Order somehow emerges when you take B-boys, street dance, hip-hop, mime, physical comedy, acrobatics, masks and white gloves and stir them all together into this thing called the Jabbawockeez.
On May 16, 1983, Michael Jackson secured his own legend by dancing to “Billie Jean” on NBC’s “Motown 25” special. It aired two weeks after “Legends in Concert” opened in Las Vegas.
Lifestyle blogger Jordan Reid and Brazilian model Camila Alves-McConaughey will host a fashionable afternoon Saturday at Macy’s in the Fashion Show mall.
Alfred “Floor Rock” Ruiz remembers a time when b-boys battled just for the love of it. Now, 22 years into his dance career, the 34-year-old is judging a corporate-sponsored b-boy competition that will lead to a National Final in Houston that will lead to a World Final in South Korea.
It’s obvious any night on the Strip, and especially the week before “The Hangover Part III” opens, that “Vegas has become kind of the test audience for the new generation of Cavemen.”
So Don Rickles was sidelined by food poisoning a few weeks ago, but Tony Bennett knocked it out of the park last weekend. Next up in the Octogenarian Classics series: Jerry Lewis.
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace is a mere 10 years old. But Caesars Palace has been there since 1966, and Tony Bennett was the second act to play there.
Frank Wildhorn is not a household name, at least not yet. Clint Holmes is Las Vegas’ favorite son, at least in the field of popular music. Jane Monheit is without question one of the best female jazz singers alive.
Kenny Kerr, the bad girl that Las Vegas fell hard for in the ’70s, died Sunday. He was 60. The star of “Boy-lesque” was the Strip’s first must-see female impersonator.