Cirque du Soleil missed its deadline to get “Viva Elvis” into fighting shape for a star-studded debut on Elvis Presley’s birthday today (preview performances continue until Feb. 19). But Dennis Wise is much more dependable.
It promises to be almost fun as an open bar — until the next morning hits like a thunderstorm of anvils. Earn a gnarly hangover the right way with Vegas punks The Mapes, who surely will delight in putting the “turd” in Saturday, along with fellow ragers 1/2 Ast, hard-core cover band Dick Falcon and San Fran’s LA Plebe. Just make sure to have the Pepto Bismol within arm’s reach, dudes.
The Day After…’s moody, ashen alt-rock is like a kettle set to boil, slow-simmering at first, before eventually screaming to life in a rush of emotion. The band’s latest disc, the aptly titled “Black Heart Symphony,” is both biting and blissful, with vocalist/guitarist Jenine Cali singing in an urgent whelp that shoots at least a few rays of sunshine through even the darkest of clouds.
He didn’t know it back then, but simply hanging around the house and his neighborhood with his ears open eventually would serve Bryan Lammers well.
Every 15 minutes from 6-9 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, a randomly selected South Point player will win $1,000 in free slot play that will be available instantly and downloadable in $100 increments. On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, the casino is allowing all players who earn 100 same-day points ($100 coin-in) one chance to spin a wheel to win $50 free play, a $50 gasoline card, $20 free play, 3X points, 2X points, 500 bonus points, two-for-one breakfast or lunch buffet, or $10 off any South Point restaurant.
The owners of Varadero Cuban Restaurant definitely have gotten their mojo on.
Blush at Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South, tries to impart a residential mood, giving guests the feeling that when they walk through the door, they’re walking into a party in someone’s living room.
Baseball great Yogi Berra wasn’t kidding when he said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” And yet making predictions seems to be built into our DNA. We can’t help ourselves.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out Washington state’s law banning incarcerated felons from voting, finding the state’s criminal justice system is “infected” with racial discrimination.
We went in expecting to hear about the health of the consumer-electronics industry, but Thursday morning’s opening keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show gave us a blistering civics lesson as well.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid is seeking to meet with the chairman of US Airways after urging the airline on Thursday to reconsider cuts in its Las Vegas service and personnel.
For the first time, Apple-related products are being given their own stage at the International Consumer Electronics Show, which opened to robust crowds on Thursday.
For table game supplier Shuffle Master, Pennsylvania’s gambling expansion could be the jackpot.
When the third-generation Corvette made its debut in the fall of 1967, the world was speechless.
It’s June 9, 1909. Alice Huyler Ramsey is a 22-year-old married mother of a toddler, living in Hackensack, N.J. She has a penchant for driving cars in endurance events and has agreed to pilot a 1909 Maxwell-Briscoe cross-country, from New York City to San Francisco, in a marketing scheme for Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Co. The plan is to demonstrate the utility of the automobile, but also to show that women are capable drivers and potential purchasers.
Does it not seem as though every year our New Year’s resolutions are pretty much the same? I think it’s because we are not so good at keeping them and therefore often repeat the same ones, hoping that this will finally be the year that they stick.
Elvis Presley loved cars. He owned hundreds and gave away just as many, according to long-time friend and fellow top-recording artist and musician Jimmy Velvet.