In regard to coffee-flavored syrup — being sought by reader Martha Flynn — it seems there are a couple of schools of thought.
Entertainment Columns
Weathered remains of yesteryear dot Highway 165 to the old mining town of Nelson. The pavement continues through rugged Eldorado Canyon to a superb overlook above the Colorado River where steamboats used to dock at Nelson’s Landing. This 18-mile highway through history lies just 10 miles south of Railroad Pass on U.S. 93, within minutes of Las Vegas but a world away from urban bustle.
The Michael Jackson news from London echoed in Las Vegas, but not just with the obvious speculation.
It has love and war, “7th Heaven”-style religion and “Gossip Girl”-style scheming, and the mother of all intimidating actors in Ian McShane.
Cashetta points out right up front that he’s “the world’s most fabulous drag magician,” and “the beauty of that is you don’t have a lot to compare me to.”
Kenny Loggins is no fan of The Wiggles.
The Diceman won’t bake cupcakes, but he will do his stand-up act in a sushi restaurant.
Al Bianco is looking for large pasta shells and also pre-stuffed frozen shells, and fellow readers point out that he need look no farther than a neighborhood Italian deli.
Springtime rates as the top season for spotting a wide variety of birds in the desert. One of the best places for bird watching in our area is the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve just off Sunset Road, east of Boulder Highway, at 2400 Moser Drive. Birders list more than 200 species of birds, both resident and visitors, at the site on the grounds of the Henderson Wastewater Reclamation Facility. When you first arrive, you may notice odors from the treatment plant, but most visitors soon get used to them and stop noticing.
Everywhere you look, there are signs that people are doing whatever it takes to make ends meet.
Last summer’s season of “America’s Got Talent” became a two-way street for Las Vegas entertainment.
The day may be fast approaching when every single person who wants to be on reality TV will have the chance. Until then, there’s still "Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding."
Twilight" movie star Ashley Greene came with her birthday-partying friends. The man who was losing his fight with cancer brought his family. Everyone is invited to this low-rent wedding bash, though once, the flying chairs and fisticuffs were generated by audience members and not the actors.
It happens more frequently than one would expect. "The problem," a caller will say, "is that I can’t find any real Chinese food in Las Vegas."
