In 1968, more than 300 residents of West Las Vegas marched on City Hall to keep D, F and H streets open. Led by Ethel Pearson, known as “Mother” to her friends, they got those streets reopened so residents could maintain easy access to points ...
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During the month of December, Sun critic Joe Brown is visiting and revisiting every Cirque du Soleil show on the Strip, in chronological order. His reviews will appear on Mondays in the Las Vegas Sun and at www.lasvegasssun.com. “Mystere” is ...
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Who are the Killers, really? Are they the Las Vegas quartet that made the 2004 "Hot Fuss" album, in which their propulsive new wave knockoffs took them from Morrissey's opening act to festival headliners? Or are they the self-serious arena rockers of ...
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Members of a saturation team head to their cars after a briefing at police headquarters at the start of their overnight shift. The team goes over crime maps that show "hot spots" of recent high-crime areas and then saturate those areas during their ...
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"I'm a dreadful old sponge," says director Tony Palmer, describing his approach to all creative projects in one soaking sweep. Something of a latter-day cult figure in the music world for his landmark biopics of such legends as Maria Callas, Yehudi ...
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In a devastated real-estate market, builders and developers are clinging to an ambitious word with magical properties. In New York, a proposed 56-story luxury residential tower, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and ...
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When a mixed-race Calgary R & B band took a floater out of town in the early 1960s—run out by the mayor, no less, because of an overly rambunctious show at a local legion hall—it wound up in Vancouver, leaving this city with sole claim to the ...
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