{"id":10497,"date":"2013-02-15T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2013-02-15T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:06:05","slug":"crunch-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/crunch-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunch time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10498\" title=\"485353_10151449024174181_633489290_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/485353_10151449024174181_633489290_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/485353_10151449024174181_633489290_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/485353_10151449024174181_633489290_n-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/485353_10151449024174181_633489290_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Photo by Susannah Smitherman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As though <em>S&amp;G<\/em> correspondence hasn&#8217;t been spotty enough of late, thanks to &#8220;Maloof Flu,&#8221; a number of other external factors will be impinging on your weekly flow of ephemera and arcana. Deadlines for <em>USA Today<\/em>, <em>Las Vegas CityLife<\/em>, <em>Casino Life<\/em> and <em>Desert Companion<\/em> are bearing down upon me like the Four\u00a0 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Also, tonight <strong>Las Vegas Little Theatre<\/strong> opens its production of <strong>Charles Busch<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.lvlt.org\/current_season\/ALLERGISTSWIFE_000.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>The Tale of the Allergist&#8217;s Wife<\/em><\/a> (above, with the spicy <strong><!--more-->Rozanne Sher<\/strong>), in which I play the titular allergist, Dr. V. Ira Taub &#8230; and am the most improbable Jew you will ever see onstage. In such spare time as I have, I am not weeding the lawn nor pruning the shrubbery but directing <strong>Harold Pinter<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvlt.org\/current_season\/BETRAYAL.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>Betrayal<\/em><\/a>, which opens a month from today. <em>Uff da<\/em>! I&#8217;m glutton for punishment, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Susannah Smitherman As though S&amp;G correspondence hasn&#8217;t been spotty enough of late, thanks to &#8220;Maloof Flu,&#8221; a number of other external factors will be impinging on your weekly flow of ephemera and arcana. Deadlines for USA Today, Las &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/crunch-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10500,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions\/10500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}