July 2009
Monthly Archive
Las Vegas Nightlife (March 20, 2010)
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- Diablo’s Cantina - Diablo’s Weekend Live! - 2010-03-20
- Diablo’s continues to be the wildest destination in Vegas as they welcome live cover bands each and every weekend. Diablo’s invites you to sing along to your favorite songs while you celebrate the weekend with the best margaritas this side of the border.
Las Vegas Entertainment News (March 20, 2010)
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- Starting from scratch
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:05:00 -0000 - The way a chef holds his knife is akin to the way a writer holds his pen - it’s second nature, a skill so ingrained it reverts to instinct and feel. Imagine then, after years of experience in kitchens, having to relearn the most basic culinary tasks - how to chop vegetables or slice fruit, even how to hold your knife.
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- Three times a ‘Musical’
- Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:10:00 -0000 - Listen up, gleeks, show queens and folks who just like musical theater a lot.
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- A college bar for grownups
- Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:07:00 -0000 - Beer chugging? Yes. High-fiving frat boys? Not so much.
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- Hard Rock announces Friday Night Live lineup
- Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:02:00 -0000 - Flyleaf, De La Soul, Rusted Root and Gin Blossoms lead schedule for casino’s poolside concert series.
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- Stripping down Las Vegas
- Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:05:00 -0000 - When filmmaker David Palmer set out to make a documentary called “Stripped: Greg Friedler’s Naked Las Vegas,” he was not a fan of Las Vegas. In fact, he set out to expose the place.
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- Wrapping Reverb
- Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:42:00 -0000 - Depending where you sit, Neon Reverb is either a can’t-miss party or a total nonentity.
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- Lit + art
- Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:33:00 -0000 - Monthly readings at downtown’s Contemporary Arts Center draw standing-room-only crowds to hear UNLV’s MFA creative writing students read recent works among CAC’s rotating exhibits. March 19’s Neon Lit features poetry and prose from Oscar Oswald, Shannon Salter, Justin Burnside and Ben Morris.
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- Pokemon still going strong
- Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:17:00 -0000 - An abandoned liter-bottle of Fanta, no less than half a dozen different types of energy drinks, the requisite Mountain Dew bottle and a bag of crunchy Cheetos can all be spotted in this crowded room. Punctured tennis balls cap the legs on dozens of chairs to prevent screeching noises and scratch marks on the floors. One young man is wearing a T-shirt that reads, “Can my clefable metronome ditto’s transform, and then copy its own minimize, but for only one energy? Huh? Can it? Huh?” - which is probably amusing to the rest of the people in the room but would read like Geek to almost everyone outside it.
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- Who are some artists I should know?
- Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:16:00 -0000 - Get to know four local artists making their mark in Las Vegas.
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- A ‘Night’ with the “British” makes for great theater
- Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:05:00 -0000 - Like Anouilh mixed with LaBute, “Dogs” is a moral examination, and the tension grows minute by minute as relationships are developed, then slowly shifted by casual betrayals.
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- Hanoi Rocks frontman strikes again
- Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:05:00 -0000 - Put on your darkest eyeliner and grab that leftover can of Aqua Net. Michael Monroe of ’80s glam rock outfit Hanoi Rocks bring his long hair and tight pants to Wasted Space on Monday. His latest eponymous project also features fellow former Hanoi Rocks member Sami Yaffa.
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- One Meal: Market Grille Cafe
- Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:05:00 -0000 - Satisfaction that doesn’t leave you feeling like you’ve swallowed a brick.
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- St. Patrick’s Day event guide
- Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:05:00 -0000 - This St. Patrick’s Day, embrace your Irish heritage, or your friend, neighbor or former kindergarten teacher’s Irish heritage. Everyone can be a Son of Erin as the green beer flows and the corned beef is sliced across the Strip and beyond. Check out the drink specials, music and other festivities in store for St. Paddy’s Day in Las Vegas.
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- Mojave magic
- Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:05:00 -0000 - The Mojave Desert of Las Vegas is no universally adored land of wonder, but Cliff Segerblom knew its beauty.
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- Cigar guitars and missing musicians
- Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:05:00 -0000 - Unexpected results with Super Fuzz and the D.M.C. Experiment.
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- One busy bee(keeper)
- Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:05:00 -0000 - Fear of writer’s block isn’t stopping folk singer/songwriter Zach Fountain.
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- Marathon band
- Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:16:00 -0000 - On 311 Day, the band outlasted the fans for a 60-song show at Mandalay Bay.
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- Tasting Vegas’ No. 1 rated Yelp eatery
- Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:00:00 -0000 - It’s not for cranky critics, but Off the Strip serves giant, simple food.
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- Midnight blues: The Pines fight the law, win (for a minute)
- Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:00:00 -0000 - Sometimes, 15 minutes isn’t enough time.
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- The return of the solo Strip show
- Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:05:00 -0000 - Lily Tomlin returns to town for a one-woman show, “Not Playing with a Full Deck.”
Las Vegas News and Events (March 20, 2010)
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- Cheyenne product Elijah Johnson enjoying experience in shadows at Kansas
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:30:00 -0000 - A year ago, if you headed out to watch Cheyenne High super-guard Elijah Johnson play, you pretty much knew what to expect. He’d throw up a couple of NBA-range 3-point attempts, try to dunk on a couple of guys and tease you by turning the motor on for a few possessions, only to disappear just as quickly.
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- Battle of the boards could decide BYU-KSU
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:10:00 -0000 - It’s pretty simple. No. 2-seed Kansas State enters today’s clash with 7-seed BYU as one of the nation’s finest offensive-rebounding teams. Meanwhile, the Cougars masked the 20 offensive boards they allowed to Florida in a 99-92 victory Thursday thanks to 63 points between Jimmer Fredette and Michael Loyd Jr.
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- Yucca fight not over
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:04:00 -0000 - This month there was plenty of relief in Nevada when the U.S. Energy Department formally withdrew its application to build a high-level nuclear waste dump just 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. In doing so, President Barack Obama fulfilled a campaign pledge that he would do what he could to stop the Yucca Mountain project if elected to the White House.
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- Democrats’ defense of health care weak
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:03:00 -0000 - The other day I was watching CNN, and the network said 43 percent of the people polled wanted the Democrats to continue with the health care plan as it now stands, 41 percent wanted Congress to start over, and 15 percent were undecided. (I fall in the 15 percent category.)
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- Misguided intentions on health care reform
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:02:00 -0000 - Regarding E.J. Dionne’s column in Thursday’s Las Vegas Sun, “On health care, listen to the nuns”:
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- Striking air traffic controllers made their own beds
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:01:00 -0000 - Regarding Keith Hubbell’s Wednesday letter to the editor, headlined “Three decades of attacks on organized labor”:
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- Technology is king at the M Resort sports book
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:01:00 -0000 - The year-old M Resort sports book not only looks different from almost all of its competitors in Southern Nevada, it sounds different. It’s less of a roller coaster of yells and groans and more of a steady rumbling, a hum that sounds more machine than man-made. Most sports books offer chairs and couches for gamblers and fans to watch the games on big screens, house-party style.
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- Regents umbrella will help shield higher education from budget cuts
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:01:00 -0000 - Because the Silver State is unique in how it oversees public colleges and universities through the Nevada System of Higher Education, it is better positioned to respond to the budget crisis than other states.
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- Woman shot to death following dispute at apartment complex
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:49:00 -0000 - A woman was shot to death Friday night after she exchanged words with a man at a Las Vegas apartment, Metro Police said.
The shooting happened about 11 p.m. at the Silver Pines Apartments, at 6650 East Russell Road.
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- Wranglers come from behind but fall short against Aces
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:24:00 -0000 - The Las Vegas Wranglers played another come-from-behind game Friday night, but fell just short in a 3-2 loss to the Alaska Aces.
“It’s a tough way to lose,” Wranglers head coach Ryan Mougenel said. “For the most part, we dictated the play. We had enough opportunities to win the game and we didn’t.”
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- Starting from scratch
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:05:00 -0000 - The way a chef holds his knife is akin to the way a writer holds his pen - it’s second nature, a skill so ingrained it reverts to instinct and feel. Imagine then, after years of experience in kitchens, having to relearn the most basic culinary tasks - how to chop vegetables or slice fruit, even how to hold your knife.
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- Eliot Marshall says becoming a father has helped his fight training
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:54:00 -0000 - Eliot Marshall isn’t a hard man to track down these days. After welcoming his first child, Kannen Henry Marshall, to the family last December, the UFC light heavyweight is typically either in the gym training or at home doing all kinds of “dad stuff.”
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- Hispanic advocacy group seeks help to keep daycare open
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:16:00 -0000 - The 40-year-old Nevada Association of Latin Americans has filed for bankruptcy protection and is appealing to benefactors and the public for financial help so it can continue its operations.
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- Harry Reid: ‘No one is stopping’ maglev train proposal
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:50:00 -0000 - Sen. Harry Reid says he isn’t standing in the way of funding for the proposed maglev transportation system between Las Vegas and Southern California and that “no one is stopping” that system from making progress. Reid issued a press release Friday in response to a column in which critics questioned his handling of funding needs for a high-speed transportation system for Southern Nevada.
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- Shelley Berkley says she will support health care bill
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:17:00 -0000 - WASHINGTON — Rep. Shelley Berkley has become the latest Democrat to announce she will be voting for the health care bill. Berkley represents a largely Democratic district.
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- Judge advances effort to increase tax on mining
- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:02:00 -0000 - CARSON CITY – A district judge on Friday said an initiative petition to change the Nevada Constitution for an increase in the mining tax can continue to be circulated. But the ruling knocked off the 12,000 to 15,000 signatures the proponents of the tax increase have gathered.
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- Metro releases photos in search of bank robber
- Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:48:00 -0000 - Metro Police released video surveillance photos today of a man wanted in connection with a bank robbery that occurred earlier this week near Fort Apache and Russell roads.
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- Health District gets $14.6 million from stimulus to fight smoking
- Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:24:00 -0000 - The Southern Nevada Health District will receive a $14.6 million grant to fund its Tobacco Control Program, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday. The grant is one of 44 that will be funded with $372.8 million in federal stimulus money.
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- Group to protest applications to draw water from rural Nevada
- Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:29:00 -0000 - CARSON CITY – A group composed of ranchers, miners, environmentalists and others intends to lodge objections to the newly filed 146 applications of the Southern Nevada Water Authority to draw water from rural counties to populous Las Vegas.
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- I-15 lanes reopened after accident, fuel spill near downtown
- Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:58:00 -0000 - All southbound lanes of Interstate 15 at the U.S. 95 interchange were reopened this afternoon after crews cleared the scene of a semi-truck accident and fuel spill.
