Accelerating like an F-1 car hitting the green flag, Westgate officials are in the process of overhauling the hotel’s sports book. The process began in July, with a reported price tag of $13 million. The first phase is almost complete, and the result is, in fact, staggering.
Emmy Award-winning set designer Andy Walmsley is producing “Drop the Mic.” This sleight-of-mouth cavalcade is set for Nov. 17 at the Sayers Club at SLS Las Vegas. In a distinctively Las Vegas moment, the idea was …
Richard Oberacker’s dream for “The Bandstand” was not always spoken. He never wanted to put out in the universe that the musical he had conceived and written with Robert Taylor was destined for Broadway. ...
"I’ve never been in a room with such egos. I’ve never seen anything like it," Oscar Goodman recalls his wife saying about a conversation between himself and Donald Trump ...
The Kats Report Bureau is abuzz with transportation concerns as they relate to the new Las Vegas Arena. We have been reminded this past week that MGM Resorts International might enact parking fees for events at the arena. The venue is to seat 20,000, and the vision for …
The Kats Report Bureau this week visited the Halloween party hosted by Matt and Angela Stabile at their home in Seven Hills. The Stabiles operate Stabile Productions, on something of a hot streak of late. ...
For the last several months, Penny Pibbets has been sending packages of odd items to those who donated to her Kickstarter campaign to fund “The Penny Pibbets Show,” which she performed a half-dozen times last December and ...
Gaining followers as he sheds weight, Penn Jillette realized a vision in the desert Sunday afternoon: The Slammer, his famous first Las Vegas home, has become a fortress for atheist and skeptical philosophies. That, and some ...
For several years, the lofty storeroom at Mix restaurant at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay offered a picturesque view of the Strip. Problem was, hardly anyone could take a picture from that 64th-floor …
Fan first, tribute artist second. That is the order of progression for Kenneth Banks as he has portrayed Madonna for more than a decade in two Strip productions.
It was at Springs Preserve that Cirque du Soleil Senior Vice President Jerry Nadal put a timeline on some highly anticipated upgrades in a pair of shows on the Cirque docket: “Believe” at Luxor and “Love” at Mirage. ...
This week, Monday By the Numbers opens with a moment caught at the fifth-annual NF Hope Concert at the Venetian’s Sands Showroom. Members of the Paris Las Vegas show “Jersey Boys” were onstage to perform shtick with ex-cast member ...
Fulfilling a promise he made two years ago to the family of his late friend and fellow Strip headliner Danny Gans, Osmond once more hosted the Danny Gans Memorial Run for Life, a benefit for the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation. ...
John Katsilometes catches up with Danny Pintauro, the “Who’s the Boss?” actor who recently shared a big secret on national television and thrust himself into the role of HIV activist.
“Rock of Ages” production members have learned through hotel staff and officials that the musical would be finished, part of a widespread move we’ll call the Venetian Sweep of productions ...
The Kats Report Bureau at this writing is Center Bar at the Hard Rock Hotel. This is my first sit-down visit to the recently renovated meeting place ...
This week, Monday By the Numbers draws data from column favorites “Alice — A Steampunk Concert Fantasy” and Kenny Davidsen’s bow-tie-palooza at Tuscany. “Alice” returns to the stage and ...
Rick Harrison made time for his presidential favorite, Marco Rubio, on Friday evening at the grand opening of Pawn Plaza. But Harrison has had no time for the TV show once hosted by Rubio’s rival, Donald Trump.
After Janet Jackson’s cancellation of her two shows at Planet Hollywood, the arena for her return to Las Vegas was listed as “MGM Arena.” That led to speculation that Jackson would be ...
Ya gotta love The Judds, for whom every day is Mother’s Day. Naomi and Wynonna have opened their series of nine performances, a mix of music and mirth, at Venetian Theater. ...
The performances are Sunday, and again Oct. 18, at Mystere Theater in Treasure Island. These one-of-a-kind showcases are at 1 p.m.; tickets are $25 and $45 and available at NevadaBallet.org.
The Kats Report Bureau at this writing is once more Route 91 Harvest Country Music Fest at Las Vegas Village. Huge operation. As Hilary Rodham Clinton once said, it takes, like, an entire community … a township …
Performing to great response as the sun goes down is A Thousand Horses, who earlier today were calling out, “My kingdom for a thousand horses,” as the band’s bus broke down en route to ...
The onetime home of “Phantom” is welcoming John Fogerty. Announced today is a quickie residency by rock icon Fogerty at Venetian Theater from Jan. 8 to 23. This confirms information ...
Turns out these “MGM Resorts” titles have been a little too, shall we say, narrowly focused. Today the names of the wide-open spaces that host music and cultural festivals on the Strip are ...
According to a news release sent by Live Nation, which is booking Janet Jackson’s tour, the 49-year-old superstar is following medical advice to rest her vocal cords. ...
Charlie Daniels owes his affiliation with Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe. And Frank Sinatra. And Willie Nelson. This rodeo ride to Las Vegas does make sense, as it has led ...
Based on the announcement that George Strait will be one of the first entertainers to play at Las Vegas Arena, there was a strong feeling that Floyd Mayweather Jr. indeed would fight ...
I have to reinforce my support of “For the Record: Baz” here, as the long-ago column from … what, Thursday? … seemed to indicate I have a waning confidence in the show’s prospects in Las Vegas. ...
Imagine Dragons needs a Las Vegas song. Not a song that is sort of ambiguously about their history in Las Vegas. “It’s Time” is that sort of song. But a song that describes the city ...
This week, after a brief respite of one (or, 1) week, Monday By the Numbers is back and focusing on this obvious pairing: Lionel Richie and Pitbull. It’s not such an ill-fitting duo given ...
Wayne Newton, for decades an icon of the Las Vegas entertainment scene, thought he’d never return to Casa de Shenandoah, where he’d lived since 1968. Buzz Aldrin seemed more likely to return to ...
This year’s iHeartRadio Music Festival lineup was as robust as ever, although late drops by Janet Jackson (for an ear malady) and The Who (viral meningitis for Roger Daltrey) cut into ...
The Wayne Newton museum is now open, and the VIP party Thursday drew an impressive and wide-ranging collection of Las Vegas name-checks. Carrot Top; Lance Burton; Clint Holmes and Kelly Clinton-Holmes; Sabrina Bryan; Melody Sweets of “Absinthe”; Mark Shunock, Troy Burgess and Robert Torti of “Rock of Ages”; Jennifer Cox; Chippendales guest host Tyson Beckford; and ...
Jerry Seinfeld is on the other line, and he is explaining how his inventive mind can still open doors to new material. That is actually how he develops a new joke, sometimes. ...
Jeff Victor, president of the Fremont Street Experience, has been instrumental in organizing nightly events in downtown Las Vegas and has less than a month left on the job. Today, live performances are staged every night at ...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Andre Berto engage in "High Stakes" at MGM Grand, with the stakes for Mayweather very high as he puts his unbeaten record on the line ...
Wayne Newton will be awarding Jerry Lewis a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Global Gaming Expo during the G2E awards ceremony Sept. 30 at Vinyl in the Hard Rock Hotel. The ...
For the hotel’s first year of operations, Fred Segal was the exclusive clothing and accessories retailer at SLS Las Vegas. The hotel now has other plans.
“Steve Wynn’s Showstoppers” keyboard virtuoso Tom Lipps has a pretty spirited side gig: He fills in occasionally at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church at 2300 Sunridge Heights Parkway in Henderson.
The rock musical/production show “Alice — A Steampunk Concert Fantasy” is back onstage Oct. 13, booked for a one-off at Brooklyn Bowl in the Linq Promenade. ...
This was Friday in a nutshell — a nutshell wrapped in neon — for The Kats Report Bureau: A Q+A column about Naomi Judd. Afternoon rehearsal action with Criss Angel as he preps his “Supernaturalists” production ...
Naomi and Wynonna Judd are riding into the Wild West village of … well, the Venetian Theater, on Oct. 7. The Judds are booked for nine shows in the former “Phantom — The Las Vegas Spectacular” theater. The dates …
The Kats Report Bureau at this writing is Fuel coffee bar at the Hard Rock Hotel, where the home entertainment center is playing video and audio of Bob Marley & The Wailers in concert, “I Shot the Sheriff” the selected number.
Monday By the Numbers this week visits the Colosseum, Light, the Spiegeltent and the Joint. These are spaces. The humans are Celine Dion, the cast of “Baz,” Melody Sweets and the crowd at the annual AFAN Black & White Party. ...
We are so fully aware of Celine Dion’s family and life story because she has grown so naturally into our own Las Vegas community. She is willing to share her life’s triumphs and struggles, during performances onstage and away ...