Britney Spears is to cap her residency on the Las Vegas Strip on Dec 31 with a performance on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2018.”
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John Katsilometes’ man-about-town column appears on daily on page 3A. Katsilometes moved to Las Vegas from Northern California in 1996 and spent two years with the RJ before moving to the Greenspun Media Group in 1998, where he served as an editor, magazine writer and columnist. He returned to the RJ in August 2016. He has won numerous state and regional awards, including the 2013 Nevada Press Association Journalist of the Year honor, and has been awarded three times for column writing by the Best of the West contest.
Saying, “It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to play Las Vegas,” Lady Gaga has signed her first Las Vegas Strip residency.
The Lady Gaga residency is upon us. Or, rather, it will be in late 2018.
Keely Smith was an overnight success. Meaning, much of her success was achieved overnight.
Mark Shunock, the man who played the addled theater manager Lonny showed he was impressive off-script, with an ambitious mind concealed under his character’s mullet.
“I’m in Sunrise Hospital,” Joe Vento said Saturday while taking a break from well wishers. “Nice way to celebrate my birthday, eh?”
Rap superstars 50 Cent and Eminem have generated international buzz by teasing to a joint album.
J.D. Souther was a collaborator and co-writer on many of the Eagles’ greatest hits.
John Di Domenico’s Donald Trump called out to Carrot Top’s crowd, “Look at this turnout! Isn’t this incredible?”
The gentlemen at Dude Perfect have made the world’s highest basketball shot, from 854 feet high, off The Strat’s 108th-floor SkyJump platform.
“I don’t think we’ve even discussed who goes first, because I’m like, ‘I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!’ to him,” Nikki Glaser says. “I’m like ‘Wayne’s World’ to him.”
Weezer most recently played the Strip at the NFL Draft event in April and was also at the iHeart Radio Music Festival in September 2021.
We knew Delisco some time ago in Las Vegas, as a capable entertainer who won the TV show, “The Entertainer.” The country now knows Delisco not in a showroom, but a courtroom in Washington, D.C.
Silk Sonic, the funk duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, premieres at Dolby Live on Feb. 25-26.
Gary Waddell, the iconic Las Vegas broadcaster who spent 32 years at KLAS Channel 8, has died. He was 77.