Lemon curd — that oh-so-tart, slightly sweet English import — is phenomenal when it’s homemade. It’s also kind of a lot of trouble, so it’s fortuitous that readers have found local sources of it for Coleen Norburn.
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The last week in October remains special for Nevadans as they observe 145 years of statehood in various ways. Official celebration of the state’s birthday centers annually in Carson City, but other cities in Nevada plan special events as well.
At some point this season, “30 Rock’s” Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) will have to lose NBC as part of a Nigerian e-mail scam. Or trade it for some magic beans.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Vegas is a lot of things to a lot of people. So is America.
One of my regular readers told me a few months ago that he’d had meatloaf, really good meatloaf, at a newish off-the-Strip restaurant called — wait for it — Off the Strip, and although the restaurant was kinda upscale, the meatloaf was just $10.
John Madden has been very good to Frank Caliendo. Except that Madden doesn’t seem to much care for him.
This is one of the primary reasons I never get tired of doing the Taste of the Town column: It’s a great source of surprises.
Zion National Park’s colorful autumn foliage delights visitors through a long, beautiful season. Early color among the stands of aspens in the park’s high back country peaks in mid-October and rapidly disappears. Just now beginning to show, the color in the park’s canyons lingers well into November along the Virgin River and other watercourses and in the Kolob portion of the park. Cottonwoods, box elder, maple and others do their best for visitors during coming weeks.
The inside of Ryan Murphy’s head must look like an episode of “The Wiggles” written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Or “High School Musical 4: Off to Rehab.”
They say there is a book in everyone’s life story. But you’d rather read some than others.
Can we get that cool-guy TV mentalist to come and explain these Las Vegas mentalists so we can move on?
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
The cliche is “Don’t give up your day job.” And Kevin Skinner’s? Whether it was empathy, comedy or a likely combination of both, America found it funny to be a chicken catcher. And the day job helped make a million-dollar Cinderella story of the Kentucky singer on “America’s Got Talent.”
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