Smart tourists in any town should ask, where do the locals hang? Where do you go when you get off work?
Mike Weatherford
The Scintas have been out of the Las Vegas tourist zone for a few years. So if you forgot what an old-Vegas show band is, or what it can pack into a half-hour, let’s catch you up:
The second half of the year can only get better for Franky Perez, a Las Vegas favorite who had to put his career on hold after he woke up in a mental ward just before Christmas.
Well, here we go again. “The 80s Show” is the second crack at an underdog musical you were wise to ignore when it was called “Legwarmers.” But like the nerd girl’s transformation at the prom, it has blossomed into something at least worth rooting for.
After interviewing David Copperfield for a feature you can read next week, talk drifted to Las Vegas showrooms — the physical venues themselves.
Here’s one way to ease suspicions that legal troubles may have created in the past: Give away your show tickets, no strings attached.
Las Vegas used to be monotheistic, embracing the Church of Elvis. But Michael Jackson is the new deity in town.
On May 16, 1983, Michael Jackson secured his own legend by dancing to “Billie Jean” on NBC’s “Motown 25” special. It aired two weeks after “Legends in Concert” opened in Las Vegas.
It’s obvious any night on the Strip, and especially the week before “The Hangover Part III” opens, that “Vegas has become kind of the test audience for the new generation of Cavemen.”
I wasn’t even in Las Vegas last Sunday night. And if I was, I probably would have been turning in and not down at the Plaza at 11 p.m.
An illusion Criss Angel is staging on Fremont Street for television cameras today sounds extremely familiar to Riviera magician Jan Rouven.
Elton John sits relaxed at the piano, talking about meeting Nelson Mandela and watching Honey Boo Boo.
It might be spring fever, but there’s something in the air besides pollen and it smells a little like — could it be? — creativity.
Give me a minute to adjust expectations here.
Veronic DiCaire was coached on her Celine Dion impression by a true expert.