A little-known oasis of natural warm springs, meandering creeks and thick stands of palm trees lies less than an hour’s drive from Las Vegas in Moapa Valley. Once a popular destination for swimming and picnics, Warm Springs became part of a national wildlife refuge in 1979, dedicated to the preservation of endangered fish and other unique native species.
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If you’re looking for fine words to close out the troubled 2000s, here’s a start:
What would Elvis do? At the risk of adding to longtime confusion between Jesus and pop culture’s deity, Gilles Ste-Croix paraphrased the Christian motto as “the driving force” for Cirque du Soleil’s new “Viva Elvis.”
There’s a sort of unspoken guarantee that every new hotel-casino in Las Vegas will be better — or at least more wondrous, more spectacular — than anything that had gone before it, and that’s certainly the case with the restaurants of CityCenter’s Aria.
Cher sets her priorities straight early on, during the only time she speaks to the audience at length.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Everyone seems to think Steve Wyrick’s theater is history — except Wyrick.
Considering how addictive peppermint bark is, I can’t even imagine it in ice cream. But now Virginia Fergen and the rest of us can try it, thanks to sharp-eyed readers on both sides of the valley. Jan Pacini found it at Vons at 1940 Village Center Circle in Summerlin and Maureen McCoy at Albertsons at 201 S. Stephanie St. in Henderson. …
My whole career,” Garth Brooks told his fans Saturday night, “you’ve always just let me be me.”
No matter how petty, jealous and materialistic some of them might seem — (cough) Tamra Barney (cough) — it’s hard not to feel at least a little sorry for the women of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” (10 p.m. Thursdays, Bravo).
The Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, Calif., celebrates 42 seasons of live theater this winter with weekend presentations at 7 p.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sunday matinees. Seating starts a half-hour before performances. Opening in mid-November, the 2009-2010 season concludes with shows on the first weekend in May.
We love the look of Bollywood Grill — the theater-esque red-velvet curtains on the windows, the filmy draperies between booths, the black linen cloths and napkins, the faux-starlit ceiling and especially the continuous loop of Bollywood classics, which were unendingly entertaining, on the big plasma screen. The owners have taken an old ’50s-style diner and done their best to camouflage its stainless-steel origins, and they’ve done pretty well.