DRESSED FOR SUPER SUCCESS: The Orleans cocktail server Maggie Belote, center, clad in Indianapolis Colts attire, fills an order before last Sunday's Super Bowl game between the Chicago Bears and victorious Colts. A total of $93 million was bet, and sports books won $12.9 million, according to the Gaming Control Board. Photo by Samantha Clemens.
RORY REID FINALLY HAS A RIVAL FOR NERDIEST COUNTY COMMISSIONER. Commissioners received a report on the county's automotive fleet Tuesday, learning that 70 percent of the county's 2,678 vehicles are powered by biodiesel, reformulated gasoline and other cleaner-burning alternative fuels. "We need to start making vehicles out of transparent aluminum," Commissioner Chip Maxfield quipped. The confused looks he drew from fellow commissioners prompted Maxfield to explain the reference is an inside joke. "Any Star Trek fans out there will get it," Maxfield said.
According to the Review-Journal's Trekkie sources, transparent aluminum is a fictional material that plays a key role in the plot of "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," a 1986 film in which Captain Kirk and company travel back in time to our modern day to kidnap some humpback whales or some such nonsense. Star Trek technical manuals disclose that transparent aluminum also is used in the starship Enterprise's exterior portals and windows.
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Now that we at Week in Review understand the reference, we've got to say ... man, that was one hilarious joke, Chip.
MIKE KALIL
EQUAL BRIBES FOR EQUAL WORK? NOT IN THE G-STING CASE.
In fact, one gets the idea that some of the people paying off Clark County commissioners were outright misogynists.
The government's 53-page sentencing recommendation for former Clark County Commissioner Lance Malone recounts the dozens of bribes he facilitated to other commissioners on behalf of strip club owner Michael Galardi.
Erin Kenny, who tenaciously looked out for Galardi's interests, received $5,000 a month from Galardi, while Dario Herrera received $10,000 a month even though he could not always be counted on to carry Galardi's water.
The document states that Triple Five Development executive Eskander Ghermezian, who has not been criminally charged, was offering Malone a $250,000 bribe to support a planned neighborhood casino. "Notably, this is the same matter for which Ghermezian told Kenny that he would pay her $3,000 a month," the U.S. attorney's office wrote in the document.
MIKE KALIL
Most homeowners struggling to sell their homes reduce the asking price. Placed in a similar situation, former Clark County Commissioner Erin Kenny displayed perhaps one of her best-known traits: greed. After her home sat on the market for a year, Kenny -- who is awaiting sentencing for taking cash bribes while in office -- boosted the price. In December, the listing price for her Summerlin spread rose from $1,290,000 to $1,340,000.
ADRIENNE PACKER
GOV. JIM GIBBONS KNOWS HE HAS A REPUTATION FOR BEING MEDIA-SHY AND DOESN'T MIND HAVING a laugh at his own expense about it. In a recent interview, he was asked if he thought his administration had made mistakes.
"Maybe by letting you in here today to interview me," he said with a wry grin, adding, "I'm joking."
