convention Center.
When temperatures hit triple digits, there is at least one spot in town that provides dogs with some relief. Bark Park at Heritage Park, the dog park at 350 Racetrack Road, has a pet-friendly water feature allowing dogs to splash around.
In the wake of Tuesday’s trade that sent David Lee from Golden State to the Boston Celtics for Gerald Wallace, Warriors guard Stephen Curry posted a funny farewell to his former teammate on Twitter.
A bright sunshiny day greeted the valley Wednesday after monsoon thunderstorms faded.
Miki Sudo, 29, won her second consecutive Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in the women’s division by scarfing down 38 frankfurters in 10 minutes by first removing the hot dog from the bun and eating it, then dipping the bun in Crystal Light and eating it.
Wisconsin’s state Capitol Building in Madison reopened after being evacuated Wednesday afternoon due to a “credible bomb threat” as representatives were debating a budget bill, authorities said.
Russian police are warning the public of a new danger: Death by selfie. The country’s police force is advocating for people to take ‘safe selfies’ in the wake of a string of deaths.
Former Assembly Speaker John Oceguera will run for Congress in the 4th Congressional District.
Men’s soccer standout Salvador Bernal was named the UNLV Sportsman of the Year for 2014-15, and women’s golfer Dana Finkelstein won the Sportswoman of the Year award for the second straight year.
Historical and natural sites of extraordinary beauty often draw large numbers of visitors to the countries that host them, providing a healthy tourism revenue. However, those same crowds often have a detrimental effect on the places they visit, sometimes leading to significant damage. Some of the world’s most beautiful sites that are on the brink of collapse.
If it’s true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, UFC welterweight champ Robbie Lawler is the silent tire cruising down the road straight in its lane. And the quiet veteran is just fine flying under the radar before his title fight against Rory MacDonald at UFC 189.
A court settlement clears the way for construction to resume at the massive housing development 55 miles northeast of Las Vegas. At full build-out, Coyote Springs would be twice the size of Summerlin.
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