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John Katsilometes’ man-about-town column appears on daily on page 3A. Katsilometes moved to Las Vegas from Northern California in 1996 and spent two years with the RJ before moving to the Greenspun Media Group in 1998, where he served as an editor, magazine writer and columnist. He returned to the RJ in August 2016. He has won numerous state and regional awards, including the 2013 Nevada Press Association Journalist of the Year honor, and has been awarded three times for column writing by the Best of the West contest.
The four primary members of the Eagles bowed it out Friday night. We might not see them in Vegas again.
Keith Urban called out, “Just a Saturday night in Las Vegas!” as Nicole Kidman arrived and departed at the Colosseum.
“Mad Apple” is Cirque’s effort to deliver a fast, smaller-scale production at New York-New York.
Billy Gibbons says the new ZZ Top album “Raw” is due this summer, and the band is back at The Venetian in December.
On purpose, “Mad Apple” is smaller Cirque show than has been presented on the Strip.
Illuminarium CEO Alan Greenberg says “Space” will run until the end of the year. Or, as someone once said, to infinity and beyond.
“Mad Apple” is the most recent Cirque show to open on the Strip since “R.U.N” at Luxor bowed in 2019.
Dennis Blair says of George Carlin’s final show, “The last week at The Orleans, he was OK. He didn’t have all the energy he used to have, but he was OK.”
Wayne Newton’s “Up Close and Personal” production is running 7 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays through Dec. 18.
Aerosmith has announced that Steven Tyler is back in addiction treatment after relapsing following foot surgery.
Fletch Walcott is a great singer with a great memory for lyrics. He put both to use Monday night on “Don’t Forget the Lyrics.”
As anyone who has followed out exploits over the years knows, the lounge scene is our babbling brook. But the lounges are vanishing from the VegasVille landscape.
Britney Spears has been on the Strip this weekend, staying at Resorts World Las Vegas.
The Cosmo casino might not have reaped profits from Olivia Rodrigo’s show, but it was a rich night of entertainment.
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