Ticket sales for The Smith Center’s “Hamilton” run will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 28 — online. A limited number of tickets will also be available from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Smith Center box office with additional seats available for sale closer to the start of the show, which begins May 29 and ends June 24. Ticket prices are $69-$194, with premium Gold Circle seats priced at $569 for all performances.
A man died Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle crash in northeast Las Vegas.
The crash occurred Tuesday morning on the 1900 block of Pasadena Boulevard, near Lake Mead Boulevard and Mt. Hood Street. Police had few details, but Metro’s fatal detail was on the scene investigating.
Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer Prize for ‘DAMN’ The organization announced the honor
on Monday, The Pulitzer Prizes described the album ‘DAMN’ was nominated for multiple Grammy awards and went on to win best rap album of the year at the Grammys. Across Lamar’s platinum-selling major label albums,
Desiree Linden, Yuki Kawauchi win 2018 Boston Marathon Linden became the first American woman to win the marathon in 33 years, finishing with a time of 2:39:54. Kawauchi becomes the first Japanese man to win the Boston Marathon since 1987, posting a winning time of 2:15:54. Last year’s winners, Geoffrey Kirui and
Edna Kiplagat, finished in 2nd and
8th respectively. This year’s race was run in a torrential downpour and 30-degree temperatures. It is the coldest marathon since 2009, which combined with the rain, made the running conditions look absolutely miserable.
Golden Knights fans invaded Staples Center for Game 3 of a playoff series on Sunday night.
Ticket prices on the secondary market fell well below what they would be for a game at T-Mobile Arena.
Some fans who made the trip from Las Vegas paid as little as $112 per ticket for Sunday’s game.
“We saved enough money that we also took the kids to Knott’s Berry Farm today before the game,” said one Knights fan.
The series against the Kings continues in Los Angeles with Game 4 on Tuesday night.
Check Our Reviews for The Rock’s New Movie ‘Rampage’ Peter Debruge, Variety Peter Travers, The Rolling Stone Eric Eisenberg, CinemaBlend Jim Vejvoda, IGN Rampage currently holds a 53 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and premiers in theaters Friday, Apr. 13.
Trump Slams Amazon for Not Paying Enough in Taxes Trump tweeted his concerns about the company on Thursday. This isn’t the first time Trump commented on the issues via Twitter. August 2017 December 2017 Amazon did hold back on paying state taxes in 1995, but the company has been routinely collecting state sales taxes since then. In 2016, the company’s report from the Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed it paid $412 million in taxes.
Donald Trump Calls Out
James Comey After Book
Details Emerge The President took to Twitter to criticize the former FBI director as information emerges from Comey’s new book, ‘A Higher Loyalty’. According to ‘The New York Times’, Comey describes Trump in the book as “unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values.” James Comey, A Higher Loyalty, via The New York Times A Higher Loyalty hits stores on April 17.
A day after beating the Kings 2-0 in double overtime, Golden Knights players credited their conditioning. “Your body is tired, but your mind is still racing,” said forward Reilly Smith. “The crowd was unbelievable.” A season-high gathering of 18,588 at T-Mobile Arena helped inspire the Knights to victory. “This is why we put in so much extra work all summer long,” said defenseman Jon Merrill. “For a game like that.” The series continues with Game 3 at Staples Center on Sunday night.
In 1992, the Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Lakers played an NBA playoff game in Las Vegas. Game 4 of the Western Conference first round was originally set for the Los Angeles Forum. It was moved to the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas at short notice amid the Rodney King riots. The Trail Blazers won 102-76, eliminating the Lakers 3 games to 1. Clyde Drexler scored 26 points for Portland while Danny Ainge added 19. It was the last playoff game of the four major sports to be played in Las Vegas before the Golden Knights beat the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 on Wednesday.
Radio host Art Bell dies at 72. Longtime radio host Art Bell died Friday at his Pahrump home, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced. Bell was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on June 17, 1945. Bell’s paranormal-themed show, “Coast to Coast AM,” was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s.
Centennial’s baseball team beat Cimarron-Memorial 3-0 on Friday. Nik Dobar went the distance and struck out five. Michael Jones started the scoring with a sun-aided triple to right field in the fourth. Centennial added runs in the fifth and the sixth, and worked around trouble in the field. Centennial improved to 17-5, 11-1 in Northwest League play.
Several months ago, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority set out to market the city as the sports capital of the world. With the addition of the Golden Knights and the Raiders, LVCVA saw the perfect opportunity to do so. The Knights’ success and current Stanley Cup playoff run has resulted in a marketing marriage with Las Vegas that has been far more successful than anyone could have imagined. This season, the Knights have managed to unite the community and made hockey fans around the country take notice. “The Knights, in my mind, really put the exclamation point that we’re the sports capital of the world, not only what they’ve done on the ice in this historic season but how they brought the community together.” Lisa Motley, director of sports marketing and special events for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Professional sports have been a staple for Las Vegas for decades with championship boxing matches, PGA golf tour events and the National Finals Rodeo. But big-league teams kept their distance from Nevada, due to lingering fears of sports betting somehow influencing games. “Las Vegas stands for something much more extensive and expansive now than what it once did” David Carter, executive director of the University of Southern California’s Marshall Sports Business Institute
Each spring, cottony blobs appear in the branches of desert almond bushes across the Mojave. The silken colonies are spun by Western tent caterpillars. The caterpillars eat newly sprouted leaves and grow to about two inches in length. After a month or two, they will leave their tents to spin cocoons. A few weeks later, they will emerge as nondescript brown moths.
Las Vegas police investigating calls of a shooting early Friday morning found a woman who suffered a wound to her head. A bullet grazed the woman’s head while she was inside her Village Square apartment on Nellis Oasis Lane. She did not have to be hospitalized, and police said she might have been an “unintended” victim. The shooting occurred around 4 a.m. Police are looking for the shooter.
One of the six people killed in a plane crash on a suburban Phoenix golf course Monday night was an international business student at UNLV. Helena Lagos, 22, was among those killed in the crash in Scottsdale, Arizona. Lagos enrolled at UNLV in 2014, a university spokesman said. Two others killed — Erik Valente and James Louis Pedroza — also were from Las Vegas. Authorities have not said who was flying the plane. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Green Valley scored five runs in the fifth inning Thursday
to come from behind and beat Foothill, 5-3. The Gators scored five unearned runs in the inning with the help of four Foothill errors. Green Valley bunted three times in the inning, with two runners
coming home on a throwing error after Gavin Amelburu’s bunt. Joe DiGiacomo went the distance to get the win.
He allowed two earned runs on eight hits. The Gators improved to 10-10, 7-4 in the Sunrise League. Foothill fell to 11-7, 6-4.
Fan Controlled Football League CEO Sohrob Farudi said he wants to host his brand of football games in Las Vegas to be close to gambling. Fans vote on plays with Twitch or the league’s app. The quarterback executes the most-voted play on the field. Fans pick the teams’ names, logos, coaches and players.
Assistant Sheriff Charles Hank told a crowd that all the media after the Oct. 1 shooting surprised LVMPD. Hank said changes made after the shooting included new team training and public awareness campaigns.
George Bignotti will be inducted into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame on June 21. The former Las Vegas resident raced stock cars but made his name as an Indianapolis 500 crew chief. He served as crew chief on seven Indy 500 winners, including twice with A.J. Foyt and Al Unser. He also was head mechanic on Indy winners driven by Graham Hill, Gordon Johncock and Tom Sneva. Bignotti was an avid golfer and lived on Canyon Gate golf course in Las Vegas. He was 97 when he died in 2013. “As far as I’m concerned, he was the greatest mechanic that ever turned a wrench on an Indy car.”
The Lights FC is turning to Freddy Adu for a spark. The Lights are starting Adu on Saturday against Sacramento. The team wants more offense and believes he can provide it. The Lights are last in the USL in passing accuracy. Now I think that this is the hour for Freddy. … It’s a good moment for Freddy to start. The offensive performance, I think that (he has) many qualities to (help it).
The Vegas Golden Knights hosted the city’s first-ever NHL playoff game on Apr. 11, 2018. Fans began filling into the Toshiba Plaza to take in the experience hours before the puck drop. Rapper Logic performed and members of the Blue Man Group entertained the fans. The Knight Line marched through the plaza in to the T-Mobile Arena. And the Vegas Golden Knights mascot Chance met with fans. Next, the team will host the LA Kings for the second game of the playoff series on Friday, Apr. 13.
A movie is being made about former Rebels coach Jerry Tarkanian Paul Giamatti could portray the legendary Rebels coach. Leonard DiCaprio also could be interested in the role. Tarkanian’s Rebels made the Thomas & Mack the place to be. The Rebels also played a role in Las Vegas’ emergence as a major city.
Fake Pot Laced with Rat Poison Causes Three Deaths According to Time, On Tuesday, Illinois reported seven more cases, raising the nationwide total to 116. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reportedly working with authorities in the state to discover the source of the outbreak. Both the CDC and the state confirmed that several patients and samples of the fake pot tested positive for the lethal chemical. Symptoms include coughing up blood, severe bloody noses, bleeding gums, internal bleeding and more. The CDC reported there have been at least 456 cases of illnesses from fake marijuana between 2010 and 2015.
Liberty senior Gabby Carson is one of the best high school pole vaulters in the country. She cleared 13 feet at a track and field meet last month, and the height is the seventh best, nationally. Carson didn’t start pole vaulting until her freshman year of high school, and improved by more than a foot in each of her first three years of track and field. She finished second in the pole vault at the Class 4A state meet last year, and is the front-runner to win this year’s state title. She is considering a collegiate track and field career at Oklahoma, New Mexico or Eastern Washington.
A man was sent to prison Tuesday for a punch-and-fall death outside a downtown Las Vegas lounge. 28-year-old James Beach must serve three to 10 years for voluntary manslaughter in the death of 45-year-old Luis Campos. Campos died four days after he was struck once outside the Fremont Street Club in May 2017. According to the Clark County coroner, he collapsed and likely hit his head. In 2008, Beach pleaded guilty to charges of attempted murder & battery with a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm. The charges were in connection with a brawl between two groups of men in Las Vegas.
A pair of robbery suspects led police to three parking garages around the Las Vegas Strip before they were caught early Tuesday morning.
The first robbery took place at the Treasure Island parking garage, where two suspects “battered” a 71-year-old, her adult daughter and a juvenile girl.
The suspects, one of who was armed, next demanded money and property from a pair of 18-year-olds at Fashion Show mall. The suspects were later spotted at the SLS Las Vegas parking garage. They tried to get away by ramming a patrol car with their vehicle. That effort failed and they were taken into custody.
A pedestrian was hospitalized Monday morning after being hit by a pickup on East Sahara. Police said “a subject” was crossing the street and was struck by a vehicle traveling westbound on Sahara at Commercial Center. Westbound Sahara remained closed. Crime scene tape blocked off the area and a red pickup sat next to debris and a pair of shoes in front of a bus stop. Police did not have any information on the pedestrian’s condition. Officers do not think the driver was impaired.
A security guard at the Covington at Coronado Ranch apartment complex ended up in the hospital after thwarting a group of mailbox vandals on Monday morning. According to Las Vegas police, about 12:45 a.m. the guard saw a group of people trying to break into mailboxes at the central Las Vegas complex when he confronted them. The group jumped into a vehicle and while trying to flee, struck the guard. The guard was hospitalized with injures that were not life-threatening. The suspects fled and remain at-large.
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