NASCAR Champions Week is the weeklong celebration leading up to the annual awards banquet for the racing series. After more than two decades in New York City, NASCAR officials moved the events to Las Vegas this year. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway hosted the Chasers for Charity Fanfest on Wednesday, December 2, to kick off Champions Week. The Top 12 Victory Lap Parade had the top drivers parading their cars down the world-famous Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, December 3. The week culminated with the annual Sprint Cup Series Awards Ceremony on Friday, December 4.
What are you working for anyway? Get down here for crying out loud your drink is getting warm!
www.VisitLasVegas.com From world-class resorts to unparalleled shows and events, shopping, dining, nightlife, golf and luxury spas, Las Vegas has something for everyone. Whether you\’re planning a business meeting, wedding, or the ultimate vacation escape, there\’s one destination that has everything right there at your fingertips — Only Vegas.
If not for the Hoover Dam, Las Vegas may not exist.
Construction began in 1931 and the workers needed ways to relax on their days off. 5200 laborers were assembled and proceeded working twenty four hours a day. The dam was finished in 1936. It helped conserve water for electrical, industrial, and irrigation purposes. The dam has become just one of the world\’s major electrical generating plants that provided surrounding towns with a low cost and clean hydroelectric power.
The $165 million Hoover Dam paid for itself by selling electrical power to the states of California, Arizona, and Nevada.
The dam holds back 9.2 trillion gallons of water. This water is kept in Lake Mead, a reservoir facilitated by the construction of the dam. There are four intake towers on the lake that drop the water down about 600 feet to help drive turbines and create power.
660 feet at the top tapering to 45 feet where the road crosses at the top, the dam is a massive curved wall. It is 726 feet tall which is about the height of a 60 foot skyscraper.
The visitor center opened in 1995 and is built upon a three level circular structure with a rooftop overlook. You will enter into the Reception Lobby where there is a gift shop and you can purchase souvenirs of your visit to the dam. They carry photographs, articles, videos, and other paraphernalia relating to the dam and the people who built it.
There are thirty minute tours of the dam that leave every fifteen minutes. These tours go down about 561 feet into the bowels of the dam. You will see the massive turbines and even get to go outside on the downriver side for a look back up at the massive structure.
This video segment shows a 1913 Indian 8 valve Board Track racer on the auction block at the 2010 Mid America Las Vegas Antique Motorcycle Auction.
Indian motorcycles were manufactured from 1901 to 1953 by a company in Springfield, Massachusetts initially known as the Hendee Manufacturing Company but which was renamed the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company in 1928. The Indian factory team took the first three places in the 1911 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. During the 1910s Indian became the largest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world. Indians most popular models were the Scout, made from 1920 to 1946, and the Chief, made from 1922 to 1953. The Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company went bankrupt in 1953.
Between 1953 and the early 1970s, different organizations imported motorcycles into the United States and applied the Indian logo to them, with varying degrees of legitimacy. The rights to the Indian marque were reconciled in the late 1990s and were acquired by Indian Motorcycle Company of America, which began building new Indian motorcycles in Gilroy, California in 1999. The Indian Motorcycle Company of America went bankrupt and ceased production in 2003.
Rights to the Indian marque were acquired by the Indian Motorcycle Company of Kings Mountain, North Carolina in 2006. The concern has since begun production of the new Indian motorcycle.
Please keep your eyes on the sky! Cloud 9 Entertainment is planning to replace the Cloud 9 Balloon Ride with a bigger and better Las Vegas Attraction! Until it\’s announced, Cloud 9 Entertainment has partnered with Las Vegas Safari to bring you Safari on the Strip! An exotic animal encounter featuring baby rhinos, zebras, girraffes, camels and SO MUCH MORE! Opening the week of March 22nd!
Learn the stealing blinds strategy for winning Texas Holdem poker tournaments in this free poker instructional videos from our expert card game player and professional casino gambler.
Bernadette Peters Tickets for her May 1, 2010 Performance at Artemus Ham Hall on the campus of UNLV are on sale now.
Join the UNLV Performing Arts Center for a classic evening of Broadway and cabaret with Broadway\’s biggest star. A 7-time Tony nominee, Bernadette Peters simply dazzles audiences and critics alike.
Broadway Barks, is the charity Bernadette supports helping kennel doggies find homes.
When: 8 p.m., Saturday, May 1
Where: UNLV\’s Ham Hall; 895-2787
Cost: $45-$90
Place of Birth: Ozone Park, New York Sign: Pisces Occupation: Actor, Singer Education: Attended Quintano School for Young Professionals B\’way Debut: 1967 (The Girl in the Freudian Slip)
Throughout her illustrious career, Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage, on television, in concert, and in the recording industry. In 2003, she received her seventh Tony Award nomination for her electrifying portrayal of Momma Rose in Sam Mendes\’ record-breaking Broadway revival of Gypsy. Her brilliant performance was captured on the Grammy award-winning Gypsy cast recording, released by Angel Records in August 2003. Peters\’ latest CD, Sondheim, Etc., Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It),also on Angel Records (August 2005), features never-before-released highlights from her historic 1996 solo debut at Carnegie Hall.
In June 1999, Peters earned her second Tony Award, her third Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her showstopping portrayal of Annie Oakley in one of Broadway\’s most popular musicals, the smash Tony Award-winning hit Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun. In 1996, she made her highly-anticipated solo debut at Carnegie Hall in an exclusive concert benefiting Gay Men\’s Health Crisis – a performance she repeated in Bernadette Peters in Concert, her London solo debut at Royal Festival Hall, which later was telecast on PBS and is now available on DVD.
A native of Ozone Park, New York, Peters began her performing career at the age of 3 with appearances on Juvenile Jury, the classic TV game show Name That Tune, and The Horn & Hardart Children\’s Hour. She made her theatrical debut in This is Goggle, starring James Daly and Kim Hunter, directed by the legendary Otto Preminger. Still in her teens, she appeared in The Most Happy Fella and The Penny Friend and performed in the national touring company of Gypsy.
Peters made her Broadway debut in 1967 in Johnny No-Trump, and in 1968 starred with Joel Grey in the musical George M!, earning a Theatre World Award for her memorable portrayal of Josie Cohan. That same year, she received a Drama Desk Award for her showstopping performance in the smash hit off-Broadway musical Dames at Sea, and quickly became one of the most sought-after stars in musical theatre.
One of Broadway\’s brightest stars, Peters received both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her critically-acclaimed performance in Andrew Lloyd Webber\’s hit musical Song and Dance. She garnered Tony nominations for her memorable performance as Momma Rose in Sam Mendes\’ critically-acclaimed revival of Gypsy. \”Bernadette Peters is a revelation!\” Ben Brantley of The New York Times declared of her star turn in the show. Peters also received Tony nominations for her work in the 1992 musical The Goodbye Girl; Stephen Sondheim\’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park With George; the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel; and the Leonard Bernstein/Comden and Green musical On The Town. In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her memorable portrayal of the Witch in Stephen Sondheim\’s Into the Woods.
While Peters is best known for her work in the theatre, her career doesn\’t end at the footlights. She boasts an impressive list of television credits ranging from performing arts specials such as PBS\’ Evening at Pops and The Kennedy Center Honors to appearances in variety shows such as The Carol Burnett Show and an Emmy-nominated performance on The Muppet Show. She appeared in the star-studded Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and also played an opera diva-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown in Terrence McNally\’s The Last Mile, both for PBS\’ highly acclaimed Great Performances series. Other television credits include PBS\’s Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh and the ABC-TV special Quincy Jones: The First 50 Years.
Peters received an Emmy nomination for her performance in FOX\’s hit TV series Ally McBeal. She portrayed the wicked stepmother in Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston, and also starred in What The Deaf Man Heard; The Odyssey starring Armand Assante, David, Fall From Grace with Kevin Spacey, and The Last Best Year with Mary Tyler Moore. She also appeared in the Showtime movie Bobbie\’s Girl (Daytime Emmy nomination) and Prince Charming, a TNT movie co-starring Martin Short and Christina Applegate.
Peters recorded the original title song for the 1998 feature film Barney\’s Great Adventure: The Movie, written by famed Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!, Mame). She can also be heard as the voice of \”Sophie\” in the feature film Anastasia, as \”Angelique\” in the special home video Beauty and the Beast: Enchanted Christmas, as Sue in The Land Before Time: The Great Longneck Migration, and the voice of Rita the Cat in the popular Steven Spielberg animated program Animaniacs.
A performer of amazing versatility, Peters has lit up the silver screen in 17 films throughout her distinguished career. She received a Golden Globe Award for her memorable performance in Pennies From Heaven. Film credits include The Jerk with Steve Martin, The Longest Yard with Burt Reynolds, Silent Movie with Mel Brooks, Annie with Carol Burnett, Pink Cadillac with Clint Eastwood, Slaves of New York with Mercedes Ruehl, Woody Allen\’s Alice with Mia Farrow, Impromptu with Hugh Grant and Mandy Patinkin, and most recently, It Runs in the Family, starring opposite Kirk and Michael Douglas.
In addition to numerous Grammy Award-winning Broadway cast albums including Gypsy and Annie Get Your Gun, Peters has recorded six solo albums: Sondheim, Etc., Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It); Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein (Grammy Nomination); the live recording Sondheim Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie Hall (Grammy Nomination); I\’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Grammy Nomination); Bernadette Peters; and Now Playing.
Peters has received numerous accolades throughout her distinctive career, ranging from the Tony Award to a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Police Athletic League (PAL), an organization which runs 84 youth centers and 150 summer camps for New York City\’s neediest children, named her as Woman of the Year for 1999. A few weeks earlier, the Actors Fund of America bestowed Peters with their Artistic Achievement Award. She has received the Special Advocate Award from the City of New York for her contributions to the gay and lesbian community, and is the youngest person to be inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. Peters also received the 2000 New York Heroes Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. In 2004, she was the Arts and Entertainment recipient of the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications, Inc. Other honors include the Sarah Siddons Actress of the Year Award and Harvard\’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year for her \”lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment.\”
Bernadette Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Gay Men\’s Health Crisis, for whom she also performed in a benefit concert version of Anyone Can Whistle. Peters\’ \”pet project\” is Broadway Barks, an annual, star-studded dog adoption event, she founded with friend Mary Tyler Moore, benefiting animal shelters throughout New York. She resides in New York City and Los Angeles.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
1968: Theatre World Award 1969: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance for Dames at Sea 1972: Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for On the Town 1975: Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for Mack and Mabel 1981: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) for Pennies from Heaven 1984: Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for Sunday in the Park with George 1985: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Song and Dance 1985: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for Song and Dance 1985: Drama League Award Outstanding Performance of the Season for Song and Dance 1993: Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for The Goodbye Girl 1999: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for Annie Get Your Gun 1999: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for Annie Get Your Gun 1999: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Annie Get Your Gun 2003: Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, Gypsy 2003: Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, Gypsy
STAGE CREDITS:
The Most Happy Fella -Performer – NY Center Opera – 1959 Gypsy - Dainty June (understudy) – U.S. Tour – 1961 The Penny Friend - Performer – Stage 73 (off-Broadway) – 1966 Curly McDimple- Performer – Bert Wheeler Theater (off-Broadway) – 1967 The Girl in the Freudian Slip – Leslie Maugham (Standby) – Booth Theatre (Broadway) – 1967 Johnny No-Trump – Bettina – Cort Theatre (Broadway) – 1967 A Mother\’s Kisses – Performer – Shubert Theatre (New Haven, CT) – 1968 Dames at Sea – Ruby – Bouwerie Lane Theatre (off-Broadway) 1968 George M! – Josie Cohan – Palace Theatre (Broadway) – 1968 La Strada – Gelsomina – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (Broadway) – 1969 W.C. – Performer – U.S. Tour – 1970 Nevertheless They Laugh – Consuelo – Lamb\’s Club (off-Broadway) – 1970 On the Town – Hildy Esterhazy – Imperial Theatre (Broadway) – 1971 Mack and Mabel – Mabel Normand – Majestic Theatre (Broadway) – 1974 Sally and Marsha- Sally – Manhattan Theatre Club (off-Broadway) – 1982 Sunday in the Park with George - Dot/Marie – Booth Theatre (Broadway) – 1984 Song and Dance- Emma – Royale Theatre (Broadway) – 1985 Into the Woods - Witch – Martin Beck Theatre (Broadway) – 1987 The Goodbye Girl- Paula – Marquis Theatre (Broadway) – 1993 Sunday in the Park with George(10th Reunion Concert) – Dot/Marie – St. James Theatre (Broadway) – 1994 Into the Woods (10th Reunion Concert) – Witch – Broadway Theatre (Broadway) - 1997 Annie Get Your Gun – Annie Oakley – Marquis Theatre (Broadway) – 1999 Gypsy – Rose – Shubert Theatre (Broadway) – 2003
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