CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford found nothing but support on Earth Day for his bill to use federal stimulus money to create “green jobs” for the anticipated renewable energy economy in Nevada.
Walking into the Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at Luxor, 3900 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is supposed to give you the feeling that you’re not only viewing items from the famous ship, you’re actually boarding the Titanic.
It looks like a casino race book in midafternoon. But rather than a constantly shifting mass of railbirds peering at TV screens to see how their horses are faring, this crowd is made up of theater buffs peering at video monitors to see how much of a discount they can score on tickets for tonight’s shows.
So, U2 tickets went on sale last week, and if you’ve noticed a sudden increase in the number of folks hobbling around the valley, it’s because so many of them gave an arm and leg to get some.
Some partnerships are arranged at birth, like Flamingo headliners Donny and Marie Osmond.
Need to shorten a URL, but don’t like the mishmash of numbers and letters some sites give you? Check out www.socuteurl.com. Enter a Web site address you’d like shortened, and this site will give it an adorable name involving words such as peppydog and mashygooboo.
The 11th annual Spring Art Walk will take place Saturday and Sunday at Trails Village Center, 1970 Village Center Circle. The event is open to the public with free admission and parking from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. both days.
The Contemporary Arts Collective is taking mass transit to the art museum — quite literally. Its “Stop and Glow” exhibition, running today through May 23, showcases artwork destined for downtown bus stops this fall.
Original jazz will be performed by the Shapiro Project quartet Friday at Reed Whipple Cultural Center.
Best-selling author David Guterson rarely sets a story in a locale outside of the Pacific Northwest, where he was born and raised and still lives.
The “Street” fleet’s in — as in “Sesame Street Live,” back for another romp of classic characters in their yearly leap from screen to stage, this time called “Elmo’s Green Thumb.” But this year, the town’s abuzz with rumors that some citizens of the “Street” have been spotted in and around the Strip, trying out for Vegas shows.
Longer, thicker, darker. Until recently those words had become as believable to women as “bigger, firmer, fuller.” With the December FDA-approval of cosmetic prescriptions for Latisse, however — a treatment originally used for glaucoma until patients discovered it caused eyelash growth — the claim is now reality.
If you refuse both paper and plastic and recycle religiously then surely your clothes and beauty products boast the same green conscience. Then again, maybe not.
Some academics have always bristled at the money and attention lavished on college sports. But watching major universities pour tens of millions of dollars into coaching salaries while cutting core education has been too much for University of Nevada, Reno President Milton Glick to bear.
Nevada Democrats spent much of last year crowing about their influence in the national presidential sweepstakes.
WASHINGTON — Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is scheduled to make her first trip to Las Vegas as a Cabinet member today where she will address a labor gathering and visit two or three work sites, officials said.
Think of it as the social networking site people are dying to join.
As the first in a series of hearings on NV Energy’s big rate case wrapped up Wednesday, the state’s Public Utilities Commission set a date for a decision on the utility’s rate-increase request.
Las Vegas home prices have retreated to 2001 levels, although two-thirds of the homes being sold now are foreclosures, housing analyst Larry Murphy of SalesTraq said Wednesday.