Using tools of water and wind, nature continues to carve a geological and scenic wonderland at Cedar Breaks National Monument in Southwestern Utah on the western edge of the high Markagunt Plateau. Forests of pine and fir sweep up to the 10,000-foot rim, where vividly colored stone carved into strange shapes tumbles into a 2,000-foot chasm.
Bill Cosby went to Temple University in 1960 on the strength of a measly SAT exam score of 500.
Broadway in the Hood’s “Orphan Blues: The Gospel Musical,” which played the West Las Vegas Library last weekend, is more of a Christian fellowship than a piece of theater. The approximately 35 cast members were nearly all black, as was the enthusiastic and very vocal audience. But I went because I knew some of the best performers in town can be found at these library shows. And for some baffling reason, it continues to be rare to see blacks not only on local stages but in audiences.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
No matter how many offbeat (to Americans, anyway) dishes a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern restaurant offers, I always wonder, “Yeah, but how about the hummus and falafel?”
Before the ocean, beneath the clouds, behind the mic, even under the water.
Revenge may be sweet. Unless it’s dispensed by “Harry Brown,” a British “Death Wish”-meets-“Gran Torino” thriller redeemed — only partially — by yet another predictably expert Michael Caine performance.
When Marisa Scarpulla arrives at work, she walks right out into her backyard.
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