Steve Wynn is closing Encore’s Las Vegas Boulevard entrance soon to make room for a fourth nightclub on the Encore-Wynn Las Vegas site.
Ever bump into someone who proclaims love for his occupation simply because it allows him to help the helpless without charging a nickel?
One of the officers involved in a Friday night shooting on the Strip was grazed by a vehicle that was fleeing the officer, Las Vegas police said Saturday.
HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — An unmanned MQ-1 Predator has crashed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, according to the 49th Fighter Wing.
State gaming analysts are starting to sound like a broken record. A really bad broken record. David Hasselhoff bad.
YOU’VE PROBABLY SEEN LAS VEGAS MAYOR OSCAR GOODMAN with a couple of showgirls on his arm. What you may not know is that his wife, Carolyn, expects a similar perk as Las Vegas’ first lady.
Rebecca Kay remembers the September day four years ago: The trees in the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City were swaying with the occasional wind gust.
Republican strategists have put a twist on a famous line from Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis in the run-up to next year’s elections: Harry Reid must go down, and he must go down hard.
Sometimes, proposed solutions to problems come along too little, too late.
Credit new UNLV President Neal Smatresk for recognizing that especially during tough times, a good laugh can lift the troops’ morale.
I knew it would happen. Some conservative Republicans would defend Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, one of their finest, for heckling President Obama during the president’s speech to Congress on Wednesday night. Wilson famously shouted “you lie.”
“I will be vindicated because I haven’t done anything wrong. I think about it in the wee hours, in the witching hour — I’m only human.”
The furor over President Obama choosing to give a televised speech to America’s children on their first day of school appears to have faded. The president’s “work hard and stay in school” bromides were unexceptional, nor was there ever much reason to expect otherwise.
The First Amendment, as rewritten under the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except if it is funded by a corporation, unless it is a media corporation, or if the speech occurs just prior to an election, unless it is in the form of a book, which, even though the law covers books, too, the Federal Election Commission would never apply that law to books because we say so, though we said something entirely different a couple of months ago.”
Touring the country to peddle his collectivist schemes, President Barack Obama made stops in New Hampshire and then in Phoenix during the month of August.
The balloons are hung, the flowers arranged, the nude mural painted. Now all Kimber Barrow needs is attendees for the Erotic Heritage Museum’s first anniversary party.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Nevada, a state known for grabbing and holding firm to the bottom spot on most national lists, ranks first in the nation in the percentage of cremations.
It’s fairly easy to feel down in the dumps about a lousy economy that stretches on and on. For those who count shopping among their hobbies it is especially dreary.
Pahrump Valley styles itself the “Valley of Festivals,” scheduling various kinds of community activities throughout the year. With summer’s heat abating, oncoming autumn provides perfect weather for outdoor community events such as the upcoming Pahrump Wild West Extravaganza, Friday-Sept. 20, the Fall Festival Old-Fashion County Fair, Sept. 24-27, Pahrump Valley Winery’s annual Grape Stomp on Sept. 26 and the County Days Arts and Crafts Fair in October.
It’s a Cinderella — or should I say Terry Fator? — story. Unless we’re tired of it.
I’m good at resourcing, encouraging and supporting blended families. I speak, of course, of divorced mothers and fathers who find themselves again in love. People for whom life has offered another chance to love, and to love well. To do it “right.” To choose a life of creative matedness that becomes a blessing to themselves and their children. And, in our modern day of divorce, it can’t surprise you to hear that I do a lot of this.
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.