07.30.11 · 6:54 PM

Las Vegas gives back with benefits for musician Jeff Jordan, Salvation Army

Those who say Las Vegas falls short in the area of philanthropy should take note of a couple of charity shows set for Sunday afternoon: • Several weeks ago, Las Vegas musician Jeff Jordan was hospitalized for an aortic aneurism that might have killed him had he waited even an hour longer to seek treatment. He subsequently suffered nerve damage in his leg and foot, ailments that forced him into a three-week hospitalization. To help Jordan offset mounting medical bills, ... Read more...

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07.28.11 · 7:22 PM

In GQ story, Jerry Lewis shows he’s hardly ready to retire

GQ has dedicated much of its August edition, on newsstands this week, to the art of comedy, and a healthy measure of that edition is focused on an 85-year-old Las Vegan. In a lengthy, yet rapid-fire, profile, writer Amy Wallace pulls the curtain back on a Jerry Lewis that seems hardly apt to retire from any phase of his career or life. She spent 11 hours, total, with Lewis in assembling the story, and what is unearthed should come as ... Read more...

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07.27.11 · 8:13 PM

‘Jubilee!’ and Moksha have roots in Las Vegas, if in different patches of soil

The clash of Las Vegas entertainment genres Saturday night was a jolt even for someone accustomed to all variety of live performances in this city. Early in the evening, it was a trip back to Jubilee! at Bally’s. Thirty years old with a soul even more aged than that, the show celebrates the three-decade mark this weekend. This is the most steeped-in-tradition, full-scale Las Vegas production show remaining in the city. Jubilee! is still the show that leaves day-glow feathers ... Read more...

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07.26.11 · 11:12 AM

Is George Clooney positioning himself for a run at public office?

For years, George Clooney has taken a shine to Las Vegas. Five years ago, nightclub developer Rande Gerber and he announced plans for a retro Vegas resort, Las Ramblas, to open along Harmon Avenue just west of the Hard Rock Hotel. The $3 billion property was to be opened in 2008 but fell victim to the commercial construction slump that stopped several such ambitious projects. Around that time, Ocean’s Thirteen, co-starring Clooney with a star-laden ensemble cast, premiered at Brenden ... Read more...

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07.24.11 · 2 PM

‘Neon scar,’ ‘Twilight’ as a breakfast cereal, and more whimsy from Russell Brand at Mandalay Bay

Roughly 30 minutes into his single performance Friday night at Mandalay Bay Theater, Russell Brand deviated from his script. Or did he, really? Was there a script at all? Brand improvises frequently and whimsically, but the quick, innuendo-laden response to the cries of a few female fans may well have been written before the show and swiftly memorized by Brand. In any event, the moment in reference: Brand began recounting his stint as host of the 2009 MTV Video Music ... Read more...

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07.24.11 · 11 AM

Frank happenings for Moreno and Perez; ‘Vegas! The Show’ shows more skin

Notes assembled from the streets of VegasVille: • Three of the great local entertainers in Las Vegas are making the news. Frankie Moreno, who has been ducking into Rush Lounge at Golden Nugget and Garfield’s on West Sahara Avenue on select weekends with his fiery backing band, is moving to The Lounge at the Palms. He starts there 10 p.m. Aug. 2 and will perform each Tuesday at that time. Tickets are $7 (Moreno has been playing free of charge ... Read more...

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07.24.11 · 1:22 AM

Jay Bloom’s involvement in The Mob Experience, proposed Star Wars attraction in question

Like sand through the hourglass, details continue to spill in the melodrama that is the Las Vegas Mob Experience at Tropicana. Most pressing is that a new management team is lumbering in, Cavalry-like, to take over operation of the embattled attraction. The new lineup of attraction-literate consultants will likely be in place within the month. Meanwhile, ticket prices at the Mob-ified, $25 million, 26,000-square-foot interactive walking tour will be dropped from $40 to $30 as of Monday. This is in ... Read more...

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07.23.11 · 3:33 PM

Caesars Entertainment: ‘Look at us! We don’t shaft our guests!

It was just after 9 a.m., and the Vegas thermometer crept toward triple digits. Rick Mazur was at the mic, having introduced himself as the president of the five-hotel cluster of Caesars Entertainment properties that includes Harrah’s and Flamingo. With growing verve, the dark-suited and certainly warming executive announced that the Caesars resorts offered “the best in entertainment!” “Yay!” responded the crowd, populated primarily by company employees. Then there was a pause. What now? “That was the cue!” Mazur called ... Read more...

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07.22.11 · 3:20 PM

Russell Brand ready to turn the tiger loose (metaphorically speaking) in Las Vegas

Russell Brand once remarked that he wanted a tiger to be set loose on Las Vegas to devour the city’s inhabitants. On Friday night, he is performing on a Mandalay Bay Theater stage usually reserved for The Lion King. So it is a something of a symbiotic, if not Simba-otic, booking as Brand makes his first Vegas appearance that is not a rote red carpet walk to promote a new film. Brand takes the stage at 10 p.m., or thereabouts, ... Read more...

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07.20.11 · 1:22 PM

Return to Las Vegas marked by Wayne Newton’s knight moves

The thing about Wayne Newton is, he is known as “Mr. Las Vegas,” but he could be the “Mister” of wherever he is. “Mr. Rollins” or “Mr. Bighorn” or “Mr. Polson” or “Mr. Whitefish.” “Mr. Montana,” even. He sort of takes over the scene, be it a breakfast nook in a lakeside village or an entire municipality. Newton has a new home on the shores of Flathead Lake in the upper-nether-western region of Montana, a stone’s skip from Glacier Park ... Read more...

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07.10.11 · 4:25 PM

Life after office still full speed ahead for Oscar Goodman

The car is a Mercedes-Benz sedan. It is clean and gleaming, bearing a license plate reading “LV1,” and it belongs to Oscar Goodman. Goodman curls his weary body inside the car and twists the ignition key. The engine hums, and in a way the soothing purr is an ideal way to cap one of the Las Vegas mayor’s final days in office. “Nice ride,” I remark. “What year is it?” Goodman pauses for a moment. “I have no idea,” the ... Read more...

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07.6.11 · 5:50 PM

Jay Bloom steps down as manager of Tropicana’s Mob Experience

Four months after its formal unveiling, the Mob Experience’s overlord is stepping down. Jay Bloom, whose vision it was to open the Tropicana Las Vegas attraction featuring some of the more famous figures connected to organized crime in America, has resigned as manager of the Mafia-themed attraction. His business partner, Louis Ventre, will lead the Mob Experience’s day-to-day operations as a new management team is assembled. After a soft opening March 1, the Mob Experience held its formal opening party ... Read more...

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07.5.11 · 12:01 PM

Din is served, especially in our row, at NKOTBSB at Mandalay Bay

We focus first on The Guy in Blue. He was seated one row in front of us, just to the left, at the New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys concert at Mandalay Bay Events Center. This is the set of shows billed as the NKOTBSB tour, a reunion and mixing of two of the best-selling boy bands from the 1980s and 1990s. These lively-steppin’, full-throated heart-throbbians can still fill an arena — a thumping crowd of 12,000 turned out at ... Read more...

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07.2.11 · 5:27 PM

Lounge Lizards unite: Vintage Vegas is still alive and well

It was during a performance dubbed “Vintage Vegas” that Chris Phillips made a vintage Vegas comment. Speaking of the different audiences attending the Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and those watching his standard-driven production at Ovation at Green Valley Ranch Resort, the Tweety-topped vocalist said, “Out there, everyone’s taking ecstasy. Here, everyone’s taking Ex-Lax.” Ba dum bum! The carnival that is Zowie Bowie has pulled up stakes, for the time being, finishing its run in an arbitrary ... Read more...

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07.1.11 · 2:32 PM

George Maloof is still the face of the Palms, optimism

It is October 2001, just weeks after the attacks of 9/11 rocked the country, sending it into a psychological and financial tailspin. Our resort industry is stricken as Americans fear boarding any aircraft bound for anywhere. And the first resort to open in the aftermath of this tragedy is George Maloof’s Palms. It is set for a Nov. 15 unveiling. In that slit of time between tragedy and what the city hopes will be triumph, Maloof leads a tour of ... Read more...

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Ready to celebrate the official start of summer? Prepare for takeoff. Memorial Day Weekend picks up speed with the addition of Rhumbar’s Scorpion Bowl ($49) to the weekend’s party lineup. ...
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