Throw the collected works of Anne Rice into a blender, mix in an old Chris Isaak album and a couple of hours of Skinemax, garnish with a tiny Confederate flag and serve it to David Lynch on a Louisiana front porch on a sweltering afternoon.
Entertainment Columns
The producers of “Shear Madness” might be living up to their show title by challenging the very definition of Las Vegas entertainment.
Criss Angel is one busy guy, what with a multimillion-dollar show at Luxor just around the corner.
Donny and Marie Osmond open at the Flamingo.
Here’s the thing that surprises me most about Brio Tuscan Grille: People are so impressed by the scale of the building, the very grandeur of the place — soaring ceilings and vaults, cozy passages — that they tend to assume it’s a one-off, a stand-alone restaurant raised in Town Square by the scion of a Tuscan winemaking family.
Alice Cooper turned 60 this year. He is playing The Orleans this weekend, not sitting at home yelling at the neighborhood kids to get out of his yard — though wouldn’t you love to see just how he would scare them away?
Take your pick: The Criss Angel show is either so dull it needs a wake-up call or so groundbreaking that it needs more time to fine-tune its technical complexities.
I finally have good news for all of the readers out there — and believe me, there are lots of you — who are looking for whole-belly clams.
Spotting wildlife remains one of the joys of traveling America’s roads and highways. Of course careful drivers scan the roadsides to avoid disasters of making roadkill of wild things, while youngsters in the vehicle make a game of listing species seen. They note the surprising variety of creatures of the woods, meadows, desert, mountains and waterways of our diverse landscapes, perhaps the only opportunities they have to see such creatures outside of city zoos.
On one of the final weekdays before Labor Day, a steady trickle of downtown pedestrians ponders the choices at a discount ticket booth on Fremont Street. They seem oblivious to how much this long, hot summer has narrowed the pack.
Flamingo Las Vegas entertainers are becoming branded with “Dancing with the Stars,” but in two out of three cases it’s not an association the casino is bragging about.
