Every Las Vegas nightclub prides itself on the celebrities it attracts. But, even in this glittery universe, LAX at Luxor ranks as one of the most potent celebrity magnets in town.
Think of Company Kitchen and Pub House as a white zinfandel of restaurants.
Hip-pop favorites Black Eyed Peas headline the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Dec. 29 and 30.
Rob Thomas is a pretty cool guy who is well aware of the fact that his songs routinely paint him as the opposite of as much.
At no risk of embarrassment, I can safely label “A Bronx Tale” — whose run at The Venetian Showroom has been extended through Saturday — one of the most exciting theater experiences I’ve had on the Strip in nearly 13 years of reviewing. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to seeing it. It’s too easy for a one-man show to turn monotonous, leaving you stuck trying to find a piece of set worth staring at.
The Obama administration will order companies that haven’t repaid their government bailouts to cut top executives’ average total compensation — salary and bonuses — in half, starting in November. Under the plan, cash salaries for the top 25 highest-paid executives will be limited to $500,000 and, in most cases, perks will be capped at $25,000.
Nevada’s casinos are accustomed to having bull’s-eyes on their backs. If it wasn’t expansions of tribal gaming or attempts to take college sports off the betting boards, it was local big-spenders seeking higher taxes on the resorts to fatten government budgets.
When I was in journalism school, we had a few foreign students who were not yet proficient in the English language. During one class exercise, we were asked to draft a basic news report about a car accident. One of the foreign students described the crash as a “heap of mess.”
Stephens Media, owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, is launching a weekly newspaper in Boulder City.
Real estate broker Forrest Barbee believes the free market generally works best without government interference. But he can’t dispute that a tax credit for first-time homebuyers is doing what it was meant to: spur home sales.
NEW YORK — Jillian Lung says she’s no environmentalist. Still, she couldn’t pass up a chance to install a carpet of solar panels atop her co-op in Queens.
Without several provisions in the federal stimulus bill, Nevada government might have shut down, jobs would have been lost and casino corporations wouldn’t have been able to restructure some of their long-term debt, sending additional companies into bankruptcy.
I had been flying between Tierra del Fuego, at the bottom of South America, and Canada for almost 24 hours. The ordeal involved a milk-run flight between Ushuaia and Buenos Aires and a red-eye to Miami. I then flew to Toronto and connected to a flight bound for Halifax, on Canada’s east coast.
During the next five years, it is estimated that U.S. consumers will eventually be able to choose from 150 models of new cars, trucks or SUVs when deciding whether to buy hybrid electric, plug-in hybrid electric or pure electric vehicle.
The “Big Dog Garage,” as it is known by the owner, is like a walk through an automotive time capsule.
Volkswagen has seemingly pulled a Rabbit out of its hat and turned it into a Golf.
The Liberty Patriots (5-3, 3-2 Southeast League) handed third-ranked Del Sol its first loss of the season tonight, 24-21. Visiting Del Sol (7-1, 3-1) rallied from a 14-0 halftime deficit but fell short.
