When Alex Tuch says when learned Wolfgang Puck would be a business partner “my jaw hit the floor.”
John Katsilometes
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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.
Celine Dion’s 17-year gap between No. 1 album releases is a record among female recording artists.
An acclaimed artist and famous shoe brand are, um, kicking off a partnership with the Palms.
Reports indicate officials are investigating Harry Morton’s recent septoplasty, which is a surgery to straight the septum for improved airflow.
Aerosmith, Shania Twain and Christina Aguilera is reportedly in the upcoming campaign to unveil “What Happens Here, Only Happens Here” as Las Vegas’s new tourism slogan.
Popular all-ages performer Jeff Civillico’s final performance at Paris Las Vegas heater is Dec. 18.
Harry Morton opened Pink Taco at Hard Rock Hotel, then owned by his father, in 1999. He was 18 at the time.
From Jimmy Kimmel: “When I went to the DMV, the woman at the counter saw L8NITE and said, ‘You must be totally obsessed with David Letterman.”
In 1986, Frank Marino was served legal papers onstage at the Riviera from an attorney representing Joan Rivers — while Marino was performing as Rivers.
Wayne Newton and his wife and daughter appeared in court on Wednesday in an ongoing dispute over property left at the Newtons’ former home, Casa de Shenandoah.
The Kats! Bureau at this writing is in close proximity to Aerosmith, not just spiritually but in fact. I’m seated in a group so close to the band you can actually catch the distinctive scent of Steven Tyler. Not sure what it is, sort of a citrus-berry-macho-musk fragrance. I call it Sweet Emotion.
Shania Twain was a guest on “Live With Kelly and Ryan” during the quartet of shows taped Sunday and Monday at Paris Theater.
CeeLo Green is back in Las Vegas, with his “Man In The Mirror” production, booked for 16 performances at Flamingo Showroom from March 24 to Aug. 2.
Of his sister, Donny Osmond says, “I think we have proven that siblings can work together. There has been some butting of the heads … because we are both producers.”
Nicolas Cage, a Las Vegas resident, is to play a character desperate to get a role in a new Quentin Tarantino movie.
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