John Woodrum was long concerned about the safety of pedestrians scrambling across the Strip from his Klondike Hotel to the busy Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on Las Vegas Boulevard.
I met up with Wranglers President Billy Johnson in a UNLV parking lot on Wednesday afternoon, and gosh if he didn’t show the wear and tear of trying to save a minor-league hockey team.
The much-anticipated Rose. Rabbit. Lie. opened with its first dinner sitting, followed by Spiegelworld's "Vegas Nocturne," as the Cosmopolitan blasted into the New Year.
Eric Goodman's father says a trauma surgeon who treated Goodman told the family that a pair of head injuries show Goodman likely was assaulted Dec. 15 at South Tower Park.
At the end of another year of entertainment in VegasVille, John Katsilometes finds his bag is still full of interesting facts about the people, music and venues we knew and loved in 2013.
Five years ago, we would not have referred to Holly Madison as a show producer, a songstress, a wife or a mother. But in the days since she co-starred in the Playboy Mansion-centered “The Girls Next Door,” Madison has become all of that.
Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, is filled with natural hot baths for visitors from all over the place. Now, they can find hammers and saws in the middle of town.
The eyes still dance, the voice booms and the hands are quick to snare the little Chihuahua Paulie (named for Dean Paul Martin) as the pooch races across his lap. Jerry Lewis seems remarkably unchanged in what he calls “the autumn of my life.”
Marc Savard spent 18 days putting up his first holiday display three years ago. He's trimmed that to five, and the attraction has become a Vegas tradition.
Before the 2012 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, officials representing the event and the city said a new contract was in the offing. None has been signed.
Earlier today, I ran into Brandon Rios in the airport in Macau. I actually ran into him outside the airport and also on our flight and again here in Taipei. I talked to Rios for a bit, and he is a forthright person, grinning and posing for photographs with anyone who happened by with a camera.
We're entering the thick of the holiday season, and Manny Pacquiao showed his Christmas spirit by turning the face of Brandon Rios into Christmas-ornament red. Pacquiao looked polished in every facet of his performance, a dazzling show in the face of his most recent bout when he was knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez.
Edward Tracy, who runs Venetian Macau on the Cotai Strip, trumpets Manny Pacquiao in one sentence and Alicia Keys in the next. Both stars factor into fight weekend at Venetian Macau.
The Venetian Macau is a sister property of Venetian/Palazzo in Las Vegas, and its design mirrors the Strip resorts. But, culturally, we are far from home.
The sprawling, illuminated Ethel M Holiday Cactus Garden in Henderson covers a lot of territory and uses a lot of lights. How much territory and how many lights? Read on.
The "Wheel of Death" in "Zarkana" is, as its name indicates, one of Cirque du Soleil’s riskier acts. The injuries do not seem serious, and Cirque says “Wheel of Death” is to return to the show upon the artist’s return.
Nevada OSHA has concluded that “Ka” artist Sarah Guillot-Guyard fell after the wire rope suspending her during the show’s Final Battle scene broke, causing her to fall a reported 94 feet to the floor.
The renovated Tropicana Theater is hosting that hotel’s first resident musical production since “Folies Bergere” closed four years ago, and it’s a proven hit on the Strip. “Mamma Mia!” is returning to Las Vegas, set to open at the Trop in the spring of 2014.
“Jubilee!” at Bally’s hasn’t had an upgrade since the mid-1990s but has recruited Beyonce’s choreographer to revitalize the show, whose audience isn’t getting any younger. “This needs to be a party,” Frank Gatson Jr. says.
Bagatelle Beach Club is becoming a private matter. The pool, restaurant and club connected to Tropicana and operated by The One Group has closed to the public and will exclusively host private functions.
I have what can be best described as an Issue With the Wall. It’s the lengthy barrier along the backstretch at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Appropriately, it is painted in thick black letters reading, “Las Vegas Motor Speedway.”
Charolette Richards is rightfully considered the Wedding Queen of the West. As proprietor of A Little White Wedding Chapel since the late 1960s, her Las Vegas wedding fortress has hosted more than half a million services.
I was on the phone with my brother the other day talking about the Super Bowl. I mentioned to him that I am writing a column about the all-time memorable Super Bowl moments. “You have to have ‘Be Bop Bamboozled’ in there,” he said. “Of course,” I said.
For all of their communal artistry and shared experiences and success, Penn & Teller differ on the moments that made them fall for Las Vegas. For Penn Jillette, it was a quick side trip to Vegas he made with a group of friends in the late 1980s. The plan was to tour the Grand Canyon, but, you know, Vegas was right there.