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.

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.

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

So, you think everyone who works out looks like Jillian Michaels? You think that an average Joe like you could never scale a rock face or bench press 200 pounds? Wrong. Here’s the proof: people with amazing athletic talents disguised as average folks, just like you.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a soul in Las Vegas who isn’t happy about this month’s opening of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. But few are happier than members of the center’s two resident companies, the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Nevada Ballet Theatre.

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.

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.

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.

Destination known All by your lonesome on Highway 50 (except for the ghosts) For much of summer, US Highway 50 — “The Loneliest Highway in America” — is anything but lonely. The route is heavy traveled by flocks of motorcyclists, as well as road-trippers in cars and RVs.

Sure, hiking is all about the journey. But these five boast destinations — stunning views, historic sites and other treasures — that are well worth the huffing and puffing 1.