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Garth Brooks is a soccer dad — a soccer dad with a private jet.
We love the look of Bollywood Grill — the theater-esque red-velvet curtains on the windows, the filmy draperies between booths, the black linen cloths and napkins, the faux-starlit ceiling and especially the continuous loop of Bollywood classics, which were unendingly entertaining, on the big plasma screen. The owners have taken an old ’50s-style diner and done their best to camouflage its stainless-steel origins, and they’ve done pretty well.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Like a lot of us, Bill Engvall wishes he could take a time machine back to golden-age Vegas: “I would have loved to have been at the level I’m at now back in the ’50s and ’60s,” he noted recently. But it’s Engvall’s Blue Collar Comedy pal, Ron White, who unquestionably would have run with the Rat Pack. White understands that if it was once a matter of course to smoke and drink on a Las Vegas stage, times have changed so much you get laughs just by doing it.
A night in the new B.B. King’s Blues Club won’t always include a potential jam session with Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Willie Nelson, though it could happen at the club’s grand opening Friday.
There’s something about food and the holidays. The season definitely seems to rekindle a desire to revive family traditions; hence the holiday-related requests this week. And, for those looking for help making gravy for their holiday dinners, responses to a request from reader Ray Fogarty.
Does CityCenter really only have one show? And if so, who thinks that is good news?
Once cable channels discover a successful niche, they’d almost always rather run it into the ground than try something new.
During the next month, thousands of “citizen scientists” will participate in the 110th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Braving cold and often inclement conditions, these volunteers assemble before dawn in pre-selected locations between Dec. 14 and Jan. 5 to tally the birds they see during a full day in the outdoors. In Nevada, counts are planned for locations in Southern Nevada, as well as sites near Elko, Snake Valley near Great Basin National Park, Carson City and Minden.
Bill Engvall has spent 11 Decembers in Las Vegas for the National Finals Rodeo. To him, one image sums up the strange confluence of cowboys and casinos.
Angelica Bridges was about to sing “Fever” for the very first time as the new star of “Fantasy.”
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Barry Manilow will jump-start the dormant theater at Paris Las Vegas, a prominent symbol of the recession for the city’s entertainment.
