Eric Whitacre is a world-class, Grammy Award-winning music composer who grew up in rural Nevada, went to school at UNLV and makes about a dozen speaking appearances a year. He also recently appeared before the Governor’s Conference on Tourism.
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Mesquite’s Megaplex Stadium theater was packed for a Christmas afternoon showing of Sony’s controversial film “The Interview.”
Dan Mathews and his longtime partner, Jack Ryan, on Thursday tied the knot under the famed Welcome to Las Vegas sign with model Pamela Anderson and iconic rocker Chrissie Hynde in tow.
Monday’s Nevada Sesquicentennial All-Star Concert at The Smith Center included both a Mark Twain and Elvis Presley impersonator. The real Wayne Newton and those Cirque du Soleil courtesans in the red frocks and powder wigs who are as synonymous with the new Las Vegas as Newton was to the ’70s.
Actor Denny Miller, whose big- and small-screen roles ranged from Tarzan to the Gorton’s fisherman, died Tuesday at his Las Vegas home after battling ALS. He was 80.
BLACK ROCK DESERT — Thousands of Burning Man enthusiasts are on the outside looking in after a rare batch of heavy rain forced organizers to temporarily close entry to the counterculture event in the desert 90 miles north of Reno.
They crowned the wrong teen queen. Now two Nevada girls may be headed to Miss America’s Outstanding Teen Pageant in Orlando, Florida.
A future Maryland Parkway facelift received a $50,000 grant Wednesday from the National Endowment for the Arts to bankroll public art. The Maryland Parkway project — which stretches from McCarran International Airport to downtown Las Vegas — is one of 66 projects nationwide receiving “Our Town” grants.
All states have foods they’re known for, but what about Nevada?
The country singer will recognize Michael Landsberry, a Nevada math teacher killed by a 12-year-old student in a school-yard shooting last fall, at a concert Saturday night in Incline Village by presenting a plaque and check to his widow, Sharon.
The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture said Thursday night it has found evidence directly linking Foster Farms boneless-skinless chicken breast to a case of Salmonella Heidelberg.
Super Summer Theatre at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, has received the largest grant in its 39-year history: a $600,000 grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
Jim Rogers, the former chancellor of Nevada’s university system and owner of KSNV-DT, died on Saturday, according to a report from KSNV. Rogers had been battling cancer.
Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez, a fourth-degree black belt in the Korean martial art of taekwondo, has been crowned Miss USA 2014.
A National Park Service video, obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows Wayne Newton’s 65-foot luxury houseboat quickly sinking to the bottom of Lake Mead last year after a salvage crew freed the damaged vessel from a covered slip at Temple Bar Marina in Arizona.
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Man fined $180K over Airbnb rental sues Las Vegas over ‘excessive’ penalty
2 Las Vegas bars make Esquire’s list of best bars in America
Downtown Las Vegas casino looks for downsized game to go big
Popular fast-casual Mexican chain closing dozens of restaurants
Korean steakhouse, named best in North America, opening on Strip
As a dome of high pressure builds over the entire West, Thursday is projected to be the hottest day in the valley.
A man who was sent to Nevada’s death row nearly eight years ago for the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl inside her Las Vegas home has died.
A proposed change to county code could make it easier for liquor stores to open nearer to schools and churches.
Giovanni Ruiz had faced the death penalty and was set to go to trial later this month in the 2019 killing of 19-year-old Paula Davis.
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