The Coronado Cafe at the South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is offering $7.95 daily specials from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. through the end of the month. The schedule: Monday, roast pork loin or chef’s salad; Tuesday, meatloaf or Greek chicken salad; Wednesday, Swiss steak or barbecued chicken salad; Thursday, chicken a la king or grilled steak salad; Friday, seafood creole or citrus-glazed chicken salad. …
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I have the utmost respect for Chef Carla Pellegrino and the work she’s done locally, formerly at Rao’s at Caesars Palace and currently at Bratalian in Henderson. I thought the Meatball Spot at Town Square was a brilliant concept and have heard tons of good things about it.
It’s been 27 years since their last show and they’re already talking about hanging it up again?
This week’s lead item brought to mind a recent newsroom conversation about how many food companies have gone multinational, and how seemingly a handful own many old familiar brands.
Thousands of miles of track once connected Nevada towns with the transcontinental railroads. From territorial days to modern times, at least 70 railroads operated in the state, both standard and narrow gauge. Built to move ore from mines to mills, the lines also carried freight and passengers.
Anyone who knows certain blinged-out magicians in Las Vegas also knows their blinged-out manager.
Wines from North and South America will go head to head this weekend at the Golden Nugget, 129 Fremont St., beginning with a dinner at 7 tonight on the pool deck. Tickets are $95 and include the Poolside Champagne & Wine Kick-Off from 8 to 10 p.m. (tickets for that event alone are $35).
Given the game’s inherent poetry, it’s nearly impossible to make a bad baseball movie.
Why does Las Vegas never disappoint? Because June brings us the dancing drag of “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” and then, a week later, “America’s Favorite Dumb Blonde,” who would be one Terry Bradshaw.
Reader Pat Swanson was looking for a recipe from a Swift’ning (a shortening that was made by Swift and Co.) booklet from the ’40s-’50s. I found it online at rocknrecipes-rockn
quilts.blogspot.com, where the blogger reports finding it in her grandmother’s Swift’ning book from 1950. Here’s the version I adapted:
Nevada’s public lands hold a wealth of rock art left behind by native cultures that developed long before Europeans arrived in the New World. Exploring Nevada’s rock art sites offers glimpses of the past and intriguing clues about ancient history.
So basically, it has reached the point where not even the people selling the show tickets expect you to pay full price.
Take away the woefully rudimentary computers, Laura Dern’s mom jeans and Samuel L. Jackson’s hair, and it has all the trappings of a modern blockbuster.
The Roadrunners at 9820 W. Flamingo Road and 921 N. Buffalo Drive are offering a $10.95 filet mignon special on Thursday evenings, with a 6-ounce steak with chipotle butter, creamed spinach and spicy potato wedges and the option of a domestic draft beer or house wine at half off. …
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