New Years Eve 2008 - Las Vegas Weekly

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Las Vegas rings in the New Year with a pyrotechnic orgy: Eight Strip properties are participating in the fireworks show this year, the newest addition being the Tropicana. more

Hot Spots: New Year's Eve edition: Kardashians, Black Eyed Peas and EDM, oh my! more

Chatting with 30 Seconds to Mars guitarist Tomo Milicevic: Milicevic discusses his affection for Vegas, concert finales, and something different to look forward to for their NYE show at the Palms. more

Eat your heart out on New Year's Eve: Consider compromising the confetti and noisemakers to dine in style at one of the numerous eateries presenting special menus for the occasion. more

Beauty Bar presents an underground NYE experience: Head downtown this New Year's Eve to check out the indie/electronic lineup at Beauty Bar's Snowball. more

Events Guide: New Year's Eve 2010: Plan your partying accordingly. more

My midnight: How the Weekly spent the last few moments of 2009: Is it midnight yet? Is the open bar over? And where the heck is our midnight kiss? more

Bands, beads and fried zucchini; New Year's Eve Bunkhouse style: Uncharacteristically early crowd helps benefit local festival while ringing in the new year. more

"I resolve...": From eating more ice cream to watching less "Jersey Shore," Vegas celebs share 2010 resolutions. more

At Lavo, New Year's Eve is less celeb more celebration: What celebrity host? The crowd at Lavo may have had a famous person in the room, but they hardly noticed. more

Krave crowd going strong well past New Year's Eve: At a little after 1 a.m. on the first day of a new year in a new decade, dozens of celebrants walked — OK, some stumbled — down Harmon Avenue near Las Vegas Boulevard. A line still existed in front of the Strip's only gay bar. more

50 Cent worth every penny at Pure: In nightlife, as in any industry, success often comes down to hiring the right person for the job. At Pure on New Year's that person was 50 Cent. more

Revelers ring in the new year at Fremont Street Experience: Ringing in the New Year at the Fremont Street Experience may not have been free - $10 for locals and $20 for out-of-state visitors - but Downtown revelers were out in full force to enjoy the experience more

Palms' Spectacular Spectacular lives up to name: For the countdown to 2010, N9NE Group and the Palms Casino & Resort billed the festivities as a Spectacular Spectacular. Rightly so, as the property partied until the break of dawn with all four venues catering to a multitude of clubgoers and tastes. more

Didn't do NYE right the first time?: With NYE on a Thursday this go-round, what's left to do on New Year's Day but party even more? more

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01.01.10

4:49 a.m.

Felix Grucci: A man at the center of the New Year’s Eve pyrotechnic storm

By John Katsilometes

A total of $500,000 was spent to fire 96,000 blasts from the rooftops of seven Strip resorts for more than 300,000 people, making New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas the nation’s grandest spectacle. Read more...

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Robin Leach: Luxe Life

12.29.09

10:22 a.m.

Are Fergie and Josh Duhamel expecting their first child?

By Robin Leach

Last year, the superstar singer was ducking my impertinent questions about her engagement and upcoming wedding to handsome … Read more...

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Robin Leach: Luxe Life

04.08.09

12:41 p.m.

Strip Scribbles: Matthew McConaughey’s two consecutive nights at Cirque

By Robin Leach

It’s difficult to believe, but actor Matthew McConaughey and stunning girlfriend Camila Alves went unrecognized when they purchased margaritas at … Read more...

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Nocturnal Admissions

01.22.09

4:48 p.m.

UFC + LAX = 4eva

By Sarah Feldberg

It’s a marriage made for Vegas: UFC and LAX have tied the knot. Read more...

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Robin Leach: Luxe Life

01.13.09

10:26 a.m.

A tale of three romances: Criss & Holly, Maksim & Karina and Travis & Shanna

By Robin Leach

Lovebirds Criss Angel and Holly Madison flew off this morning to start a weeklong vacation at a luxury beachfront resort in the millionaire’s playground of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The Mindfreak magician is on a long-planned, two-week break from his Cirque du Soleil show Believe at the Luxor. Criss spent part of his first week off in New York with The Girls Next Door star and girlfriend Holly. Criss has plans for the two of them to go horseback riding on the beach south of the border and also to do some ATV dune riding. When they return to Las ... Read more...

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Robin Leach: Luxe Life

01.11.09

7:30 a.m.

Morning Call: Josh & Fergie tie the knot in a private sunset ceremony in Malibu

By Robin Leach

Showbiz stars turned out for yesterday’s sunset Malibu wedding between superstar singer Fergie, 33, and her beau, actor Josh Duhamel, 36, exactly as we had reported over New Year’s Eve when the couple stayed here at the Palazzo after her Venetian concert and Lavo club countdown. They have been dating since 2004 and became engaged late last year. Fergie, once upon a time Stacy Ferguson, chatted with me in our exclusive video interview about being in love and how one day after touring once again with the Black Eyed Peas, she and Josh look forward to starting a family. Josh’s ... Read more...

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Robin Leach: Luxe Life

01.05.09

8:15 a.m.

Paris who? Benji Madden celebrates New Year with DJ set at Body English

By Robin Leach

While Paris Hilton was ringing in the New Year Down Under, former beau and Good Charlotte frontman Benji Madden was right here in Las Vegas. With a 12-strong entourage of friends, Benji partied up a storm at Body English inside the Hard Rock Hotel — and even helped give away $25,000 to the rowdy revelers. After handling the 10 to 1 countdown to usher in 2009, Benji went straight into his guest DJ set. He wound up having so much fun, he went right over his scheduled 90-minute set time. “He was in a great mood, and it looks as ... Read more...

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Robin Leach: Luxe Life

01.05.09

6 a.m.

Morning Call Exclusive Interview: Fergie talks about music, marriage and starting a family

By Robin Leach

There’s no question that pop superstar Fergie is “over the moon” happy in love with actor Josh Duhamel. There’s no doubt the handsome, lip-locked couple will tie the knot almost immediately. However, her lips were sealed about the exact date when I talked with her — even though she proudly showed me her engagement ring and chatted about marriage and starting a family! But in talking to her friends during her Las Vegas visit with Josh and their respective families, it looks as if five days from now — this Saturday, Jan. 10 — Fergie and Josh will marry and ... Read more...

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Robin Leach: Luxe Life

01.04.09

8:30 a.m.

Exclusive Photo Galleries: Kid Rock and ZZ Top close out holiday weekend

By Robin Leach

Just when you thought it was impossible to “top” the megastar power that lit up Las Vegas for New Year’s Eve, along come two rock music superstars in dueling battles to close out the long holiday weekend. ZZ Top and Kid Rock went into head-to-head rivalry last night, and both acts had jam-packed, sellout crowds for their sensational shows. For Detroit-born rock-rapper Kid Rock, it was his second show in less than 96 hours at The Pearl Concert Theater in the Palms. Our contributing photographer Denise Truscello was onstage and backstage for the candid shots of Palms President George Maloof ... Read more...

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Robin Leach: Luxe Life

01.03.09

6 a.m.

Morning Call: Pink & Carey Hart reunite! Will New Year bring a reconciliation?

By Robin Leach

For lovers and those in love, New Year’s Eve is a very special night! Promises and resolutions. Maybe even an attempt to right a wrecked marriage? The reunion between torn twosome Pink and Carey Hart, rock music’s reigning hot couple, was eagerly awaited by those of us with the prying eyes and the nosy tongue wagging! The reunion at the Hard Rock Hotel between the superstar singer and the tattooed motocross stunt king on the second most romantic night of the year was pulled off without a hitch. “It’s obvious that they still care about each other very much,” one ... Read more...

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