BOA Steakhouse and Sushi Roku, both at The Forum Shops at Caesars, 3500 Las Vegas Blvd. South, are celebrating their five-year anniversaries by offering 50 percent off all food items from Monday through Thursday. The promotion is available at both lunch and dinner. …
The down side of not looking your age? It’s surprising to hear Bette Midler say she’s tired.
Shecky Greene was on the same Las Vegas bill with Elvis Presley in 1956, and he went on to become a Las Vegas institution. Last year, after a long break from the city, the 83-year-old comedian proved he wasn’t done yet.
The new year brings with it a new slate of concerts, and seeing as how rising ticket and concession prices make going to a show more expensive than junior’s braces (you know, the ones for his legs), you had better start saving now.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Enter at your own risk. Words to the wise if you’re planning on entering “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” — or, more precisely, the imaginarium of Terry Gilliam.
Cirque du Soleil missed its deadline to get “Viva Elvis” into fighting shape for a star-studded debut on Elvis Presley’s birthday today (preview performances continue until Feb. 19). But Dennis Wise is much more dependable.
It promises to be almost fun as an open bar — until the next morning hits like a thunderstorm of anvils. Earn a gnarly hangover the right way with Vegas punks The Mapes, who surely will delight in putting the “turd” in Saturday, along with fellow ragers 1/2 Ast, hard-core cover band Dick Falcon and San Fran’s LA Plebe. Just make sure to have the Pepto Bismol within arm’s reach, dudes.
The Day After…’s moody, ashen alt-rock is like a kettle set to boil, slow-simmering at first, before eventually screaming to life in a rush of emotion. The band’s latest disc, the aptly titled “Black Heart Symphony,” is both biting and blissful, with vocalist/guitarist Jenine Cali singing in an urgent whelp that shoots at least a few rays of sunshine through even the darkest of clouds.
He didn’t know it back then, but simply hanging around the house and his neighborhood with his ears open eventually would serve Bryan Lammers well.
Every 15 minutes from 6-9 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, a randomly selected South Point player will win $1,000 in free slot play that will be available instantly and downloadable in $100 increments. On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, the casino is allowing all players who earn 100 same-day points ($100 coin-in) one chance to spin a wheel to win $50 free play, a $50 gasoline card, $20 free play, 3X points, 2X points, 500 bonus points, two-for-one breakfast or lunch buffet, or $10 off any South Point restaurant.
The owners of Varadero Cuban Restaurant definitely have gotten their mojo on.
Blush at Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, tries to impart a residential mood, giving guests the feeling that when they walk through the door, they’re walking into a party in someone’s living room.
Singer Donny Osmond is coming back to the airwaves as he launches a radio show on the heels of his “Dancing with the Stars” win.
In a rough-and-tumble town for hip-hop, he’s one of the survivors. Skydro’s a lifer, the opposite of a defeatist, an upbeat, invigorated presence on the mic. So what does he bring to the Vegas scene?
Las Vegas is where successful Broadway shows end up. Where many start out is La Jolla Playhouse in Southern California.
Grandma Lee played the comedy club Bonkerz before “America’s Got Talent,” and that’s where she is again today through Saturday. But everything else has changed for her.
It’s easy to forget that the celebrities we know lived private lives before they hit the public eye and, even now, continue to live everyday lives — lives that are, with the obvious differences, pretty much like ours — when they’re not in public.
Before you close the book on 2009, musically speaking, pay attention to the footnotes. By now, you’ve probably seen plenty of year-end, best-of lists, but what about all those albums that slipped through the cracks for one reason or the other? This being said, check out a few of my favorite overlooked discs of the past 12 months:
Winchester Cultural Center will host a countywide 48-Hour Dance Competition this weekend for dancers ages 11 to 19, and the public can view the results at 6 p.m. Sunday in the center’s theater, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.
Mom might have told you not to play with your food, but the fine folks at thepancake project.blogspot.com just can’t help it. Made from — you guessed it — pancakes, submissions include a turtle, a taco dinner and a worm. Might make you look at your breakfast a little differently.
Regular readers of this column know we tend to accumulate quite a backlog of requests, so let’s start the new year out right (and a happy one to all, by the way) by clearing a whole bunch. The following readers are looking for:
