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.
Its grays-from-the-neighborhood afternoon clientele notwithstanding, The Palms definitely is a hipster kind of place. How else would you characterize a resort that has an area called the Fantasy Tower, complete with massive Playboy Bunny head winking over the city?
Rock veterans The Cult headline The Pearl at the Palms on Sept. 16. Tickets are $29 and $39 and go on sale at noon Saturday at The Pearl box office, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
Looking for a way to stand out in the Vegas pool party scene, managers at Planet Hollywood’s Pleasure Pool decided to try a weekly bikini contest.
“Jubilee!” premiered on July 30, 1981, a few weeks after “Raiders of the Lost Ark” opened at the Fox theater in the Charleston Plaza mall. Depending on your age and point of view, you can use that to say …
Chalk up another win for Land Rover Las Vegas with the addition of John Navara and Ethan Treadway to the sales team.
Brooks Klein didn’t have to play for Sierra Vista’s American Legion baseball team this summer.
This much is clear about the future of Las Vegas’ Triple-A baseball franchise: The 51s will play at Cashman Field for at least the next four years after renewing their lease, and they will be affiliated with one of 30 major league teams.
ELKO — The chief of a 680-mile natural gas pipeline project from Wyoming to Oregon says he’s surprised by the “firestorm” of complaints from ranchers about a company deal with environmental conservation groups.
CARSON CITY — A state panel voted Thursday to reduce benefits for tens of thousands of retired and current state employees, including eliminating insurance for some family members and drastically reducing other coverage.
