“The Road” Movie: A- Special Features: B DVD Geek Factot: 8.25 out of 10 John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant novel is as a major gloom-doom affair. A father (Viggo Mortensen) leads his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) on a journey toward the Atlantic Ocean, with no true goal other than surviving day-to-day after reaching the [...]

How many fingers old are you? Grown-ups have probably been asking you that question for years, and you were always proud to show them by holding up so many fingers. By now, though, you’re old enough to tell them out loud. Would you say Grandma’s old? What about Mom or Dad? And would you be [...]

Stick around the Nevada newspaper racket long enough, and you’ll see some amazing things. I’m not talking about one of the grand choreographed spectacles that regularly emanate from the Las Vegas Strip and downtown Reno. I’m talking about genuine, impossible-to-predict, head-scratching stuff. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or [...]

By Jack Johnson Boulder City Review It’s called Casa Hogar, which, in Spanish, means it is a house that is a home. But the Casa Hogar de Cabo San Lucas boy’s orphanage wouldn’t be a home without the help of the Boulder City Sunrise Rotary Club. … The rest of this article is available to [...]

Instead of my planned article on my experiences as a police officer in New Jersey, I decided to write about an issue that came up this week with one of our residents. He was unsure of his obligations as a motorist with respect to crosswalks, and he also inquired about the obligations of pedestrians and [...]

By Jack Johnson Boulder City Review Friday and Saturday will mark the sixth annual Best Dam Barbecue, but this year, the Rotary Club of Boulder City’s fundraising event in Bicentennial Park might actually be the best Best Dam Barbecue yet. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a [...]

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Sports physicals to be offered at high school The Select Medical Corporation and physicians from The Nevada School of Medicine will be conducting physicals for current Boulder City High School students and incoming freshman at the Boulder City High School gymnasium beginning at 5:30 p.m. today. Physicals are required for athletic participation. The cost is [...]

By Jim Konst Boulder City Review The talented young ladies on the Boulder City High School varsity softball team competed the third and final step of their mission for 2010 last weekend, as they won their first state softball championship since 1999 for head coach Bruce Reid. … The rest of this article is available [...]

By Laura Ludwick Boulder City Review Summertime is almost here, but the weather is already heating up. The Boulder City Swimming Pool/Racquetball Complex re-opened on Monday, and its first full weekend of summer operation will be this weekend. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member