Here’s something we’ll wager escaped your social calendar: Saturday is National Pie Day.
For Earl Hoy, who’s looking for Portuguese sausage, fellow readers have not only local sources but also a brand recommendation.
In the glass: Santa Cristina wine is a deep garnet-red color with a fairly dense core going out into a lightly tinged rim definition with high viscosity.
Carl’s Jr., 1440 W. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas, received 18 demerits Jan. 6. Violations included uncovered salads in walk-in refrigerator. GRADE: B
Scouring the desert and mountains, wind gathers tiny sand grains and pushes the grains into drifts. Over time, when conditions are favorable, the gathered sand grows into shifting mountains several hundred feet high. In some places in the desert Southwest, vast dune deposits cover miles, taking on a life of their own. They form shapes such as stars or crescents. They even make sounds. All of them whisper as the sand moves, but some squeak or sing and a few actually boom as dry sand cascades from a high crest down the lee side.
Puppeteers hide behind their work, so there is no reason why you should know it’s Michael Curry who brought forth crab monsters from the sand in “Ka” or bunnies to terrorize Criss Angel in “Believe.”
The Showgirl is almost gone, and it adds extra resonance to nearly everything Bette Midler says onstage.
From 3 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, the Gold Coast will select 500 Club Coast members to receive $500 in free play. To find out if you are a winner, simply stick your card into the reader. If you get the message “500 Get 500 winner,” follow the instructions to collect your free play. You must claim your prize on Sunday, but you have five days to play off the $500.
When I was a little kid, I heard a comedian joke about Johnny Mathis’ level of attractiveness. Mathis was known for singing “Misty”: “Look at me, I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree.” The comedian sang his joke like this: “Look at me, I’m as pretty as a person can be.”
It’s lutefisk time again: Vegas Viking Lodge of the Sons of Norway will serve their 12th annual lutefisk dinner with seatings at 3 and 6 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Boulder City Elks Lodge, 1217 Nevada Highway. All tickets must be obtained in advance — by Jan. 22 — by sending a check, payable to the Sons of Norway, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope (and remember to specify which seating) to Gwen Knighton, 2156 Marstons Mills Court, Henderson, NV 89044. Dinners are $18 for adults, $5 for children 10 and younger and include lutefisk with melted butter or white sauce, surk?l with roast pork, vegetables, lefse, coffee and baked goods including Norwegian cookies. For details, call 869-5775. …
The 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards comes to the MGM Grand Garden arena on April 18.
Since opening New Year’s Eve 2005, Pure has been a magnet for celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Shaquille O’Neal, Usher, Kevin Federline, Chris Tucker and others.
Buttermilk pours through the phone. Rich, soft, a sotto voce purr. Garrison Keillor’s voice is on the line.
Beginning in the mid-’80s, they were as synonymous with New York City grit as subway graffiti, cinder-block-sized sewer rats and Times Square smut shops. Twenty-five years later, the Big Apple may have cleaned itself up a bit, may have yanked a few worms from its core, but the city’s hardcore pioneers Agnostic Front remain as raw and confrontational as ever.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Co-owner Michael Morse still is struggling to make his celebrated 3-year-old Onyx Theatre a financial success. But the 96-seat playhouse inside a fetish shop (“The Rack”) at 953 E. Sahara Ave. has already achieved at least two milestones. It recently celebrated its 100th performance of “Naked Boys Singing” and has acquired the rights to “AltarBoyz,” a hit Off-Broadway musical that closed in New York on Jan. 10 after more than 2,000 performances. The odd curiosity that was the Onyx is now a major player.
Miscasting doesn’t just happen to cast members. Directors get miscast, too, as “The Lovely Bones” sadly demonstrates.
There’s a lot of flashy acting going on in Insurgo Theater’s “Othello,” but what the play is actually about, amidst all the chest-pounding, is a mystery.
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