Arlene Milas is looking for store-made Polish sausage, fresh and smoked, in Henderson. Taste of the Town readers came through with that, and a couple of other suggestions.
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The Elvis connection is obvious, but ladies and gentlemen, there’s another way to look at “Million Dollar Quartet” replacing – or at least displacing – “Legends in Concert.”
The 24th annual Splendor in the Glass, a benefit for Southern Nevada Public Television, is set for 3 to 7 p.m. Feb. 9 at the LVH, 3000 Paradise Road. The wine- and beer-tasting event will include samples from more than 60 wineries and breweries, plus hors d’oeuvres, a live wine auction, silent auction and live music. Chef Hubert Keller will demonstrate one of his signature recipes and will donate 25 autographed copies of his “Souvenirs” book. Tickets are $75 in advance, $90 at the door; advance tickets are available online at VegasPBS.org or at Lee’s Discount Liquor, Total Wine & More and Whole Foods Market. …
If I hadn’t known that Megan Romano was an experienced pastry chef with a stack of plaudits, I think I would have suspected it just by looking at the food at her Chocolate & Spice bakery-cafe.
Although “Rock of Ages” offers a big-budget comic salute to the crazy ’80s days of MTV and VHS, there’s a direct-to-video alternative called “Legwarmers – An ’80s Musical.”
Only a few minutes after talk of how the four members of Recycled Percussion can’t get sick or injured and never miss a show, Ryan Vezina decides to jump off a 12-foot riser.
For Ashok Yadev, who’s looking for canned chili beans – not to be confused with chili with beans – readers say the key words are “Bush’s” and “Great Value.”
You can call them retro chicks, femme fatales or the kind of dames that Philip Marlowe would say are “worth a stare.”
Through the decidedly freezing economic climate of the past few years, plenty of restaurants – including a number that were well operated, served excellent food and certainly deserved to survive – fell by the wayside for one reason or another, most of those reasons related to the fact that there just weren’t enough feet coming through the door.
I may not be smarter than a fifth-grader, but I have mastered some math for downtown shows: Four times zero equals zero. Two minus one equals one. But we still could get to eight, nine or 10.
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