VIDEO: What’s Hot This Weekend in Las Vegas, April 12

This week: Tegan & Sara, Vampire Weekend, Spiritualized, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, How to Destroy Angels, Foals, Beach House, Rihanna, Garbage, Gwar, Lee Scratch Perry, Cafe Tecuba, Jackie Evancho, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Don Rickles & Robert Davi, Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Jillian Michaels, Keep Memory Alive Power of Love Gala and Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana

New In Stores: Dole Banana Dippers

Dole Banana Dippers are a tidbit-sized takeoff on the classic theme-park frozen banana.

An Inside Look at Masters Field

LVH oddsmaker Jeff Sherman analyzes several key players in the Masters field.

Train avoids hitting puppy tied to California track

INDIO, Calif. — Officials say a 78-year-old man tied a puppy to train tracks in the California desert, and an engineer had to use emergency brakes to keep from crushing it.

Concerns raised over plans to bury bomb-usable nuclear material in Nevada

The Department of Energy is preparing to ship containers of highly radioactive, bomb-usable nuclear material for burial in a landfill at the Nevada National Security Site, a plan being weighed by state officials but declared troubling by some outside experts.

Boomers: Your credit profiles matter more now than ever

Maintaining a good credit profile is important at all stages of life, even for baby boomers who may have paid off their mortgages and don’t anticipate the need for more big-ticket loans. But it’s important to remember credit scores are used for more than just borrowing money, and you never know when an opportunity or emergency might pop up where credit is needed.

Practice water conservation at home

Home is the place a person can always escape for some rest and relaxation. This year, celebrate Earth Day by upgrading your home to be a place that also helps you conserve water and be a better environmental steward.

Wranglers win to even series

One of the Wranglers’ leading scorers in the regular season, Chris Francis was held scoreless in Las Vegas’ first three playoff games.

U.S. warned Kodak, not us, about radioactive fallout

In the 1950s and ’60s, the Atomic Energy Commission doused the United States with thyroid cancer-causing iodine-131 — and 300 other radio isotopes — by exploding atomic and hydrogen bombs above ground in Nevada. To protect the dirty, secretive bomb-building industry, the government chose to warn the photographic film industry about the radioactive fallout patterns, but not the public.

Honesty best policy when it comes to state slogan

When it comes to marketing, I’m far from an expert. But I am a repository of thousands of commercials, jingles and ad campaigns absorbed over years of wasted hours watching TV. And that experience suggests Nevada’s new branding campaign may not go down in history.

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