“It’s like children’s theater for 40-year-old gay people,” says a muse in “Xanadu,” the 2007 hit Broadway musical comedy written by Douglas Carter Beane with music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar and based on the 1980 cult film staring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.
With just 74 branches, U.S. Bank lacks the street-corner presence that its larger competitors — Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America Corp. — have in Nevada. But that’s all right with Lori Soren, whose strategy for the bank with $2.22 billion in local deposits includes mobile banking offerings, smarter ATMs and supermarket branches.
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Casino developers — including MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd. — will spend some $22 billion on massive new resorts and gambling complexes in Macau over the next four years.
They always tell you to start a business that involves something you love, and Jim and Adrienne Breen love dogs.
Some companies were still shrinking as recently as 2012, Seattle-based PayScale Inc. says. PayScale reports amassing compensation data with 36 million salary profiles. More than a fifth (21 percent) of large organizations shrank, while 17 percent of both small and medium-sized companies did.
While still in law school, Jennifer Ko Craft spent her last two summers clerking for Andre Agassi. After graduation she became his in-house associate general counsel for two years, while at the same time working for Shaquille O’Neal.
Look closely, and you’ll see the new talk of the town.
A judge’s ruling that federal officials had interfered with a Nevada ranch family’s water rights and grazing permits sparked U.S. Sen. Dean Heller into an angry speech last week against government overreach.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Nevada, Reno have a serious building maintenance funding shortfall, on the order of more than $1 billion, as reported Friday by the Review-Journal’s Yesenia Amaro. Add in the College of Southern Nevada campuses, and there’s an additional $200 million in unfunded work.
Review-Journal columnist Glenn Cook’s recent series on the English Language Learner crisis has drawn attention to the education challenge that Nevada faces. As Cook notes, the key to improved outcomes is to focus on the key demographics that are in crisis — ELL children and children from impoverished backgrounds.
NEW YORK — With chants and prayers, sermons and signs, outrage over a jury’s decision to clear George Zimmerman in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager poured from street protests and church pulpits Sunday amid calls for federal civil rights charges to be filed in the case.
Pierre Jackson had never played a game at the Thomas & Mack Center until Sunday. After having a tough time in his NBA Summer League debut for New Orleans, the former Baylor point guard from Las Vegas probably wished he were playing somewhere else in town.
Having grown up in Las Vegas, Anthony Marshall knows a little something about long shots. He also knows that once in a while, they come in.
Clark County Republicans are fighting one another again.
It was a little past 1 p.m., not that time really matters here. The sound of poker chips idly being rubbed together was in the air, in the manner the sound of locusts on a deserted stretch of Texas highway is in the air.
With $44.8 million in domestic ticket sales Friday through Sunday, the animated sequel “Despicable Me 2” outdid the debuts of the Adam Sandler comedy “Grown Ups 2” and director Guillermo del Toro’s monsters-versus-robots action flick “Pacific Rim.”
Desert racing veterans Tim Herbst of Las Vegas and Larry Roeseler of El Centro, Calif., captured the overall and Trophy Truck victory at the second annual Eldorado HDRA Reno 500 at the Tahoe Reno Motorplex. Herbst and Roeseler completed the race in 9 hours, 25 minutes, 10 seconds, averaging 43 miles per hour.
Taking heartburn seriously could save your life.
Cirque du Soleil will resume performances of its “Ka” show in Las Vegas on Tuesday night, 17 days after an acrobat fell about 90 feet to her death in its closing scene, the company announced Sunday.
A man died after the ATV he was driving rolled over about 7 a.m. Sunday in Bunkerville, according to Las Vegas police.
A bloodied gunman suspected of killing two women and seriously wounding a man inside a jewelry store at a popular shopping center had visited the store at least once before, and investigators don’t believe that robbery was a motive for the attack, police said Saturday.
A pedestrian was killed after being struck by a vehicle on U.S. Highway 95 about noon Sunday, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
In 1970, only 26 percent of the workforce had a college diploma; in 2012, 61 percent of the middle class does, according to “The College Advantage: Weathering the Economic Storm,” a report produced by Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute .
Like countless other high school seniors throughout the nation, Benjamin Murphy donned a traditional cap and gown at his recent graduation ceremony during which the familiar “Pomp and Circumstance” march was played.
