Celine Dion is firing back at what she characterizes as “untruths” in a recent report that she has withheld ticket revenues to her touring-booker partner.
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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 Greatest Piano Men,” a celebration of legendary ivory ticklers, runs March 26-April 1 at Flamingo Las Vegas’s Donny Marie Showroom.
Postmodern Jukebox is returning to the Strip in a residency engagement — a real residency of multiple shows per week, over multiple weeks —at Mirage’s 1Oak Nightclub
Jose Canseco, the former Major League slugger, Las Vegas resident and (yes) Strip stage performer, is offering a weekend junket where (maybe) you’ll encounter Bigfoot.
“The Sin City Residency” follows the band’s “Viva Hysteria” run at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, an 11-show spree in March-April 2013.
The “One Night” story follows an Everyman character, played by Cirque artist Michael Duffy (who was a main character in Zarkana), being led on a spiritual awakening through watery scenes by a little girl named Drop (7-year-old dance sensation Sabine Nehls).
The new set of shows, made possible for hot sales to the original schedule, brings the total number of Aerosmith dates at Park Theater this year to 3
The reunited Heart is bringing its “Love Alive” U.S. tour to Pearl Theater at the Palms, with the ever-rocking Joan Jett opening.
Zappos is a presenting sponsor for the eight-day event, set for April 28-May 5 at venues in downtown Las Vegas and also Brenden Theatres at the Palms.
The rhinestone-covered Baldwin required special care and that a team that worked on the 2013 HBO film “Behind the Candelabra” helped load the piano and truck it to L.A.
The show is slickly produced with video footage of the band’s early career behind an aggressively displayed THE PEARL logo on the big screens.
Brad Garrett looked over fellow comic Rob Sherwood and said, “What, did they have a garage sale at the Mob Museum? Do you OWN a mirror?”
On a chilly Thursday afternoon,”Legends In Concert” unveiled the cast that will re-open the show Monday night for previews at the Tropicana.
Mayor Carolyn Goodman will host a formal unveiling of Robin Leach Way at the Center at 4 p.m. March 15.
Tents come and go in Las Vegas. But occasionally they don’t leave and serve as harbingers of long-running Strip productions.
