Sixteen celebrities, including hometown rocker Vince Neil, former Motley Crue frontman, are set to compete for their charities when “The New Celebrity Apprentice” shifts to Los Angeles for Season 8, where actor and two-term California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reigns over the boardroom in place of President-elect Donald Trump.
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Can anybody beat celebrity chef Robert Irvine when he sets his mind to a challenge? We saw the former member of the British Royal Navy recently rappel down the side of the Tropicana when he unveiled plans to open his debut restaurant in Las Vegas there next spring.
Swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history with 23 gold medals and 28 total medals, and his wife, Nicole Johnson, took a break from parental duties Saturday night and partied with friends at XS in Steve Wynn’s Encore.
Heart-transplant recipient Michael Kutcher, who celebrates the 25th anniversary of his surgery next month, is deliberately beginning his 13.1-mile half-marathon as the last runner to start the Geico Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon featuring 2016 U.S. Olympian Meb Keflezighi.
‘Everyone who sees the show finds some level of connection to Blue Man, whether it’s the team, whether it’s the music, whether it’s the juggle drumming, whether it’s making a mess, whether it’s those subtle, emotional moments in the musical pieces’
Rob Lowe, as handsome as ever at age 52 (remember him in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and “About Last Night”?), and his birthday boy son, John Owen Lowe, arrived at the 2016 Best of Las Vegas Awards-winning hotspot similarly dressed in black button-down shirts and black pants.
Veterans Day: The burden of the safety and security of fortunate millions is borne by only a few — the men and women of our military. Let’s show them and their families that we care and are grateful. You can display support with the American flag, attend and applaud at a military parade or better still contribute to the USO that operates more than 180 locations.
The rousing applause will be for the dancers — young and old — at Cirque du Soleil and Nevada Ballet Theatre’s “A Choreographer’s Showcase.” But away from the spotlight will be one man who deserves applause: Sean Jensen has been head of lighting at “Mystere” Theater at T.I. for the last 11 years.
Miss Nevada USA and Miss Nevada Teen USA will be crowned Sunday at Artemus Ham Concert Hall at UNLV, and Nia Sanchez, Nevada’s first Miss USA and first runner-up at Miss Universe, is serving as host of the state pageants.
The fascination with Old Vegas and the days of when the alleged Mafia ran da joint is the subject of a new Mob musical destined for the Strip. The initial planning that began this summer has now wrapped with a completed script. I’m reliably told that entertainment kingpin Jeff Kutash helms the project.
Doctors have ordered superstar singer Celine Dion not to attempt to resume her shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace until next Tuesday. Caesars executives and Celine apologized this afternoon as she canceled two more performances Friday and Saturday nights.
The exhibit “Entertaining Las Vegas One Rhinestone at a Time,” which tells the story of “Folies Bergere,” is being given an extension on life at Nevada State Museum. The exhibit opened June 11 and has quickly outgrown its space with visitors packing the halls.
You know Christmas is near when Nevada’s largest holiday drive-thru light-show spectacular, Glittering Lights at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, celebrates 16 spectacular years. Glittering Lights features more than 3 million lights on a 2.5-mile course that intertwines LVMS.
We’ll be celebrating 50 years of the Las Vegas Marathon this weekend, and our best story is Michael Kutcher, Ashton Kutcher’s fraternal twin brother, who will start last in the half-marathon. For every runner he passes during the race, his company, Transamerica, will make a donation to the American Heart Association.
Is Tom Donoghue, who won the RJ’s 2016 Best of Las Vegas Award for Best Photographer, headed to Washington, D.C., in January to become official White House photographer? President-elect Donald Trump chose Tom as his traveling photographer during the campaign and for his Las Vegas rallies.