Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
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What puts the soul in soul food?
The Showgirl is almost gone, and it adds extra resonance to nearly everything Bette Midler says onstage.
Puppeteers hide behind their work, so there is no reason why you should know it’s Michael Curry who brought forth crab monsters from the sand in “Ka” or bunnies to terrorize Criss Angel in “Believe.”
The future of the Steve Wyrick Theatre is up in the air, but it’s pretty clear we won’t be calling it that anymore.
Here’s a little trivia on Green Goddess salad dressing: It reportedly was created at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in the ’20s to honor actor George Arliss, who was appearing in a play titled, appropriately enough, “The Green Goddess.” Since then its popularity has been as up and down as most actors’ careers, but readers say it’s available in Las Vegas for Kaye Adams.
An entertainer was joking with me about what I’d do if newspapers go down the tubes. He suggested I become a consultant.
The rugged Bitter Springs Trail lies not far from the sprawl of urban Las Vegas, but seems a world away. Designated a scenic back country byway by Congress in 1989, the 30-mile route south of Valley of Fire State Park connects old mining roads, a mountain pass and desert washes between Interstate 15 and the Northshore Road in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Allow at least two hours just to drive the route, more if you stop to explore.
The owners of Varadero Cuban Restaurant definitely have gotten their mojo on.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
The down side of not looking your age? It’s surprising to hear Bette Midler say she’s tired.
It’s the ‘tude. Of course it is with David Spade, whose put-upon comedy of attitude finds punch lines where none should be.
Grandma Lee played the comedy club Bonkerz before “America’s Got Talent,” and that’s where she is again today through Saturday. But everything else has changed for her.
Regular readers of this column know we tend to accumulate quite a backlog of requests, so let’s start the new year out right (and a happy one to all, by the way) by clearing a whole bunch. The following readers are looking for:
