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Spicy Tuna Sushi

We figured we’d have to wait to get into Spicy Tuna Sushi early on a recent weeknight. As it turned out, we figured wrong. There was no wait at all, and I’m mystified as to why that was the case.

Heidi’s Picks

Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.

Society of Seven featuring Jasmine Trias

Michael Laygo, in a gleaming white blazer, sings “The Impossible Dream” and stretches “the un-r-e-a-c-h-able star” until the audience can hold its breath no more.

Rock tributes find homes on Strip

So now we’re going to have two costumed rock “Legends”-type shows, with one of them moving back into the Harmon Theater, which filed for bankruptcy protection this week.

Readers to the rescue in sausage search

For Earl Hoy, who’s looking for Portuguese sausage, fellow readers have not only local sources but also a brand recommendation.

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Dumont Dunes provides unique recreation during cool months

Scouring the desert and mountains, wind gathers tiny sand grains and pushes the grains into drifts. Over time, when conditions are favorable, the gathered sand grows into shifting mountains several hundred feet high. In some places in the desert Southwest, vast dune deposits cover miles, taking on a life of their own. They form shapes such as stars or crescents. They even make sounds. All of them whisper as the sand moves, but some squeak or sing and a few actually boom as dry sand cascades from a high crest down the lee side.

HEIDI’S PICKS

Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.

Ella Em’s Soul Food

What puts the soul in soul food?

Bette Midler

The Showgirl is almost gone, and it adds extra resonance to nearly everything Bette Midler says onstage.

Michael Curry

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.”

Wyrick mired in financial woes

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.

Salad dressing can’t hide

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.

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