Teen sentenced in pickup crash death

The 16-year-old driver of a speeding pickup that crashed and killed a classmate was sentenced Thursday to a juvenile youth camp and community service.

Buffett back in town May 16

The party hard Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band return to the MGM Grand Garden arena on May 16. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.

Don’t Miss It

DAM SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

‘Coraline’

Plenty of people dismiss animated features as mere "cartoons."

Brown stays busy with Nugget return

The timing couldn’t have been better last summer when Gordie Brown was offered a chance to play sports arenas as Celine Dion’s opening act.

Silverton giving away $322,000 in drawings, Snuggies for points

The Silverton is giving out a total of $322,000 this month. You can win on any night in February when the casino draws 10 winners (who must be present at the 8 p.m. drawing) to receive various amounts of cash or free slot play, including a $10,000 top prize. Discovery Card members can earn entries into the nightly drawings playing slots, video poker or video keno. The casino also is giving out a Snuggie (blanket with sleeves) to all players earning 250 daily points on slots ($250 coin-in; no point redemption required) or 500 points on video poker ($500 coin-in).

‘Folies Bergere’

This sounded pretty easy. Go see "Folies Bergere" to give readers a two-month head’s up on whether they should bother to catch the venerable showgirl revue one last time before it closes March 28.

HEIDI’S PICKS

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

LeAnn Rimes avoids pitfalls of early celebrity by staying focused on career

LeAnn Rimes said recently, “People are just waiting for you to self-destruct because that’s what happens.” That’s a true statement. People love seeing the downfall of a celebrity. But Rimes hasn’t provided any real fodder for tabloidian implosion.

Origin India offering five-course menu for Valentine’s Day

Origin India Restaurant & Bar, 4480 Paradise Road, has planned a menu of aphrodisiacs for the celebration of a sensuous Valentine’s Day. The five-course menu of vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes includes an entree of roasted wild Atlantic halibut, Rajasthani-style braised baby lamb shank, chicken breast with cardamom and mace, or spinach kofta stuffed with dates and ginger. It’s $70 per person with seatings at 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday. For reservations, call 734-6342. …

Merle Haggard

Midway through the conversation, Merle Haggard compares himself to a rapper.

Longhorn BBQ

In Texas, Memphis — any of the old-time barbecue capitals — the legendary ‘cue venues have these great big stone or brick or other-fireproof-material pits, where they burn hickory or mesquite or other woods of choice. The pits usually are coated by decades-long accumulations of smoke and grease and we-don’t-really-want-to-know-what-else, and they and the hardy soul who gets up at 3 in the morning to stoke the fire and smoke the meat produce the stuff of which legends are made.

Wall Street welfare

In the 1960s, tabloid newspaper editors discovered a great new way to build circulation: the “welfare queen” exposé.

Bong hit

From sports apparel company Speedo to luxury Swiss watchmaker Omega, corporate sponsors who have signed up swimming phenomenon Michael Phelps to tout their products don’t seem much concerned about the Olympian’s current dope scandal.

Seize the day

State Sen. Bob Coffin has blown the worst-kept secret in Carson City.

Ignoring slump, new Hard Rock Cafe chugs on

A massive Hard Rock Cafe — the chain’s second local outpost — is nearly complete, and scheduled to open July 9 with more than 500 employees.

IN BRIEF

NEW YORK

Operator reaffirms interest in Strip property

Casino operator Penn National, which quashed rumors last month that it was buying The Mirage, said Thursday it was still interested in owning a casino on the Strip.

Retro-styling done right

What birthday present do you get a 45-year-old automotive icon that seems to have everything?

Electric cars threaten gas engines

After more than 100 years, it appears that the internal-combustion engine is about to lose its fire.

Decades of Caddys to show

The fourth annual Cadillac Through the Years car show is set for Sunday at The District at Green Valley Ranch, and it won’t be hard to find John Bergler’s pink ’59 Cadillac in the throng of vehicles on display.

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