Skin Trade

I begin my interview with Sasha Grey by telling her that even though she’s only 21 years old, she’s performed in more movies than 76-year-old Michael Caine has. She’s made 182 films. He’s made 142. She laughs at me.

Restaurants mark anniversaries

BOA Steakhouse and Sushi Roku, both at The Forum Shops at Caesars, 3500 Las Vegas Blvd. South, are celebrating their five-year anniversaries by offering 50 percent off all food items from Monday through Thursday. The promotion is available at both lunch and dinner. …

Bette Midler

The down side of not looking your age? It’s surprising to hear Bette Midler say she’s tired.

Shecky Greene not done yet

Shecky Greene was on the same Las Vegas bill with Elvis Presley in 1956, and he went on to become a Las Vegas institution. Last year, after a long break from the city, the 83-year-old comedian proved he wasn’t done yet.

Brit Wits

He and she. Him and her. He and her. She and him.

Music to the Ears

The new year brings with it a new slate of concerts, and seeing as how rising ticket and concession prices make going to a show more expensive than junior’s braces (you know, the ones for his legs), you had better start saving now.

HEIDI’S PICKS

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

‘The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’

Enter at your own risk. Words to the wise if you’re planning on entering “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” — or, more precisely, the imaginarium of Terry Gilliam.

DON’T MISS IT

TUFF-N-UFF FIGHT PRESENTS: MTX FIGHT NIGHT III

MOVIES

OPENING THIS WEEK

Celebrate the King’s birthday with Wise

Cirque du Soleil missed its deadline to get “Viva Elvis” into fighting shape for a star-studded debut on Elvis Presley’s birthday today (preview performances continue until Feb. 19). But Dennis Wise is much more dependable.

Earn a hangover with The Mapes

It promises to be almost fun as an open bar — until the next morning hits like a thunderstorm of anvils. Earn a gnarly hangover the right way with Vegas punks The Mapes, who surely will delight in putting the “turd” in Saturday, along with fellow ragers 1/2 Ast, hard-core cover band Dick Falcon and San Fran’s LA Plebe. Just make sure to have the Pepto Bismol within arm’s reach, dudes.

The Day After… both biting, blissful

The Day After…’s moody, ashen alt-rock is like a kettle set to boil, slow-simmering at first, before eventually screaming to life in a rush of emotion. The band’s latest disc, the aptly titled “Black Heart Symphony,” is both biting and blissful, with vocalist/guitarist Jenine Cali singing in an urgent whelp that shoots at least a few rays of sunshine through even the darkest of clouds.

Lammers veers from Sublime to Sinatra

He didn’t know it back then, but simply hanging around the house and his neighborhood with his ears open eventually would serve Bryan Lammers well.

South Point giving away free play; ‘Take It or Trade It’ debuts

Every 15 minutes from 6-9 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, a randomly selected South Point player will win $1,000 in free slot play that will be available instantly and downloadable in $100 increments. On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, the casino is allowing all players who earn 100 same-day points ($100 coin-in) one chance to spin a wheel to win $50 free play, a $50 gasoline card, $20 free play, 3X points, 2X points, 500 bonus points, two-for-one breakfast or lunch buffet, or $10 off any South Point restaurant.

Varadero Cuban Restaurant

The owners of Varadero Cuban Restaurant definitely have gotten their mojo on.

Wynn Las Vegas’ Blush draws lounge, nightclub crowds

Blush at Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, tries to impart a residential mood, giving guests the feeling that when they walk through the door, they’re walking into a party in someone’s living room.

Reining in costs

Clark County commissioners launched the political fight of their careers Tuesday.

More visions for the new decade

Baseball great Yogi Berra wasn’t kidding when he said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” And yet making predictions seems to be built into our DNA. We can’t help ourselves.

Campaign trail in jail

A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out Washington state’s law banning incarcerated felons from voting, finding the state’s criminal justice system is “infected” with racial discrimination.

Techs expecting big 2010

We went in expecting to hear about the health of the consumer-electronics industry, but Thursday morning’s opening keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show gave us a blistering civics lesson as well.

Apple-related products debut

For the first time, Apple-related products are being given their own stage at the International Consumer Electronics Show, which opened to robust crowds on Thursday.

IN BRIEF

Temporary liquor licenses extended for Privé, Living Room

1968 Corvette drew mixed reactions

When the third-generation Corvette made its debut in the fall of 1967, the world was speechless.

Reno museum celebrates woman driver

It’s June 9, 1909. Alice Huyler Ramsey is a 22-year-old married mother of a toddler, living in Hackensack, N.J. She has a penchant for driving cars in endurance events and has agreed to pilot a 1909 Maxwell-Briscoe cross-country, from New York City to San Francisco, in a marketing scheme for Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Co. The plan is to demonstrate the utility of the automobile, but also to show that women are capable drivers and potential purchasers.

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