Let’s see now. Magician Rick Thomas is back, in a Sahara theater once used by “Matsuri.” And so is magician Scarlett, in a Riviera showroom that also hosted “Matsuri.”
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Before I get started, I’ve got info for those who ask me about (increasingly rare) places that have live music during dinner: Ibo does, Tuesdays through Saturdays (which are the nights it serves dinner).
Marie Osmond loses a daytime TV show and Wayne Brady gets one days later. Some form of Vegas-based TV taping seems as inevitable as local variety acts competing on “America’s Got Talent.”
Today’s bit of trivia: In case you didn’t know, the HP in HP Sauce stands for Britain’s Houses of Parliament (which explains the illustration on the bottle’s label). More to the point: In response to a query from Terri Hohl, readers say it’s readily available in Las Vegas.
I look at the lineup for The Mirage and yawn: Jay Leno, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett, Kevin James. Sometimes they really shake things up and team Romano with James instead of with Garrett.
Unique among the scores of ghost towns scattered across Nevada, old Berlin in Central Nevada remains the only former boomtown to receive protection as a state park. Created by the Nevada Legislature in 1957, Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park couples the 1890s ghost town with a nearby fossil bed of huge marine reptiles discovered in the 1920s.
You won’t see this on CNN, but the world’s top scientists are quietly assembling, crossing political divides and international borders, to confront the greatest menace mankind has ever seen. They’ll enlist only the bravest volunteers, all experts in their chosen fields — think “Armageddon,” just less Michael Bay-ish — in a last-ditch attempt to save humanity. Their mission: Travel back in time to January 2003 and shut down “The Surreal Life” before it gets on the air.
Can she come back and do this again sometime? It seems like something this child was destined to do. Only next time, can we skip the $1,100 ticket part?
She said what I had been thinking, though the thoughts in one’s head usually don’t come with such a funny accent: “It’s like a flashback.”
Beyoncé’s shows at Encore cost more than any other stop on her “I Am …” tour. But they aren’t the same concerts either.
Larry King’s brief reign as Most Unlikely Vegas Headliner Ever was short-lived. There’s a new champion.
So many requests, so little space. So this week we have a column dedicated to them.
One of the best preserved of vintage Nevada mining boom towns, Eureka remains a good place to explore the state’s colorful past and a nice town to visit. Born of a silver-lead boom in 1865, Eureka still benefits from mining in a county with some of the biggest gold mines in the world. Although its population, presently about 1,900 people, grows when mining thrives, the sedate county seat will never again become Nevada’s second largest city as it was in the 1870s with a population of nearly 11,000.
In a few weeks, everyone will be remembering Elvis Presley on the day he died, Aug. 16. On Thursday, Las Vegas should pay more attention to the day he was reborn, one that changed things around here for keeps.
