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The back-beat of The Killers is up front about the band’s approach to the Dec. 1 Vegas Strong Benefit Concert at T-Mobile Arena. “We don’t care where we fall in the lineup, we can open, we can close,” Ronnie Vannucci says. “We’re just happy to assemble the masses.”
O.J. Simpson was reportedly “drunk and unruly” at Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, broke some glasses and was invited to finish the night elsewhere.
“I learned a lot from Mr. Sinatra, and a lot from Steve Wynn, about how not to get into trouble in a casino,” Whoopi Goldberg says.
After performing her own show at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Celine joined Steve Aoki at Omnia Nightclub for a reverberating, club mix of the classic Titanic theme song “My Heart Will Go On.”
Andrew Dice Clay felt additional pain while taping an episode of “The Ed Bernstein Show,” and was later taken to the hospital for treatment. The procedure has also taken him out of a multi-episode run on the CBS series “Hawaii Five-0.”
The heart and soul of Las Vegas rock ‘n’ roll is teaming for an Oct. 1 fundraiser on the Strip.
The live music production “The Cocktail Cabaret” is tapping into classic Vegas lounge presentation opens Nov. 30, and its arrival was first trumpeted Sept. 13 by Keith Thompson at The Composers Showcase of Las Vegas.
General admission tickets for the event starring Tiesto, Zedd, Kaskade, Steve Aoki and Lil Jon are a paltry $30.
Sunday’s “Vegas Cares” show closed with the Las Vegas band Elvis Monroe playing the new song, “We Fight.”
“I’m just really excited to be standing here at our new NCCF campus,” Britney Spears said during a wind-swept ceremony at the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation’s new building.
With a message as commanding as one of his guitar solos, Brad Paisley has reversed a policy by the Country Music Association to close off discussion of the Oct. 1 shootings at Route 91 Harvest festival.
Ninety minutes before his first appearance since 1 October, Carlos Santana chatted with Las Vegas Metro Detective Richard Golgart and his wife, Kendra, whose daughter Rylie was injured in the shooting.
The time is right for some Jewel. The formidable folk artist and recent Las Vegas resident, who splits her time between Nashville and here, is joining the lineup for the 1 October “Vegas Cares” tribute show at the Venetian Theatre
“The Voice: Neon Dreams” is scheduled to open June 4 at an under-construction, in-the-round theater on the old Hard Rock Cafe site.
Column fave and ex-“Vegas! The Show” star Eric Jordan Young is the new resident director of “Baz — A Musical Mash Up” at Palazzo Theater.
