Before my first visit to Laughlin 22 years ago, I told the employer who was sending me there that it was described to me as “just a couple of casinos in the middle of the desert.” His response was to point out that you could describe Las Vegas the same way.
Former Mayor Oscar Goodman continues to make a big impression on Broadway.
The UNLV stadium board on Friday picked a Texas company, Conventions Sports & Leisure International, with experience in Las Vegas to help determine the need, size, cost and funding of an on-campus stadium.
With the possible exceptions of turkey dinners and the Detroit Lions playing on TV, there’s nothing that says “all-American Thanksgiving” more definitively than a child’s hand turkey hanging on the refrigerator.
The last time I watched a Canadian Football League game on television with Canadians was 1994. It was in a ballroom at the Imperial Palace. The Canadians were mostly from Edmonton.
The Dunes, the Sands, the Landmark, the Stardust; all of them and others met their demise in blazes of dynamited glory. Not the Harmon.
