As one of the city’s cultural ambassadors, Joshua Wolf Shenk knows exactly what he’s up against when trying to shape the public perception of Las Vegas into that of a bustling arts hub.
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.
The late pop culture icon revolutionized the world of comic books, but he also left his mark on Las Vegas.
During Sunday’s festival-like concert before the start of the Rock ’n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon and its accompanying half-marathon, there was a line to pose for photos with a trio of runners dressed as Elvis, sequin jumpsuits and all.
As anyone who’s ever so much as glanced at election returns can tell you, the people’s choice can not only be messy, it can be downright embarrassing.
It’s the year’s most-watched new series in England aside from the thriller “Bodyguard,” but it won’t be joining that pop-culture sensation on Netflix.
Smart Start, Station Casinos’ philanthropic venture with the Clark County School District, is marking its 18th cycle of donating $10,000 and thousands of volunteer hours to each of its 11 partner elementary schools.
Among the things you learn as part of VGK University, the Golden Knights’ educational program for new hockey fans:
Kris Manzano certainly never would have chosen the current political climate.
Zak Bagans told the Review-Journal he wasn’t sure if he would open the Dybbuk Box, the wine cabinet that has a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted objects, during “Ghost Adventures Live.”
What began as a fun night at Duke Mollner’s east valley home in 1976 soon morphed into a neighborhood phenomenon.
Around 10:30 p.m. June 22, rapper Post Malone stopped by Zak Bagans’ Haunted Museum in downtown Las Vegas after his concert at the Park Theater.
Zak Bagans is posing for photos in front of the Dybbuk Box, the wine cabinet with a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted objects, when he starts to feel uncomfortable in its presence.
What began as an attempt to pen the unofficial 11th season of “Friends” morphed into the theatrical equivalent of Rachel’s Thanksgiving trifle
“We’re so psyched to come to Vegas,” says Andy Cohen, who, along with his longtime friend Anderson Cooper, will bring “AC2: Deep Talk and Shallow Tales” to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Friday. “We can’t believe we’re playing that stage.”
Robert Redford married Lola Van Wagenen in Las Vegas in 1958.