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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...

In a city of knockoffs and impersonations,  how do you go about reinterpreting a great piece of music without being tainted as a copycat? Well, it helps if you’re already a legendary rock band in your own right behind you, too. That’s how Cheap Trick’s doing it anyway, landing at the Las Vega...

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...

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

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...

It may be one heckuva a recession, but the Hard Rock Hotel has pulled out all the stops on its new version of The Joint, spending $60 million on the posh new concert venue and signing modern Las Vegas’ first resident rock ‘n roll act in Carlos Santana. The 61-year-old guitar legend granted Ste...

Las Vegas is in stunned mourning this week following the shocking death Friday of impressionist Danny Gans. We’ll talk about that at the top of the show, but it’s also fitting that our guest this week is comic Jeff Foxworthy because Gans spent at least 10 minutes in every show doing Foxworth...

His father built the Mirage, Bellagio, Wynn Las Vegas, Sam’s Town, the Rio, Caesars Forum Shops and countless other iconic structures. But now is 35-year-old Anthony Marnell III’s time, with the surprisingly successful opening of the $1 billion M Resort way, way, WAY south on Las Vegas B...

The skeptics – including Steve -- said it would never work. A two-act, full-length musical scored by decades-old pop songs telling a convoluted story about parenthood and spandex could never, possibly succeed in Las Vegas. But succeed “Mamma Mia!” did, emboldening another half-dozen o...

This is Steve Wynn’s week, no doubt about it. On what is traditionally one of the slowest nights in Las Vegas and in the middle of the worst recession in generations, he opened the doors to his $2.3 billion expansion, Encore. The results were a flood of curious explorers that led to bumper to bum...

39:13: We walk along the north edge of the casino, which is to our left, and at the left turn toward the Las Vegas Boulevard atrium entrance, he points out the very prominently located high-limit baccarat room and the VIP concierge for Tower Suites guests. We are near the entrance of the fron...

By Editor Download here Special Guest: Mike Giusti Our buddy Mike stops by for this slightly late edition of the podcast where we discuss why The Mentalist isn’t bigger in the magic industry, what we would do to help Criss Angel turn his PR tide and why the Las Vegas Review-Journal thinks iTricks is a...

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

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Walter’s Golf in Las Vegas and San Diego Golf Central. Click here to hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner continues his conversation with author Larry Berle about his new book “A Golfer’s Dream.” TravelGo...

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner This podcast is supported by Florida Golf and Travel and St. Andrews Golf Tours. Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. In this week’s podcast, host Dave Berner talks to Ben Irwin, business development manager of charitybuzz, about how his company connects philanthropic wo...

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.

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Hear this latest episode of TravelGolf.com This Week. There are a lot of golf-improvement programs out there, but the most high tech is arguably GolfTEC. Berner talks to PGA Professional Tim Sam, director of instruction and city manager for GolfTEC’s franchise in Las Vegas.

As casino security chief Big Ed Deline on the now-defunct NBC soap “Las Vegas,” James Caan played the center of gravity at the fictional Montecito with a certain old-school Sin City panache. That and a few film roles related to the Strip were enough to earn him the first-ever Vegas Icon Awar...

By TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner Plus, now is a great time to play golf in Las Vegas. One of the best places to play is Silverstone Golf Club, says Director of Golf Ross McCullough “We have a phenomenal backdrop just to our north … [and] we have a couple par 5s that we are known for,” he says. “The longest par 5 in Nevada is located o...

You know a recession is pretty bad when it’s felt even in Las Vegas. Terry Lanni, the CEO of MGM Mirage, spoke to Steve earlier this month about these challenging economic times, about which of the young moguls of Vegas he admires and about the struggle to name the CityCenter Hotel. That’s com...

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...

Bam! Emeril Lagasse, the Food Network’s most famous alum, has opened his third Vegas restaurant, Table 10, at the Palazzo. Steve caught up with the chef a few weeks ago for a chat about the Vegas food scene, his culinary empire and, yes, his fast-food preferences. That’s coming up. Also, Stev...

Before Robuchon, before Palmer, before Lagasse and before Flay, there was Puck. Wolfgang Puck, of course. His Spago back in the early 1990s set off the star-chef boom here, and this month the most prolific restaurateur in Las Vegas is about to opens his sixth Strip restaurant, Cut, at the Pa...

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...

Tony Marnell Jr. was the architect and builder behind several of the most important structures in Las Vegas history, including the Mirage, Forum Shops, Wynn Las Vegas and all five Cirque du Soleil theaters. In this lengthy conversation with Steve for a Vegas Magazine profile, the CEO of Ma...

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...

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...