Monday night bingo is a staple at the Knights of Columbus in South Milwaukee at 732 Badger Ave. They’ve held bingo there for more than 30 years. The prizes are a guaranteed $3,300. Tuesday has two opportunities to play, in the morning at the American Legion post 416 at 6351 W Grange Ave in Greendale with a 9:45 am start. Pioneer bingo fills out your Tuesday evening they’re located at the beautiful Taj Palace at 3665 East Grange Ave. in Cudahy. Wednesday night brings us right back to the Pioneer bingo at the Taj Palace, where they have lots of pull tabs available. The bingo games are a minimum of $100 each and a Progressive Jackpot is played each night. Starting at 6:00pm. Every Thursday American Legion Post 1 in
Germantown has bingo they are at N120 W15932 Freistadt Rd. $2,000 in prizes and a $1,000 raffle on the last Thursday of the month. Tichigan Lions run bingo the 1st, 3rd and 5th Thursdays of the month featuring a progressive jackpot. Friday, Saint Francis Lions plays weekly at 6:30pm they are located at 3476 E Howard Ave in Saint Francis their evening starts with the progressive jackpot. Saint Joseph’s parish in Big Bend have bingo the 1st and 3rd Friday with a sliding scale on their progressive jackpot consolation you can find them at S89 W22650 Milwaukee Ave. in Big Bend. In a not your normal bingo event Danish Brotherhood Lodge # 14 Kenosha has bingo on a couple Fridays each month check their website danishbrother-
hood.us or Bingo Bugle for dates. Saturday has no bingos except once in a while Pioneer runs one at the Taj Palace. Sunday has five options for you, 12:30pm at the Moose 49 5476 S 13th St. Milwaukee progressive jackpot closes out their session. Elks lodge #46 on 5555 W. Good Hope Rd. starts at noon with over $2,000 in prizes. American Legion Post 416 in Greendale has bingo at 6pm Sunday evening $1,500 in prizes and a progressive jackpot. Saint Bernadette at 8200 W. Denver Ave. Milwaukee starts bingo at 5pm with $2,500 available and a progressive. The 2nd and 4th Sunday Elks Lodge 400 at 2301 Springdale Rd. in Waukesha play. Over $2,000 available in prizes along with great food with a 1pm start.
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Horoscopes for April 2025
ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20): Prepare to shed old identities that no longer serve your well-being.
Lucky Days: 7 - 29
Lucky Numbers: 8 - 19
TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21): This is an excellent month to take a short journey to free your mind from troubles or pressures.
Lucky Days: 9 - 11
Lucky Numbers: 3 - 44
GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21): Align with a teacher who can help answer some of your pressing questions.
Lucky Days: 23 - 27
Lucky Numbers: 28 - 50
CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22): The full Moon on the 12th allows you to leave a relationship that doesn’t serve you.
Lucky Days: 7 - 11
Lucky Numbers: 4 - 25
LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23):
Acknowledging facts and truths is essential to your success.
Lucky Days: 3 - 11
Lucky Numbers: 29 - 49
VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23): You are now experiencing a crash course on gracefully maturing.
Lucky Days: 6 - 18
Lucky Numbers: 33 - 39
LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23): You are ready to spend more quality time with fewer individuals.
Lucky Days: 5 - 12
Lucky Numbers: 3 - 49
SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22): This is a great month to turn irritation into inspiration.
Lucky Days: 1 - 11
Lucky Numbers: 33 - 52
SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21): Your untethered side must be allowed to roam free this month.
Lucky Days: 7 - 9
Lucky Numbers: 21 - 50
CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20): You may need to confront a colleague who isn’t giving credit where it is due.
Lucky Days: 4 - 8
Lucky Numbers: 33 - 46
AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19): If you are frustrated now, it is most likely related to out-of-whack power dynamics.
Lucky Days: 4 - 17
Lucky Numbers: 6 - 35
PISCES (FEB 20-MAR 20): Inspiration is heightened by those in your close circle who openly acknowledge your gifts.
Lucky Days: 18 - 25
Lucky Numbers: 33 - 39
Sign of Aries Horoscope Highlights
Born Mar. 21st-30th: You’re inspired to create something new, perhaps yet untried. By May’s end, others will rally behind you.
Ultimate April days: 1, 6, 16, 25
Born Mar. 31st-Apr. 9th: Good fortune boosts your finances through the 20th. Seek expert advice to make the most of your investments.
Ultimate April days: 2, 7, 17, 21
Born Apr. 10th-19th: Lean on caring friends for support as you calmly diffuse family tensions early April—financial relief arrives just in time.
Ultimate April days: 3, 7, 22, 26
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An unfortunate situation occurred at a local Bingo hall. At the beginning of each Bingo session, all 75 Bingo balls are placed on a tray and verified by both a player and worker, making sure no balls are missing or cracked. Once checked, the balls are dumped in the machine hopper.
After 40 games and 3 and a half hours of Bingo playing, a few players noted that O-71 had not been called even once all night long. Curious, we went up to the call stand and asked to see all 75 balls.
Sure enough, O-71 was missing, later to be found on the floor under the call stand! Apparently when the tray of Bingo balls was emptied into the machine, O-71 didn’t quite make it into the hopper.
One Bingo player who needed O-71 for a $1,199 Blackout was livid, demanding to be paid for a Blackout she had no chance of winning due to the missing O-71. The manager refused to pay her $1,199 and offered this explanation:
“If we pay you, then we would have to pay everyone who needed O-71 for a Bingo or Blackout this evening.”
“There is no guarantee that O-71 would have been one of the 58 numbers called during the Blackout game.”
Knowing this Bingo number missing was just an accident, how should the manager have dealt with it? Give everyone who played a refund?
How would you react if you found out a Bingo number you needed for a large payout wasn’t in the machine, but rather on the floor under the call stand?
—Jim Metzger, Portland, Oregon
Dear Jim,
That’s an easy question to answer: If I had been waiting for that O-71, I would be furious! And I would want those two dopes who didn’t see the ball falling to the floor to pay me!!!
There. Now that I have finished my rant, I will address the rest of your story.
My closest experience to this was a Bingo session at a local community center where a particular ball also did not come up. About three-quarters of the way through the session a sharpeyed player saw that a ball was stuck in the corner of the blower. When it was jiggled loose it was revealed to be the “missing” ball.
After that, all hell broke loose. Losers were furious, winners were afraid they might lose their winnings—it was not a pretty scene. The hall manager finally announced that anyone was welcome to a refund due to the technical error. The majority of players took their money and walked…including two people who had won jackpots!
To me, a refund is the only fair way to deal with the situation. The mistake was not intentional, and the manager was right—there was no guarantee the number would have come up for the angry winner. But the number of balls was wrong, so the entire session is a forfeit.
Aunt Bingo
New VA Secretary Doug Collins
Changes are coming fast and furious at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Since these impact many of us, we need to pay attention to what’s going on and who’s now in charge.
The VA has a new secretary, Douglas A. Collins, the 12th in the position since the VA was started in 1988. Collins is an Air Force veteran, served as chaplain, has been a Reserve colonel for 23 years and additionally served for two years in the Navy. He served in Iraq and at his confirmation hearing said that he slept next to burn pits for many months. He’s an attorney and was a U.S. representative for a Georgia district from 2013 to 2021.
Quite the resume, and the Senate vote to confirm him was fairly strong: 77 to 23.
He’s jumped right in, saying he wants to expand the VA’s private sector care and figure out how to get rid of employees who aren’t
doing their job. He stopped the employee teleworking right away, insisting people come back to work, and put a hiring freeze in place until things shake out and they see if there are any vacancies once people decide if they’re staying or going. Further, he vowed to fix the $16 billion computer system that’s been sitting unfinished for two years.
Sometimes you just want to see a man and hear his voice before you make up your mind about him. Go online to YouTube and look for “Doug Collins opening remarks in Veterans Affairs secretary confirmation hearing.”
Watching that video, I liked things about him that have nothing directly to do with the VA and the position he’s been given, but instead tell what kind of a man he is. He’s been married 36 years, he still has a bracelet a female Airman made for him when he was a flightline chaplain 15 years ago and he thanked his 88-yearold father. In the end, those things matter.
I wish him well.
PICKS OF THE MONTH
A Complete Unknown (R) — Hollywood’s golden boy Timothee Chalamet (Dune: Part Two) transforms into singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in this biopic. The film begins in 1961, when an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan makes his trek to New York from Minnesota and becomes part of the emerging folk music scene. On his way to becoming the artist we now know today, Dylan meets a handful of musicians like his idol Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), and Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), who all play significant roles in his development as an artist. While the film barely made up its budget at the box office despite Chalamet’s ingenious marketing tactics, it received eight Academy Award and three Golden Globe nominations. (Amazon Prime Video)
The Brutalist (R) — This A24 film led by Adrien Brody (Asteroid City) was also a critical darling, snagging 10 Academy Award nominations and giving Brody another shot to land a Best Actor award. The epic period drama follows the heartbreaking story of HungarianJewish Holocaust survivor Laszlo Toth (Brody), who immigrates to the United States after surviving
the Buchenwald concentration camp and being separated from his wife and daughter. While he was a respected architect in Europe, Laszlo’s first years in the U.S. are anything but respectable, until a wealthy client hires him for a luxurious construction project. Now with the promise of the American Dream and a chance to be reunited with his family, Laszlo assumes that his struggles have finally been rewarded ... but they’ve only just begun. (Apple TV+)
Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy (TV-MA) — Best known as Chandler Bing from the iconic TV series Friends, Matthew Perry shocked the world when he was found dead at only 54 inside of his Los Angeles home on Oct. 28, 2023. Since Perry was always open about his struggle with drug addiction, many suspected that an overdose was at play. It was later confirmed to be from a high dose of ketamine that was obtained illegally from two doctors. This documentary, out on Feb. 25, discusses the final days leading up to his tragic death, while also explaining his incredible rise to fame. (Peacock)
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Get Back Jack
We met Jack at a Native American casino where we were intrigued by his approach to Bingo. He played the game as if it were an opponent he had to defeat. First, he chanted, then implored, then tried to bribe for the number he wanted. “Come on, Baby,” he would say.
“Gimme a four, a four, a four,” or “Fifty-five that’s my number. I’ll take you for a drink if you give me fifty-five.”
“Whom are you talking to?” I asked.
“The gods of chance,” he said. “Or anyone who may be listening.”
square.
“Yellow, yellow, yellow submarine,” he’d say, using his yellow marker and daubing wildly.
I was surprised he ever won anything with all that activity going on, but he did and quite regularly. Once, he grabbed my card and exchanged it for his own. He promptly won and gave all the winnings to me. “Because you deserve them,” he said.
“Damn right,” I said under my breath. “That was my card.”
He had other rituals he observed along the way. Like, taking off his cap, turning it around three times then putting it on backwards.
Then we were on to a special game, so we had to pay careful attention to our cards.
“Oh, I’m on,” said Kate excitedly. “Come on eleven. Come on eleven.”
She wasn’t letting go, however, and held her card out of reach.
“I just want to absorb some energy from this winner,” Jack explained, but Kate was having none of it and blocked him until the floor worker showed up to verify her card.
“Now may I touch it?” asked Jack.
“No,” said Kate as she turned her chair slightly away from him.
Another game came up and we were obliged to pay attention to our cards.
“I was on again,” moaned Jack. “I am coming so close. If you had let me touch your card, I would have won.”
Kate ignored him and he began to chant “yellow submarine,” just loud enough to annoy me a bit, too.
Just before we were done for the evening, Jack won and was ecstatically happy.
“Whom are you talking to?” I asked.
Then he had symbols that were supposed to have special meaning.
“Dime on the free space. Dime on the free space,” he’d say and actually put a dime on the middle
Then Jack was also on for twelve and I felt left out.
Suddenly Kate yelled, “Bingo!” and Jack grabbed for her card.
“I want to take you out for drinks or dinner to celebrate,” he said. But Kate was having none of that.
“You have provided us with enough entertainment to last a whole week. We will just take what we’ve got and be thankful. See you next time.” And with that she walked out of the building.
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Allesandra reveals your lucky days for April 2025
Lucky Predictions for April 2025
ARIES: March 21 to April 19
1st thru 6th…
Falls into place the 2nd$$ 7th thru 12th…
You’re up for it 6th-7th$ 13th thru 18th…
Scope it out 16th$ 19th thru 24th…
None the wiser 22nd–score! 25th thru 30th…
Talk your way to $$ 29th-30th!
TAURUS: April 20 to May 20 1st thru 6th…
Near the sea (the 5th)$ 7th thru 12th…
Common sense wins the 8th! 13th thru 18th…
Take time & win 16th$ 19th thru 24th…
Wishes come true 23rd$! 25th thru 30th…
You make the call 27th-28th$$
GEMINI: May 21 to June 21
1st thru 6th…
A sure win the 2nd!
7th thru 12th…
Slick & quick 11th-12th$$ 13th thru 18th…
Hold off for now 19th thru 24th…
Your choice(s) 21st-22nd!$ 25th thru 30th…
Multiple wins 26th & 30th!$!
CANCER: June 22 to July 22
1st thru 6th…
Grand possibilities (5th)$!
7th thru 12th… It could happen the 8th 13th thru 18th…
GREEN = winning 14th-15th$$
19th thru 24th…
Rare move delivers 24th$ 25th thru 30th…
Right on the $$ 27th-28th
LEO: July 23 to Aug. 22
1st thru 6th…
Wait ‘til the 6th
7th thru 12th…
Friend knows best 11th-12th$
13th thru 18th…
ORANGE luck 17th$ 19th thru 24th…
Break time
25th thru 30th…
Get busy & win 29th-30th$$
VIRGO: Aug. 23 to Sept. 22
1st thru 6th…
BLUE gets you $$ 4th-5th
7th thru 12th…
Sit this one out
13th thru 18th…
Luck’s on your side 15th$$ 19th thru 24th…
Hard card delivers 19th-20th$ 25th thru 30th… Not bad the 28th$
LIBRA: Sept. 23 to Oct. 23
1st thru 6th…
PURPLE surprise the 2nd$ 7th thru 12th…
Hard to keep up 6th-7th!$! 13th thru 18th…
Decent chance the 16th 19th thru 24th…
Yep, all yours 21st-22nd$! 25th thru 30th… Double trouble 29th-30th$$
SCORPIO: Oct. 24 to Nov. 21 1st thru 6th…
Easy peasy the 5th$!$ 7th thru 12th…
Quick surprise the 8th$! 13th thru 18th…
Do the opposite 18th 19th thru 24th…
Money finds you 24th$ 25th thru 30th…
Back in the game 28th!
SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 22 to Dec. 21 1st thru 6th…
Better days ahead 7th thru 12th…
In your pocket the 12th$ 13th thru 18th…
Bet small the 16th 19th thru 24th…
Got what it takes 22nd!$ 25th thru 30th…
Blazin’ RED returns 26th$$
CAPRICORN: Dec. 22 to Jan. 19
1st thru 6th…
Cool win early the 1st!$! 7th thru 12th… You got it the 10th! 13th thru 18th…
Give & receive big the 5th$! 7th thru 12th… Quietly wait 13th thru 18th…
Much progress the 15th$ 19th thru 24th…
More awaits 19th-20th$$ 25th thru 30th…
Get all that’s coming to you 28th! Color associations refer to lucky objects, daubers, cards, machines, clothing/jewels you wear, or a dominant color in the room.
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Bingo Big in Brazil
Bingo, which has had a turbulent legal history in Brazil, is on the verge of a legitimate comeback. While the game was banned in the early 2000s due to concerns over money laundering and illegal gambling, a legislative shift is currently on the table. Having passed the approval of the Senate in 2024, dedicated new bills are expected to reintroduce bingo halls under a more regulated framework. This would provide significant opportunities for both local and international investors. Brazilian Senate projections envision 1.5 million direct and indirect jobs and potential annual revenues of R$22bn, benefitting
states, municipalities and the central government. Indeed, recent legislative changes are reaching further. After fine-tuning the sports betting and online casino rules in 2024, industry stakeholders expect a comprehensive framework for lotteries, bingo and land-based casino facilities. This regulatory evolution is part of a broader effort to modernize Brazil’s gambling sector, moving it away from state monopolies.
Furbaby Bingo a Hit
There are many reasons to attend the annual Furbaby Bingo event in Goldsboro, North Carolina—from the fun to the stellar prizes, but it is also an important fundraiser for the
Animal Welfare League of Wayne County to help improve the lives of companion animals around Wayne County. The fundraiser was first held in 2024 and raised $2,000, according to Donna Archer, board secretary. “It may not sound like a lot, but that money is very important. We used the money to start a spay, neuter voucher program, and we had 44 spayed. We gave $500 to the shelter for food around Christmas time,” Donna says. When Hurricane Helene hit, they took a big hit in donations. But despite that they went to work gathering donations of pet food—a collection drive that turned so big that the YMCA partnered with them. They drove seven box trucks worth of supplies to western North Carolina with pet food in each one.
Lower the Pressure UK company Buzz Bingo recently collaborated with LoSalt and the
Stroke Association to reduce stroke risk and promote heart health, launching a new initiative to help reduce high blood pressure and stroke risk throughout the UK. Working with LoSalt and the Stroke Association, Buzz Bingo introduced LoSalt at its venues in Gateshead and Stockport, areas which have been identified as stroke hotspots. This came ahead of Stroke Prevention Day on January 30th, where Buzz Bingo hosted a livestreamed charity bingo game in all of its clubs, to raise money for the Stroke Association. On top of this, there are other fundraising activities with the aim of raising £200,000 ($248,296.07) by the end of this year. Buzz Bingo Head of Brand Communications Mark Fletcher said: “We’re empowering our customers to make informed decisions about their health while supporting the Stroke Association’s vital work.”
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Poetry Corner
Coffee Break
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8th
15th
20th Last Day of Passover
20th Easter
21st Boston
27th New
1. TELEVISION: The show Happy Days is a spinoff of which older sitcom?
2. LITERATURE: Which author created the character Hercule Poirot?
3. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Where is Barack Obama’s presidential library located?
4. GEOGRAPHY: What river forms part of the border between the United States and Mexico?
5. ASTRONOMY: Which planet in our solar system has the strongest gravitational field?
6. U.S. STATES: Which four states intersect at the Four Corners monument?
7. SCIENCE: What is anemophily?
8. MOVIES: How much does an Oscar award trophy weigh?
9. WEATHER: What is a haboob?
10. MEASUREMENTS: How many millimeters are in a meter?
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Buzzing at Bingo
Hi Guy,
We are having a problem with cell-phone users at Bingo. People are lowering the volume somewhat but are not turning their cell phones off, so all night you hear little chirps and beeps and songs. Others turn their phones to “vibrate” so that you do not hear them ring, but they rattle on the table—which is equally noisy and distracting.
Don’t you think there should be a rule for Bingo halls that is the same for movie theaters—where people are required to shut off their cell phones during the movie so as not to disturb the other patrons?
—Stephen, Massachusetts, via email
Hi Stephen,
Shutting off cell phones in movie theaters is not so much a rule as it is
a courtesy—the theater operators ask that people turn them off, but patrons who choose not to do so are not breaking any laws; they’re just being jerks.
Lots of Bingo halls require that people shut off their cell phones before Bingo begins. Often, they will make an announcement before the start of Bingo, much like movie theaters do.
Because Bingo halls are licensed entities, they are allowed to make and enforce hall rules—for example: no players under age 16, no bringing in food or drinks from home, no sharing of Bingo packs, etc.
If halls choose to make a no-cellphone rule, it can be enforced as well. And I think they should. For emergency reasons, however, I think the vibrate function should be permitted—for text only. People just need to have the common sense/courtesy to keep their phones in their pockets and not leave them on the gaming tables to buzz and rattle and disturb other players. —Guy
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* “Tired of squirrels on your bird feeders? String a line of 2-liter soda bottles (as many as you like) together, and hang them between two trees, with the feeder in the middle. Works like a charm.” — C.V. in Maine
* If your kids (or you) like cereal, be sure to save the heavy plastic liners that hold the cereal inside the box. They are really handy when freezing meat patties in stacks. You can use them to separate layers of cookies, too.
* “I just finished packing up my house to move, and this little tip was a dandy: Use a toothpick to keep the open end of your tape from disappearing. When you cut the tape, slip a toothpick at the end that’s still on the roll. You will never have to go fishing for it again.” — L.K. in New Mexico
* If your water takes a minute to warm up, keep a pitcher by the sink. Let the water flow into the pitcher until it gets warm. Then, use that water (that otherwise would have been wasted) on your houseplants and in your garden.
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How to Play Against a Dealer’s 9 Upcard
When a dealer shows a 9 upcard in blackjack, they have about a 77% chance of getting to a final hand that totals 17 through 21 and only a 23% chance of busting (depending on the number of decks shuffled).
A 9, therefore, is a strong card for the dealer, which means we have to be more aggressive when we are dealt a stiff hand (hit rather than stand) and less aggressive when we are dealt a two-card soft hand (hit rather than double down).
We also should surrender one hand, even when it means we forfeit half our bet. What follows is the accurate playing strategy for any hand when the dealer shows a 9 upcard.
Fortunately for players, the playing strategy against a dealer’s 9 upcard is nearly the same for any number of decks of cards in blackjack or mix of playing rules, with only one exception discussed below.
Notations used in this article:
S17 = Dealer must stand on soft
17
H17 = Dealer must hit soft 17
DAS = Doubling down after pair
splitting is allowed
NDAS = Doubling down after pair
splitting is not allowed
H = Hit
S = Stand
P = Split
Dh = Double down if allowed; otherwise, hit
Rh = Surrender if allowed, otherwise hit
Playing a multi-deck game
Regardless of the playing rules, use the following strategy when facing a dealer’s 9 upcard.
Surrender if allowed, otherwise hit, if holding:
• Hard 16
Double down if allowed; otherwise hit, if holding:
• Hard 10 and 11
• Pair of 5s
Split if holding:
• Pair of As, 8s, and 9s
Hit if holding:
• Hard 5 through 9
• Hard 12 through 15
• A-2 through A-7
• Pair of 2s, 3s, 4s, 6s, and 7s
Stand if holding:
• Hard 17 through 20
• A-8 and A-9
• Pair of 10s
What if you are playing a singleor double-deck game?
The playing strategy for a singleor double-deck game is identical to the above multiple-deck game except for one strategy change:
• Do not surrender hard 16; hit instead.
For more playing strategy tips, consult Chapter 3 in my Ultimate Blackjack Strategy Guide
What's News in Nevada . . .
Late-Night at Lucky Pennies Station Casinos is advertising a handful of late-night specials, and one 24/7, in the Lucky Penny coffee shops at Green Valley Ranch and Red Rock. They’re the same specials at both: pancakes $3.99, biscuits and gravy $4.99, Deuces Wild (which we assume means two eggs) $4.99, and steak and eggs $9.99. These are all served 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily, but you have to show a Boarding Pass to qualify (not valid on holidays or during special events). A cheeseburger special for $5.99 is available all day every day.
Frank Marino Signs Long-Term Deal
Las Vegas’ longest-running headliner, Frank Marino, has signed a deal to appear “indefinitely” at Virgin Las Vegas. His show, Diva, Drag & Drinks, will run on select Fridays and Saturdays at 6 p.m., Sundays at 4, in the small 24 Oxford showroom. Tickets to see the 61-year-old Marino, who’s been performing in Las Vegas for 40 years, start at $49 (and come with a free drink).
Horror in Time for Halloween Universal’s long-planned year-round “Universal Horror Unleashed” at Area15 will debut on August 14 in plenty of time for Halloween. The huge 110,000-square-foot attraction will feature four haunted houses, branded with Universal themes: Universal Monsters, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scarecrow: The Reaping, and Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer. The four immersive venues will feature live entertainment, horror-themed food and beverage, and of course curated merchandise sales. Horror Unleashed will anchor Area15’s 20-acre expansion, Backstreet Boys at Sphere
The Backstreet Boys will become the first pop act to appear at Sphere
in a nine-show residency in July. The long-lived “boy” band was formed in the mid-1990s when all the members were in their teens; they’re now in their 40s but still going strong and are as popular as ever. This will be their fourth Vegas residency, having played Planet Hollywood twice and the Colosseum at Caesars once.
Kelly Clarkson Residency
Kelly Clarkson, the 42-year-old singer, songwriter, host of the daytime Kelly Clarkson Show, and winner of the inaugural season of American Idol, has announced a new residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. “Kelly Clarkson: Studio Sessions - The Las Vegas Residency” will run for 18 shows: July 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26; August 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16; and November 7, 8, 14, and 15.
Hot Dog Deal Gets Better
The hot dog deal at Downtown Grand now offers you a choice of the PBR in the can or a Lone Star beer in the bottle. Also, chicken tacos are now available for $2 each and they have two kinds of salsa, red and a cilantro-onion mix, plus sour cream, at the condiment bar. The hot dog (with sauerkraut) and beer deal for $3 is number seven in our The Nevada Top Ten list. It’s served from a counter near the casino entrance daily from 11 a.m. till about 10 p.m.
Sundry Food Hall Goes Asian
The high-tech Sundry food hall at the Uncommons mixed-use development across the street from Durango closed in June after barely a year in operation. It’s just been announced that the vacant space will be transformed into Stix Asia, with 12 Asian street-food outlets, along with a full schedule of holiday events, night markets, and live music. Stix is slated to open in early 2026.
Tattoos and Taxes
Most computer errors can be attributed to a similar problem…a screw loose behind the keyboard. - L A Murphy, Computers
Dear readers, I’m still in a foul mood. As I previously related, my laptop crashed and everything disappeared into cyber space, never to return. So, I bought a new one and now I’d like to crash my new one by throwing it into a wall. The older we get, the harder it is to retrain our brains for new techie thingies. My photo editing won’t let me sign in; my Word program is totally different, and I’m losing my mind trying to get this column written with the new program. Woe is me, but enough of my misery. That is, unless I fill you in on our recent cruise to the Caribbean.
Two days before we sailed, my husband had to go to Urgent Care, then the ER, both of whom refused to treat him for a bleed because of his blood thinners; referring him to an ENT doctor the next morning. Then, I fell down the stairs as I got off the boat in Cozumel. It took Bob, two attendants, and a crane to get me up with bruised and bloody knees. Last, the parting gift as we left the ship was a bad case of the flu. We drove straight home
and started on Tamiflu and spent a week recuperating. OK, I’m done whining now and will move on to the next topic except for my good news. While I was on the cruise, I won the final game of bingo on the last day. My prize was a free tattoo and another cruise. So, I have a bingo ball with the number one on it tattooed on my butt. That’s real dedication for a bingo lover.
April 10 is National Sibling Day and approximately 80% of us have siblings. Richard, my younger, likes to torment me by sending me lottery scratchers for my birthday that he has totally or partially scratched off. He also likes to tell me the ending of books he’s finished while I’m still reading them. As for my elder, David, our job as kids was to do the supper dishes. We started arguing and he picked up a mustard squeeze bottle and sprayed it all over my face. I screamed, David laughed, and so did my mother. What was up with that as I was the only daughter and my brothers called me the princess. Guess mom forgot and I eventually forgave him. My only regret is that I don’t have a photo of my mustard face.
Lastly, April 15th is Income Tax Day. The first personal income tax was enacted in 1861 to help pay for the Civil War and was finalized by the Constitution’s 16th amendment in 1913: Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on income. Bah humbug. That includes paying a tax on bingo winnings over $600 where I live; also, on lottery winnings, or casino winnings. Again, bah humbug. How appropriate that April 15th is also National That Sucks Day. Until next month, may Lady Luck blow you kisses as you dance out the door with dollars. Win big and April Fool: I did not win a cruise or get a tattoo of a bingo ball on my butt as that would look like a postage stamp on a billboard on my oversized behind. Contact: nlpvzw6172@gmail.com
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