The Aladdin hotel and its ties to the Detroit mob in the late 1970s are explored in new episodes of the podcast. Also featured: Wayne Newton and Johnny Carson’s feud.
Christopher Lawrence
Movie and TV critic
Email: clawrence@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 380-4567
Christopher Lawrence escaped his native Kentucky without an accent thanks to the thousands of hours he spent in front of a television as a child. That’s also why he never learned how to ride a bicycle. He’s been writing about TV and movies since his days at Murray State University, when the school’s basketball coach had him reassigned at the student newspaper after just one story about the team. He’s been a professional TV critic since 2000, the Review-Journal’s TV critic since 2005 and its movie critic since 2012.
You’ll be able to enter the world of the animated Nickelodeon hit, thanks to the immersive “Search for the Losted Toys,” expected to launch next week.
Beethoven symphonies will be paired with works by living American composers each night.
Fans will be able to buy clothes and accessories worn by various members of the Kardashian-Jenner family.
“CSI: Vegas,” the continuation of the groundbreaking drama that launched three spinoffs and put the Strip in front of tens of millions of eyeballs around the world for 15 seasons, has joined the CBS lineup.
Subscribers will have the first chance to purchase tickets to ‘Hamilton’ when it returns as part of the 2022-23 season.
Zak Bagans and Eli Roth will team up to explore some of Bagans’ most prized, haunted items in ‘The Haunted Museum.’
“Army of the Dead” isn’t the first movie to imagine a Las Vegas that’s been at least partially destroyed . Not even close. Here’s a look at several others:
Las Vegas has been destroyed in movies big and small over the years, but never quite as precisely as it is in the Netflix spectacle.
“Wolfgang” is directed by David Gelb of “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” fame and will debut June 25 on Disney+.
Only a handful of local cinemas remain closed from the pandemic.
The new series follows the tense relationship between an aging Strip icon, portrayed by Jean Smart, and a young upstart.
Diversity and little-seen films will be front and center in a ceremony unlike any you’ve seen.
On April 23, 1956, the young singer kicked off a two-week run at the New Frontier, sharing a bill with comedian Shecky Greene and bandleader Freddy Martin and his orchestra.
Follow Deon and Karen Derrico, their 14 kids and Deon’s mother in Season 2 of “Doubling Down With the Derricos.”
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Death Valley mystery solved: Officials know who knocked over tower
One of Strip’s most famous restaurants closing after nearly 26 years
Oscar De La Hoya selling Henderson mansion
Those wolves that were seen in Nevada? They weren’t wolves
$200K video poker jackpot hits at west Las Vegas Valley casino