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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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Strip House

They had me at the lagniappe — although the scallops didn’t exactly hurt matters.

Heidi’s Picks

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

Salad dressing can’t hide

Here’s a little trivia on Green Goddess salad dressing: It reportedly was created at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in the ’20s to honor actor George Arliss, who was appearing in a play titled, appropriately enough, “The Green Goddess.” Since then its popularity has been as up and down as most actors’ careers, but readers say it’s available in Las Vegas for Kaye Adams.

Pin Kaow

It had been a few years since I’d been to the original Pin Kaow (there now are three). I remembered the food as pretty good, the atmosphere as regulation strip-center-nothing-special, clean but as basic as it gets. And so it was that when a friend and I entered for lunch recently, I initially thought I was in the wrong place.

HEIDI’S PICKS

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

Readers come through in muffin search

Taste of the Town has fielded some pretty offbeat requests from readers over the years, and this one ranked right up there: Anne McConnell e-mailed in search of English muffins that are not fork-split — that she has to cut herself — and have a dense texture without so many nooks and crannies. And lo and behold, readers delivered:

Pips Cucina & Wine Bar

I love my job. Love it, love it, love it.

Hugo’s Cellar

Hugo’s Cellar has long been one of the best things downtown Las Vegas had to offer — an old-Vegas-style "gourmet room" in the best sense of the word, a reminder that although we’ve moved on to newer things, it’s nice to hang on to the best of the past.

Great Buns back to fill void

Here’s some good news for Ruth Steffen, other readers looking for fresh-baked hamburger and hot-dog buns and anyone looking for fresh baked goods on the east side of the valley: John Bisci Sr. e-mailed that Great Buns Bakery, which burned a few years ago, has reopened at 3270 E. Tropicana Ave.