Splicing the artificial from the authentic is the challenge of “Opium,” opening March 13 at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
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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.
In his reign as the architect of the Vegas mega-resort, Wynn merged his personal wealth and his zeal for business with his passion for live entertainment.
Australian Bee Gees, a little show honoring a big act, celebrated its seventh anniversary in residence at Excalibur hotel-casino Saturday night.
As NBC color man Cris Collinsworth lamented the officials’ decision, saying, “I think they have to overturn this call!” Zach Ertz’s entourage remained resolute. That was a touchdown, Philly fans, clear as a bell.
Bob Griese didn’t wager on the game, but he’s having a time of it. He did say the Eagles would score on their first possession, and he was right.
“Viva Las Vegas” is everywhere, still, in this city. Vegas’s own rock superstars The Killers might well perform their version of the song Saturday night in their first show at MGM Grand Garden.
Elvis Costello’s dates were pulled off the Wynn Las Vegas website earlier today, and no return dates have been announced or posted.
Leading off the bottom of the first inning for your Las Vegas 51s, Tommy “The Renegade” Shaw!
Derek Stevens, co-owner of The D Las Vegas, is busy remaking what he calls “the most important city block in the history of Las Vegas.”
Performance artist Tape Face opens a three-year residency at Harrah’s Las Vegas on March 16.
For the first time in a decade, the three-piece rockabilly band that ruled FM radio and MTV in the early 1980s is reuniting for a live performance.
Emerge creator and founder Rehan Choudhry says, “There is nothing else like Emerge, which is what motivated us to build it.”
Stormy Daniels has not spoken publicly about her relationship with Donald Trump, but continues her national tour of personal appearances.
Can you have too much “Absinthe?” The Gazillionaire, production company Spiegelwold and Caesars Palace are betting on, “No.”
Giada De Laurentiis is preparing two dinners for more than $200,000 after Saturday’s wild bidding at Nevada Ballet Theatre’s Black and White gala.
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