On Friday, chef Michael Mina toasted the 10th anniversary of his Strip Steak at Mandalay Bay. I’ve known Michael since he wrote me while watching my LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS and Food Network TV shows.
Robin Leach
It’s another weekend that Las Vegas Goes Country and top-notch music festival weekend hot on the heels of iHeartRadio and Life Is Beautiful. Welcome to Nash Vegas as top country stars take over the town performing on two stages at Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival.
Country singer-songwriter Dustin Lynch, 31, returns to Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival at Las Vegas Village this weekend, his second time at the annual event in its three years.“I love Las Vegas and will find any excuse to travel there!,” Lynch said.
It’s a 1,000-year-old tradition as World Sake Day kicks off Japan’s new production season, and Sushi Roku in The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace celebrates in style. Sushi Roku is offering a pair of sake samplers at a 10 percent discount Saturday to honor World Sake Day.
Nicole Brisson, who helps oversee Mario Batali’s Las Vegas empire, has that extra something. Quiet, yes, but she doesn’t have to speak in order to be a star. Her food, presentation and demeanor do that for her. Nicole, in fact, has that kitchen wow factor.
Fish and chips has never been considered gourmet dining, but chef Gordon Ramsay is about to upgrade its appeal with next Friday’s opening of his fourth Las Vegas restaurant, a $2 million, 40-seat Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips in The Linq Promenade.
Acrobats, aerialists, dancers and fire-stick performers from six of our Cirque shows will be part of ABC’s DANCING WITH THE STARS. It will unfold on the ballroom floor Monday as the 11 remaining couples perform big-spectacle dances for a Cirque theme night.
It’s not often that we busy scribes have not one but two show openings on the same night and simultaneously two restaurant developments unveiled. But that’s the agenda tonight in the especially jam-packed Entertainment Capital of the World.
The Liberace Mansion opens its doors for a “Putting on the Glitz” fundraiser for Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth. Pianist Wes Winters will re-create the sounds of Liberace, and there will be a performance by Broadway in the Hood.
One year ago after successfully testing his show SOLID GOLD SOUL in Reno, producer Marc Paskin was ready to sit down with invitations to bring it to Las Vegas. But then he suffered seizures and a brain hemorrhage and underwent hours of brain surgery.
It reads like a scene from a James Bond script: Thirty-five of the world’s richest people each pony up more than $1 million for the highest-stakes poker game ever. Our Cirque du Soleil’s One Drop water charity organization has invited the billionaires to play.
The new book features 252 pages of humorous stories of the celebrities, actors and politicians, ranging from Jack Benny to Johnny Carson to Jimmy Stewart to President Ronald Reagan, that he’s known and impersonated throughout his more than 50 years in show business.
Lunch service began two days ago, and after dinner there Tuesday night, I can confirm that it’s still Nora’s own incredible Italian home-made cuisine. The place was mobbed as if it was the hottest table in town with regulars of 25 years joined by newcomers.
It’s supposed to be a secret, but celebrities will be partying in Las Vegas this weekend to introduce the private jet company Jetsmarter to VIPs flying in from all over the country. Jetsmarter is backed by the Saudi Arabian royal family and music mogul Jay Z.
Ten lucky high-flyers on the zip line Slotzilla above Fremont Street will be selected one per hour until 11 p.m. to win a $1,000 prize, then one of the 10 will become the millionth flyer to receive the grand prize of another $1,000 and one year of flight rides.