Show bargains offer at least a glint of silver lining in a dire economy. Echoing the months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, locals have a buffet of discounts to choose from.
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Oh, those pesky olive pits. Yes, they seem to give the olives more flavor, but getting rid of them can be a rather delicate situation. No wonder Sue Heiselman is looking for pitted kalamata olives, and luckily, five readers have come to her rescue.
I’ve never been much good at denying my urges — the low point being my set of commemorative plates commemorating the first set of commemorative plates — but I live like a monk compared to Dexter Morgan and Hank Moody.
The Death Valley 49ers Days annually ushers in the peak visitation season in Death Valley National Park. Winding up today, this early November celebration draws hundreds of visitors, filing campgrounds, restaurants, park hostelries and accommodations in surrounding communities. As scores of recreational vehicles and other transportation depart following the festivities, regular visitors find park facilities back to normal and far less crowded.
I’m talking to the biggest player in Las Vegas entertainment on the loading dock in back of Luxor, because it’s a place where he can smoke.
It’s probably a coincidence — isn’t it? — that Irish "hypnomagician" Keith Barry turned up in Las Vegas the same week as Criss Angel’s grand opening. The two couldn’t be more different, except Barry is the one doing the real mind freaks.
Chefs don’t like to hear this, but it’s a given that the vast majority of restaurant food is not conducive to your (or mine or our or anybody’s) health. And the better the food is — the more it luxuriates languidly on tongue and palate — the more likely the presence of cream and butter and all of that other stuff that have helped us turn into a country of lardbutts, to put it bluntly.
Stomp Out Loud” will beat its last trash can at Planet Hollywood on Jan. 4, though producers hope to move the percussive revue to a smaller venue.
Since Commander’s Palace closed, Tiffany Jones has been looking for another restaurant that serves turtle soup, and it turns out that Taste of the Town readers know of one. Jeanne Ekhaml and Chris Phillips both recommended Del Frisco’s, 3925 Paradise Road. …
Neither can lay claim to the title of the scariest thing on TV — after a couple of minutes of CNBC’s stock ticker, I spent the other day hiding under my bed — but nobody does spooky quite like “Fringe” (9 p.m. Tuesdays, KVVU-TV, Channel 5) and “Supernatural” (9 p.m. Thursdays, KVCW-TV, Channel 33).
A recent issue of Newsweek magazine responded to the financial meltdown with a yellow cover featuring just three words: “The Bright Side.”
Special events jam November calendars, luring Southern Nevadans outdoors to enjoy the bright, balmy days of autumn on the desert. Next weekend, for instance, activities deserving notice include art festivals in Logandale and Boulder City, a Mountain Man Rendezvous in Red Rock and a Native American powwow in Las Vegas. So many events; so little time.
Midway through his new show, Criss Angel turns and asks his audience the night’s big question: “Are you still there?”
It’s easy to tell whether “The Real Deal” is your kind of show — if “show” is even the right word.
