My sister will be visiting Vegas for the first time at the end of this month. She's really into karaoke and performs a couple times a month in her hometown. I've read through LasVegasAdvisor's list of karaoke bars and the one at TI at Mist sounds interesting. Can you tell me what nights and times it's on? And is there any Karaoke downtown, where we will be staying? I thought the Bunkhouse had karaoke. If so, do you know what nights and times they have it?

The Missus, some friends, and myself are coming to Las Vegas at the end of May. I successfully lobbied our little group to stay downtown at the Golden Nugget to try something new. Now that I've convinced everyone to stay downtown, what would you recomend as the top things that we should do in order to get the most out of our Downtown Field Trip?

In light of the recent IRS investigations of PURE-managed nightclubs and the huge amounts of income they generate, doormen making hundreds of thousands of dollars is probably just the tip of the money iceberg. Why would the money-hungry casinos let outside entities such as PURE have access to any of the huge profits these clubs generate? I’m sure the hotels are more than capable of running nightclubs. Do you think they didn’t know how much money was involved, and now that they do, they’ll take back control? Or is a few hundred million dollars not enough to interest the casinos?

I recently read something regarding the closing of the Luxor Nile River attraction in 1995 and that while the official line is that it was closed due to an upgrading of the property, one of the real reasons for the closing was that there were ghost sightings by customers of workers killed during the construction. This is sweet (not that the people died, of course, but the fact that they were possibly haunting tourists)! Tell me more, please. Do these ghosts ever show up in any of the other areas of the Luxor?

We will be out for our annual Las Vegas visit this month. What special events are planned for St. Patrick's Day?

I'll bet we're not the only ones coming to Las Vegas for Valentines Day. Could you please give us info. on specials going on -- food, events, etc. Thanks!!

On our last trip to Las Vegas (October), we took a day trip out to Valley of Fire. Wow. We've been coming to Vegas for two decades and never realized what a beautiful park was so close. Though all the rock formations are spectacular, we were most taken with the petroglyphs. Can you shed some light on their origins and significance?

I just went through the QoD archives re: entertainment and couldn't find this addressed: How about an updated list of Vegas daytime shows, e.g. Ron Lucas and Mac King, which I know of. Thanks.

Everyone knows that Las Vegas isn’t exactly known for preserving its history, but does it have any museums? If so, can you recommend the best one or two in terms of helping to understand how the city came to be the way it is?

Could you give a list of events that are happening in Vegas for New Year's this year?