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Some suggestions for this weekend and next couple of weeks around Carson City and elsewhere. Check entries in the daily Nevada Appeal for more details, but this should be enough for planning. Also, see nevadaappeal.com or tahoe.
May 8, 3:05 PM | By Sam Bauman
Entertainment Editor
TV Lookout: highlights for the week ahead, May11
By FRAZIER MOORE
May 8, 10:18 AM | By FRAZIER MOORE
AP Television Writer
Cher Brings the Glitz and the Hits
LAS VEGAS -- Like the temples of the ancient Roman world that it simulates, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace is an environment suited to extravagant immortals.
May 8, 4:41 PM | By Ann Powers
Los Angeles Times
Carly Simon charts new course with Brazilian-inspired CD
NEW YORK — Carly Simon was worried about preserving her voice as she rehearsed for her first public performance of tunes from her new CD, but she couldn’t restrain herself as she got swept away singing the sexy title song, “This Kind of Love.”
May 8, 4:34 PM | By CHARLES J. GANS
Associated Press Writer
Gavin DeGraw doesn’t wanna be another singer-songwriter
NEW YORK — The term “singer-songwriter” makes Gavin DeGraw cringe.
May 8, 4:26 PM | By ERIN CARLSON
Associated Press Writer
A family that built Saudi Arabia, and shaped a wayward son
“The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century” (The Penguin Press, 575 pages, $35): In Steve Coll’s “Ghost Wars,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 account of the CIA, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, the bin Laden family gets passing...
May 8, 4:15 PM | By SCOTT LINDLAW
Associated Press Write
How ’Iron Man’ was trounced by a scruffy car thief
Niko Bellic is richer than Tony Stark.
May 8, 4:10 PM |
By DERRIK J. LANG
AP Entertainment Writer
“Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History,” by Ted Sorensen (HarperCollins, $27.95,
A great speechwriter is a master of timing, as well as a maker of phrases.
May 8, 11:01 AM | By Tim Rutten
Los Angeles Times
The Solitary Vice: Against Reading,” by Mikita Brottman (Counterpoint, $14.95, 230 pp.)
There are two kinds of people: those who read obsessively and everybody else.
May 8, 10:52 AM | Reviewed by David L. Ulin
Los Angeles Times
Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards
HARTFORD, Conn. — Facebook, the world’s second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.
May 8, 10:46 AM
VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Gran Turismo 5 missing something
The Gran Turismo series continues with “Gran Turismo 5: Prologue,” a release oozing with style and computer graphic splendor, but lacking in the captivating game-play department.
May 8, 10:41 AM | By RON HARRIS
Associated Press Writer
VIDEO-GAME NEWS: ’Grand Theft Auto’ backlash begins
• DRIVEN INSANE: Now that the year’s biggest video game has arrived, it may be time to add a new feature to this column: Who’s Mad at “Grand Theft Auto IV” This Week? For starters, we’ve heard protests from feminists, immigrant groups, New York City...
May 8, 10:35 AM | By LOU KESTEN
Associated Press Writer
Three games from Final Fantasy
In the late 1990s, the Japanese publisher Square could do no wrong.
May 8, 10:28 AM | Lou Kerstin
AP Writer
Snoop Dogg Gets Lathered Up for Daytime TV
Snoop Dogg on Thursday jumps from the thug life to the soap life.
May 8, 10:24 AM | By Greg Braxton
Los Angeles Times
‘American Idol’ boots another finalist; 3 singers remainl
NEW YORK — Simon Cowell once told Jason Castro that his face would save him from elimination. Not this time.
May 8, 10:22 AM | By ERIN CARLSON
Associated Press Writer
Musical Theatre company stages 'Damn Yankees'
The Western Nevada Musical Theatre Company does it again with the classic musical comedy "Damn Yankees," just in time for baseball fans.
May 7, 11:31 PM | SAM BAUMAN
Appeal Entertainment Editor
BAC Stage Kids bring 'Treasure Island' to town
Robert Louis Stevenson was an unsuccessful Scottish writer in his 30s when he saw his 12-year-old stepson drawing a map of an island. The map gave him the idea for a book and he wrote on it "Treasure Island."
May 7, 11:29 PM | Sam Bauman
Appeal Entertainment Editor
Encores Come to the Met
NEW YORK — It was a night for the history books.
May 6, 5:51 PM | By Linda Winer
Newsday
The High Price of High Stakes ‘Doping’
Watching Alison Rooper’s documentary “Doping for Gold,” which premieres Wednesday night on PBS’s “Secrets of the Dead” series, it’s easy to make it a “them” or even “then” experience.
May 6, 4:40 PM | Los Angeles Times
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