When considering the decade’s most influential shows, you’d have to include “Survivor.” Because at this very moment, somewhere in the world, someone is being voted out of or off of a kitchen or a catwalk, a ballroom, a boardroom or a bedroom.
Here are a few things in news, entertainment, sports and popular culture that we’ve been talking about lately.
Above a bustling gourmet grocery store in the trendy Town Square shopping center is a room filled with paintings, scented candles and soothing music, a sanctuary where you can take off your shoes and blow all your frustrations out in gasping breaths and hissing sighs.
What are you doing Tuesday? What Broadway shows would you like to see in 2012?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of an occasional series of stories highlighting performers who played an interesting role in the history of entertainment in Las Vegas.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation had its annual Hope Gala on May 9 at the World Market Center’s Pavilion.
HOLDING SERVICE: Many businesses are trying to cut costs to endure the economic downturn, but observers say customer service is no place to scrimp. Boosting service amid recession, they say, can help companies accomplish a host of goals, from improving their brands to papering over higher prices to drawing new clients.
For the second time in 14 months, officials from Las Vegas Sands Corp. will spend time inside a Clark County courtroom defending how the company earned a Macau gambling license in 2002.
Expect to see several new e-readers by early next year, as the publishing industry follows in the footsteps of the music industry’s move to digital players.
Fred Keeton recalls having to sit on a crate in the back room of a doctor’s office because the then-young black American wasn’t allowed in the whites-only waiting room. The incident took place decades ago in the deep South. Today, segregation experiences such as that one seem worlds away, as the now 52-year-old Harrah’s Entertainment executive looks at all the business opportunities afforded Las Vegas’ eclectic groups of entrepreneurs.
Jani Mae Den Herder arrived in Las Vegas in 1977 from a small town in South Dakota and has never looked back.
