Columnist Muriel Stevens: Sample the vine for a great price

Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004 | 8:23 a.m.

There's still time to celebrate wine season at Smith & Wollensky on the Strip. This is the Smith & Wollensky Group's 35th semiannual Wine Week, and Friday is the last day. It's quite a deal.

During Wine Week customers can sample 10 wines for $10 with the cost of lunch. Wine Week features wines from a variety of American vintners, who will be pouring their own wines. The selection rotates each day.

It's a fine opportunity to taste a number of new wines at a reasonable price. Smith & Wollensky Las Vegas is one of 16 SWG restaurants participating. Reservations are a must. Call 862-4100.

Still opens in Fashion Show mall: Still, a Japanese-inspired shop featuring men's and women's upscale Japanese fashions and denim, has opened in the Fashion Show mall. Exclusive to Still is the Evisu line. In-store now is the fall collection.

Call 696-1209 for more information.

Suave hair personality survey: There's a very old song that says, "Your lips tell me no, but there's yes-yes in your eyes." A hair personality survey by Suave says it's the hair style and hair color that reveals all.

Twenty-five percent of shy women are more likely to sport a short, sleek 'do compared to outgoing types (10 percent). Women who've gone gray are more likely to attract smart men than women with light brown hair.

Who makes up these surveys??? If you don't want to marry a "mama's boy," let your hair hang loose rather than pull it back. Males (they get their turn, too) with blond hair are three times more likely to think of themselves as cocky than men overall. Most men keep their hair clean-cut and perfectly shaped.

However, the survey says that men with blond hair are twice as likely to wear their hair shaggy, like a rock star's, versus men in general. No word on how many of these shaggy wannabes bleach their tresses to make them blond.

Dennis Hopper billboards and photographs: Oct. 1 through November billboards and photographs by Dennis Hopper will be on exhibit at two galleries: Godt-Cleary Projects (1217 S. Main St.) and Godt-Cleary Gallery in Mandalay Place (suite 131).

Call 632-9378 for more info.

Thank you: A special thanks goes out to our readers for all of the information you shared about kosher food and fresh kosher meats in Las Vegas. I appreciate the e-mail and phone calls, so here's an update.

Readers say the kosher food store on Eastern rarely (if ever) has fresh kosher meat. It is always frozen.

Smith's in Summerlin at Rampart and Lake Mead avenues is the market of choice for just about everyone who contacted me. Next best is the Albertsons at Fort Apache.

The Smith's market is home to Kosher Experience, a kosher deli and market that has its own separate space inside Smith's. In addition to fresh kosher meats and groceries, the deli sells rotisserie chickens, homemade chopped liver and other homemade savories.

According to other readers, Trader Joe's sells frozen kosher chickens. I did not find any at the Green Valley store.

With such a long holiday -- it ends with Yom Kippur, sundown Friday to sundown Saturday -- stocks could be depleted.