I thought Doors frontman Jim Morrison would appreciate crashing at the pad of a struggling writer. Was I ever wrong At first I didn’t know who exactly my friend Bob was bringing up to my Bonanza Hilltop apartment in that desert winter of 1968.

Canned soup, cheese pizza, gummy bears, soda. You name it — Reinier Geyser was probably consuming it.

New and notable The British are coming I used to walk two blocks from where I lived, and turn right to find myself in the middle of the throbbing hum of everyone I could possibly know in the same place at the same time — and all there for the same soul-thrilling reason I was. Topshop.

Whether you want to nosh with the family, log some miles or run your dogs ragged, there’s a perfect park for you Best park for the whole family Centennial Hills Park Sweet, glorious springtime is in effect year-round at Centennial Hills Park, with soaring flower and butterfly shade covers to make you want to kick your heels up and frolic. Children and those with a soft spot for whimsy will be enthralled by the Alice in Wonderland vibe, completed by red toadstool tables and little froggies that spit water.

Our favorite recent dishes that have us coming back for seconds Di Fara Special at Dom Demarco’s It’s every New Yorker’s God-given right to lament the absence of good pizza in Vegas. But with the arrival of Dom DeMarco’s, consider my maw muzzled.

How can we better promote our city around the world? By launching a collective Twitter account for all Las Vegans Last December, in a stroke of marketing genius, the tourism bureau in Sweden tried something new. Instead of using their Twitter account to link to press releases about lobster fests and the Stockholm furniture fair, they decided to hand the account’s reins over to a new Swede every week.

I thought fencing was a pretentious, so-called sport for snobs. But then I started poking around.

Q: Why were they called “The Rat Pack”? A: Who hasn’t heard of the Rat Pack? Everybody knows who they were: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford, best known for chasing women, filming “Oceans Eleven” in Las Vegas, and performing together in “the Summit at the Sands” while filming early in 1960.

The next phase of the food truck revolution: restaurants (and menus) that are here to stay Something crazy happened in Las Vegas in the spring of 2010 — something organic, hopeful and real amid rising unemployment and foreclosure rates and an all-around dismal business environment. A wave of friendly, casual, neighborhood eateries started opening up all across our city.

I must confess that I am not quite listening to Paul Beard. I am not listening to Paul Beard as he rattles on about things like acoustic engineering and imported Italian marble and design motifs as he tugs me through a Monday-morning tour of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.