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Rate Robin Antin, Entertainment Matchmaker

Original at Las Vegas Sun external link    Fri, Jan 29

Pussycat Dolls creator Robin Antin choreographed Matt Goss' live show at the Palms before making the introduction between Goss and Caesars Palace, a deal that has resulted in the fulfillment of Goss' principle dream: to perform on the Las Vegas Strip at Caesars Palace. Antin continues t...

Rate PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON TO SPEAK AT THE COLOSSEUM AT CAESARS PALACE FEBRUARY 22

Original at MSNBC external link    Fri, Jan 29

“EMBRACINGOURCOMMONHUMANITY”    LAS VEGAS, NV (January 29, 2010) – President Bill Clinton, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States, will speak at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Monday, February 22 at 7:30pm. President Clinton’s lecture...

Rate Nevada Supreme Court ruling disrupts pipeline plans

Original at MSNBC external link    Fri, Jan 29

Steve Crupi reportingThe Nevada Supreme Court made a stunning decision Thursday concerning our state’s most precious commodity: water. The court tossed our access rights to water that would have been piped to Las Vegas from up north. Pipeline protestors are not happy with our insatiab...

Rate Tropicana Las Vegas hires new marketing chief

Original at MSNBC external link    Thu, Jan 28

The Tropicana hotel on the Las Vegas Strip has a new marketing vice president. Tropicana Las Vegas President Thomas McCartney announced Wednesday that Cynthia Mun has been hired to head marketing of the property's $125 million restoration and rebranding.McCartney says the effort wil...

Rate Fox News White House Reporter's Twitter Gaffe a Lesson in the Dangers of Copying and Pasting [Twitter Follies]

Original at Gawker external link    Thu, Jan 28

By Maureen O'Connor Haven't seen bit.ly do that before, but sometimes (on a hike?) lightning strikes. Sometimes it strikes twice: Major recently used Twitter to break the news that Obama will visit Las Vegas in February to stump for Harry Reid. Lightning would strike thrice if Garrett goes to Vegas with Obama—...

Past Month

 

Rate Two arrested after high-speed police chase

Original at MSNBC external link    Tue, Jan 26

Police say two people are in custody after a police pursuit through northwest Las Vegas ended at a casino parking garage.Las Vegas police Lt. Jeff Carlson says no injuries were reported after officers surrounded the multilevel parking at the Suncoast casino structure and made the arrest...

Rate Area performance artist ends long-running piece

Original at Las Vegas Gleaner external link    Sun, Jan 24

By Hugh Jackson Sad. There was always some tiny glimmer of, if not hope, at least curiosity about what a loose cannon like Goodman might have actually said on the gubernatorial campaign trail. No Republican or Democrat running for governor will tell the truth about Nevada taxes -- that Nevada businesses a...

Rate Icahn Wins The Fontainebleau, Now What?

Original at Luxist external link    Thu, Jan 21

By Deidre Woollard It has sat at the end of the Las Vegas strip, big, blue and unfinished for a while but perhaps the Fontainebleau Las Vegas Resort will finally be completed now that casino-loving billionaire investor Carl Icahn has made the winning bid for the bankrupt resort. Tourism in Las Vegas has been s...

Rate Looking like a fool, with your pants on the ground.

Original at Oh No They Didn't! external link    Thu, Jan 14

Violent video games have "a much bigger negative influence on kids" than pornography, a leading porn star Ron Jeremy has claimed. Mr Jeremy's comments were made at a session called the Great Porn Debate during the Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas.

Rate Eva Longoria Parker in Vegas Magazine - January/February 2010

Original at Oh No They Didn't! external link    Wed, Jan 13

Culinarily speaking, Longoria Parker's neighbors set the bar quite high—CityCenter is also home to world-renowned chefs such as Wolfgang Puck, Pierre Gagnaire, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Todd English (who is her partner in Beso Hollywood). "It's so great because CityCenter rea...

December of 2009

 

Rate Opinion: 'American Idol’ Kris Allen set to headline live New Year’s Eve show on Fox

Original at Star-Telegram.com external link    Tue, Dec 29

Allen, the reigning American Idol champ, is a headline performer of Billboard’s New Year’s Eve Live from Las Vegas. It begins at 11 p.m. Thursday (tape-delayed from the live East Coast telecast) on Fox. Why do you think American Idol proves to be so popular every season with viewers?

Rate Utilities commission denies bid to review gas-rate decision - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Thu, Dec 17

Utilities commission denies bid to review gas-rate decision Las Vegas Review - Journal Lee issued an apology and resigned from the Las Vegas-based casino operator after the confrontation, which followed the councilman's support of a rezoning ... and more »

Rate Commission poised to reject bid to review gas rate decision - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Wed, Dec 16

Commission poised to reject bid to review gas rate decision Las Vegas Review - Journal Pinnacle Entertainment has pushed up the opening of its River City casino in suburban St. Louis to early March. The casino and entertainment complex, ... and more »

Rate NORM: Tiger scandal puts VIP hosts on spot - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Sun, Dec 13

NORM: Tiger scandal puts VIP hosts on spot Las Vegas Review - Journal Las Vegas VIP hosts have been caught in the eye of the Tiger storm and only time will tell how much damage has been done. Catering to casino VIPs' every ...

Rate Opinion: In Las Vegas, one final echo of the boom years

Original at Los Angeles Times external link    Fri, Dec 11

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If we now expect every major hotel-casino in Las Vegas to have a theme, the one that applies here isn't difficult to make out, despite the architects' ... Vegas $8.5 Billion citycenter Has Classy Casino, Empty RoomsBloomberg CoStar Group -Casino City Times -Las Vegas Sun

Rate Good luck with all that luxe - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Thu, Dec 10    3 related articles

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Good luck with all that luxe Las Vegas Review - Journal Retail revenue for MGM Mirage, which includes high-end retail at Bellagio, The Mirage and Mandalay Bay and midmarket shops at properties such as MGM Grand, ... and more »

Rate Fight veteran getting back into game - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Sun, Dec 6

Fight veteran getting back into game Las Vegas Review - Journal When Rich Rose worked at Caesars Palace, he participated in some of boxing's biggest fights on the Las Vegas Strip. ...

Rate Opinion: Las Vegas starts opening lavish new CityCenter

Original at Seattle Times external link    Sun, Dec 6

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KLAS-TV The centerpiece Aria hotel-casino will open Dec. 16 with about 4000 rooms. CityCenter has been built by MGM Mirage and financially struggling Dubai World ... MGM Slowly Opening CityCenter, Casino Gambling Coming SoonCasino Gambling Web

Rate Opinion: Ask Mr. Sun: Did you get laid off, too?

Original at Las Vegas Gleaner external link    Wed, Dec 2

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By Hugh Jackson The carnage continues in the newspaper industry, too, or what's left of it, as has been seen this week with the massacre at the Las Vegas Sun, or what's left of it. In a state where 175,000 people are officially... The carnage continues in the newspaper industry, too, or what's left of it, as has b...

Rate Lady Gaga Finds a New Fan in Barry Manilow

Original at Oh No They Didn't! external link    Tue, Dec 1

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In 2004, Manilow served as a guest judge on TV singing contest "American Idol." And while some new singers who obtain stardom from TV shows have taken criticism that they put performance before music, Manilow said voters generally have chosen good winners and noted many also earn critica...

Year 2009

 

Rate "Stripper-mobile" Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct [Distracted Driving]Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gawker external link    Wed, Nov 11

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By Adrian Chen Just read an article about a truck that drives around Las Vegas with a stripper dancing in it, and boy are my preconceived notions about that place tired (from being completely confirmed.) Whatever happens in Vegas, is ridiculous in Vegas. Viva Las Vegas!

Rate NV gubernatorial candidate vows to start arms race with America

Original at Las Vegas Gleaner external link    Tue, Nov 10

By Hugh Jackson For years, North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon has shilled for the problem gambling industry, er, neighborhood casinos and also served as a reliable yes-man for the sprawl lobby. Naturally he thinks he should be governor. But it turns out... For years, North Las Vegas Mayor Mike Montandon ha...

Rate Podcast: Top Chef's Bottom Line Effect

Original at The Strip external link    Thu, Oct 29

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Four years ago, a San Francisco chef took a gamble and opened up his San Francisco kitchen to the first challenge of a new Bravo TV show called “Top Chef.” At the time, Hubert Keller came across as tough and grouchy but the show was a hit and his Fleur de Lys in California became a place of intrigu...

Rate Podcast: Hal Prince: The Las Vegas Spectacular!

Original at The Strip external link    Thu, Sep 10

Welcome to a special interview edition of The Strip. The first-ever Phantom Fan Week is coming to Las Vegas in mid-September, so Steve decided it was time to check back in with legendary Broadway producer and director Hal Prince. That event marks the first time Prince has returned to Vegas s...

Rate Podcast: Five Hundy by Midnight 217: Tiger-Based Magic

Original at Five Hundy By Midnight external link    Sun, Jun 21

By Tim Las Vegas podcast #217 includes: Las Vegas gets the Dateline treatment, Treasure Island news, Monte Carlo brew pub and Club Fuego close, Sammy Hagar opens at least one bar in Las Vegas, Rick Thomas and Matt Goss get new Las Vegas shows and lots more Vegasy fun

Rate Podcast: A Tony Winner And An Oscar

Original at The Strip external link    Thu, Jun 18

This week, on the Strip: We spoke to her nearly two years ago and she was hinting at a comeback she didn’t want to jinx. And, in fact, Broadway legend – and Steve’s gayest obsession – Patti Lupone did have a trick up her sleeve: A few months later, she returned to the Great White Way in the title ro...

Rate Opinion: A night at the Folies

Original at Joe in and around Las Vegas external link    Thu, Mar 26

By JoeinVegas(noreply@blogger.com) Last Saturday evening we went to see one of the final performances of Folies Bergere at the Tropicana. It’s the oldest show in Vegas, in its 49th year, which they say is also the longest running show in the world. The web site says: “The timeless musical extravaganza embodies the very essence...

Rate Opinion: Cirque weekend

Original at Joe in and around Las Vegas external link    Tue, Feb 24

By JoeinVegas(noreply@blogger.com) This past weekend was Cirque weekend here in Vegas, at least for us. In order to generate local business a lot of casinos and restaurants run specials for people that live in Las Vegas, usually half off the second meal or a free dessert or something. Normally casinos offer things during the mo...

Rate Opinion: The Vegas Casino Room Glut

Original at businessweek.com external link    Wed, Dec 31

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Still. a recent review of the Encore in the Los Angeles Times concludes: "That dry desert floor outside town is littered with the corpses of pundits who have proclaimed that Las Vegas is overbuilt. And there's probably a special section in that cemetery for people who underestimated Steve...

Year 2008

 

Rate Podcast: Author George Fuller on "I Golf, Therefore I Am - Nuts," golf in Jamaica, affordable travel spots, and a tee-time deal in Vegas

Original at TravelGolf.com external link    Mon, Nov 3

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Click here to hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. But what if you want to head out West? Walters Golf in Las Vegas is offering 30 percent off green fees if you prepay, says the company’s director of reservations. The offer includes

Rate Opinion: In libertarian Vegas, ACLU keeps finding battles to fight

Original at Las Vegas Sun external link    Mon, Sep 22

A look back on its accomplishments and growth since its launch in 1966 offers perspective on the evolution of the Las Vegas Valley. “Las Vegas is no different from anywhere else,” says Lichtenstein, the ACLU of Nevada’s general counsel since 1996.

Rate Opinion: This time, history may not be kind

Original at Las Vegas Sun external link    Thu, Sep 11

“Less is a bore,” proclaimed the little book about Las Vegas architecture. It’s time for a new look at Las Vegas. What Venturi and Scott Brown did, Schwarz says, was take a look at Las Vegas and ask, “What does the rest of the world have to learn from what’s happened in Las Vegas?”

Rate Podcast: Ochoa/Hills Golf Design, Tucker on Rio Secco in Las Vegas, Frank Thomas' new putting studio near Orlando

Original at TravelGolf.com external link    Mon, Aug 18

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. Rio Secco Golf Club is a bruiser of a Las Vegas golf course, says TravelGolf.com’s Brandon Tucker. Former USGA Technical Director Frank Thomas of FranklyGolf.com talks about his new putting studio near Orlando.

Rate Opinion: Cher Las Vegas Spectacular

Original at cherworld.com external link    Sat, May 10

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By webmaster Last week, Sanchez watched her star climb to the top of a prop piece only planned for dancers to scale; perhaps a Xanax-inducing moment for those underwriting the 61-year-old star’s next 197 shows at Caesars Palace.

Rate Live Cher At Ceasars Palace Review

Original at cherworld.com external link    Wed, May 7

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By webmaster LAS VEGAS — Like the temples of the ancient Roman world that it simulates, the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is an environment suited to extravagant immortals. The artists who’ve graced its huge stage have all achieved that status in which one name not only serves but also explai...

Rate Podcast: The Iron Curtain Golf Trail, Dr. Fox on his "Beat the Bogey Man" series, part II of a conversation on golf fitness

Original at TravelGolf.com external link    Mon, Apr 14

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Walters Golf in Las Vegas, Scottish Golf Holidays and San Diego Golf Central. Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. Golf is blossoming in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to TravelGolf.com’s Br...

Rate TV News Briefs: X-Files, Millennium, Vegas, Scrubs, Men in Trees, The Shield and Friday Night Lights

Original at TV Series Finale external link    Fri, Mar 28

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Las Vegas — TV Guide has reported that there’s been a lot of activity regarding a proper wrap-up for the NBC series. Apparently NBC initially asked Vegas creator Gary Scott Thompson to whip up a quick ending for the last episode to hastily wrap up the series. When Thompson reportedly refused...

Rate Las Vegas: NBC in Trouble Over Series Finale — Did This Cause the Show’s Cancellation?

Original at TV Series Finale external link    Mon, Feb 25

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In the opening moments of the first of two episodes, three young women gather together in the center of the Montecito casino floor and disrobe. They then begin to run around the casino, creating a distraction for some bad guys to start a robbery. As you might expect, this was filmed without sh...

Rate Podcast: PowerBuilt's new FZ-1 golf clubs, Rio Secco shines in Las Vegas, reviewing the PGA Merchandise Show

Original at TravelGolf.com external link    Tue, Jan 29

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by St. Andrews Golf Tours, Premiere Golf and MyrtleBeachGolf.com. Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. In this week’s podcast, Equipment Editor Kiel Christianson talks to host Dave Berner about PowerBuilt’s new FZ-1 line, which has Fuzzy Zoelle...

Rate Podcast: Touring Las Vegas' top golf courses, visit LasVegasGolf.com for great deals, Buick Invitational host Torrey Pines, Chuck Evans on the PGA Merchandise Show

Original at TravelGolf.com external link    Tue, Jan 22

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Arizona Golf Packages and Florida Golf and Travel. Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to golf writer Mike Bailey about his recent tour of some of Las Vegas’ best golf courses. “It was a course a day, a...

Rate Podcast: PGA pro Chuck Evans' cold weather tips, Revere Golf Club near Las Vegas, Yahoo! Sports fantasy golf

Original at TravelGolf.com external link    Mon, Jan 7

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Scotland Golf Tours and Golf Canada’s West. Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. Playing golf in bad weather can be a miserable experience. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to PGA instructor Chuck Evans about how to tackle nasty con...

Year 2007

 

Rate Las Vegas - Episode 5.17 - 3 Babes, 100 Guns & A Fat Chick

Original at Spoiler TV external link    Mon, Dec 17

By DarkUFO PACKING HEAT...AND POUNDS- "LAS VEGAS" CELEBRATES A SPECIAL 100th EPISODE-A fugitive on the run has been tracked to the Montecito and every bounty hunter and FBI agent around has come looking to make the capture. Danny (Josh Duhamel), Mike (James Lesure) and Cooper (Tom Selleck) can’t help...

Rate Podcast: Dancin' Dogg golf simulator a great Christmas gift, Golden Ocala in Florida, the ClubGlider golf bag, Las Vegas' Badlands better than ever

Original at TravelGolf.com external link    Mon, Dec 3

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Golden Ocala Golf & Equestrian Club is an excellent Florida golf course with a stunning clubhouse, says National Golf Editor Tim McDonald. The Badlands has always been known as a solid Las Vegas golf course. These days, it’s the best it’s ever been, says LasVegasGolf.com writer Kevin I...

Rate Podcast: Rio Secco's beautiful "T-Mates," Reynolds Plantation in Georgia and "slicing" golf ballsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at TravelGolf.com external link    Tue, Nov 20

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Walters Golf in Las Vegas and Scottish Golf Holidays Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. Perhaps only in Las Vegas would someone think of combining golf with beautiful women. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to Mark Blais, direct...

Rate Fanfiction: SPN story: To Live and Die in Las Vegas by Stormy Stormheller

Original at Supernaturalfic external link    Thu, Nov 15

By supernaturalfic@gmail.com Title: To Live and Die in Las Vegas Rating: R Pairing/Characters: Sam/Dean (also Sam/Dean/Crossroads Demon) Warning: There’s Wincest, and het sex that is actually demon sex and also threesome sex. Something for the whole family. None of it particularly graphic. Oh, and not a death story.

Rate Las Vegas - Episode 5.11 - I Could Eat a Horse

Original at Spoiler TV external link    Mon, Sep 10

By DarkUFO Sam takes care of couple Sherry and Rodney. Sherry used to be slightly overweight like her husband but has lost many pounds since she decided she wanted to fit in her grandmother's wedding dress. When Sherry leaves Sam and Rodney alone, the latter admits to Sam that he doesn't think he can go t...

Rate Saved By The Bell -- DVD Review

Original at TV Squad external link    Wed, Aug 8

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By Brett Love Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEdIt's always interesting going back to see something that you were once fond of again. Sometimes they hold up, and sometimes you are left shaking your head wondering what could have been in the air in 1982 that made you like this pile of crap. That's how I headed into t...

Rate Tom Selleck joining Las Vegas

Original at TV Squad external link    Wed, Apr 11

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By Bob Sassone Tom Selleck is joining the cast of the NBC drama Las Vegas this fall. He'll play the new owner of the casino, taking over from James Cann, who has left the show along with Nikki Cox. The only way the show was going to be renewed was to cut the budget, so they're gone (though I wonder how much Selleck...

Rate Concert Review: Rascal Flatts at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay

Original at Entertainment Weekly external link    Mon, Mar 12

By Whitney Pastorek But last weekend, an elaborate series of events took me to Las Vegas and plopped me down in the middle of an event that even my country-loving, native-Texan brain could barely comprehend: Rascal Flatts and their "Me and My Gang" Tour. During NASCAR weekend. In Vegas. It was like the All-Star g...

Year 2006

 

Rate Opinion: Las Vegas: New York in Las Vegas

Original at Gridskipper external link    Tue, Dec 19

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Coyote Ugly: Modeled after the East Village original that was famously portrayed in the '00 movie, Coyote Ugly in Vegas is the pretty similar to the real deal except that your bar-dancin', loud talkin' bartender's other job is stripping so you will probably get a better show than in NYC.

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