Bon Iver and Velvet Negroni headline The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel. Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon isolated himself for four months in a remote Wisconsin cabin for his debut album, “For Emma, Forever Ago.”
Robin Leach
Oh what a joy to go to a concert on the Strip where the musicians actually play the music on their instruments instead of pantomiming them to pre-recorded tracks. How wonderfully incredible to see an audience seated out of respect instead of standing and blocking everybody else’s views of the stage.
In his restaurants and on television, he’s known as a fun-loving Italian celebrity chef who wears orange Crocs and orange shorts. As one of America’s most recognized and respected chefs, ginger-haired Mario Batali has built an amazing restaurant-and-food empire across the country.
Kendra Wilkinson Baskett will star with “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’s” Jai Rodriguez in the off-Broadway hit “Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man” based on the 1997 bestselling book of the same name where no topic was taboo and insider tips were right from the source: a gay man.
Hold your horses! Pop princess Britney Spears might not be leaving Las Vegas as fast as you think even though her hit residency “Britney: Piece of Me” ends at Axis at Planet Hollywood on New Year’s Eve.
For the next four days starting Thursday, a large rockabilly music and classic car show takes center stage in Las Vegas, and our city’s own burlesque beauties will be in the spotlight as vintage–era fans pour in from around the world to The Orleans.
Las Vegas singer-songwriter Clint Holmes has landed a residency for every Tuesday and Wednesday starting May 5 at Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas. It’s a return to his roots for Clint because that’s where he started when Steve Wynn first brought him to Las Vegas in 1999.
Mega-nightclub Hakkasan at MGM Grand celebrated its fourth anniversary from Thursday through Sunday with an all-star-DJ lineup that included Steve Aoki, Zedd, Tiesto and Above & Beyond.
Despite a 12-year breakup in 1981, Steely Dan musicians Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have been making their jazz-rock music since 1972, and they’re still going strong with a nine-performance mini-residency at The Venetian from tonight through April 29.
Now that Britney Spears is enjoying a break in Hawaii to prepare for her Asian and Israel tour, The Backstreet Boys return to Axis at Planet Hollywood with their hit residency “Larger Than Life” through April 28. Snoop Dogg hits the sand and waves at Mandalay Bay Beach.
Playboy cover girl Holly Madison has competition coming from ex-The Playboy Mansion roommate Kendra Wilkinson Baskett for the title of sexy pinup queen of Las Vegas. I’m reliably informed by New York TV friends that Kendra has been filming promo spots for a “Sex Tips Reality” TV show.
Gossip has begun anew that MGM Resorts International is looking at acquiring The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas from investment group Blackstone headquartered in New York. Deutsche Bank took over The Cosmopolitan after foreclosing on its developers in 2008.
Insomniac has unveiled the second phase of 2017 EDC Week events taking over venues in Las Vegas from June 12-19, culminating with the 21st Annual Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
In a sense — and given editorial license — it has taken 80 years and $25,000 to get the concert and musical version of “An American in Paris” to The Smith Center for the Performing Arts for an eight-performance run that begins tonight, and it includes the stunning 17- to 18-minute finale ballet sequence.
Madonna said of him, “No one knows more about music and movement than Jamie King.” And she should know because the man who is known in the industry as “The Billion Dollar Tour Director” has created six of her world tours dating back to 2001.