Shakespearean Festival cuts a matter of being ‘pro-active’

With many regional theaters across the country closing or severely cutting back, it’s no surprise that the Utah Shakespearean Festival — heavily attended by Las Vegans — is tightening its belt.

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DAVID COPPERFIELD

Station, Fiesta promotion giving away $1,000 every 10 minutes

From 6 to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Feb. 14, all eight Station Casinos and two Fiestas will award $1,000 every 10 minutes to a randomly selected player using his Boarding Pass (or Amigo Club) card. On those same nights, one $50,000 prize (among all 10 casinos) will be awarded. Entries can be earned every day at slots, tables, poker and bingo, and players must be present at the 9:15 p.m. drawings to win.

Frediani’s Italian Restaurant

Every now and again, someone will ask me if I really feel comfortable reviewing a restaurant after just one visit. The fact that I do has many reasons, the foremost being that I’ve been a restaurant critic since 1982 (to paraphrase a friend, "You couldn’t possibly be that old"), and in the light-years since have developed a feel for when a restaurant is just having a bad night and when things have spiraled into a death dive toward hell.

Defending the Caveman

You can see Neanderthal behavior any Las Vegas afternoon if you hover around the buffet, sports book or the blackjack table when there’s a bad beat.

Bret Michaels

Bret Michaels is one of those Pittsburgh Steelers fans with mixed emotions.

Schools blame game

The consensus is that Nevada isn’t a very good place to get a public education. Regardless of individual success stories, we are generally unhappy with what’s happening, or not happening, in the schools here.

Let the sun shine in?

In one of his first executive orders, on Jan. 21, President Barack Obama issued new staff guidelines for responding to Freedom of Information Act requests from journalists and others.

A cynical ploy

For all the disdain and derision they’ve hissed toward Gov. Jim Gibbons over the state budget, Nevada’s legislative Democrats have been woefully lacking when it comes to offering alternatives to his proposed spending plan.

Study forecasts shedding of jobs

The local economy will shed nearly 4 percent of its work force in 2009, a nationwide group of public officials predicts.

Jobless? Expo offers direct sales option

Monica Williams worked as an administrator at a California nuclear power plant, but she decided to try something different when she and her husband moved to Las Vegas.

IN BRIEF

WMS Industries posts 48 percent profit jump

Sowerby forgoes cell phones in N.Y.

The flight from Los Angeles to New York’s JFK airport was nonstop, nearly six hours of solitude in what had become a hectic summer.

Drive green, save green

The Insight is back with more power, a more practical design and a new mission as the most-affordable gasoline-electric hybrid on the block.

Luxury Lincolns doubled as race cars in the 1950s

Unless you were one of the few lucky baby boomers who had wealthy parents, you rarely, if ever, received the privilege of riding in an honest-to-goodness luxury car.

Findlay Subaru store opens Monday

Findlay Automotive Group’s second-oldest franchise will officially open the doors on a new building at 5385 W. Sahara Ave. Monday, when Findlay’s Subaru of Las Vegas begins operations in a 14,030-square-foot dealership.

Mint 400 expanded through the Fremont Street Experience

The General Tire Mint 400 off-road race, which returned in 2008 after a two-decade hiatus, will be back bigger and better than ever complete with Tech/Contingency Inspection Friday, March 27, utilizing the Fremont Street Experience in its entirety from Main Street to Eighth Street, as well as the Fremont East Entertainment District. In 2008, the inspection was held only on Fremont East.

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