The January meeting of FIORE is called to order. Although, frankly, “order” would be pushing it. Sure, Nelson Sardelli attempts mightily to get everybody’s attention, but the 45 or so men gathered in a banquet room of Bugsy’s Speakeasy are trying just as mightily to ignore him.
Here are a few things in news, sports, entertainment and pop culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Here’s the truth: Sooner or later we find ourselves in relationships with Mean People.
He didn’t offer Barbra Streisand $100 million. And The Who still need coaxing. But the president of AEG Live has faith in the “resident headliners” that brought star policy back to the Strip in the 2000s.
Easter is, as some lyrically inclined somebody once said, on its way. And, for many, that means it’s time to search out the perfect Easter bonnet — or other miscellaneous headgear.
Two years ago, when Greg Stinis walked out to his Tiger AA-5 airplane at Jean Airport, it wasn’t to run the engine for maintenance. Skywriting jobs came regularly then.
On an early February day that should have been triumphant for Susan Chandler, she was feeling blue.
People are reading more library books these days, but not everyone is turning pages in the usual way. More titles are now available in digital formats and patrons have access to a virtual library that never closes.
The sudden replacement of Susquehanna Financial Group’s lead gaming analyst caused a buzz along Wall Street.
Green building, the term coined to describe ecofriendly, sustainable construction, is spreading like wildfire. Government agencies and businesses are increasingly realizing green building’s myriad benefits for worker recruitment and retention, productivity and job satisfaction.
From affluent suburbs to inner-city neighborhoods, no part of Las Vegas was left unscathed by the precipitous drop in home values last year. Some suffered more than others, but everybody lost ground.
NASCAR, which invades Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend, used to be a Southern Thing when the Allisons and the Pettys and Yarborough (Cale) and Yarbrough (LeeRoy) were rubbin’ and racin’.
President Barack Obama sang the praises of Las Vegas and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., during an overnight stop.
Flamingo Road is one of the oldest and busiest east-west arterials that guides tourists, cabbies and locals across Las Vegas Boulevard.
When it comes to political fortune, Nevada shows signs of becoming the Silver Spoon State.
When somebody reported a man possibly having a stroke at the Palazzo recently, the Clark County Fire Department sent help. So did a local ambulance company.
All kinds of people love Elvis, and “Viva Elvis” is all kinds of show. It starts off like the theme park revues they used to have at Six Flags, where you came in from the hot sun to salute the “Fabulous ’50s,” with wholesome collegiates wearing frozen smiles rocking around a giant juke box in pastel poodle skirts.
When you think of the Old West, it often conjures up images of cowboys and dusty stagecoaches, saloon girls and red velvet drapes with golden fringe, rustic wooden furniture, cowhides, patchwork quilts and centrally located fireplaces that were used for cooking, heating, lighting and a stage for late-night storytelling.
One of the newer collectibles to be found at auctions is Japanese monster toys made in the 1960s and 1970s. A recent auction by Morphy of Denver, Pa., was held on land and online to sell a huge of collection of toys, including about 50 of the Japanese kaiju (“strange beast”) toys.
