REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64.
Fisher died of kidney failure Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital after a long illness, his spokesman, Gardar Sverrisson, said Friday.
Westgate, Elvis’ headlining hotel in the International/Las Vegas Hilton days, is hosting a champagne toast in the hotel’s main lobby at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Berklee-educated drummer Daniel Platzman joined Imagine Dragons in 2011, just before the Las Vegas-born rock band signed with a major label.
Old emotions resurfaced in the new film “The Last Showgirl,” in which Pamela Anderson plays Shelly who has spent three decades in “Le Razzle Dazzle,” a feathered topless revue based on “Jubilee.”
Rockers 311 performed the last concert in Las Vegas before the COVID shutdown.
Carlos Santana took a hard fall and broke the little finger on his left hand, pushing back his return to House of Blues.
Nancy Sinatra invited the Osmond Brothers, featuring Wayne Osmond, to open for her at the International Hotel (today’s Westgate) on Aug. 29, 1969.
Wayne Osmond, a singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-selling family act The Osmonds, has died. He was 73.
“For me in my life, it’s still about discovering,” the 57-year-old actor says. “At every age, you don’t know what you don’t know.”
Stand-up Nate Bargatze scored unexpectedly with an immediately iconic portrayal of George Washington in a skit dubbed “Washington’s Dream.”
Bruno Mars performed as a band member with The Hooligans, not the front man, as he counted in 2025 for a packed house.
