Las Vegas Weekly

June 14, 2008 · 4:30 PM

Wait! Stop everything! It’s mariachi!

By John Katsilometes

Is it a work area? Or mariachi show? It's both!

Photo: John Katsilometes

I am working right now. But do know the real news from here at the CondeNast CineVegas Lounge at the Palms?

Mariachi!

I kid not. It is La Proxima Ola Happy Hour! Over the years I have worked in some strange conditions. I’ve filed stories from rickety press boxes in places like Corning and Red Bluff, Calif. I’ve written stories on a Radio Shack TRS-80 (“trash-80,” we called them) while a passenger in a convertible VW Beetle. I have dictated stories over the phone from the office of the president of Shasta Community College. I have filed entire columns about such events as the Miss America Pageant on a handheld BlackBerry unit.

But never, ever, have I been treated to a fully strapped, full-throated and fully costumed mariachi band.

This raises but one question:

Wanna dance?

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