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Bits and Pieces

by Steve Friess

I’m already a big fan of Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith, but his March 30 column profiling a 65-year-old woman known as the “first lady of fingerprints” for the Vegas cops was one of those classics I just adore. She’s got some terrific tales about the hands she’s printed, from Elvis to Liberace to Johnny Cash. Find it by Googling “John L. Smith” and “fingerprint.” •  We caught an early Jersey Boys preview at Palazzo. It put to rest any question we had about whether this Broadway import—brought with an intermission, no less!—would succeed on the Strip. Fellow audience members of a certain age, namely my parents’, were having some sort of religious experience. There are a LOT of those, too. And they gamble.

Steve Friess  is a Las Vegas-based national freelancer and co-host of the weekly celebrity interview podcast The Strip, which can be found at The StripPodcast.com.