Caña Latin Kitchen & Bar has opened at Town Square, 6605 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Specializing in small plates including ceviche, (scallop ceviche with mango, mint and pomegranate seeds; mushroom ceviche with lemon, orange and truffle oil) plus sugar-cane-based spirits and South American wines and beers, it’s open from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily. Call 722-6060 or visit www.CanaLasVegas.com. …
The life of comedian Kathleen Madigan is bizarre enough to be turned into an HBO comedy co-starring her friends Lewis Black, Carrot Top, Ron White, Dr. Phil and Larry the Cable Guy.
The band’s buoyant, dimension-less pop works in both discotheques and dive bars. Phoenix’s latest record, “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,” finds the group tightening the screws on its sound.
Las Vegas’ Playboy Club possesses all sorts of amenities that distinguish it from other nightclubs around town.
On Jan. 29 and February 5, the Hard Rock Hotel will be drawing for a big screen TV, Pink Taco catering for up to 15 people, free play and a VIP Super Bowl party. Players can earn entries Monday through Jan. 29 and Jan. 30-Feb. 5. Winners must be present at the 7 p.m. drawings.
LEGION: In this futuristic chiller, the archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) teams up with some folks at an isolated desert diner to battle for humanity’s survival. Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson and Kate Walsh co-star for visual effects veteran-turned-director Scott Stewart (“Iron Man,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”). At multiple locations. (100 min.) R; strong bloody violence, profanity.
Michael Laygo, in a gleaming white blazer, sings “The Impossible Dream” and stretches “the un-r-e-a-c-h-able star” until the audience can hold its breath no more.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
MISS AMERICA COMPETITION
There she’ll be, Miss America, no doubt with a plan to deflect questions about gay marriage. The preliminaries run from 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday in the Theatre for the Performing Arts at Planet Hollywood, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $75. (The big show is at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 30. Tickets are $150.) Call 785-5000.
The Blue Man Group founders often quote Penn & Teller’s Penn Jillette, who once told them, “You guys did the one thing we never could: You were able to clone yourselves.”
An inspirational, fact-based drama that simply radiates nobility, “Extraordinary Measures” ranks as a very nice movie — sometimes too nice for its own good.
“Las Vegas has become such an international community that you really don’t have to go outside Las Vegas to find fabulous artists representing virtually every cultural community on Earth — they are here,” says Patrick Gaffey, cultural program specialist for Clark County, about the globe-spanning World Vibration concert series at the Winchester Cultural Center.
We figured we’d have to wait to get into Spicy Tuna Sushi early on a recent weeknight. As it turned out, we figured wrong. There was no wait at all, and I’m mystified as to why that was the case.
The “crazy jazz” klezmer music of Meshugginah Klezmorim will be featured at 2 p.m. Sunday as the World Vibration Concert Series begins a new year at Winchester Cultural Center Theater, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.
Nothing against the flashy costumes and the massive set pieces and all the other cool but hidden-until-now backstage stuff visitors can see on the “Jubilee!” backstage tour.
So now we’re going to have two costumed rock “Legends”-type shows, with one of them moving back into the Harmon Theater, which filed for bankruptcy protection this week.
Mouse House Trivia: “The Lion King” story pitch was shorthanded as “Bambi in Africa Meets Hamlet.” … To Roar or Not to Roar, Bamlet?
Brash rockers Ministry of Love are fond of both melody and mayhem and are one of the most road-tested acts in Vegas. What keeps ’em going? Guitarist Patrick Trout sheds some light, along with a little help from his bandmates Meg, Ryan, Lyle and Jeff.
John Menniti is no “Pepper” pooper; he just thinks there’s an even fabber Beatles album than “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The 46-year-old musician and his tribute band, The Fab, will perform “Revolver” in its entirety 8 p.m. Friday at the Cannery, 2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas.
He wrote most of the songs for his band’s first record during chemistry class.
You know that forced smile some people give? Because there’s a blog devoted to just about everything, smiledead.com offers a collection of people “smiling like they’re dead inside.” The common thread in these smiles appears to be gritted teeth, though some border on wincing.
