GREAT CONTRADICTIONS

If friction begets heat, it’s no wonder that they’re still a hot ticket.

‘Voices’

There ought to be a law: Las Vegas always should have at least one show like this one, which is the way most of them used to be.

HEIDI’S PICKS

Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees between $10 and $20; $$$ = entrees between $20 and $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.

‘What Goes Up’

When a movie’s titled “What Goes Up,” returning to earth is inevitable.

Carlos Santana

What’s the right metaphor for this Santana-in-Vegas thing?

COMING ATTRACTIONS

All bookings are tentative and subject to change or cancellation without notice. To make changes or additions to these listings, call 383-0306. Listing are subject to change without notice.

Majesty and Memories

True West twofer, photographically speaking:

Palms offers swipe-and-win game; Ellis Island giving away TV

This Monday through Friday, Club Palms members can swipe their cards once a day to win prizes including a Nintendo Wii with a baseball game, an iPod Shuffle, up to $500 in free slot play, up to 8x point multipliers (not valid on full-pay and 100-percent machines), ballgame food favorites, baseball prizes and more. Cards must be swiped and prizes (except free play and point multipliers) must be redeemed from 8 a.m.-10 p.m.

Restaurants introduce summer specials, cocktails

Wolfgang Puck restaurants are offering special pricing this summer. Locals can get 25 percent off their checks from June 1 through Sept. 30 at Cut at Palazzo, Spago and Chinois at The Forum Shops at Caesars, Postrio at the Grand Canal Shoppes and Trattoria del Lupo at Mandalay Bay. Spago also has introduced a $135 six-course beer-pairing menu, Cut offers a $75 three-course pre-theater menu, Chinois has a $39 three-course prix fixe menu with wine and Postrio has added a $49 three-course prix fixe menu with wine. The restaurants also have rolled out summer cocktails. …

MOVIES

OPENING THIS WEEK

Clowning Around

No one in the music business does self-deprecating humor better than Mark McGrath. The Sugar Ray singer is a self-mocking joker who always, always inserts himself into the butts of his own jokes.

Don Antonio’s

Housing prices continue their big, splashy and painful cannonball, and job security is an oxymoron, but a hermit wouldn’t have known any of that if he’d come out of his hovel to observe Don Antonio’s on a recent weeknight.

Back to the ballot

The struggle for civil rights and liberties is a dominant story line coursing through more than two centuries of U.S. history. The stories typically start with a minority group prevented from enjoying the same rights as the majority. The minority group complains about this discrimination, and if nothing changes, it seeks relief through the legislative process. But the majority controls the legislative branch, where public opinion and political expediency often take precedence over constitutional tenets.

Speech police

Read any history of the war between government censors and free-speech advocates in 20th-century America, compare those struggles to the ones now ongoing, and a curious shift becomes visible.

More on Weekly

We mentioned yesterday how County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly has decided not to accept a juice job contract to become the state “green initiatives” outreach coordinator for Southern Nevada.

Loan delinquencies soar for Nevadans

About one in eight Nevadans is now behind on their residential mortgage, new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association show.

IN BRIEF

Casino companies sniff around Massachusetts

Palms Place condo buyers are offered seller-backed financing

In an effort to jump-start sales in the otherwise nonexistent high-rise condominium market, the Palms has begun offering seller-backed financing to some 150 potential purchasers in the 599-unit Palms Place development.

Forte proves Kia’s greatness

Times might be tough and automotive sales in the doldrums, but that doesn’t seem to faze Kia one little bit. In fact, the company’s new Forte sedan is but the latest example of the Korean automaker’s move to shine up its lineup and its image as a producer of attractive and affordable models.

Family wins ‘American Idol’ party from Ford

Adam and Kris of “American Idol” were big conversation topics at Larry and Tracey Long’s Ford Fusion house party, which was one of 1,000 Ford-sponsored parties nationwide to celebrate the “American Idol’s” final show of the season.

Parking brings out primal urges

You might be familiar with this battle. Every time I pull into the parking lot outside my apartment, it begins anew.

Fairway Chevy sponsors oldest local Corvette club

Fairway Chevrolet is now the proud sponsor of the Las Vegas Corvettes Association, the oldest standing Corvette club in Las Vegas. Together, they will host events for car enthusiasts, many of which benefit charity.

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