The new marquee stars of 2009? Rest assured that in an austere season, we’re not talking about the likes of Bette Midler and Cher anymore.
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Gotta love that kielbasa, the legendary Polish favorite. And apparently readers do, because several of them responded to a query from James Noetzel, who’s looking for a “chunky-garlic” variety.
Crazy Benny. Sounds like a used-car dealer. And with his red fedora, he looks like a guy who hawks them on TV.
After being sidelined by the writers strike last season, “24” (8 p.m. today and Monday, KVVU-TV, Channel 5) is returning to action in a brave new world.
The remote corner of Clark County known as Gold Butte remained unknown to most Nevadans until a recently proposed congressional act brought it unusual attention. The long-ignored region lying south of Mesquite, east of the Virgin River and the Overton arm of Lake Mead and west of the Arizona border, may gain recognition and protection under the Gold Butte National Conservation Area Act, HR 7132.
These are scary times for restaurants. The economic downturn has left way too many of us with less disposable income to dispose of, which means we’re eating out less, which means tables are going empty and hours are being cut. I honestly fear for the financial survival of restaurant owners — especially those of the mom-and-pop persuasion, who tend to have less capital on which to rely.
Barack Obama gave Bette Midler a rapid induction into Las Vegas.
Campaigning for Obama took the entertainer into places off the Strip it might otherwise have taken her a long time to discover.
Is 22 years long enough to go from “pop” to “classic”?
“Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular” trimmed quite a bit of running time from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster “Phantom of the Opera” when it launched in 2006. It already had shed a lot of baggage along the way.
If you have to dance in a place without air conditioning, it’s good that it’s a male G-string revue, right?
I know that a lot of my readers who hail from points east are scrapple fans, so this seems like a good way to start the new year.
Today is your last chance to see “Mamma Mia!” and “Stomp Out Loud,” at least where they are now. “Stomp” may reconvene at the Sahara.
White Pine County’s annual Fire and Ice Show on Jan. 17-18 promises winter visitors two nights of fireworks, two days of competitive ice sculpting and opportunities for activities possible only where the snow is deep and the ice is thick. The event earned recognition with its recent listing as one of the Top 100 Events in North America by the American Bus Association for 2008 and 2009.
We’re only four days into 2009 and already colors look brighter, music sounds sweeter and Tyra Banks seems less full of herself.
Love” was the easiest of Cirque du Soleil’s six missions on the Strip, except for that one detail: living up to the expectations of everyone who grew up with the Beatles.
They sit backstage and face off, the heckler and the heckled, looking equally uncomfortable as the camera rolls.
