Audio tours feature celebs

Audio tours feature celebs

NEW YORK — Comics Whoopi Goldberg and Jerry Seinfeld are among the celebrities featured in new free audio tours of Central Park.

Signs posted throughout the park will provide a phone number and a code that visitors and locals can dial to hear the tours from the Central Park Conservancy.

Alec Baldwin, Kevin Bacon and Isabella Rossellini are featured also.

For more information, visit www.centralparknyc.org.

Wet spring to boost wildflowers at Tahoe

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — An explosion of color will soon burst onto the Lake Tahoe landscape.

Botanists hope several weeks of unusually cool, wet spring weather will make for a banner wildflower season in the Sierra Nevada.

“Things around the basin are just getting started. Now that it’s going to warm up, it’s going to happen fast,” Karen Wiese, author of “Sierra Nevada Wildflowers,” told the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

While some flowers won’t start to bloom until October, the best time for wildflower viewing in the region is typically between now and the end of July, she said.

For those who prefer not to leave the car, Blue Lakes Road off Highway 88 near Hope Valley provides easy access to bountiful displays.

MGM Mirage, Egyptian partner to build resort

LAS VEGAS — Casino operator MGM Mirage said that it is teaming with an Egyptian developer to build a resort outside Cairo.

The MGM Grand New Giza will house 550 rooms and an electric train will provide access to the Egyptian antiquities museum, which is under construction.

The resort will be part of a development that will include homes, three hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, a golf course and sporting facilities.

The MGM Grand New Giza is targeted to open in 2013.

Associated Press