After two initial replays, CBS stopped showing footage Sunday of Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware breaking his leg during the first half of his team’s NCAA men’s tournament game against Duke.
Cadaver dogs will continued their search Sunday for possible bodies at the Key Largo hotel-casino, where a fire erupted earlier in the week, all but gutting the long-abandoned building on Flamingo Road near Paradise Road, Clark County officials said Saturday.
It was a beautiful Thursday afternoon, warm and sunny and idyllic, and the UNLV men’s tennis team was knocking the fuzz off the bright yellow-green ball against UNR.
I can’t believe how short the new “Gears of War: Judgment” is. I finished this humans-versus-aliens war in five hours — including coffee breaks.
Lon Bronson’s All-Stars are one of those great Vegas traditions, a horn-heavy band of professional Strip musicians playing songs for kicks to crowds of locals, often for free.
Here are a few things in pop culture that caught our eye last week.
Giving back to the community is just what they do.
Here is a listing of events designed for book lovers. Information is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Additions or changes to this listing must be submitted at least 10 days in advance of Sunday publication to Bookmark, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125. For more information, call 383-0306.
Signs of spring draw visitors to Cerca country to check out the flora, fauna and fun activities, from the Clark County Fair and Rodeo to Laughlin’s annual River Run.
ST. GEORGE, Utah — A visit to this desert city on the Utah-Arizona border for a weekend — it’s less than a two-hour drive from Las Vegas on Interstate 15 north –– is remarkably full of the unanticipated, a place with a strong Mormon influence that deserves far more than just the stop for gas along the freeway that it often receives from Southern Nevadans on their way to Zion National Park.
For Dr. Edwin “Flip” Homansky, Las Vegas was supposed to be a yearlong pit stop on the way to a career as a heart doctor back east.
Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender wraps up Easter with custom cars, burlesque and rockabilly music.
District Judge Jennifer Togliatti’s title was incorrect in a Friday story about poker star Phil Ivey’s divorce. Togliatti is chief judge of the Criminal/Civil Division.
Frank Marino, the longest running female impersonation act in Las Vegas, isn’t optimistic that gay marriage will happen in his lifetime.
Electro pop rockers Shiny Toy Guns fire away at 9 p.m. Thursday at the Beauty Bar, 517 Fremont St. Tickets are $16; call 598-1965.
In northwest Las Vegas, I motor from time to time along Lone Mountain Road between Jones and Decatur boulevards.
It’s happening again. Not nearly to the degree of the boom years, but if you listen closely, you can hear it.
What the NCAA failed to do to UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, his local newspaper did.
The case for booting Steven Brooks from the Assembly was air-tight and iron-clad more than a month ago. Yet state lawmakers, in trying to demonstrate due diligence and avoid a rush to judgment, did nearly everything possible to diminish the credibility of the unprecedented expulsion.
Employers who waste money don’t survive, so they become pretty good at determining the prevailing wage for any given job.
It is Easter Sunday, the most holy day of the Christian calendar, a day of celebrating what is believed to be the most singular event in the history of the world.
Hope is one of those little words in too-short supply. We face the challenges of economics, of elusive peace in the world, or even the hard work of maintaining health and relationships and often ask ourselves, “Is there any hope?” Sometimes it is just because we face struggle, but often, I think, it’s because we are reluctant to share the signs of hope that are around us.
The Nevada System of Higher Education is proposing a new formula to fund higher education in the state. The method by which we fund our universities and colleges means a great deal for job creation, economic development and the long-term future of Southern Nevada.
Even for a Legislative Building that has pretty much seen it all, the exchanges last week between state Sen. Michael Roberson, R-Henderson, and Nevada Mining Association President Tim Crowley was bizarre.
The Desert National Wildlife Refuge, just north of Las Vegas, preserves a huge area of desert and mountains as habitat for bighorn sheep and other animals and plants.
Michael and Patty Morrissey were the honorees during Bishop Gorman High School’s 31st annual Knight of the Gael party March 21 at Red Rock Resort.
The clash and crunch of pads is audible. Players grunt as sweat drips down their faces. They take hit after hit.
There’s a new buzzword floating around plastic surgeons’ offices. The practice itself isn’t new, but the term is new to patients. And the ones who’ve done their research are using it more and more during consultation appointments.
They want what’s called ethnic rhinoplasty. Translation: They want a nose job, but they don’t want to lose their ethnicity in the process.