Sarah Feldberg

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Primm deals for parents, CityCenter's beer for a nickel: Tuesday, June 1, 2010; Local parents, rejoice. There’s something to occupy your kids this month as summer boredom creeps up.
Serendipity offers food specials for its birthday: Monday, April 5, 2010; It seems like only yesterday that Serendipity 3 was serving its first Frrrozen Hot Chocolate here in Las Vegas, but a glance at the calendar reveals that it's been an entire year since the New York transplant set up shop at Caesars Palace. This month, the modern ice cream parlor is celebrating its first birthday with a handful of food specials.
Skullcandy and Hard Rock ink partnership: Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010; Headphone company to name stages, provide in-room playlists at hotel-casino.
Tina, where's my martini?: Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010; When you name an event in Las Vegas Martini Time, you'd better serve a drink.
Naughty chefs and armpit hair: Our favorite "Top Chef" moments: Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Top Chef Finale: Betting on brothers: Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009; Bravo bet on casting brothers on "Top Chef: Las Vegas" and the gamble definitely paid off.
Top Chef Odds Finale: From many, one: Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009; A look back at the surprisingly accurate odds after the first week of "Top Chef", and who the lines have winning it all.
Top Chef Episode 13: A few good chefs: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009; We could have cut the competitive tension on last night's finale with a cheese knife. If we had a cheese knife.
Top Chef Episode 11: Child's play: Friday, Nov. 13, 2009; That’s what guest judge Nigella Lawson called panna cotta on Wednesday night’s episode of "Top Chef: Las Vegas."
Top Chef Odds Week 11: And then there were six: Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009; Work up an appetite for twists. "Top Chef: Las Vegas" is bound to finish up with a few surprises.
Top Chef Odds Week 10: Portman and Paul: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009; Tempers are flaring. Patience is wearing thin, and the competition is reaching a boiling point. Check out these odds to see which chefs are most likely to keep their cool.
"Top Chef" sweetens up with pastry series "Just Desserts": Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009; Move over savory. "Top Chef's" new pastry spin-off series is casting in Las Vegas.
Top Chef Episode 9: Choose your own adventure: Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009; Just don't choose the one with the broken butter sauce and undercooked lamb.
Top Chef Odds Week 9: Restaurant Wars: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009; On tonight's episode of Top Chef: Las Vegas knives will come out, egos will flare and illusions of grandeur will die in a flurry of flames on the burners at RM Seafood. It's time for Restaurant Wars.
Top Chef Episode 8: Charlie Palmer University: Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009; Some chefs thrived under Charlie Palmer's watchful eye and seasoned palette, others just got schooled.
Top Chef Odds Week 8: Voltaggios reign no more: Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009; The wonder brothers, Bryan and Michael Voltaggio, are no longer at the head of the Top Chef: Las Vegas class. In the lead in this week's odds a red-haired southern boy.
Top Chefs go Stir Crazy in Sin City: Monday, Oct. 12, 2009; What happens after the producers leave the chefs'testants alone in the Top Chef: Las Vegas house? They go a little bit crazy. An online video series sheds some light with hilarious results.
Top Chef Episode 7: Stressed, Tangy, American: Friday, Oct. 9, 2009
Top Chef Odds Week 7: Betting on the breakdown: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009; Wynn Las Vegas Director of Race & Sports Operations Johnny Avello deconstructs the chefs' performances on the deconstruction challenge for this week's new lines.
Top Chef Episode 6: Parts > Whole: Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009; Last night the chef'testants were asked to deconstruct classic comfort food, but the challenge nearly caused a few chefs to breakdown.
Top Chef Odds Week 6: Losers walk: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009; Will Robin make it out of the next episode to cook another day? I wouldn't bet on it.
Top Chef Episode 5: Countrified competition: Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009; The chefs had to think outside the kitchen on the fifth episode of Top Chef: Las Vegas.
Top Chef Odds Week 5: It's all in the eyes: Friday, Sept. 11, 2009; In Kenny Rogers’ classic song “The Gambler,” the title character talks about reading people's faces. On the last episode of Top Chef Robin's face said, "I'm not qualified to be here."
Top Chef Episode 4: En Francais, si'il vous plait: Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009; Tackling French flavors in front of “Chef of the Century” Joël Robuchon is enough to make just about any chef want to piss his checkered pants, but for the most part, the chef'testants pulled through without getting soaked.
Top Chef Episode 3: Preeti takes the plunge: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009; It was sink or swim on the third episode of Top Chef as the chefs made meals for the masses at Nellis Air Force Base.
Top Chef Odds Week 3: Hanging tough on top: Monday, Aug. 31, 2009; Gambling and "Top Chef" pair as well as guacamole macaroons and tequila.
Top Chef Episode 2: Bros before everyone else: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009; Philadelphia may sport the moniker “City of Brotherly Love,” but last night on “Top Chef” Las Vegas was the town getting warm and fuzzy over a pair of sibling chefs.
Introducing The Jet Stream: Chef Jet Tila's take on Top Chef: Las Vegas: Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009; Wazuzu Chef Jet Tila knows a thing or two about what it takes to be a top chef. Every Thursday he'll be turning his culinary expertise towards Top Chef: Las Vegas.
Atmosphere slugs it out at House of Blues: Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009; From the first lines of “God Loves Ugly” to the last chants of “let it shine,” indie-rap outfit Atmosphere owned the House of Blues on Tuesday night.
Top Chef Episode 1: Vice is nice: Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009; On Top Chef: Las Vegas's season premiere the judges got to know the chefs through their vices, interpreted in culinary form for (mostly) delicious results.
Cooking up the odds on Top Chef: Las Vegas: Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009; From the Wynn's Johnny Avello, the odds on which white-coated chef will take home the Top Chef cash.
Top Chef Countdown, D-Day: The Vegas Effect: Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009; What does the desert climate mean to culinary artists? Better baking.
'Top Chef' Countdown, Day 1: Brotherly love: Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009; Meet two chefs to watch on Top Chef: Las Vegas, brothers Michael and Bryan Voltaggio. (They're even bunking in the same room.)
Top Chef Countdown, Day 2: Bring on the B-A-C-O-N: Monday, Aug. 17, 2009; As Top Chef Masters judge and Savuer editor James Oseland put it in a recent blog, “bacon is the new black.” That makes Top Chef New York Fashion Week.
Top Chef Countdown, Day 3: Out of the frying pan, into the blogosphere: Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009; When each episode of Top Chef wraps, the conversation is just beginning. Find out which judges and past competitors will be blogging about Top Chef: Las Vegas.
Top Chef Countdown, Day 5: The Glad family of not-so-subtle sponsorship: Friday, Aug. 14, 2009; If you’ve ever watched an episode of Top Chef, you probably noticed three very important things: Padma is stunning. The food looks incredible. And the Glad family of products is apparently a chef’s best friend.
'Top Chef' Countdown, Day 7: Words of wisdom from Gene: Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009; We're counting down to the premiere of Top Chef: Las Vegas with musings on bacon, Marcel and whether sous vide cooking will be this season's molecular gastronomy. Today, Season 5's Gene Villiatora offers advice for the chefs watching their primetime debut.
Back in time with Blink-182 at the Joint: Saturday, July 25, 2009
By coincidence, Michael Jackson items up for auction: Thursday, June 25, 2009
Small talk dominates as CineVegas gets under way: Thursday, June 11, 2009; The first night of CineVegas is like a high school reunion. There are familiar faces and not so familiar ones, a lot of introductions and re-introductions and many rounds of catch up small talk as people jostle for position at the bar, getting friendlier with each glass of Stella Artois.
Cher celebrates 63rd birthday on stage at Caesars: Tuesday, May 19, 2009; Hold onto your acupuncture needles and age-defying moisturizers, diva extraordinaire and Las Vegas headliner Cher is turning 63 Wednesday.
Cirque sets its sights on Manhattan: Wednesday, April 29, 2009; "O." "Ka." "Zumanity." "Mystére." "Love." And yes, "Believe." With six of Cirque du Soleil’s 10 resident shows holed up in Las Vegas casinos, there is no better city than Las Vegas to take in Cirque’s over top spectacles replete with well-muscled contortionists and acrobats and lots of custom spandex.
Las Vegas chef launches tasty iPhone app: Monday, April 20, 2009; Ago's James Beard-recognized chef, Marco Porceddu, wants to come home and cook you dinner ... virtually, of course.
3 Doors Down coming to GVR pool: Thursday, April 2, 2009; When childhood friends from Escatawpa, Miss., Brad Arnold, Matt Roberts and Todd Harrell burst onto the Billboard charts in 2000 with moody rock anthem “Kryptonite,” the trio at the heart of 3 Doors Down were soon playing arenas that could fit the entire population of their hometown many times over.
Shoulder shimmy is a death shake for Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce: Saturday, March 28, 2009; Say goodbye to the shoulders shaking into a seductive frenzy, to the tassels, the live band and that fabulous wall of pearl beads that miraculously took the place of a stripper pole every night.
Panic at the Disco joins the historic ranks at the Hard Rock: Friday, Oct. 10, 2008; Under a row of signed drums and cymbals from artists like Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, local boys Panic at the Disco signed their way into Hard Rock history.
Rock Band 2 addicts, prepare for Biscuits of Doom: Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008