The KATS! Bureau at this writing is Thomas Mack Center and the 59th Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. This year marks the last rodeo for Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Commissioner Karl Stressman, who is stepping down after a decade in ye olde saddle.
About 200 people who gathered Friday in Death Valley Junction, California, 95 miles west of Las Vegas to remember Marta Becket, who died Jan. 30 at age 92. Becket staged her first show in the Armagosa Opera House on Feb. 10, 1968.
They spoke of that other Las Vegas, joked about it, but it seemed so far away. Though it was a black-tie gala that aimed to be inclusive, it was, more importantly, a night to feel as grand and important as the new building it celebrated.
