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A new Applebees Grill & Bar has opened in Henderson bringing about 120 local jobs and a refreshed restaurant design to the community. The 5,500-square-foot restaurant features Applebee’s signature menu items along with a modernized look, including bright, open dining areas, multiple seating options and an updated bar area. “Opening our new Henderson location is an exciting moment for our team,” said Brad Miller, market president of Flynn Applebee’s Las Vegas. “We’re proud to continue serving the community in a refreshed new restaurant where guests can gather and enjoy the great food, warm hospitality and welcoming neighborhood atmosphere Applebee’s is known for. We also look forward to deepening our connection with the community through local partnerships, fundraisers, and ongoing efforts to give back to the neighborhoods we serve.”
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IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW (of interest to seniors)
Sam Neill dies at 78
Sam Neill, the genre-spanning New Zealand actor best known for his starring role in the “Jurassic Park” movies, has died, his family said Monday. He was 78. “Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterized his whole life,” the family said in a statement on Instagram. “The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free,” the family said in the statement, which did not specify a cause of death. Neill, who died in Sydney, had announced he was cancer free in April after several years of treatment for blood cancer. He found international claim for his portrayal of paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in the 1993 Steven Spielberg film “Jurassic Park,” a role he reprised in subsequent movies.
Comedy star,Louise Lasser, dead at 87
The zesty, ebullient actor Louise Lasser, who has died aged 87, played a harried Ohio housewife dealing with extreme events (drug addiction, mass murder, drowning-by-soup) in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, an innovative satirical sitcom that doubled as a spoof of daytime soap operas. Like the target of its mockery, the show aired five times a week in the US, so that its modest two-season run, between 1976 and 1977, produced a staggering 325 episodes. (UK audiences were treated to a measly nine of them in 1980; a 38-disc DVD box set was released in 2013.) That role made Lasser a household name in the US. She was known more widely elsewhere as a fixture of several early, goofy films by Woody Allen, to whom she was married for four years. He called her “charming, smart as a whip, quick, very funny and witty”.
Legendary singer, Bonnie Tyler, dies at 75
Legendary pop singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for hits including “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has died after weeks in a hospital, her family said Thursday. She was 75. “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for,” a statement said on her official social media accounts. The raspy-voiced Welsh singer gained global popularity in the 1970s and 1980s for her power ballads including “Holding Out for a Hero” and “It’s a Heartache.” “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” came out in 1983 and made it to No. 1 on both the U.S. and U.K. charts. The bombastic ballad then became a karaoke anthem. It has had more that 1 billion streams, boosted by real eclipses in 2017 and 2024. You can play the song below.
Mel Brooks turns 100 years old
The 2000 Year Old Man is turning 100. Mel Brooks has just celebrated his centennial birthday. The comedian and filmmaker has been awaiting the milestone. Earlier this year, Judd Apatow titled his retrospective documentary on him: “Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!” “I was born to make people laugh,” Brooks says in the film. “So, I do that.” Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York, on June 28, 1926. After serving in the Army during World War II and performing in the Borscht Belt, Sid Caesar hired him as a writer. On his “Show of Shows,” Brooks met Carl Reiner, who’d remain a lifelong friend and with whom he created the “2000 Year Old Man” sketches. Brooks went on to make classic comedies like “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein” and “High Anxiety.” It all started, Brooks told The Associated Press in 2021, with his childhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. When asked in that AP 2021 interview if he thought much about death, Brooks said no. “I gave up after 60 thinking about it because if I did, I’d be thinking about it all the time. So I don’t think about it much. When and if it happens it’s going to be a sad day — for everybody but me,” Brooks said, laughing. “I enjoy living,” he added. “I’d like to do it as long as I can.”
David Clayton Thomas dies at 84
David Clayton-Thomas, the lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears whose husky, high-strung tenor on “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die” and other hits helped make the so-called “brass rock” band among the most popular acts of the late 1960s, has died at age 84. Clayton-Thomas was a onetime street fighter and petty thief from Canada who briefly became a rock superstar, the frontman of a nine-member group that sold millions of records and won two Grammys for “Blood, Sweat & Tears,” which beat out the Beatles’ “Abbey Road” for best album of 1969. Calling out amid a jazzy parade of horns, keyboards and percussion, Clayton-Thomas’ urgent shout was a signature voice of the era, preaching love on the Motown cover “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” a lasting legacy on Laura Nyro’s “And When I Die” and a cool head on his own “Spinning Wheel.” Meanwhile, Blood, Sweat & Tears helped inspire a wave of horn-led bands, among them Chicago, the Electric Flag and Ten Wheel Drive.
Sell By - Use By - Best By - Freeze By - You Could Die
Depending on where you live, you may see different dates on your food and each has a different purpose. Here’s a bit of clarity based on information from the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and FSIS.2
- Best If Used By/Before: This is a quality assurance date and serves as a “suggestion” for when the taste and quality of food are at their peak. It is not a purchase or safety date.
- Use By: This is the suggested date by when you should eat the food. But just because it’s a day or two past the use-by date doesn’t mean that consuming it will make you sick, although you should evaluate the quality of the food yourself after this time. It is not a safety date, except when used on infant formula.
- Sell By: This is not a safety date, but rather a date for retailers that helps them determine how long an item should remain on the shelf. According to the IFT, “one-third of a product’s shelf-life remains after the sell-by date for the consumer to use at home.”2
- Freeze By: According to the USDA, this date indicates when a product should be frozen to maintain peak quality. It is not a purchase or safety date.
