Las Vegans can celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at a variety of activities Monday, beginning with a parade at 10 a.m. on Fourth Street from Hoover to Ogden avenues.
Pristine pop and hot and bothered hard rock highlight the latest roundup of Vegas music releases:
Need help with one of your classes? Designed to mimic an old-fashioned study group, www.grade genie.com will connect you with other people from your class. There’s no exchanging tests or recycling research papers. The site is strictly for exchanging notes and helping each other out.
The future of the Steve Wyrick Theatre is up in the air, but it’s pretty clear we won’t be calling it that anymore.
Tribute shows long have been a staple of Las Vegas’ entertainment scene. But even the most avid fan of the form can sometimes suffer metaphorical whiplash from how abruptly genres — rock to country to hip-hop to pop — change in a multiperformer show.
It’s hard to justify a trip to the movie theater these days when you can use the ticket money to make a mortgage payment.
Move over, Margaritaville. There’s a new Strip eatery to waste away in that’s named after a tequila-related song and owned by the singer who popularized it.
It’s rare to come across a production you love of a script you detest.
Here’s a little trivia on Green Goddess salad dressing: It reportedly was created at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in the ’20s to honor actor George Arliss, who was appearing in a play titled, appropriately enough, “The Green Goddess.” Since then its popularity has been as up and down as most actors’ careers, but readers say it’s available in Las Vegas for Kaye Adams.
When Jennifer Sullivan was diagnosed with celiac disease at age 18 in 2001, she and her family were pretty much on their own.
Baskin-Robbins, 4640 E. Sunset Road, Henderson, received 16 demerits Dec. 30. Employee did not follow proper hand-washing procedures. GRADE: B
The rugged Bitter Springs Trail lies not far from the sprawl of urban Las Vegas, but seems a world away. Designated a scenic back country byway by Congress in 1989, the 30-mile route south of Valley of Fire State Park connects old mining roads, a mountain pass and desert washes between Interstate 15 and the Northshore Road in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Allow at least two hours just to drive the route, more if you stop to explore.
An entertainer was joking with me about what I’d do if newspapers go down the tubes. He suggested I become a consultant.
It’s the ‘tude. Of course it is with David Spade, whose put-upon comedy of attitude finds punch lines where none should be.
I begin my interview with Sasha Grey by telling her that even though she’s only 21 years old, she’s performed in more movies than 76-year-old Michael Caine has. She’s made 182 films. He’s made 142. She laughs at me.
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