Sabina Kelley and Claire Sinclair are close friends, one of the many reasons Kelley is subbing for Sinclair in "Pin Up." Kelley is no doubt a major figure in the inked-up, rockabilly world of burlesque and a highly popular pinup model who serves as a judge on the Oxygen show “Best Ink.” ...
MGM Resorts International officials have reviewed safety measures at MGM Grand Garden Arena after the crush of spectators led to a scene of panic following the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Marcos Maidana fight May 3. ...
A ring with incalculable sentimental value went down the chute ... but it is back home now. On Christmas Eve of 2005, I was seated next to my grandfather at dinner. Without a word, he nudged me with an elbow and placed a little gold object into my hand. ...
Guns N’ Roses and “Mamma Mia!” have again touched down in town. These two “entertainment experiences,” as the suits call them, seem unalike, but that isn’t so. Both lean on familiarity in their respective performances. ...
DJ Ashba has been a member of the latest version of GNR for a half decade. Thus, he is tight with his fellow bandmates. “We have been around,” said Ashba, who swaps leads with Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal and Richard Fortus on guitar.
In professional hockey, as in life, sometimes you just need to stop the clock. That is the case for the Las Vegas Wranglers, whose odyssey to secure a home venue for the 2014-’15 season has led to a “voluntary suspension” of operations for the upcoming ECHL season. ...
Frank Marino is celebrating his 25,000th show on the Strip on May 31. He is the longest-running continual headliner on the Strip, ever, and has had a street named for him and two stars on the Las Vegas Walk of Fame placed in his honor.
At the 2014 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena, the Michael Jackson song "Slave to the Rhythm," replete with 104 dancers and a hologram M.J., rose to the hype from the past week leading up to the awards hosted by Ludacris. ...
The Linq’s Jon Gray weighs in on comments made by the Park’s Jim Murren that the two projects are not comparable, plus an update on the Stirling Club and so much to love about Andres Garcia ...
Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning actor John Lithgow is back in Las Vegas to accept the Human Rights Campaign's Equality Award. Before we talk of his new movie and the honor he is to receive at the ...
Joy Behar, Rita Rudner and Lisa Lampanelli are among the comediennes appearing in the “Lipshtick: The Perfect Shade of Stand Up” lineup announced today by Whitney Cummings, co-creator of the CBS sitcom “2 Broke Girls,” at the Venetian.
The Jerry Lewis film series tied to his photo exhibit “Painted Pictures” opens tonight at UNLV and runs through the summer. Lewis is a busy man, at age 88, as he reinforced during a phone chat Monday by saying, “I’m a busy man.”
The mother of Caesars Palace headliner Matt Goss has been battling cancer, and the night before Mother’s Day, the British singer wavered before closing his show with an Otis Redding classic.
The star entertainer hits the outdoor stage just as the sun is setting. Behind him and on either side is a grandiose stage standing several feet tall, with video screens on either side beaming his image to thousands of fans. The whole scene is framed in shiny steel; in the distance you see a cluster of resorts that have funneled guests to this performance. Sounds like a great night in Vegas. But it isn’t. This is...
We can expect former Caesars Entertainment executive Don Marrandino to transition back to a top-level position at the Hard Rock Hotel soon. Marrandino lived and worked in Las Vegas for 20 years before heading back to Atlantic City in 2009.
Burton Cohen was president of the Desert Inn when Howard Hughes set up at the hotel on Thanksgiving of 1966. That doesn't mean the two ever met, though.
Bally’s headliner Veronic DiCaire has launched her "Lend Your Voice" philanthropic campaign, and the vocal impressionist is inviting a new friend to join her onstage in her show in Jubilee Theater.
The ice-in-the-sky concept to turn the pool deck at the Plaza into a hockey facility for the Las Vegas Wranglers has proven too costly to complete. The Plaza announced in a news release today that the Wranglers will not move their home games to the downtown hotel-casino. It cited ...
Trailblazing resort mogul Kirk Kerkorian, 96, considered by many to be the Father of Las Vegas, has been romantically linked to his new wife Una Davis before, and the couple reportedly lived together years ago.
Evoking the image of Frank Sinatra, Bob Anderson donned the makeup and the tux and sang with chilling perfection Sunday night at the Venetian. Now he awaits Las Vegas suitors for his ambitious production. ...
The post-bout action Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena did not end with Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s majority decision over challenger Marcos Maidana. A stampede of fans...
The next Great Escape from the Strip is to be a vast, 8-acre park titled, conveniently, the Park. It will be a big walk-around experience for visitors and locals alike, replete with man-made pools and fountains, tall trees and towering sculptures built for art and shade. In the Park, you’ll be invited to...
Penn Jillette never rules out any possible artistic collaboration (as long as it doesn't involve a George Burns impression), and that includes working with electronic dance music artists.
At the groundbreaking of the new MGM Resorts arena on the Strip near New York-New York and Monte Carlo, speculation abounded about who would open the venue two years from now — and how. ...
Rio magician headliner Teller has seen a lot of Broadway productions. So how does he see his original play from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" measuring up on the Great White Way?
Steve Schirripa has not walked into the Riviera since he was the hotel's entertainment director and remembers the days of multimillion-dollar lounge budgets. ...
Guy Fieri is playing the Strip, and this is all too appropriate. The UNLV graduate (he has a degree in hospitality management) is a spicy figure, to put it mildly. Adorned with a lot of good ink up and down his arms, his ...
Former Planet Hollywood headliner Holly Madison is opening her burlesque-themed speakeasy 1923 Bourbon & Burlesque on Thursday evening at Mandalay Place, but she’s still holding the remote for a TV project ...
Olivia Newton-John, on Friday evening at the grand opening of her Flamingo show “Summer Nights,” rolled out her hits and a couple of nifty covers and closed not with a rousing number but with something delicate ...
The UNLVino is in full swing at the moment at Caesars Palace. Often this event is a true blowout – the winds have been a problem. But what blew me away ...
When he was a kid, Brad Garrett once performed an impression of a television star. The results were mixed, to put it mildly. This was in 1974, Garrett was age 14 at the time, and the hot sitcom of the moment was ...
This is one of those subjects bound to spark skepticism among boxing devotees, but we’re going there anyway: Would immensely popular Manny Pacquiao be a credible headliner in a Las Vegas stage show? ...
Longtime comedian George Wallace opened at the Flamingo Las Vegas 10 years ago, but, after winning $1.3 in damages from Bellagio on Tuesday afternoon, the Strip headliner has decided to shutter his live show April 26. ...
A big fan of the UNLV squad who won the 1989-90 national championship, Brandon Flowers of The Killers wore Rebel red during a recent performance at Reunion Park at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. ...
Former Wynn resident headliner Garth Brooks, himself a legend, introduced Merle Haggard for a special Academy of Country Music Award at MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight and led the crowd in a special song ...
The instruments being used in “The Tempest” at Symphony Park are a mix of traditional music-making devices and such household items as coffee cans, hand cranks, shoes, wooden boxes, aged dress shoes and vacuum hoses ...
Olivia Newton-John was welcomed to Las Vegas officially on Wednesday afternoon, cruising up the Linq corridor between Flamingo and the Quad in the black, flame-painted ’49 Mercury convertible that was dusted by Greased Lightning in “Grease.” ...
Blues Traveler frontman John Popper says he was lucky that he wasn't "cut up and served as a cannibal meal" the night last week he walked into Mandalay Bay ...
Headliner magician Teller’s fascination with changing reality has not ebbed over the years, and William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" is a heartfelt project that built steam years ago at the Rio.
Blues Traveler frontman John Popper, in town, in part, to attend “One Night for One Drop,” checked into Mandalay Bay on Thursday evening and grabbed a drink. Hours later, his life was detectably different ...
The 1923 venue is offering custom whiskeys and cigars and a tucked-away VIP room, and Holly Madison herself is planning to sing when the adult venue opens next month next to RM Seafood. ...
“If Las Vegas can be the headquarters of an international hospitality company, which will be offering daylife, nightlife, restaurants and hotels, that is a great thing for the city.”
A longtime Strip performer — for more than 30 years — Bill Maher opened for Diana Ross in 1982 at Caesars Palace and calls himself "the alternative" to such comics as Carrot Top, George Wallace and even somebody like ...