Comic Ralphie May, a headliner at Harrah’s Las Vegas since January, has died at age 45.
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Country music star Eric Church, who headlined the first night of Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Friday, has dedicated the new song “Why Not Me” to victims of Sunday’s shootings at the Village on the Strip.
Look for the suddenly universal #VegasStrong message spinning around Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday in the Drive for the Cure 300
Frank Marino’s home, and his beautiful pool out back, was the stage for filming of a TV series set to run in the U.K. titled “Last Laugh in Vegas.”
Celine Dion forever charitable, and donated the proceeds of Sunday’s show to victims of Sunday’s shooting and their families.
Zak Bagans, the host of the Travel Channel paranormal series “Ghost Adventurers,” had planned to open his Haunted Museum on Monday afternoon, but delayed a day to swiftly assemble Tuesday’s vigil.
“I want to do this on behalf of my family, and on behalf of the employees at Casa de Shenandoah,” Wayne Newton said. “I only need to know where to help, and when.”
Route 91 Harvest and Live Nation officials state: “Our deepest sympathies go out to the injured and the deceased and their loved ones, senseless violence has claimed the souls of our fans and we have little in the way of answers.”
Zak Bagans has delayed the much-anticipated opening of his Haunted Museum at 600 E. Charleston Road, just east of Las Vegas Boulevard, pairing the attraction’s debut with a candlelight vigil set for 7 p.m. today.
Tickets for JLo’s cancelled shows are being refunded at point of purchase, or those holding tickets for those performances can use them for a Lopez date at Axis theater.
The show must go on, as they say. But not tonight. Many venues went dark Monday night to mourn and pay tribute to victims of Sunday’s Route 91 Harvest festival shooting at the Village.
Jose Andres is keeping the public informed of the efffort through his Twitter page, often chiding President Trump for the president’s response to the tragedy.
Fittingly, the drink at Station Casinos is called TLC, for Tammy, Lee and Channing. It’s a happy mix of Born & Bred vodka, lemon juice, rose syrup and Aperol aperitif topped with sparkling rose.
The Luxor’s star illusionist dropped a $100,000 bid on a painting called “Atoms” by a young cancer patient named Taylor, throwing a charge into the annual charity event at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel for Cure 4 The Kids Foundation.
Lionel Richie is joining country superstar Luke Bryan and pop-music and fashion stalwart Katy Perry as judges on next season’s “American Idol” as the the show “reboots,” as Bryan would say.