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TONIGHT’S TIPS: Mat Franco returns to ‘America’s Got Talent’

Linq headliner Mat Franco will make a return visit to “America’s Got Talent,” which he won on Season 9. The star of “Magic Reinvented Nightly” on the Strip promises new inventive stunning magic for his unique guest appearance on the NBC -TV hit show.

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Comedy ventriloquist Jeff Dunham has yet another summer date at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace with Achmed the Terrorist and Jose Jalapeno on a Stick.

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Thousands of fans have begun to settle in at the annual art and music Burning Man Festival which runs until Sept. 4 in the Black Rock Desert, north of Reno. In all, 70,000 people are expected to take part in the Radical Ritual theme of this year’s nine-day festival. They have been asked to “create interactive rites ritual processions, shrines, temples, icons and other visions.”

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Blonde beauty Daisy Monroe of Las Vegas is among the finalists taking part in the EDExpo Bikini Contest at the Hard Rock Hotel.

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Dude Ranch plays the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay.

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The Kickback music group from Chicago play the Beauty Bar on Fremont Street.

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The Easy 8’s provide the music for line dancing and other country delights at Gilley’s in Treasure Island.

Jonathan Karrant “steps out” at the Red Rock Resort.

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Yellow Claw is behind the dual DJ decks at the Encore Beach Club night swim party.

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DJ Paradise has the 1s and 2s in his hands at Chateau atop Paris Las Vegas.

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DJ D-Miles walks the walk and talks the talk at Hyde in the Bellagio.

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