My curious little state of Arkansas, conservative and nominally Democratic, is something of a ground zero in the raging battle between management and labor over whether to allow unions to be formed by the filing of employee cards.
As professors at UNLV’s School of Life Sciences, we are extremely concerned about the budget situation in Nevada. We work hard, teaching several thousand students every semester, training many of them in our laboratories, writing grants to conduct cutting-edge research and publishing our results in prestigious scientific journals as well as in books and textbooks.
In his novel “1984,” George Orwell created the satiric template for the modern totalitarian state, a humorless bureaucracy endlessly changing the very language to disguise its purposes.
It’s no secret that 3D movies are enjoying an incredible resurgence. As studios and exhibitors look for ways to keep providing moviegoers with reasons to leave the comfort of their homes and spend money to go to the movies, 3D has once again become a promising platform.
About a year ago, a writer for one of the town’s less-than-every-day papers infamously reported with regret that the Reading Room bookstore at Mandalay Place inside the Mandalay Bay was closing, leaving Las Vegas without any independent booksellers.
A new era is dawning, we’re assured. The dark clouds of industrial pollution (OK, carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and necessary, but let’s not get bogged down in details) are about to be banished, ushering in a glorious new day of hygienic energy cleanliness and perfectly balanced global neither-warming-nor-cooling.
Once you begin haggling over the details — it’s OK prior to 60 days before an election but not after, a 90-minute movie might be OK but not a 30-second commercial, this money is good but that money is corrupting — you have lost sight of the fact that the fundamental premise of the whole damn thing is a fraud perpetrated by charlatans against liberty and democracy.
Nobody wants the showgirl to go away. But nobody knows what to do with her either.
The sun is shining, flowers are popping and that fresh, familiar smell of spring is in the air. After waiting months for those beautiful colors to flourish in your landscape, the time has finally come for your masterpiece to wake up and for you to show it off.
In the town with probably the most sexy servers in the world, one stands head and shoulder straps above the rest.
I want to begin with a rare change of heart. Previously, I gave “Resident Evil 5” a three-star rating. I think it deserves three and one-half stars.
Musically speaking, the cold days of winter are over, and the sunny days of summer have arrived.
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.
Tim Poster, a former owner of the Golden Nugget, was inducted into the Royal Order of the Gael March 19 during the 27th annual Knight of the Gael benefit at the Red Rock Resort.
Throughout its 75-year history in the valley, the First Congregational Church/United Church of Christ has experienced a few growing pains, name and affiliation changes and even a splintering of the congregation.
When it was announced — after nearly two years since she came in third on “American Idol” — that Melinda Doolittle would release an album in early ’09, I was excited and greatly anticipated the album to come.
Tucked away in a gorgeous part of Southern Utah’s Color Country, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary offers visitors excursions to several of its care centers for a resident population of never less than 1,700 domestic and wild creatures. In 2009, the largest no-kill homeless animal facility in the country celebrates its 25th year of pioneering animal rescue efforts and innovative and humane solutions to problems of pet over-population and animal abuse.
Spring has sprung on Cerca Country, and events are blossoming like so many wildflowers. Pick one of these, or a whole bouquet.
From the beginning of “Kings” to the end of “Battlestar Galactica” and the angels battling demons on “Supernatural” in between, the notion of a higher power has taken on a more-prominent-than-usual place on my TV.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
For millions of people around the world, a trip to the Grand Canyon is a lifelong dream, fulfilled at great expense in money and time. But for those of us in Southern Nevada, it’s only a half-day’s drive, so the trip needn’t drain the bank account.