The 2011 edition of Best of Las Vegas is out this morning. Those of you who take the Sunday LVRJ already have a hard copy (and we will probably hold on to ours for a while). As usual, there’s stuff I disagree with, but overall it’s not a bad place to start exploring the city. [...]
Many congratulations to the 5 Las Vegas chefs (and the restaurants they work in) who earned James Beard Awards: Best Chef: Southwest went to Claude Le Tohic of Joël Robuchon at the MGM Grand. If you haven’t yet experienced the playful and artistic dishes he crafts nightly, consider this a reminder to put the “Chef [...]
Just a few little items for those of you in town. First, a “cash for appliances” program begins this coming Saturday. Let the state pay you up to $200 to upgrade your refrigerator, freezer, clothes washer, or dishwasher with a brand new energy efficient one! I’ve seen programs like this do very well in other [...]
Not that I like rush hour traffic, but I kind of like driving across the Las Vegas Valley around sunset. The fading light reflects off the mountains in a quite lovely way, leaving interesting patterns of shade behind. And so much the better if there are some clouds that turn orange and pink and lavender [...]
Buying a home can be exciting and scary. It’s easy to overlook little things, and easy to get nervous over the prospect of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. And that brings me to the Tale of the Secret Mold Cellar: it seems a family purchased a bank-owned home only to discover a secret room [...]
The other day, I picked up a copy of the Las Vegas Relocation Guide. It has lots of information that is of value both to newcomers and to people who have been here for years. If you would like your own copy, they are published by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce each quarter. Here [...]
Las Vegas is considered by many people to be one of the great dining cities of the world. This being the case, it has been frustrating to me is that Las Vegas restaurant guides focus almost entirely on the Strip. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of very good restaurants on the Strip, [...]
