Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
He chuckles heartily, a rolling thunder laugh, when recalling that as a kid, his parents might of thought him as a future incarnation of the Unabomber.
From 2 p.m.-10 p.m., today and Saturday, The Orleans is giving away $500 in free slot play every 15 minutes to a randomly selected slot player. All players at all slot and video poker machines qualify as long as you are actively playing and have your Club Coast card properly inserted into the card reader.
It’s sheer coincidence that this review of Barcelona Tapas & Bar should run during the same week that Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba closed to make way for a Mexican restaurant (snooooooooze), but the confluence of events has me thinking about tapas in general.
Comedian Larry the Cable Guy met his wife backstage at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. I don’t know why I didn’t already know this story. But Larry the Cable Guy fills me in.
Puzzled — that was director Ernest Hemmings’ reaction to the play “When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?”
The traditional nightclub elements are all there — dancing, DJs, bottle service, beautiful people — but Haze at Aria has a few surprises, too.
In the opening lines of “Anna Karenina,” — a Top 5 fixture on the “Greatest Novels Ever” charts — Leo Tolstoy writes, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Sex appeal is highly subjective and personal, so interpret this as you will:
Emotive rockers Angels & Airwaves hit The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel on May 28, with Say Anything. Tickets start at $27 and go on sale at noon Saturday at The Joint box office, 4455 Paradise Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
It’s time for yet another free breakfast: IHOP restaurants across the valley will celebrate National Pancake Day from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — Simon Cowell believes a woman is likely to win his final season on “American Idol.” The acerbic British judge told a teleconference Thursday he thinks one of the 12 women among the ninth season’s 24 semifinalists has a good shot to win the Fox singing contest.
NEW YORK — Tina Fey will probably reprise her famous impression of Sarah Palin when she hosts “Saturday Night Live” in April, the comedian told The Associated Press. “It’s inevitable that we’ll try it, at least,” Fey said in an interview Tuesday. “We’ll see if it makes it to air.”
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