Las Vegas Weekly

May 21, 2009 · 12:34 PM

Strip Scribbles: The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel is now The Rogue Joint

By Robin Leach

The Killers' lead singer Brandon Flowers.

Photo: Torey Mundowsky

Executives at the Hard Rock Hotel have decided to rename their brand new The Joint as The Rogue Joint! It’s part of a branding and co-marketing deal with Relativity Media, who owns Rogue Pictures, which has specialized in horror movies including The Unborn and Last House on the Left. Relativity has financed or produced more than 60 movies that have racked up $7.4 billion in worldwide box office revenue.

Fifty of those have been Top 10 box office releases within the past two years and include Fast & Furious, Mamma Mia! and Hancock. Relativity’s movies have earned 29 Oscar nominations for such films as Frost/Nixon, American Gangster and 3:10 to Yuma.

The first moves in the new affiliation include a new in-room TV channel programmed with Rogue’s films and trailers and a select slate of Rogue film premieres and screenings with details to be announced soon. The Joint, now The Rogue Joint, hosted The Killers and Paul McCartney its opening weekend last month.

Photo: Kirvin Doak Communications

Blue Man Group stand in front of the Blue Man Airplane.

*In its second year of the Create a Found Instrument contest, Blue Man Group dropped in on Shadow Ridge High School here yesterday to surprise the winner and class. The eccentric entertainers from The Venetian show presented $1,000 to the winner and $5,000 to the class teacher to use for the students’ continuing education. The students developed a new musical instrument out of discarded building supplies, similar to how Blue Man Group creators converted PVC pipes into their show’s musical instruments.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

Holly Madison outside Prive at Planet Hollywood.

*Getting ready for her upcoming Peepshow run, Playboy beauty Holly Madison hit the Drift Spa at the Palms Place Hotel & Spa for a 50-minute Muscle Melter deep tissue massage. By the time she joins the cast of the sexy topless cabaret revue at Planet Hollywood on June 22, there will be a new VIP package in place. Once you’ve purchased the $165 package of upfront, plush cabaret seating at the foot of the runway stages with complimentary specialty cocktails, you can upgrade for $55 more and receive premium seat service of Patron Silver tequila, Moet Chandon champagne or Grey Goose vodka.

*Former NBA Star Jerome Williams will sign autographs at HHX, or Hoop Hall Experience, the official Basketball Hall of Fame’s touring exhibit, at Planet Hollywood today from 5 to 7 p.m. and again Saturday afternoon. The first 100 people with paid admission to HHX on Saturday and Sunday will receive a complimentary mini Spalding basketball signed by Jerome, who played four-plus years for the Detroit Pistons before he moved on to the Toronto Raptors.

Photo: Brian Evans

Joan Rivers in Lake Tahoe.

*Las Vegas-based crooner Brian Evans was picked by comedienne Joan Rivers to open for her run up at Harrah’s in Lake Tahoe, and backstage on her opening night, the entertainment executives there presented Joan with a cake for winning The Apprentice. That’s Brian on the left in the photo.

Photo: Shane O'Neal

Super Cr3w at Moon in the Palms.

Photo: Shane O'Neal

Super Cr3w at Moon in the Palms.

*Super Cr3w, the Las Vegas dance troupe winner of Season 2 of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, rocked Moon in the Palms for the “Roc Them Funky Stylz” party. Sporting Red Bull baseball caps and their custom Super Cr3w shirts, they left their VIP table and 25 friends in their entourage to perform twice on the dance floor between the DJ’s sets.

Tonight’s tips

Playboy Playmate Colleen Shannon, who was the magazine’s 50th anniversary centerfold, gives an early kick-start to Memorial Day weekend activities at Harrah’s Carnival Court with a two-hour live DJ session beginning at 10 p.m. She’s known as “The World’s Sexiest DJ.” … Air Supply -- Australian Russell Hitchcock and Englishman Graham Russell -- are still going strong after 30 years of hits and 30 albums, and they return to The Orleans for four nights of shows. … The Spin Doctors kick off the summer concert series at VooDoo Beach in The Rio. … Our colleagues at Las Vegas Weekly unveil the annual “Vegas Best” winners at Tao in The Venetian and celebrate with the official Worship after-party upstairs.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

Kendra Wilkinson.

Tomorrow’s teases

Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil takes a break at home here in Las Vegas before leaving to tour in Russia, and he updates us on his new Dr. Feelgood’s project here and his aviation charter business headquartered at McCarran. … It’s the showdown between “Sugar” Rashad Evans and Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida in UFC 98. … We’ve also got a full four-day Royal Robin Rundown of everything that’s happening on the Strip for Memorial Day weekend, with Barry Manilow, Dane Cook, Whoopi Goldberg and The Girls Next Door star Kendra Wilkinson, plus Dancing With the Stars pro Cheryl Burke arrives from the finals to celebrate her birthday at Lavo in the Palazzo.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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