Ever since your child has been young, (s)he’s known that you’d be around for comfort when things got too scary. Well, stand by.What’s inside “Frightlopedia” may still leave you on sentry duty.
Tourist visits inched upward in August despite a convention attendance decline. On the casino side, Nevada’s gaming win in August dipped slightly compared with last year.
The new drama about the 2010 tragedy spends its first half doing its best to explain what’s about to go wrong and its second half covering a bunch of actors in mud and oil as they run around in cramped quarters while things blow up all around them. Despite its best intentions, neither half makes much sense.
The singer-songwriter will be the first artist to perform at the new venue Dec. 17, sharing the bill with The Pretenders.
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman says a U.S. refusal to cooperate with Russia on Syria would be a gift to “terrorists.”
Week 4 of the NFL season kicks off tonight with the Miami Dolphins visiting the Cincinnati Bengals for Thursday Night Football.
U.S. Forest Service firefighters have contained a small wildfire that started Thursday morning near Mary Jane Falls in Mount Charleston.
Saudi Arabia’s lobbying and warnings to Congress were not enough to blunt the passing of legislation allowing families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the kingdom for the attacks.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is hunkered down in Raleigh, North Carolina, for three days of debate preparations.
This weekend’s three-day country music fest will look a lot like last year’s, and that’s by design.
Five burning questions as UNLV’s football team prepares to play against Fresno State at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Here’s who reviewjournal.com and nevadapreps.com readers selected as the Nevada Preps football player of the week for Week 5.
E-sports seems to have a bright future in Nevada, though panelists cautioned that casinos have their work cut out for them to woo and maintain the gamer gambler.
What lies behind our fascination with violence, be it literary or otherwise, will be explored Thursday during a panel discussion, “Spectacle of Violence: Why We Watch,” sponsored by Black Mountain Institute and the UNLV Department of Anthropology.
The Bananas Foster Bam-Boozled shake at Holsteins Shakes and Buns and the Somoa! Elixxr at Hexx Kitchen + Bar are a couple of the items On the Menu.
Donald Trump doesn’t take advice from U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, but the Nevada Democrat has some for him anyway: Don’t bring up former President Bill Clinton’s marital infidelities.
The animated classic “The Lion King” will be the latest Disney film to get a live-action remake.
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee for president, who had been pilloried for blanking on the relevance of Aleppo, whiffed on an even easier foreign policy question.
Get ready for three days of college football because Week 5 features the Top 10 teams playing on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Catching up on the news after a week’s vacation in Seattle, I spied a front-page story in the Review-Journal that lifted my spirits. A group of local art lovers is giving it a go to create a fine arts museum.
An overnight standoff ended early Thursday morning when Las Vegas Police took a man into custody around 5 a.m.
The Nevada Department of Corrections is investigating what they said was an apparent suicide that occurred Wednesday in Northern Nevada.
According to the State Mental Health Agency, in 2013, Nevada spent about $89 on mental health services per capita — a 13 percent increase from 2007, when it was about $79 per capita. On average, the U.S. spends $119 per capita on services, including $160 per capita in California and $205 in Arizona.
Attend “Seth” Carlos Mongrut’s performance, and you may come away with more than an appreciation for music. Mongrut said he wants his poetry, music and dialogue with the audience to further a sense of connectedness. It’s a sense of brotherhood he said he’s felt since converting to Judaism.
Inside a converted storage room at Western High School is a freshly painted mural that reads, “It matters little what lies in the past or even what lies ahead. What matters most is what lies within.” Created by Las Vegas artist D2, the mural was the finishing touch to the new yoga room at the school, 4601 W. Bonanza Road, and speaks to the use of the space: It is dedicated to at-risk students as well as those who have experienced a crisis in their lives.
Hunger pangs and lack of school supplies are no longer a reason to miss class at Desert Rose High School. The North Las Vegas school recently opened a new student resource center to help its at-risk student population.
Once the Boulevard Mall was “the place” for locals to shop, stroll and socialize. Timo Kuusela, the mall’s general manager, hopes it can be again, but to get there, they’ll be reinventing the very concept of a mall.
In the middle of Lake Las Vegas, Jim Andersen pulls his motorized boat up to a group and begins giving instructions: “Long, steady strokes,” he says. “Much better folks. Much better.” Though the group is a mixture of ages and backgrounds, they have all come together with a common desire: To learn how to row.
A lot has changed since the term “date rape” was first established in 1990 by then-18-year-old Katie Koestner.
The small mini mart area there can hold only a few people at a time, so customers’ shopping times are staggered. Once their number is called, seniors have a chance to buy a variety of boxed items, canned goods, cleaning supplies or hygiene products at discounted prices.