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Exclusive: Director Jamie King talks ‘The Chosen’ and Michael Jackson
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
When the crowd cheered and the audience applauded Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony at “Q’Viva! (The Chosen)” at Mandalay Bay Events Center ...

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Strip Scribbles exclusives: ‘DWTS’ extended, LFL in Australia
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Plus, Planet Hollywood owner Robert Earl has OK’d start of construction for an Earl of Sandwich at the Palms, with a late June or early July opening. ...

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2012 Miss USA: Glamour shots, Best Buddies, Gordon Ramsay, Sky Blu
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The partying is over! Now it’s serious. The 51 Miss USA Pageant contestants have kept up a relentless schedule during their first week in Las ...

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Photos: J.Lo, Marc Anthony, Jamie King toast ‘The Chosen’ at Mandalay
Sunday, May 27, 2012
It took four years and 90 minutes, but at the end, they hugged and held hands; superstars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony mouthed the words ...

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Stories of survival, inspiration among 2012 Miss USA Pageant contestants
Friday, May 25, 2012
In meeting with the 2012 Miss USA Pageant contestants this past week, I’ve learned some of their fascinating, emotional and inspirational stories: ...

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Bride-to-be Meagan Good: I’ll be the overly dressed Pussycat Doll
Friday, May 25, 2012
For the soon-to-be preacher’s wife, it is a bucket-list striptease show she just has to complete to celebrate her bachelorette party. Gorgeous movie ...

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2012 Miss USA Day 4: Swimsuit volleyball, full-frontal humor, Trump
Friday, May 25, 2012
It was another hot-temperature, grueling day in front of the cameras for the 51 contestants of the 2012 Miss USA Pageant as they filmed around- ...

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Celebrity preview: J.Lo, Daughtry, Incubus, UFC 146, Beach Boys, more!
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Five days and nights of nonstop partying are ahead for the Memorial Day Weekend starting today and make it more like a New Year’s Eve celebration ...

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2012 Miss USA Day 3: Swimsuits, judges, Buca di Beppo, renewal talks
Thursday, May 24, 2012
As the 2012 Miss USA Pageant contestants were officially welcomed to Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon for their fifth consecutive year at Planet ...

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Photos: LMFAO’s Sky Blu debuts at Wet Republic, wins at nearby BMAs
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Just hours before winning six trophies at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena with LMFAO, Sky Blu debuted his monthly DJ ...

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Photos: Kat Graham and Baltimore Ravens players party at Chateau
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
“Vampire Diaries” actress Kat Graham celebrated a successful Season 3 of her hit CW series and her first single, “Put Your Graffiti on Me,” with 3.5 ...

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Photos: ‘Twilight’ actress Nikki Reed toasts 24th birthday at Marquee Dayclub
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
“Twilight” actress Nikki Reed celebrated her 24th birthday at Marquee Dayclub at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and was joined by newlywed husband ...

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2012 Miss USA Day 2: Red Rock Resort, wedges, gowns, SFAB
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The pressures and pace picked up Tuesday in preparations for the 51 contestants competing in the 2012 Miss USA Pageant. The official Miss USA ...

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Do some folks dress for L.V. without checking a mirror, Laura Croft asks
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
While looking at photographs from recent events in Las Vegas, I came across some unusual looks. I know that for the most part, this is a city where ...

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Photos: Nobu excited about new restaurant, first hotel at Caesars
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
If it hadn’t been for a fire that burned down his first American restaurant, if it hadn’t been for actor Robert De Niro chasing him for four years to ...

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Strip Scribbles: Steve Wynn’s L.V. neighbors in N.Y.; Ray J hospitalized
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Hotel tycoon Steve Wynn made global headlines with his $70 million New York City penthouse purchase last week, but if he’d hoped to escape ...

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2012 Miss USA Day 1: Filming, rehearsals and photo shoots in L.V.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
It may well have looked like a day of decadence with drinks, dinner and dancing, but when TV cameras are rolling nonstop, it becomes hard work ...

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Chef Alain Ducasse relishes his other careers as author, publisher
Monday, May 21, 2012
It’s a beyond-busy travel schedule, more flying than some pilots. Before he arrived in Las Vegas this month, chef Alain Ducasse was in Monaco, Paris, ...

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Strip Scribbles: Dion back in full voice; what’s next for Playboy Club?
Monday, May 21, 2012
Caesars Palace headliner and superstar Celine Dion has won back the full strength of her voice. “She’s raring to go and can’t wait to return” to ...

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2012 Miss USA: Hopefuls in L.V.; judge named; Hall wins ‘Apprentice’
Monday, May 21, 2012
The glitz and glamour of the 2012 Miss USA Pageant hit the Strip over the weekend, and TV cameras roll for the first time today on pageant ...

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Photos: BMAs stars are the best free advertising for Las Vegas
Monday, May 21, 2012
Pop superstar and heartthrob Justin Bieber may have done more for Las Vegas tourism in the past 48 hours than any advertising buy made by our ...

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Photos: Bieber, Underwood, Cyrus, DeGraw, Hough arrive at 2012 BMAs
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Miley Cyrus looked to be wearing no bra or pants under her long, white, open-to-the-navel blazer and onstage was a wardrobe malfunction seconds ...

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Photos: BMA rehearsals for Houston, Summer, Yauch tributes; Cee Lo
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Last-minute juggling until midnight Saturday will ensure a tribute to disco queen Donna Summer at today’s 2012 Billboard Awards at MGM Grand ...

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Photos: Dita Von Teese’s ‘Strip, Strip, Hooray’ dazzles at HOB
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Burlesque is back big time thanks to Dita Von Teese and her spectacular, diamond-studded costumes that cost a cool $100,000 a piece, and she ...

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Celebrity preview: BMAs with Biebs, Usher, Kelly, Carrie, Whitney tribute
Friday, May 18, 2012
Music from yesteryear, today and even tomorrow is the dominating factor this weekend on the Strip. The world’s most popular music stars are all ...

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Impressionist Jeff Tracta, a man of over 100 voices, headlines at Palms
Thursday, May 17, 2012
“We are pulling out all the stops. The production is so much bigger. ... People loved what they saw at Liza’s show, but now I’m on steroids,” Jeff ...

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Strip Scribbles: Criss Angel, Triple H, Donna Summer, Mariah Carey
Thursday, May 17, 2012
It’s a fight I never expected, but it’s all in the name of charity when Luxor headliners Criss Angel and Carrot Top arm-wrestle each other for charity ...

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Photos: Dita Von Teese is ready to take it off at House of Blues
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Dita Von Teese, a one-time Las Vegas stripper, returns to town in glory headlining her own “feathers and fans” variety show, “Strip, Strip, Hooray,” ...

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Exclusive photos: Bagatelle is bringing Mediterranean flair to the Trop
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Construction is continuing nearly around the clock for next month’s opening of the stunning and spectacular Bagatelle Beach and Nightclub ...

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Photos: Four days of feasting at 2012 Vegas Uncork’d festivities
Thursday, May 17, 2012
It was a frantic and frenetic four days of feasting at the 6th Annual Vegas Uncork’d by Bon Appetit festival of food and fine wines at four of our ...

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Strip Scribbles: Channing Tatum, Joey Lawrence, Rio’s Chippendales
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The bare-chested hunks of Chippendales are about to get a whole lot hotter starting next month as they celebrate their 4,000th performance ...

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Photos: ‘X Factor’s’ Chris Rene hosts and performs at Pure
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
It was a show-stopping performance by former “X Factor” contestant Chris Rene at Pure in Caesars on Tuesday night. The Season 1 finalist ...

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‘Kimchi Chronicles’ chef Marja Vongerichten still ISO her father
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
“A missing piece of my life’s jigsaw puzzle.” That’s how PBS chef Marja Dominique Vongerichten describes the incredible story of her search ...

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National Atomic Testing Museum unveils Area 51 exhibit
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
It was once one of the most secret places in America, so secret that the U.S. government denied it even existed. Maps were altered so that its ...

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Creators of ‘Absinthe’ unleash ‘Empire’ at Caesars Palace
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
I leave you to imagine what happens to the messy bananas as they tongue each other to ecstasy. I don’t think that I’ve ever laughed as much, ...

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Strip Scribbles: Season 15 of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ to be all-stars
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Could Donny and Marie Osmond be returning to an all-star Season 15 of “Dancing With the Stars” to battle each other? Could Penn Jillette and ...

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Steve Wynn purchases New York City penthouse for $70 million
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
It took hotel tycoon Steve Wynn two years to find the perfect New York City penthouse after he sold his Plaza Hotel co-op in 2010 for $24.4 million. ...

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Photos: Casts do double duty for N.Y.-N.Y. musicals for the masses
Monday, May 14, 2012
British producer David King has a unique formula for finding success on the Strip: No stars. In fact, his energetic, exciting and enthusiastic ...

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Star Surveillance: Bobby Flay, Reggie Bush, ‘DWTS’ and Randy Couture
Monday, May 14, 2012
The Studio at the Palms is buzzing with a who’s who list of recording artists, including Nelly, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Lil Wayne, Birdman and ...

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Strip Scribbles: Whitney Houston tribute, new Katy Perry song at BMAs
Monday, May 14, 2012
Exclusive news ahead of Sunday’s 2012 Billboard Music Awards that will be an emotional roller-coaster: There will be tears as the Whitney ...

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Vegas Uncork’d Day 4: Star chefs salute Mother’s Day with brunches
Monday, May 14, 2012
It was an appropriate ending to the spectacular, four-day, super-chef Vegas Uncork’d by Bon Appetit feasting. It wrapped Sunday where it began ...

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Vegas Uncork’d Day 3: Attendance a record, sold-out Grand Tasting
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Vegas Uncork’d by Bon Appetit kept up the top-ranked, star-studded turnout on its third day Saturday of around-the-clock eating, drinking ...

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Vegas Uncork’d Day 2: Gordon Ramsay Steak, Nobu, Grand Tasting
Saturday, May 12, 2012
If not the most historic day in Las Vegas food history, Friday certainly was one of the Top Three. It reinforced Las Vegas as the No. 1 dining ...

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Photos: Gordon Ramsay Steak officially opens at Paris with star chef
Friday, May 11, 2012
He came -- and conquered. Controversial TV chef Gordon Ramsay is turning away diners in the hundreds lining up to get into his new ...

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Vegas Uncork’d Day 1: Master Series dinners, food trucks, star chefs
Friday, May 11, 2012
How do you top an opening-night salvo of five of the world’s best chefs all under one roof and 15 unique mobile food trucks just a block ...

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Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas to film ‘Last Vegas’ in -- Las Vegas?
Friday, May 11, 2012
Oscar-winning star and entrepreneur Robert De Niro is setting up shop on the Strip in more ways than one. Today, chef Nobu Matsuhisa ...

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Star Surveillance: Cotto, ‘DWTS,’ Miss America, Senor Frog’s, Deadmau5
Friday, May 11, 2012
Hollywood, sports, music and Las Vegas celebrities continue to make Las Vegas the Entertainment Capital of the World and their platinum ...

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Celebrity preview: Liza, Lily, Audrina, Drake, Snoop, Creed, Vegas Uncork’d
Friday, May 11, 2012
It’s time to lace up, warm up, stretch and get in the clinch as we go for our gold with the weekly race on and off the Strip we affectionately ...

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Strip Scribbles: Pauly D, The Sitch, Electra, PMOY, Fakih on ‘The Choice’
Thursday, May 10, 2012
There are familiar Las Vegas faces appearing on “The Choice” starting June 7, including Rob Kardashian, Joe Jonas, Carmen Electra, ...

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Photos: Wolfgang Puck toasts 20 years on Strip, opens Vegas Uncork’d
Thursday, May 10, 2012
After the Las Vegas events, Wolf then flew to L.A. to prepare Friday night’s dinner in George Clooney’s home for President Obama. He ...

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