Derek Stevens is a Las Vegas pioneer of today. It’s a role he so relishes and accepts that the announcement of the name of his new Fremont Street resort, Circa, was peppered with references to the pioneers of the past.
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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.
“We were on the elevator on our way up here and we’re asking, ‘Are they going to give us a hangover? Do they expect us to arrive hung over?’” CES conventioneer Taylor Lemmon said, laughing. “But where’s the piano? Where’s the tiger?”
The production originally went dark for from Dec. 6-17, owing its schedule break to Salt-N-Pepa’s “exhausting” Australian tour in support of Usher. The show had scheduled a return date of Jan. 17, but all dates have been taken off the schedule.
Omnia was where Vegas nightlife parties with advanced virtual-reality technology. At some point, the cold-steam cannons, strobes and LED chandelier at the center of Omnia’s main floor themselves feel computer-generated
Xavier Mortimer became known to Strip audiences through his appearances on “America’s Got Talent” in 2015, and also as an acrobatic performer in “Michael Jackson One” at Mandalay Bay,
The club welcomed more than 600 CES attendees, offering a free drinks — up to $18 (with Strip prices in full effect) — for the first 500 to enter the club.
As he hung with Derek Stevens at the D’s Longbar, TV host Marcus Lemonis remarked, “This is nothing like I thought. This place is packed!” Lemonis’ three-day trip to the Strip and Fremont Street is chronicled in “The Profit: High Stakes,” airing at 10 p.m. Tuesday on CNBC.
The series has invited 50 acts — five winners apiece from the U.S. and British version of the show and eight others from around the world — to compete for the “AGT” uber-championship.
As Donny Osmond said, “The nurse tells me to mark my right shoulder with the word ‘yes,’ so they get the right one. But instead of that, I put this.”
Naughty By Nature performed as expected and Flavor Flav — conveniently a Las Vegas resident — showed up unbilled on the first On The Record “OTR Wednesdays,” the club’s industry night at Park MGM.
Pop star Britney Spears announced on her website Friday that she is putting her Las Vegas show, “Britney: Domination,” on hold.
“Celestia” is jammed with acrobatics, advanced tecnology, artists and illusions in that 200,000-square-foot facility.
The Naked Magicians are moving into MGM Grand, taking up residency at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club on Feb. 13.
Reportedly, and by a quick glance at the photos of his appearance on the Strip, Kevin Hart was showing no ill effects from being dropped from the Oscars telecast.
Mr. Las Vegas is re-launching “Wayne Newton: Up Close and Personal” at Caesars Palace’s Cleopatra’s Barge.
