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Phyllis Smith goes for the joy even in Sadness

The 74-year-old actor gets emotional about returning to the role of Sadness in the much-anticipated sequel “Inside Out 2.”

New country music fest coming to Vegas

Saddle up Vegas country fans, a new fest is riding into town this fall. The Giddy Up Music Festival will be city’s first country fest since 1 October.

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Readers uncover pierogi

Ah, pierogi. If you’ve ever spent any time in any of the country’s Eastern European enclaves, you know, like Kelly Slade, just how delightful they can be. And her quest for fresh, handmade pierogi in potato-cheese flavor has been answered.

THE YEAR IN DINING

It has been both a sad and exciting year for Las Vegas restaurants.

Hash House A Go Go

You’ve heard about the national obesity problem — and that’s a statement, not a question, because I’m assuming most of you don’t live in caves. You know that portion sizes are one of the big problems with weight control — or at least our inability or unwillingness to reduce them is. You’ve vowed to cut back, eat less, move more.

Tapioca search leads to China Town area

Joan Adams is looking for large and small — but not Minute — tapioca, and readers have several recommendations.

Aria restaurants expand choices

There’s a sort of unspoken guarantee that every new hotel-casino in Las Vegas will be better — or at least more wondrous, more spectacular — than anything that had gone before it, and that’s certainly the case with the restaurants of CityCenter’s Aria.

Yolie’s Brazilian Steakhouse

Yolie’s is, you might say, the old Vegas version of the churrascaria.

HEIDI’S PICKS

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

Peppermint bark ice cream found

Considering how addictive peppermint bark is, I can’t even imagine it in ice cream. But now Virginia Fergen and the rest of us can try it, thanks to sharp-eyed readers on both sides of the valley. Jan Pacini found it at Vons at 1940 Village Center Circle in Summerlin and Maureen McCoy at Albertsons at 201 S. Stephanie St. in Henderson. …

Bollywood Grill

We love the look of Bollywood Grill — the theater-esque red-velvet curtains on the windows, the filmy draperies between booths, the black linen cloths and napkins, the faux-starlit ceiling and especially the continuous loop of Bollywood classics, which were unendingly entertaining, on the big plasma screen. The owners have taken an old ’50s-style diner and done their best to camouflage its stainless-steel origins, and they’ve done pretty well.

Heidi’s Picks

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

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