Tony Hsieh couldn’t be more different from the murderous mobsters and bombastic billionaires who built Las Vegas.
While those men were quick to boast, make threats or sometimes even slit an opponent’s throat in order to build their empires, Hsieh, 38, takes a dreamier approach, literally.
Live from Las Vegas … Culture. Even as snobs and elites chuckled and snickered from long-distance perches in faraway cities, we knew we had it — though culture here was diffuse, flung around the city and suburbs, and in a larger sense, homeless.
A new retail center opening in Tivoli Village is giving local business owners a chance to branch out. Market LV will be the first shopping experience of its kind in Las Vegas, patterned on the Chelsea Market in New York City, or the OC Mart Mix in Costa Mesa, Calif.
For about 10 minutes Friday night Lucky Lady Lucy was the brightest light in Las Vegas. Organizers of First Friday torched Lucy, a 20-foot-tall wooden showgirl, in front of thousands of cheering locals.
Authorities say an automatic fire sprinkler system helped douse a blaze in a dry cleaning business in a strip mall in Henderson.
Firefighters battled a four-alarm fire for more than five hours Friday in North Las Vegas, with flames shooting hundreds of feet in the air that could be seen as far away as Southern Highlands in the southwest valley. Smoke from the blaze could be seen in Henderson.
A 64-year-old man died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a car crash last month, North Las Vegas police said Thursday.
The family of a man missing since January hasn’t given up its search but has lowered its expectations. “We’re looking for his body,” said Jeffrey Goldberg, the man’s brother. Keith Goldberg, 54, disappeared Jan. 31 after leaving his east valley apartment. He was captured on a surveillance camera near Las Vegas Boulevard South and St. Rose Parkway that morning.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority board used February’s extra day to push through a rate increase that will boost most residential bills by about $5 a month starting in May. The fee totals $5 a month for the average single-family home, about $35 a month for a small retail store and more than $2,200 a month for a large resort.
Wesley Barrientos, who lost his legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq, cranked his three-wheeled cycle with his hands and arms Tuesday, headed north on U.S. 95 from Laughlin with fellow veteran Jeremy Staat riding a bicycle beside him. They were in the ninth day of a 4,163-mile ride from the Wall of Valor in Bakersfield, Calif., to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.
