Another UFC weekend, another stand-up date from Joe Rogan. But wait, what’s this? Rogan’s comedic nemesis, Carlos Mencia, also on the Strip today? Somebody call the Fertittas, we’ve got the next cash cow: Ultimate Comedy Smackdown!
The word is out, sort of, on Garth Brooks’ new gig at Wynn Las Vegas.
Lavo Nightclub at the Palazzo is a creation of the same people who operate Tao at The Venetian. But, like any other siblings, Lavo and Tao have their own personalities.
Since every other columnist in the world has taken a look back at the decade, I’ll join the pack. Here’s what I feel are the 10 most significant local theater events in the past 10 years. Lists are so arbitrary, but so much fun to write.
Last year, Staind frontman Aaron Lewis got the most radical tattoo I’ve ever heard anyone getting in Las Vegas. On Oct. 1, the singer of “It’s Been A While” went to the Hard Rock Hotel’s Hart & Huntington and got “DON’T TREAD ON ME” inked across his neck.
This isn’t some little postage stamp-size tat.
Tis the season. No, not that one. After all, it’s 2010, so the ’09 holiday season officially has become a ghost of Christmas past. But Las Vegas movie buffs still are waiting for some cinematic treats to turn up at local theaters.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Like any professional musician, Phil Baker will play — or give a shot at playing — just about anything somebody might request.
Celt rockers Flogging Molly take traditional Irish music and give it a blood transfusion with Red Bull. The high-energy seven-piece somehow turns the tin whistle and the mandolin into concussive instruments at times, resulting in a swagger that can be downshifted into a sad-eyed waltz at any given moment.
It seems like only yesterday that we were recapping the follies of 2008. Who could have predicted that as we say goodbye to 2009, we would have even more fertile ground to till? With apologies to humor writer Dave Barry, we are not making any of this stuff up:
December wasn’t the best of months for the publicly traded gaming companies.