From Heidi Fleiss to John Wayne Bobbitt, a number of media sensations have called Southern Nevada home.
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.
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From ogling cars to shopping for merch to drinking from a shoe, there are plenty of F1-related things to do away from the track.
For its Las Vegas debut, AFM is connecting participants from 80 countries, including 286 sales, production and distribution companies, at the Palms.
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Rather than make a typical concert film, directors Morleigh Steinberg and her husband, The Edge, leaned into Sphere’s technology to re-create the live concert experience.
From fireworks to fireballs, the Strip’s first implosion was a party the likes of which Las Vegas had never seen.
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State’s largest news organization sweeps Nevada’s largest annual journalism contest with 68 awards, including 33 first-place prizes.
‘The Tailor of Sin City’ presents AJ Pratt’s wild claims of smuggling as well as ties to the mob and various celebrities — then casts doubt on many of them.
When the hard-luck McDermitt Bulldogs couldn’t field an eight-man football team, John Glionna turned his attention elsewhere in “No Friday Night Lights.”
Fittingly, Frank Sinatra Drive dead ends at the intersection of Sammy Davis Jr. Drive and Dean Martin Drive.
Women identified only as Amber and Jaimee talk about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Benjamin Obadiah Foster.