The Backstreet Boys will make their debut appearance at Country Music’s Party of the Year, the Academy of Country Music Awards, performing with Florida Georgia Line at T-Mobile Arena — déjà vu for attendees of Night 2 of the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile last September.
Robin Leach
“The Year of Downtown was a remarkable period of our urban core’s ongoing revitalization,” said Mayor Carolyn Goodman, “the culmination of years of work by public and private entities, and it has marked the beginning of a new and historical era for the heart of our city.”
Country superstar Blake Sheldon headlined MGM Grand Gardena Arena on Saturday night, and NBC’s “The Voice” Season 11 winner Sundance Head, with Team Blake, of course, and RaeLynn opened for Shelton.
The stars of Discovery Channel’s reality-TV series “Gold Rush” arrive here for our big mining expo as the show begins Season 7. Miners Parker Schnabel, Todd Hoffman and Tony Beets have turned the outdoor adventure series into the network’s behemoth top-rated show.
Hotel mogul Steve Wynn wasn’t a Bel-Air, California, resident for long. He bought an 11,000-square-foot, five-bedroom and eight-bathroom mansion three years ago for $16.25 million, and reports over the weekend show that he just sold it for $16.55 million.
It’s a career change so dramatic that you’d never guess the outcome, and financiers at ABC’s “Shark Tank” on March 29 might just be charmed enough by sexy “Pin Up” at The Stratosphere star and 2011 Playmate of the Year Claire Sinclair to make her dream come true.
Billionaire Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, who started out as a stilt-walker and sold 90 percent of his French-Canadian circus troupe for $1.5 billion to a Chinese banking group and TPG Capital, has plans for a new entertainment venture for Las Vegas before the end of the year.
Statuesque Stephanie Barrett won Sunday night’s Mrs. Nevada-America Pageant after entering the competition as Mrs. Clark County. Stephanie placed first in a field of 15 competitors, topping the final five of Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Spring Valley, Mrs. Douglas County and Mrs. Downtown Summerlin.
It’s been a whirlwind since The Backstreet Boys premiered their resident show “Larger Than Life” at Axis at Planet Hollywood last Wednesday night: Within an hour of the curtain coming down, the five boybanders had been renewed for more shows, taking them into 2018.
As a proud Gonzaga University alumnus (bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science, Class of 1996, yes, I’m that old but look much younger!), March Madness is always an especially celebratory time with The Orleans Arena hosting the annual West Coast Conference Championships.
The late “Iron Chef” winner Kerry Simon will be honored by culinary industry leaders at the 18th Silver State Awards hosted by Pia Zadora and Casey Smith at The Palazzo. Mark Shunock’s “Mondays Dark” entertainment fundraiser benefits animal-protection charity Rocking 4 Rescues at The Space.
It’s difficult to believe that there was a time as short as five years ago that The Smith Center for the Performing Arts didn’t exist Downtown standing tall and proud and delivering dozens of Broadway shows and other theater previously unavailable to valley residents.
Master magician Lance Burton, who retired after 30 years of wowing audiences with his incredible wizardry, will be honored Tuesday evening at the 14th Annual College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame celebration at UNLV.
More than 200 performers and other volunteer stage crew units from rigging, costumes, scenic props, hair, makeup, lighting and sound departments all play a vital role in tonight’s “One Night for One Drop” clean-water benefit production presented by Cirque du Soleil at “Zumanity” Theater.
We have a superstar blue carpet to mark Cirque du Soleil’s fifth-annual “One Night for One Drop” tonight at “Zumanity” Theater at New York-New York with William Shatner, Grace VanderWaal and Malevo, Redfoo, The Tenors and Cirque founder Guy Laliberte and President Daniel Lamarre.