MIKE WEATHERFORD WARNS MAGICIANS IN THE NEW YEAR

The Las Vegas Review Journal's Mike Weatherford offers his wishes for the new year, among which was this firt choice, a warning to magicians:

1. Keep up the tough love with magicians.

There are six good magic shows on the Strip and six more hanging on or recently closed. It's hard to watch cute animals get eaten on the nature shows, but this Vegas Darwinism needs to continue until the message seeps through their spangly tuxedos: Unless magicians can show us something we haven't seen before, we've seen enough.