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Moapa Valley wildlife refuge offers chance to see area’s creatures

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.

Decade has seen its ups, downs

If you’re looking for fine words to close out the troubled 2000s, here’s a start:

Aria restaurants expand choices

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

Cher sets her priorities straight early on, during the only time she speaks to the audience at length.

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Yolie’s Brazilian Steakhouse

Yolie’s is, you might say, the old Vegas version of the churrascaria.

HEIDI’S PICKS

Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.

Peppermint bark ice cream found

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. …

Garth Brooks

My whole career,” Garth Brooks told his fans Saturday night, “you’ve always just let me be me.”

‘Real Housewives’ hilariously out of touch

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).

Amargosa Opera House celebrates 42nd season with production

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.

Calling on the King

Hey Elvis. Are you listening buddy?

Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks is a soccer dad — a soccer dad with a private jet.

Bollywood Grill

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.

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