One of the pioneers of grunge music and an inspiration to a generation of rock artists is being honored by two Las Vegas music institutions.
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Myron Martin, president of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, is in New York this week seeing a bevy of Broadway plays and musicals to fulfill his responsibility as a member of the Broadway League who votes on the member of the group that selects winners of the voter for the Tony Awards each year.
Human Nature is inviting fans to take part in three free shows on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
Downtown Las Vegas Events Center is taking on a beach scene, including a 100-foot-long swiming pool, for the upcoming Dirtybird BBQ festival.
The Crapshoot Comedy Festival has drawn immediate and understandable comparisons to the long-latent Comedy Festival held at Caesars Palace from 2005-2009.
Britney Spears is not married, nor is she pregnant, confirms her Las Vegas manager, who invokes an alien in the denial.
It was high-fives all around for then-rising band Imagine Dragons during the Grammy Awards show in 2014.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s marriage had been rocked last spring after his reported affair, but the couple renewed their vows Sunday at Wynn Las Vegas.
Members of the great rock band dined at MB Steak each night of their weekend shows at the Joint.
The opening of Chumlee’s Candy on the Boulevard has been delayed for at least a week. The sugar shop in downtown Las Vegas, operated by Austin Russell (nickname of Chumlee, of “Pawn Stars” fame) was originally planned to open last Monday but instead has been pushed back to next week.
To call it a mob scene would be bowing to the obvious, but … it’s just too hard to resist.
The Amazing Johnathan was told he had a year to live more than three years ago, but he’s still standing.
Clint Holmes joked about his age from the stage, but his storytelling show at Golden Nugget show a serious artist at work.
Imagine Dragons played twice at the 2009 Bite of Las Vegas festival. One was planned. The other, thanks to an ailing Pat Monahan, was not.
Lance Burton usually reserves his appearances for charity events since retiring from his stage show at Monte Carlo in 2010. He can’t even recall performing in any ticketed show since then.
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